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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 219-JULY 12, 1943 41 Stat. 614. 5U. S . C. §§691694, 697-738; Supp. II , § 691 e seq. Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission. 55 Stat. 553. 55 Stat. 584. Custer Battlefield National Cemetery, roads. Statue of Liberty National Monument, easements. superintendent of Acadia National Park, without regard to the requirements of the provisions of the Civil Service Retirement Act, as amended, and $3,000 for temporary services for investigation of titles and preparation of abstracts thereof of lands donated to the United States for inclusion in Acadia National Park, Maine; neces- sary repairs to the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to the various points in the boundary line of Glacier National Park, Montana, and the international bound- ary; repair and maintenance of approximately two and seventy-seven one-hundredths miles of road leading from United States Highway 187 to the north entrance of Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming; not to exceed $1,000 for the maintenance of approach roads through the Lassen National Forest leading to Lassen Volcanic National Park, California; maintenance and repair of the Generals Highway between the boundaries of Sequoia National Park, California, and the Grant Grove section of Kings Canyon National Park, California; not exceed- ing $15,500 for maintenance of the roads in the national forests leading out of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana; and not exceeding $2,000 for maintenance of the road in the Stanislaus National Forest connecting the Tioga Road with the Hetch Hetchy Road near Mather Station, Yosemite National Park, California, and necessary expenses of a comprehensive study of the problems relating to the use and enjoyment of Yosemite National Park and the preserva- tion of its natural features, $1,876,200. National monuments: For administration, protection, maintenance, improvement, and preservation of national monuments, including maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carry- ing vehicles, $275,000. National historical parks and monuments: For administration, pro- tection, maintenance, and improvement, including maintenance, opera- tion, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, $150,500. Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission: Notwithstanding the proviso under this head in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1941, approved July 3, 1941, the Commission is hereby revived for performing, without any expense to the United States, the func- tions aluthorizedl by the Act of July 11, 1941 (Public Law 164), and when such functions are accomplished the Commission shall cease to exist or function. National military parks, battlefields, monuments, and cemeteries: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven pas- senger-carrying vehicles, and including the maintenance and repair of the approach road to the Custer Battlefield National Cemetery and the road connecting the said cemetery with the Reno Monument site, Montana. and not exceeding $308 for right-of-way easements across privately owned railroad lands necessary for supplying water to the Statue of Liberty National Monument, $400,000. Boulder D:am National Recreational Area. Arizona and Nevada: For administration, protection, improvement, and maintenance of the recreational activities of the Boulder Dam National Recreational Area and any lands that may be added thereto by Presidential or other authority, including maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, $70,000. Emergency reconstruction and fighting forest fires: For recon- struction, replacement, and repair of roads, trails, bridges, buildings, and other physical improvements and of equipment in areas under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service that are damaged or destroyed by flood, fire, storm, or other unavoidable causes, and for fighting or emergency prevention of forest fires in areas adminis- 486 [57 STAT.