PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 633-AUG. 9, 1939
tion of the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the writing
of the Star-Spangled Banner as authorized by Public Resolution
Ante, p. 1214.
Numbered
, approved August
, 1939, fiscal year 1940, $5,000.
NATIONAL ADVISORY COMIITTEE FOR AERONAuTICS
Scientific research,
etc.
Ante, p. 535.
Additional research
laboratory, construc-
tion and equipment.
Provisos.
Selection of site.
Contract for con-
struction, etc.; limita-
tion.
George Washington
Memorial Parkway,
etc.
Ante, p. 536 .
46 Stat. 482 .
5U.S .C . §§661-674;
Supp. IV, § 673, 73c.
Personal services.
Ante, p. 539.
Proviso.
Funds not available
for conduct of foreign
office.
Electric system.
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics: For an additional amount
for scientific research, technical investigations, and special reports in
the field of aeronautics, fiscal year 1940, including the same objects
and under the same limitations specified in the Independent Offices
Appropriation Act, 1940, $109,020.
Construction and equipment: For construction and equipment of
an additional research laboratory, $1,890,980, including the purchase
of land and necessary utilities and appurtenances: Provided, That
such additional laboratory shall be established upon such site as may
be chosen by a majority of the members of the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics from among such sites as may be brought
to the attention of such Committee within thirty days after the
approval of this Act: Provided further, That the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics is authorized to enter into a contract or
contracts for the construction and equipment of such additional lab-
oratory at a total cost, including the cost of any land it may be
necessary to purchase, not to exceed $10,000,000.
NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSION
For an additional amount for each and every purpose requisite for
and incident to the work of the National Capital Park and Planning
Commission necessary toward carrying into effect the provisions of
the Act entitled "An Act for the acquisition, establishment, and
development of the George Washington Memorial Parkway along
the Potomac from Mount Vernon and Fort Washington to the Great
Falls, and to provide for the acquisition of lands in the District of
Columbia and the States of Maryland and Virginia requisite to the
comprehensive park, parkway, and playground system of the
National Capital", approved May 29, 1930; personal services, includ-
ing real estate and other technical services, at rates of pay to be fixed
by the Commission and not exceeding those usual for similar services
and without reference to civil-service rules and the Classification Act
of 1923, as amended; travel expenses; expenses of surveys and search-
ing of titles, purchase of options and all other costs incident to the
acquisition of land; operation and maintenance of passenger-carrying
vehicles for official use; fiscal year 1940, $150,000, to be expended in
carrying out the provisions of section 1 (a) of said Act, and to remain
available until expended.
SECUnrrTES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
For an additional amount for five Commissioners and other per-
sonal services in the District of Columbia, and for all other authorized
expenditures of the Securities and Exchange Commission in per-
forming the duties imposed by or in pursuance of law, including
the employment of experts when necessary, fiscal year 1940, $100,000,
including the same objects specified under this head in the Independ-
ent Offices Appropriation Act, 1940: Provided, That no part of such
sum shall be available for the conduct of a foreign office.
SMIHSONIAN INSTrrIIrON
Installation of alternating current electric system: For changing
the electric system of the Smithsonian group of buildings in the Dis-
trict of Columbia from direct current to alternating current, includ-
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