90 THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 



Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior in his administration of 

 the National Park Service is authorized, in his discretion, to accept 

 patented lands, rights of way over patented lands or other lands, 

 buildings, or other property within the various national parks and 

 national monuments, and moneys which may be donated for the 

 purposes of the national park and monument system. 



1921 — Act of March 3, 1921 (41 Stat. L., 1353) — An Act 

 To amend an act entitled "An Act To create a Fed- 

 eral Power Commission ; to provide for the improv- 

 ment of navigation; the development of water power; 

 the use of the public lands in relation thereto ; and 

 to repeal section 18 of the River and Harbor Ap- 

 propriation Act, approved August 8, 19 17, and for 

 other purposes," approved June 10, 1920. 



That hereafter no permit, license, lease, or authorization for dams, 

 conduits, reservoirs, power houses, transmfssion lines, or other 

 works for storage or carriage of water, or for the development, 

 transmission, or utilization of power, within the limits as now con- 

 stituted of any national park or national monument shall be granted 

 or made without specific authority of Congress, and so much of the 

 act of Congress approved June 10, 1920, entitled "An Act to create 

 a Federal Power Commission; to provide for the improvement of 

 navigation; the development of water power; the use of the public 

 lands in relation thereto; and to repeal section 18 of the River and 

 Harbor Appropriation Act, approved August 8, 1917, and for other 

 purposes," approved June 10, 1920, as authorizes licensing such 

 uses of existing national parks and national monuments by the Fed- 

 eral Power Commission is hereby repealed. 



1921— Act of March 4, 1921 (41 Stat. L., 1367, 1380, 

 1406) — An Act Making appropriations for sundry 

 civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year 

 ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes. 



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That no portion of this appropriation [For ... the Federal Power 

 Commission . . . $100,000] shall be available for any expense con- 

 nected with the leasing of any water-power facilities in any national 

 park and national monument. 



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National Park Service: Director, $4,500; assistant director, $2,500; 

 chief clerk, $2,000; law clerk $2,000; editor, $2,000; draftsman 

 $1,800; accountant, $1,800; clerks— two of class four, three of class 

 three (one transferred from Secretary's office), one of class two one 



