Public Law 66–33

That for the purpose of ascertaining the cost of improvement and maintaining in proper condition for travel the Government boulevard on Missionary Ridge, in the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, from the north end of said road, near East Chattanooga, in Hamilton County, Tennessee, to Rossville, in Walker County, Georgia (a distance of seven or eight miles), the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause an examination of said road to be made, and a report to be made by the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Commission of the approximate cost of such improvement and the manner in which it can be and should be done. The said commission

Details to be submitted.

shall report estimates of the cost of said improvement by concrete surface, and other proper methods. The cost of concrete surface, gutters, excavations, and fills wherever necessary shall be reported, and the cost of graveling excavations and fills, if that method shall be deemed best; and the maintenance of such road, per annum, by oiling and other means, shall also be reported.

No material change shall be made in the line of the road as now

Restriction on changes, etc.

established, nor shall the cost of any excavations or fills be considered except where it may be absolutely necessary for a first-class boulevard; but estimates for the cost of widening the road wherever it shall be necessary shall be made.

It shall also report what the cost of concreting the road in its present

Report based on present condition.

condition, without additional fills or excavations will be; and the cost of graveling and maintenance per annum would be, including oiling and the difference between the cost and maintenance of a concrete road per annum and the graveled and oiled road.

The commission shall report to the Secretary of War, as herein

Transmittal, etc., of report.

provided, within four months from the passage of this Act, and the Secretary of War shall transmit this report to Congress with his recommendations in the premises.

The cost of such examination and report shall not exceed $500, and

Appropriation for expenses.

so much of said sum as is necessary to make such examination and report is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.