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52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CHS. 250 , 251-MAY 18, 1938 save and except that the Treasury shall set up and maintain from such receipts a continuing fund of $500,000, to the credit of the Bureau and subject to expenditure by it, to defray the operating expense of generation and transmission of power delivered to the Bureau for disposal under this Act, to defray emergency expenses and to insure continuous operation. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from time to time, out of moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act, including installation of equipment and machinery for the generation of electric energy, and facilities for its transmission and sale. SEC. 11. The Secretary of the Interior may, in the name of the United States, under the supervision of the Attorney General, bring such suits at law or in equity as in his judgment may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act; and he shall be represented in the prosecution and defense of all litigation affecting the status or operation of the Fort Peck project by the United States attorneys for the districts, respectively, in which such litigation may arise, or by such attorney or attorneys as the Attorney General may desig- nate as authorized by law, in conjunction with the regularly employed attorneys of the Bureau. SEC. 12. If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of such provisions to per- sons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid shall not be affected thereby. Approved, May 18, 1938. [CHAPTER 251] AN ACT To provide for the administration and maintenance of the Natchez Trace Park- way, in the States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, by the Secretary of the Interior, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all lands and easements heretofore and hereafter conveyed to the United States by the States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee for the right- of-way for the projected parkway between Natchez, Mississippi, and Nashville, Tennessee, together with sites acquired or to be acquired for recreational areas in connection therewith, and a right-of-way for said parkway of a width sufficient to include the highway and all bridges, ditches, cuts, and fills appurtenant thereto, but not exceed- ing a maximum of two hundred feet through Government-owned lands (except that where small parcels of Government-owned lands would otherwise be isolated, or where topographic conditions or scenic requirements are such that bridges, ditches, cuts, fills, park- ing overlooks, and landscape development could not reasonably be confined to a width of two hundred feet, the said maximum may be increased to such width as may be necessary, with the written approval of the department or agency having jurisdiction over such lands) as designated on maps heretofore or hereafter approved by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be known as the Natchez Trace Parkway and shall be administered and maintained by the Secretary of the Interior through the National Park Service, subject to the provisions of the Act of Congress approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535), entitled "An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes", the provisions of which Act, as amended and sup- 407 Continuing fund to be set up, etc. Emergency ex- penses, etc. Appropriations au- thorized. Suits necessary for execution of Act au- thorized. Separability provi- sion. May 18, 1938 [H. B. 6652] [Public, No. 530] NatcheeTrace Park- way, Miss., Ala., and Tenn. Administration and maintenance of right- of-way, etc. Sites for recreational areas. Right-of-waywidth. Name. 39 Stat. 535 . 16U.S.C.i1-4; Supp. m, § 2.