Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 31.djvu/1224

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1172 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 853. 1901. d,gg?g§f;§;j§ ‘°* $0** HEADSTONES EoR GRAVES or soLDIERS: For continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy-yards and stations of the United States, and other V¤1-17.1>-€>45- burial places, under the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred and V¤1-20.I>-218- seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy- nine, twenty-five thousand dollars. R°¤dW¤>‘S- REPAIRING RoADWAYs TO NATIONAL oEMETERIEs: For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by Qggggbhmems by special authority of Con press: Provided, That no railroad shall be perrailroads mmaaeu. mitted upon the right o way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach u on any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the lUnited States, Efteen thousand dollars. _ S¤*¤¤*°¤·V¤· For repairing and improving Government roadway from Staunton, _ _ _ Virginia, to the national cemetery, two thousand dollars. S0¥§g`;l °f md*€·"’“'° BURIAL or INDIGENT SoLDIERs: For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late civil war who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding forty dollars for such burial Expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, three thousand — - dollars. c,§c’§§di°°*S¤¤*`m”· ROAD TO NATIoNAL CEMETERY., PRESIDIO or SAN FRANcIsoo, CALI- ` EORNIA: For continuation of stone wall on the boundary line of the geiprvation of the Presidio of San Francisco, California, five thousand . dollars. . H€·‘}g{“"°“m b“m°‘ ANTIETAM RATTLEEIELD: For repair and dpreservation of monuments, tablets, observation tower, roads, an fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public land Within the limits of the Antietam battlefield, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, one thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of superintendent of Antietam battlefield, said superintendent to perform is duties under the direction of the Q_uartermaster’s Department and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, one thousand Eve hundred dollars. M1¤<=€11¤¤¤<>¤¤- MIsoELLANEoUs OBJECTS, WAR DEPARTMENT. c§;;§g;gj§,i§g{’¤° dB` BRINGING HOME THE REMAINS or OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS WH0 DIE ARROAD: To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of officers and soldiers who die at military camps or who are killed in action or who die in the field or hospital in Alaska and at places outside of the limits of the United States, or who die While on voyage at sea, one hundred thou- _ sand dollars;

 "mP‘°Y“S· BRINGING I-10ME THE REMAINS OF 01vIL EMPLOYEES or THE ARMY

WH0 DIE ABROAD AND SOLDIERS WH0 DIE ON TRANSroRTs: To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees of the Army who have died, or may hereafter die, while in the employ of the War Department in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, China, Alaska, and the Philippines, including the remains of any honorably discharged soldiers who are entitled under the terms of their dischar e to return transportation on Government transport, and Who die Wliile on said transport, fifty thousand dollars. Mm- NIAPS, WAR DEPARTIVIENTZ For publication of maps for use of the War Department, inclusive of War maps, five thousand dollars.