PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 209-JUNE 30, 1945 58 Stat. 394. 39 U. S. C., Supp. IV. 1321d . 43 Stat. 463 . 40 U. . c.. 71-4; BSupp. IV, { 71 notes. NATIONAL GUARD For all expenses necessary for the National Guard of the District of Columbia, including personal services; expenses of attendance at meet- ings of associations pertaining to the National Guard; books of refer- ence and periodicals; printing and binding; 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 repair- ing uniforms, arms, and equipment; instruction, purchase, and main- tenance 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 along- side of dock; construction of buildings for storage and other pur- poses at target range; maintenance and operation of passenger-carry- ing motor vehicles; $11,800, to be expended under the direction of the commanding general. NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS For all expenses necessary for the National Capital Parks, includ- ing 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 Park Service; placing and maintain- ing 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 func- tions 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 personal services; pay and allowances of the United States Park 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; lawbooks, books of reference, and periodicals; printing and binding; uniform- ing and equipping the United States Park Police force, including $225 for deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of penalty mail as required by section 2 of the Act of June 28,1944 (Public Law 364); the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage of revolvers, uniforms, ammunition, and radio equipment and the rental of teletype service; leather and rubber articles for the protection of employees and property; and the purchase, exchange, operation, repair, and maintenance of passenger-carrying 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; $948,300: Provided, That not to exceed $10,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the erection of minor auxiliary structures. NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSION For all necessary expenses of the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission except the acquisition of land as authorized by law (40 U. S . C. 71), including personal services in the District of Colum- bia; $80 for deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for cost of 292 [59 STAT.
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