employees in connection with general park work, $71,785, of which not to exceed $2,700 shall be available until expended for the purchase of lands, including expenses incident thereto.

Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $200 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $28,220.

Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $1,400 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motordriven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $155,795.

Olympic National Park, Washington: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $300 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $69,450.

Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $300 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $20,715.

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $800 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motordriven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $124,215.

Sequoia National Park, California: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $850 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, including maintenance and repair of the Generals Highway between the boundaries of Sequoia and the Grant Grove section of Kings Canyon National Park, $143,250.

Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $900 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $104,640.

Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $200 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motordriven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $25,560.

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $5,800 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motordriven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, not exceeding $15,500 for maintenance of the roads in the national forests leading out of the park from the east, northeast, southwest, and south boundaries, and including feed for buffalo and other animals and salaries of buffalo keepers, $467,840.

Yosemite National Park, California: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $2,550 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and

employees in connection with general park work, 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, and including necessary expenses of a comprehensive study of the problems relating to the use and enjoyment of the Yosemite National Park and the preservation of its natural features, $346,840. Zion National Park, Utah: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $1,320 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $48,800.

National monuments: For administration, protection, maintenance, improvement, and preservation of national monuments, including not exceeding $4,500 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the custodians and employees in connection with general monument work, $358,425.

National historical parks and monuments: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $2,500 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, $188,690, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $50,000 under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941, for the purchase of lands and interests in lands is continued available until etc. expended: Provided, That the total sum expended for maintenance of the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site in Dutchess County, New York, in the fiscal year 1943, shall not exceed the total sum of the admission fees collected at such monument during the fiscal year 1942.

National military parks, battlefields, monuments, and cemeteries: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $8,000 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-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, $424,025.

Boulder Dam 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 not exceeding $800 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, $98,840.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial: Any unexpended balances of funds available for obligation for the Mount Rushmore National Memorial on June 30, 1941, are hereby continued available during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, for the same purposes for which such funds were originally appropriated and under the same conditions and limitations with respect thereto.

Emergency reconstruction and fighting forest fires in national parks: For reconstruction, replacement, and repair of roads, trails, bridges, buildings, and other physical improvements and of equipment in national parks or national monuments that are damaged or destroyed by flood, fire, storm, or other unavoidable causes during the fiscal year 1942, and for fighting or emergency prevention of forest fires in national parks or other areas administered by the

Post, p. 553.

54 Stat. 448. Purchase of lands,

Proviso.

Custer

National

roads.

Battlefield
Cemetery,

Statue of Liberty National Monument, water supply.

Reappropriation. 54 Stat. 449.

Reappropriation. 54 Stat. 449.

Proviso.

Allotment restric

tion.

Accounting.

Provisos.

Interchange

amounts.

of

Expansion Memorial,

National Park Service, or fires that endanger such areas, including lands in process of condemnation for national park or monument purposes, $40,000, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1941 is continued available during the fiscal year 1942, together with not to exceed $100,000 to be transferred upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior from the various appropriations for national parks and national monuments herein contained, any such diversions of appropriations to be reported to Congress in the annual Budget: Provided, That the allotment of these funds to the various national parks or areas administered by the National Park Service as may be required for fire-fighting purposes shall be made by the Secretary of the Interior, and then only after the obligation for the expenditure has been incurred.

Forest protection and fire prevention: For the control and the prevention of spread of forest insects and tree diseases and for fireprevention measures, including equipment, and personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $20,100) and elsewhere, $140,420, to be immediately available.

The total of the foregoing amounts shall be available in one fund for the National Park Service: Provided, That 10 per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably and shall be Jefferson National reported to Congress in the annual Budget: Provided further, That no part of the foregoing appropriations for the National Park Service shall be available for the payment of the salaries or expenses of any employee of the National Park Service assigned to duties in connection with the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in Saint Louis, Missouri.

St. Louis, Mo.

Educational lec

tures, etc.

Travel expenses.

Telephones in Government-owned residences, etc.

54 Stat. 861.

16 U. S. C. § 458a.

Availability of appropriations.

Admission fees, tax exemption.

Post, p. 710.

Appropriations herein made for the national parks, national monuments, and other reservations under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, shall be available for the giving of educational lectures therein; for the services of field employees in cooperation with such nonprofit scientific and historical societies engaged in educational work in the various parks and monuments as the Secretary, in his discretion, may designate; and for travel expenses of employees attending Government camps for training in forest-fire prevention and suppression and the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Police Academy.

Appropriations herein made for the National Park Service shall be available for the installation and operation of telephones in Government-owned residences, apartments, or quarters occupied by employees of the National Park Service.

Photographic mat service: Not to exceed an aggregate of $3,000 from any funds available to the National Park Service during the fiscal year 1942 may be used for the preparation of mats for reproduction in magazines and newspapers of photographs of scenery in the national parks, in accordance with the Act of August 27, 1940 (Public Act Numbered 771, Seventy-sixth Congress).

Hereafter appropriations made for the National Park Service shall be available for any expenses incident to the preparation and recording of title evidence covering lands to be donated to the United States for administration by the National Park Service.

Hereafter fees incident to admission to the national parks and monuments and other areas in the national park system, charged and collected with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, shall be exempt from all Federal tax on admissions.

Roads and Trails, National Park Service: For the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of roads and trails, inclusive of necessary bridges, in the national parks, monuments, and other areas administered by the National Park Service, including the Boulder

Dam National Recreational Area, and other areas authorized to be established as national parks and monuments, and national park and monument approach roads authorized by the Act of January 31, 1931 (16 U. S. C. 8a and 8b), as amended, including the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to various points in the boundary line of the Glacier National Park and the international boundary, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, $3,000,000, of which not to exceed $2,250,000 shall be for the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941: Provided, That not to exceed $60,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided further, That in addition to the amount herein appropriated the Secretary of the Interior may also approve projects, incur obligations, and enter into contracts for additional work not exceeding a total of $2,400,000, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof and appropriations hereafter made for the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of roads and trails shall be considered available for the purpose of discharging the obligation so created: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for road construction in the Kings Canyon National Park, California, except on the floor of the canyon of the south fork of the Kings River.

46 Stat. 1053.

54 Stat. 450.
Provisos.

Personal services.

Contract authoriza

tions.

Kings Canyon National Park, Calif.

54 Stat. 870.
16 U.S. C. §§ 460b,460c.

Payment of obligations.

54 Stat. 450.
Provisos.

Personal services.

Allotment of funds.

Blue Ridge, Natchez Trace, and George Washington Memorial Construction, etc. Parkways: For continuing the construction and maintenance, under the provisions of section 9 of the Act of September 5, 1940 (Public, No. 780), of the Blue Ridge, Natchez Trace, and George Washington Memorial Parkways, including not exceeding $2,400 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, to be immediately available and remain available until expended, $6,000,000, of which not to exceed $4,500,000 shall be for the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1941: Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia: Provided, That $1,600,000 and any other sums received from other sources for said Natchez Trace Parkway shall be allotted and expended ratably between the States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee according to mileage of said parkway in each respective State and said allotments shall be used for no other purpose: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior shall make a detailed statement of expenditures from this appropriation to the Senate and House Committees on Appropriations at the beginning of the next regular session of Congress: Provided further, That in addition to the amount herein appropriated the Secretary of the Interior may also approve projects, incur obligations, and enter into contracts for additional work not exceeding a total of $6,000,000, of which $2,000,000 shall be for the Natchez-Trace Parkway and shall be allotted and expended ratably between the States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee according to mileage of said parkway in each respective State, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof and appropriations hereafter made for the construction and maintenance of the Blue Ridge, Natchez-Trace, and George Washington Memorial Parkways shall be considered available for the purpose of discharging the obligation so created.

Physical improvements: For the construction, repair, or rehabilitation of buildings and utilities located in areas administered by the

Statement to Con

gress.

Contracts for additional work.

Natchez Trace Parkway.

Building, etc., construction.

16 U. S. C. § 451.

National Park Service, without compliance with the Act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 460), as amended by the Act of July 1, 1918 (40 Stat. 677), and the Act of February 13, 1940 (54 Stat. 36), limiting the cost upon the construction of administration or other buildings in national parks, including not to exceed $75,000 for the acquisition of rights-of-way and construction of a water supply line partly outMesa Verde Na side of the boundaries of Mesa Verde National Park, $346,000, to remain available until expended.

tional Park.

Historic sites and buildings: For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the preservation of historic American sites, buildings, objects, and antiquities of national significance, and for other purposes", approved August 21, 1935 (49 Stat. 16 U. S. C. § 461-666), including personal services in the District of Columbia, $20,000.

467.

Reappropriation. 54 Stat. 451.

Investigation and purchase of water rights: For the investigation and establishment of water rights, including the purchase thereof or of lands or interests in lands or rights-of-way for use and protection of water rights necessary or beneficial in connection with the administration and public use of the national parks and monuments, and including not exceeding $500 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, $35,000, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1941 is continued available during the fiscal year 1942.

Travel Bureau: For all expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to encourage travel in the United States and for other purposes", approved July 19, 1940 (54 16 U.S. C. §§ 18-18d. Stat. 773-774), including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses, including expenses incident to participation by the Travel Bureau in international expositions and conferences dealing with travel; printing and binding; books, newspapers, and periodicals, $75,000.

Recreational demonstration areas: For administration, protection, operation, and maintenance of recreational demonstration areas, including not exceeding $10,000 for the purchase, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, and including not exceeding $4,000 for the purchase of land, including expenses incident thereto, $234,000.

Recreational resources of Denison Dam and Reservoir project, Texas and Oklahoma: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the making of a survey, investigation, and plan for the utilization of the recreational resources of the Denison Dam Reservoir 16 U. S. C. 17k in accordance with the Act approved June 23, 1936 (49 Stat. 1894), $27,000.

17n.

Salaries and expenses, National Capital parks: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement of the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, Arlington Memorial Bridge, George Washington Memorial Parkway, monuments and memorials, Lee Mansion, Battleground National Cemetery, Chopawamsic Recreational Area, Federal parks in the District of Columbia, and other Federal lands authorized by the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), including the pay and allowances in accordance with the provisions of the Act. of May 27, 1924, as amended, of the police force for the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway and the George Washington Memorial Parkway, and the purchase, operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage of automobiles, and motorcycles, revolvers, ammunition, purchase, cleaning, and repair of uniforms for police, guards, and elevator conductors, and equipment, per diem employees at rates of pay approved by the Director not exceeding current rates for similar services in the District of Columbia, the hire of draft animals with