Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 31.djvu/682

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630 ·F1F’rY-S1xTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. On. 791. 1900. Fg§}j“§,QQ ‘{;'g0'°'>’· For completing the improvement of the soldiers’ lot in Oak Hill '` Cemeter , at Evansville, ndiana, on condition that the city of Evansville will, hereafter pro erly care for and preserve- the ot in good order, six hundred and Efteen dollars. S¤1><>ri¤¤=¤¤¢¤t¤· FOR SUPERINTENDENTS or NA·r1oNAL ORMRTRRIES: For pay of seventy-five superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty-one thousand eight hun red and eighty dollars. , d,§lg000*Q!;·;0 *0* 00* HEADSTONRS FOR GRAVES or soLn1RRs: FOI' continuing the work of gmfurnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union so diers, sailors, and marines in national post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at na?-yards and stations of the United States, and other V¤l.17.P·545- burial places, un er the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred and Vol-20.v-281. seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy- nine, twenty-five thousand dollars. bAy1§¤sw¤,fV¤·n§i<> To enable the Secretary of War to have reburied in some suitable ciiiiiieddiag mitiimil spot in the national cemetery at Arlington,Virginia, and to place proper headstones at their graves, the bodies of about one hundred and twenty- eight Confederate soldiers now buried in the National Soldiers’ Home, near Washington, District of Columbia, and the bodies of about one hundred and thirty-six Confederate soldiers now buried in the national cemetery at Arlington,Virginia, two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. U R000W0>’¤· REPAIRDIG ROADWAYS T0 NAr1oNA1. OEMETERIRS: For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special gfgvgggéhment by authority of Congress: Pmvidefl, '1`hat no railroad shall be permitted nuimausmbiaaen. upon the right 0 way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon an roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United7 States, fifteen thousand dollars. · M0¤¤0 C**v»U*- For permanently repairing the Government roadway from Cache River rid e, in Pulaski County, Illinois, to the graveled roadway extending §rom Mound City, Illinois, to the national cemetery near that city, twelve thousand dollars. . Burial ¤f indiseutBURIAL OF INDIGENT SOLDIERS: For expenses of burying in the S°mi°”° Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of ` Columbia, indi ent ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late civil war who ge in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding forty dollars for such burial exHenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, three thousand dollars. Fr*;;g,;gg*0 0* $00 Roan 1*0 NA·r1oNAL onmnrnnr, Pmcsxnro or SAN Fnmcrsco, Cam- FORNIA: For continuation of stone wall on the boundary line of the Eeiirvation of the Presidio of San Francisco, California, five thousand o rs. - A¤¤i¢¤¤¤ ¤¤¢¤¢¤¢10- Ammmm BATTLEFIELDZ For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation tower, roads, and 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 his duties under the direction of the (,iuartermaster’s Department and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at is discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, one thousand two hundred dollars. ‘ ' Miscellaneous. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS, WAR DEPARTMENT. M°¥"· For publication of maps for use of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, ten thousand dollars.