86 THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 



Book of Estimates, following the estimates for each of the national 

 parks, a classified statement of the receipts and expenditures for 

 the complete fiscal year next preceding the fiscal year for which esti- 

 mates of appropriations are submitted. 



1912 — Act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. L., 417, 460) — An 

 Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses 

 of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 

 thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other 

 purposes. 



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No expenditure for construction of administration or other build- 

 ings cost in case of any building exceeding one thousand dollars 

 shall hereafter be made in any national park except under express 

 authority of Congress: Provided, That this shall not apply to build- 

 ings now in the process of actual construction. 



1916 — Act of February 28, 1916 (39 Stat. L., 14, 23) — ^An 

 Act Making appropriations to supply further urgent 

 deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year end- 

 ing June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, 

 and prior years, and for other purposes. 



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There is appropriated, for the remainder of the fiscal year nine- 

 teen hundred and sixteen, from the several appropriations for pro- 

 tection, improvement, and management, and so forth, of the various 

 national parks, including the Hot Springs Reservation, as well as 

 from the revenues from privileges, and so forth, in the national 

 parks and the Hot Springs Reservation, such sum or sums as the 

 Secretary of the Interior in his judgment may deem necessary, to 

 be expended in employment of the superintendent of national parks 

 in the District of Columbia and in the field, and other necessary ex- 

 penses in connection with the administration of the national parks 

 and the Hot Springs Reservation; a detailed statement of such ex- 

 penditures to be submitted to Congress. 



1916— Act of July I, 1916 (39 Stat. L., 262, 309)— An Act 

 Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of 

 the Government for the fiscal year ending June 

 thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for 



other purposes. 



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