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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SEss. I. Cias. 57, 59, 60. 1928 .

109 in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $92,170

purchase of

material for reports and educational exhibits, and traveling expenses, $102,00 0, whi ch sum shall be av ailabl e for e xpense s of a ttenda nce at meeti ngs c oncer ned with the w ork of sa id bu reau when incu rred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor . Attendance at meet- ings. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

Employment serv- ice. Promoting welfare of To enable the Secretary of Labor to foster, promote, and develop wage earners . the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, including Objects designated . j uniors legally employed, to improve their working conditions, to advance their opportunities for profitable employment by regularly collecting, furnishing, and publishing employment information as to opportunities for employment; maintaining a system for clearing labor between the several States; cooperating with and coordinating the p ublic employ ment o ffices throu ghout t he cou ntry, includ ing pe r- sonal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling Traveling expenses . expenses; supplies and equipment, telegraph and telephone service, and miscellaneous expenses; $205,000, of which amount not to exceed services in the Die- $26,040 may be expended for personal services in the District of trict . Columbia . Approved, February 15, 1928 . CHAP. 59 .-An Act To es tablis h a mi nimum area for a Shenandoah February 16.1928.

[s .2656 .1 National Park, for administration, protection, and general development by the

[Pub lic, No . 33. National Park Service, and for other purposes . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the minimum area for administration, protection, and general development by the National Park Service in the Shenandoah National Park, the establishment of which is provided for by the Act of Congress approved May 22, 1926 (Forty-fourth Statutes, page 616), be, and the same is hereby, established as three hundred and twenty-seven thousand acres, and so much of the said Act of May 22, 1926, as is inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed . SEC. 2 . That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to lease lands within the Shenandoah National Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park for periods not exceeding two years, upon such conditions as he may in his discretion deem proper, to persons and educational or religious institutions occupying same or who had or claim to have had some inte rest in t he title to the sa me prior to the est ablish ment of the park . Approved, February 16, 1928 . CHAP. 60.-An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Alabama to construct a bridge across Elk River on the Athens-F lorence r oad betwe en Lauder dale and Limestone Counties, Ala- bama. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the highway department of the S tate of Alab ama and its suc cess ors and ass igns to con stru ct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Elk River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, on the Athens-Florence road between Lauderdale and Limestone Counties, in the State of Alabama, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March 23, 1906 . Shenandoah Nation- al Park, Va. M ini mum a rea of~ established. Vol.44,p . 616, amend- ed . Leases authorized to prior occupants of lands in Shenandoah and Great Smoky Moun- tains Parks. February 16, 1928 . [11 . R. 7913.1 [Public, No . 34 .] Elk River. Alabama may bridge, be twee n Lauder dale and Limestone C oun- ties. Con struction . Vol .34,p . 84.