SEVENTIETH C ONGRESS . SEss. II . C H. 707. 1929 . EXECUTIVE Executive Mansion : For the care, maintenance, protection, and repair of the premises known as Mount Weather, in the counties of Loudoun and Clarke, in the State of Virginia, comprising approximately eighty-four and eighty-one one-hundredths acres of land, including buildings and other improvements thereon and all machinery, tools, equipment, and supplies used or for use in connec- tion therewith, and including the alteration, refurnishing, improve- ment, heating, lighting, electric power and fixtures for buildings and grounds, and including traveling expenses, to be expended, in the discretion of the President, by contract or otherwise as he may determine, fiscal years 1929 and 1930, $48,000 : Provided, That the care, custody, maintenance, and alteration of the premises are hereby transferred from the Secretary of Agriculture to the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital : Pro- vided further, That $2,000 of the appropriation " Salaries and expenses, Weat her Bureau, 1930," shall be transferred to this appro- priation : Provided further, That the Act entitled "An Act author- izing the Secretary of Agriculture to sell the Weather Bureau station known as Mount Weather, in the counties of Loudoun and Clarke, in the State of Virginia," approved March 13, 1928 (45 Stat., p . 311), is hereby repealed . Protection of interests of United States in leases on oil lands in former naval reserves : For expenses arising in connection with carrying into effect the public resolution entitled " Joint resolution directing the President to institute and prosecute suits to cancel certain leases of oil lands and incidental contracts, and for other purposes," approved February 8, 1924 (43 Stat., p. 6), and for the same purpose s authorized in the public resolution en titled "Joint resolution to provide an appropriation for the prosecution of suits to cancel certain leases, and for other purposes," approved February 27, 1924 (43 Stat ., p. 16), fiscal year 1930, $100,000, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $90,000 for such purposes, contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1928, is continued available until June 30, 1930 . Protection of interest of the United States in matters affecting oil lands on former naval reserves : For compensation and expenses of special counsel and for all other expenses, including employment of experts and other assistants at such rates as may be authorized or approved by the President, in connection with carrying into effect the joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to insti- tute proceedings touching sections 16 and 3 6, to wnship 30 south, range 23 east, Mount Diablo meridian, approved February 21, 1924, fiscal years 1929 and 1930 (43 Stat., p . 15), $55,000, to be expended by the President . CIVIL SERVICE COMMIS SION Executive. 1625 Mount Weather, Va. Maintenance, etc . Provisos . Care, etc ., of, trans- ferred to Director of Publi c Bu ildin gs, etc . Transfer of Weather Bureau funds . Ante, p. 119 4. Sale of, repealed . Ante, p. 311,repealed . Naval oil lands. Expenses can cel ing leases, etc . Vol.43,p5. Vol.43,p.16. Ante, p .5. Salaries- For an additional amount for personal services in the salaries. District of Columbia and in the field, fiscal years 1929 and 1930, $1 61,0 00. Traveling expenses : For an additional amount for traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929 , fiscal years 1929 and 1930, $34,500 . Contingent expenses : For an additional amount for contingent expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 192 9, fiscal years 1929 and 1930, $4,500 . Naval oil reserves, Californi a. Expenses establish- ing title to. Vol . 43, p.15. civil Service Com- mission . Traveling expenses . Conti ngent expens es .
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