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"Section 3. That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money 

 in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the general ex- 

 penses of the Bureau of National Parks, including the pay of 

 the director and the necessary experts, assistants, and other em- 

 ployees at Washington, District of Columbia, and in the field, 

 and other expenses requisite for and incidental to the general 

 work of the Bureau of National Parks, whether at Washington, 

 District of Columbia, or in the field, to be expended under the 

 direction of the Secretary of the Interior, the sum of seventy-five 

 thousand dollars, to be immediately available. 



"Section 4. That the Secretary of the Interior shall make and 

 publish such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary and 

 proper, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the 

 United States, for the management, care, and preservation of 

 such parks, monuments, and reservations, and for the protection 

 of property and improvements, game, and natural scenery, 

 curiosities, and resources therein, and any violation of the pro- 

 visions of this Act, or of such rules and regulations, shall be 

 punished as is provided for in section fifty of the Act entitled 

 'An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United 

 States,' approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, as 

 amended by section six of the Act of June twenty-fifth, nineteen 

 hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth United States Statutes at Large, 

 page eight hundred and fifty-seven). He may also, upon terms 

 and conditions to be fixed by him, sell or dispose of dead or 

 insect-infected timber, and of such matured timber as, in his 

 judgment, may be disposed of without detriment to the scenic or 

 other purposes for which such parks, monuments, or reservations 

 are estabHshed, grant leases and permits for the use of the land, 

 the development of the resources, or privileges for the accom- 

 modation of visitors in the various parks, monuments, and reser- 

 vations herein provided for, for periods not exceeding twenty 

 years. The funds derived from such sales, leases, permits, and 

 privileges shall be covered into the Treasury, to be expended by 

 the director, under the supervision of the Secretary of {he In- 

 terior, in the administration, maintenance, and improvement of 

 the parks, reservations, and monuments herein provided for. 



"Section 5, That the director and other officers and employees 

 of the bureau in Washington, when travehng on duty in the field, 

 and the experts, assistants, and other employees, when away from 

 their posts of duty in the field on official business, shall be allowed 

 a per diem in lieu of subsistence, to be fixed by the Secretary of 

 the Interior, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fares. 



