58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2 D SESS.-CH. 300-JUNE 28, 1944 additions and changes in connection with the east shaft booster pump- ing station; increasing capacity of the McMillan pumping station; installation of surface sand-washing system in the Dalecaria filters; and the preparation of plans and specifications for structures and facilities for increasing the water supply for the District of Columbia and environs, including engineering and other professional services by contract or otherwise, without regard to section 3709 of the Re- vised Statutes and civil-service and classification laws; and all neces- sary expenses incident thereto; $320,000, to continue available until June 30, 1946. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence and control of the Secretary of War over the Washington aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same, and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided by law. NATIONAL GUARD For all expenses necessary for the National Guard of the District of Columbia, including personal services; expenses of attendance at meetings of associations pertaining to the National Guard; books of reference and periodicals; printing and binding; expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers required to be mounted, and for the payment of commutation of subsistence for enlisted men who may be detailed to guard or move the United States property at home stations on days immediately preceding and immediately following the annual encampments; damages to private property incident to encampment; reimbursement to the United States for loss of property for which the District of Columbia may be held responsible; cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipment; instruction, purchase, and maintenance of athletic, gymnastic, and recreational equipment at armory or field encampments; practice marches, drills, and parades; rent of armories, drill halls, and store- houses; care and repair of armories, offices, storehouses, machinery and dock, including dredging alongside of dock; construction of buildings for storage and other purposes at target range; mainte- nance and operation of passenger-carrying motor vehicles; $13,340, to be expended under the direction of the commanding general. NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS For all expenses necessary for the National Capital Parks, in- cluding maintenance, care, and improvement of public parks, grounds, fountains, and reservations, propagating gardens and greenhouses, and the tourists' camp on its present site in East Potomac Park under fhe jurisdiction of the National Park Service; placing and maintaining portions of the parks in condition for out- door sports, erection of stands, furnishing and placing of chairs, and services incident thereto in connection with national, patriotic, civic, and recreational functions held in the parks, including the President's Cup Regatta, and expenses incident to the conducting of band concerts in the parks; such expenses to include personal services; pay and allowances of the United States Park Police force; per diem employees at rates of pay approved by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding current rates of pay for similar employ- ment in the District of Columbia; lawbooks, books of reference, and periodicals; printing and binding; uniforming and equipping the United States Park Police Force, including the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage of revolvers, 41 U.S. . §5. Superintendence and control. PoA, p. 875. 93650°-4 5 --PT . -- 34
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