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S1xTY-F112ST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 285. 1911. 1401 - - NATIONAL MILITARY ranks. M““’"’ ¥"""S· --" ”Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuing the Cfgffjjgggga we Qtablishment of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National lgark; ` for the compensation and expenses of three civilian commissioners, ma s, surveys, clerical and other assistance, including three hundred Qllars for necessargi clerical labor under direction of the chairman of the commission, office expenses, and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; for roads and their maintenance; the purchase of small tracts of lands heretofore authorized by law, including eight thousand dollars for completing the improvement and maintenance of the road owned by the Government from Stevens Gap by way of Davis’s Cross Roads to Crawfish Springs in the park; in all, sixty thousand dollars: Prmnkled, That the Secretary of War g{’,'£‘;;_,m 0, ,,,,1, is hereby authorized to convey to N. C. Steele, of Chattanooga, Ten- ¤f1¤¤d¤<>N-¤·S¤<>¢1¢- nessee, the north five feet of the lot conveyed by him to the United States in nineteen hundred and two, situated in Hamilton County, Tennessee, upon the payment by him of two hundred dollars as consideration therefor. Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the work of estab- S‘*“°"· lishing a national militarky ark on the battle field of Shiloh, Tennessee; for the com ensation o tlhree civilian commissioners and the secretary, clericag and other services, labor, historical tablets, maps and surveys, roads, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials, office and other necessary expenses, twenty-seven thousand dollars. The Secretary of War is authorized, in his discretion, to apply the °‘ "l‘“‘ _ sum of two thousand four hundred dollars provided in the general -4M¢.r».vi¤8. deficiency a propriation Act approved Jrme twenty-fifth, nmeteen hundred and) ten, to the purchase of so much of the one hundred and eighty-two and seventy-three one—hundredths acres of land for the · Shiloh National Military Park as can be obtained by purchase or ‘ condemnation for the sum ah·eady appropriated for that purpose. From the unexpended balance of the appropriation made by the e,§°Pl“°*"¥P"°P°"”’· urgent deficiency Act a proved February twenty-fifth, nineteen légetpf spruce. hundred and ten, for repliicing ropert owned by the Government ‘ " ’p' m' in the Shiloh National Military%’ar·k, Shiloh, Tennessee, which was destroyed by the cyclone of October fourteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, the Secretary of War·is authorized to expend not exceeding four tlnouszmd dollars to cover the Cost of material and (*onStr‘u(*tion of the office building and appurtenances thereto, including gas generator, erected under the authority contained in the deficiency Ret ap woved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten. ilettysburg National Park: For continuing the work of establishing G°°°”°“"‘ the national park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; for the acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; making fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet . bearing a brief legend giving historic facts, and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battle field and the monuments thereon; providing for a suitable office for the commissioners in Gettysburg; compensation of three civilian commissioners, clerical and other services, expenses, and labor; the purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position, and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, fifty-five thousand dollars. Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the work of Vi°""’“'¥· establishing the Vicksburg National l\I.i.litarv Park; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners; for clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, the mounting of siege guns, monuments,