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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 555-JUNE 19, 1948 Meters on Federal services. McMillan fiter plant, etc. 60 Stat. 810. Superintendence and control. WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT Operating expenses (payable from water fund): For expenses necessary for the operation, maintenance, repair, and protection of Washington water supply facilities and their accessories, and main- tenance of MacArthur Boulevard; including purchase, installation, and maintenance of water meters on Federal services within the Dis- trict of Columbia; purchase of two passenger motor vehicles; $1,223,000. Capital outlay (payable from water fund): For continuing repair and rehabilitation of McMillan filter plant; circulating facilities and new conduit repairs; continuing purchase and installation of meters; reimbursable fund for advance planning for future capital outlay proj- ects; utility relocations, plant and system rearrangements, and inter- connections; acquisition by gift, exchange, purchase or condemnation of supplementary land; remodeling Georgetown reservoir; and for developing increased water supply for the District of Columbia and environs in accordance with House Document 480, Seventy-ninth Congress, second session; and necessary expenses incident thereto; including services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S . C . 55a); $1,490,000, to continue available until expended. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence and control of the Secretary of the Army over the Washington Aque- duct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same, and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided by law. NATIONAL GUARD For expenses necessary for the National Guard of the District of Columbia, including compensation to the commanding general at the rate of $3,600 per annum; attendance at meetings of associations pertaining to the National Guard; 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 storehouses; 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; $85,200. NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS For expenses necessary for the National Capital Parks, including maintenance, care, and improvement of public parks, grounds, foun- tains, and reservations, propagating gardens and greenhouses, and the tourists' camp on its present site in East Potomac Park under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service; placing and maintaining portions of the parks in condition for outdoor 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 pay and allowances of the United States Park Police force; 556 [62 STAT.