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PUBLIC LAW 453-JULY 5, 1952
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and parades; rents of armories, drill halls, and storehouses; care and repair of armories, offices, storehouses, machinery, and dock, including dredging alongside of dock; alterations and additions to present structures; construction of buildings for storage and other purposes; $115,000.
NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS 5
For expenses necessary for the National Capital Parks, including 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 the jurisdiction of the National P a r k 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 P a r k Police force; per diem employees at rates of pay approved by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding current rates of pay for similar employment in the District of Columbia; uniforming and equipping the United States Park Police Force; the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage of revolvers, uniforms, ammunition, and radio equipment and the rental of teletype service; and the purchase of passenger motor vehicles, bicycles, motorcycles, and self-propelled machinery; the hire of draft animals with or without drivers at local rates approved by the Secretary of the Interior; the purchase and maintenance of draft animals, harness, and wagons; $2,025,000, of which $25,000 shall be payable from the highway fund: Provided, That not to exceed $10,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the erection of minor auxiliary structures: Provided further, That funds appropriated under or transferred to this head for services rendered by the National Park Service shall be expended by expenditure warrant as an advance to said service and shall be credited as a repayment and maintained in a special account. The amounts so advanced will be available for the objects specified herein or in the appropriation from which such funds are transferred, any unexpended balance to be returned to the appropriation concerned not later that two full fiscal years after the close of the current fiscal year. N A T I O N A L C A P I T A L P A R K AND P L A N N I N G COMMISSION
43 Stat. 463. 60 Stat. 810. 60 Stat. 903.
For necessary expenses of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission except the acquisition of land (40 U.S.C. 71), including stenographic reporting service as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), health program as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 150), and expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with city planning matters; $98,000: Provided, That funds appropriated under this head shall be expended by expenditure warrant as an advance to the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and shall be credited as a repayment and maintained
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