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77TH CONG., IST SESS.-CH. 40-APR . 5 , 1941 vided in the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1939, and a second appropriation of $4,200,000 in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1941, $3,409,020. Airplane engine research laboratory: For continuing construction and equipment of an airplane engine research laboratory, for which an initial appropriation of $2,000,000 was provided in the First Sup- plemental National Defense Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1941, including expenses in the District of Columbia and elsewhere for the preparation of plans and specifications, $5,600,000, to remain available until expended. Total, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, $13,601,910. NATIONAL ARCHIVES Salaries and expenses: For the Archivist and for all other necessary and authorized expenditures in carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1122 -1124; 40 U. . C. ch. 2A), as amended; the Act of July 26, 1935 (49 Stat. 500-503; U. S . C., Supp. II, title 44, ch. 8A), as amended; the Act of July 18, 1939 (53 Stat. 1062-1066), and the Act of August 5, 1939 (53 Stat. 1219-1221); including personal services in the District of Columbia; supplies and equipment, including scientific, technical, first-aid, protective, and other apparatus and materials for the arrangement, titling, scoring, repair, processing, editing, duplication, reproduction, and authen- tication of photographic and other records (including motion-picture and other films and sound recordings) in the custody of the Archivist; purchase and exchange of books, including lawbooks, books of ref- erence, maps, and charts; contract stenographic reporting services; purchase of newspapers, and periodicals; not to exceed $100 for payment in advance when authorized by the Archivist for library membership in societies whose publications are available to members only or to members at a price lower than to the general public; travel expenses, including not to exceed $1,000 for the expenses of attend- ance at meetings concerned with the furtherance of the purposes of the said Acts; exchange of scientific and technical apparatus and labor-saving devices; repairs to equipment; and maintenance, opera- tion, and repair of motor vehicles, $980,940. Printing and binding: For all printing and binding, $12,400. Total, The National Archives, $993,340. NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSION 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, including real estate and other technical serv- ices, at rates of pay to be fixed by the Commission and not exceeding those usual for similar services and without reference to the Classifi- cation Act of 1923, as amended; travel expenses; expenses of surveys and searching 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, $1,300,000, to remain available until expended, $250,000 of said sum to be available for carrying out the 53 Stat. 1306; 54 Stat. 134. 54 Stat. 599. Post, pp. 822 , 830. 44U.S.C. §§301- 314, 351 -361. Salaries and ex- penses. George Washington Memorial Parkway. 46 Stat. 482 . 42 Stat. 1488. 5 U.S. C. 661- 674. Pod,. p. 613 . 115 55 STAT.]