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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to employ in the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia and elsewhere, and pay, during the fiscal year 

 nmeteen hundred and seventeen, out of the several appropriations for 

 protection, improvement and management of the various national 

 parks including the Hot Springs Reservation and out of the revenues 

 from rentals and privileges derived therefrom, a superintendent of 

 national parks and to assist him such clerical or other services, not 

 exceeding four persons, as the Secretary shall determine, and also 

 to pay from said funds all necessary expenses of subsistence and 

 travel of said superintendent when absent on duty outside of the 

 District of Columbia. A detailed statement of all expenditures here- 

 under shall be made to Congress at its next session. 



1916— Act of August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. L., 535)— An Act 

 To establish a National Park So-vice and for other 

 purposes (as amended by act of June 2, 1920; 41 

 Stat. L., 732 — An Act To Accept the cession by 

 the State of California of exclusive jurisdiction of 

 the lands embraced within the Yosemite National 

 Park, Sequoia National Park, and General Grant 

 National Park, respectively and for other purposes) 



[Sec i]. That there is hereby created in the Department of the 

 Interior a service to be called the National Park Service, which shall 

 be under the charge of a director, who shall be appointed by the 

 Secretary and who shall receive a salary of $4,500 per annum. There 

 shall also be appointed by the Secretary the following assistants and 

 other employees at the salaries designated: One assistant director, 

 at $2,500 per annum ; one chief clerk, at $2,000 per annum ; one 

 draftsman, at $1,800 per annum; one messenger, at $600 per annum; 

 and, in addition thereto, such other employees as the Secretary of 

 the Interior shall deem necessary : Provided, That not more than 

 $8,100 annually shall be expended for salaries of experts, assistants, 

 and employees within the District of Columbia not herein specifically 

 enumerated unless previously authorized by law. The service thus 

 established shall promote and regulate the use of the Federal areas 

 known as national parks, monuments, and reservations hereinafter 

 specified by such means and measures as conform to the fundamental 

 purposes of the said parks, monuments, and reservations, which pur- 

 pose is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects 

 and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the 

 same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unim- 

 paired for the enjoyment of future generations. 



Sec. 2. That the director shall, under the direction of the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior, have the supervision, management, and control 

 of the several national parks and national monuments which are 

 now under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, and of 

 the Hot Springs Reservation in the State of Arkansas, and of such 



