them. To enable the Chief of Engineers to begin construction of the bathhouse, beach, and purification plant herein provided for, $35,000, to be immediately available; and the limit of cost of such construction shall not exceed that amount. 1918-Act of July 1, 1918 (40 Stat. L., 634, 650)-An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes. That Rock Creek Park and the Piney Branch Parkway are hereby made a part of the park system of the District of Columbia. . . 1918-Act of August 31, 1918 (40 Stat. L., 918, 951)—An Act Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the Government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes. That the entire area reclaimed and to be reclaimed from the mouth of the river to the District line be, and the same is hereby, made and declared a part of the park system of the District of Columbia and designated Anacostia Park ... 1923-Act of February 28, 1923 (Public, No. 457, 67 Congress) — An Act Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes. * ANACOSTIA RIVER AND FLATS For continuing the reclamation and development of Anacostia Park, $150,000, to be expended below Benning Bridge. The Board of Engineers constituted by Public Act Numbered 441, approved March 2, 1911, is hereby directed to submit through the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, on the first day of the next regular session of Congress a report on the desirability or undesirability of continuing the said project above Benning Bridge and if it is to be so continued what modifications in existing project above Benning Bridge appear desirable and in the interest of economy. Such report shall include such recommendations with a statement of the facts and shall include detailed estimates of cost under the modifications proposed compared with the estimates under present plans and the decrease in cost as a result of such modification. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS OFFICE OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS Salaries: Superintendent, $3,600; assistant and chief clerk, $2,400; engineer, $2,400; clerks-one $1,800; one $1,600; one $1,400, two at $1,200 each; messenger, $840; landscape architect, $2,400; junior engineer, $1,500; in all, $20,340. For foremen, gardeners, mechanics, and laborers employed in the public grounds, $31,200. CONTINGENT EXPENSES For contingent and incidental expenses, including purchase of professional and scientific books and technical periodicals, books of reference, blank books, photographs, and maps, $800. PARK POLICE Salaries: Lieutenant, $1,900; first sergeant, $1,700; five sergeants, at $1,580 each; privates-fourteen at $1,440 each; thirty-one at $1,360 each; nine at $1,280 each; in all, $85,340. For purchase, repair, and exchange of bicycles and revolvers for park police and for purchase of ammunition, $1,100. For maintenance, repair, operation, and exchange of motor cycles for park police, $1,000. For purchasing and supplying uniforms to park police, $5,000. BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND WASHINGTON For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, $4,000. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, $2,000. For repair and reconstruction of the greenhouses at the nursery, $3,000 For ordinary care of Layfayette Park, $2,000. For improvement and ordinary care of Franklin Park, $1,500. For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, $2,000. For care and improvement of Monument Grounds and annex, $7,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Garfield Park, $2,500. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen's lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; repairing and extending water pipes, and purchase of apparatus for cleaning them; hose; manure, and hauling same; removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, flowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, and moss, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances; cleaning statues and repairing pedestals, $18,550. For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, including office rent, the maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes, and the operation, maintenance, repair, and exchange of motor cycles and bicycles for division foremen, $45,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, $4,000. For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, $2,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of West Potomac Park, including grading, soiling, seeding, planting, and constructing paths, $30,000. For oiling or otherwise treating macadam roads, $10,000. For care and improvement of East Potomac Park, $35,000. For the maintenance of a tourists' camp in East Potomac Park, $5,000. For care, maintenance, and improvement of Montrose Park, $5,000. For placing and maintaining special portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports, $15,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Meridian Hill Park, $25,000. For care and maintenance of Willow Tree Park, $1,500. For care of the center parking on Maryland Avenue northeast, $1,000. For operation, care, repair, and maintenance of the pumps which operate the three fountains on the Union Station Plaza, $4,000. To provide for the increased cost in park maintenance, $50,000. For care of the center parking in Pennsylvania Avenue between Second and Seventeenth Streets southeast, $2,500. TIDAL BASIN BATHING BEACH: For purification of waters of the Tidal Basin and care, maintenance, and operation of the bathhouse and beach, $12,000. For care and maintenance of Mount Vernon Park, $1,000. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouses, $1,000. For the preparation of designs and estimates for development of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, $4,000. For the construction of a comfort station and shelter at Haines Point, East Potomac Park, $15,000. The appropriation of $25,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923 for the construction of a bathing beach and bathhouse for the colored population of the city is continued and made available during the fiscal year 1924 for the construction and maintenance of said bathing beach and bathhouse. For improvement and maintenance as a recreation park of section D, Anacostia Park, between Pennsylvania Avenue and the Anacostia Bridge, $50,000. Lighting the public grounds: For lighting the public grounds, watchmen's lodges, offices, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $37,000. For heating offices, watchmen's lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $6,000. ROCK CREEK AND POTOMAC PARKWAY COMMISSION To enable the commission created by Section 22 of the Public Buildings Act approved March 4, 1913 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 885), to continue proceedings toward the acquisition of lands required for a connecting parkway between Potomac Park, the Zoological Park, and Rock Creek Park, $75,000: Provided, That the following areas and parcels described and delineated on map numbered 2, contained in House Document Numbered 1114, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, as a part of total area to be acquired for said parkway shall be excluded from the total area finally to be acquired, to wit: Three hundred and fifteen square feet of lot 801 in square 2541, three hundred and forty-nine square feet of lot 836, one thousand three hundred and three square feet of lot 74 in square 2543, five hundred and forty-nine square feet of lot 58, two thousand one hundred and six square feet of lot 800 in square 1262, three thousand six hundred square feet of lot 20 in square 23, one hundred and ninety-nine square feet of lot 80 in square 1238, and fifty square feet of lot 3 in square numbered 1: Provided further, That the following described lots and parcels that are without the taking line shall be included in the area finally to be acquired, namely, four thousand four hundred and eighty-three square feet of lot numbered I, two thousand nine hundred and nineteen square feet of lot 2, three thousand two hundred and fifty-nine square feet of lot 3 in square 2510, six thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine square feet of lot I in square 47, and about nine hundred and seventy-nine square feet of lot 803 in square 2543: Provided further, That in order to protect Rock Creek and its tributaries, none of the moneys herein or heretofore appropriated for the opening, widening, or extending of any street, avenue, or highway in the District of Columbia shall be expended for the opening, widening, or extension of any street, avenue, or highway which shall or may in the judgment of the District Commissioners permanently injure or diminish the existing flow of Rock Creek or any of its tributaries, nor shall permission so to do at private expense be granted to any private person or corporation except by the joint consent and approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds. * WATER SERVICE For continuing work on the project for any increased water supply for the District of Columbia, adopted by Congress in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, as modified by the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, $1,500,000: Provided, That the Secretary of War may enter into contracts for materials and work necessary to the construction of said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made, not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of $6,150,000, including all appropriations and contract authorizations herein and heretofore made: Provided further, That no bid in excess of the estimated cost for that portion of the work or plant covered by the bid shall be accepted, nor shall any contract for any portion of the work, material, or equipment, to constitute a part of the plant for which this appropriation is available be valid unless the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army shall have certified thereon that all its terms are within the requirements of the authorization and the revised estimates for the work: Provided further, That whenever the Secretary of War causes proceedings to be instituted for the acquirement by condemnation of any lands or interests therein needed for the said work, the United States, upon the filing of the petition in any such proceedings, shall have the right to take immediate possession of said lands, easements, rights of way, or otherwise, to the extent of the interest to be acquired, and to proceed with the work herein authorized: Provided further, That certain adequate provisions shall have been made for the payment of just compensation to the party or parties entitled thereto, either by previous appropriation by the United States or by the deposit of moneys or other form of security in such amount and form as shall be approved by the count in which such proceedings shall be instituted. The respondent or respondents may move at any time in the court to increase or change the amounts or securities and the court shall make such order as shall be just in the premises and shall adequately protect the respondents. In every case the proceedings in condemnation shall be diligently prosecuted on the part of the United States in order that such compensation may be promptly ascertained and paid: Provided further, That the Secretary of War shall submit to Congress on the first day of the next and each succeeding regular session of Congress, until the entire project shall have been completed, a report on said water system and increase of water supply showing, among other things, the progress of the work, construction under way and proposed within or without the District, connections with the present system of distribution, and revised estimates of cost. The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the revenues of the water department for expenses of the Washing Aqueduct and its appurtenances and for expenses of the water department, namely: WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance and repair of Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, McMillan Park Reservoir, Washington Aqueduct tunnel, the filtration plant, the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, authorized water meters on Federal services, vehicles, for each and every purpose connected therewith, $170,000. For ordinary repairs, grading, opening ditches, and other maintenance of Conduit Road, $5,000. For emergency fund, to be used only in case of a serious break requiring immediate repairs in one of the more important aqueduct or filtration plant structures, such as a dam, conduit, tunnel, bridge, building, or important piece of machinery, $5,000; all expenditures from this appropriation shall be reported in detail to Congress. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence and control of the Secretary of War over the Washington Aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same and over appropriations and expenditures therefore as now provided by law. Board of Road Commissioners for Alaska. The general laws relating to the Board of Road Commissioners for Alaska are given below. From 1905 when it was organized to 1917 the board |