Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 34 Part 1.djvu/771

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F1Frr-N1Nr1i CONGRESS. sm. 1. cH. 3914. 1906. 741 at a cost not exceeding forty-tive dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive 0 cost of grave, three thousand dollars. ANTIETAM BATTLEFIELD: For repair and preservation of monuments, A¤¤¤¤¤¤ battlefield. tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and Miispnm, em constructed by the United States upon public land within the limits gf abc Antietam battlefield, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, three thousand o ars. For pay of superintendent of Antietam battlefield, said superintend- S“P°"¤'*°¤°°¤*· ent to perform is duties under the direction of the Quartermastefs Department and to be selected and a pointed by the Secretary of War, at IS discretion, the person selected) and appointed to this position to gelim honorably discharged Union soldier, one thousand five hundred 0 ars. For grading, improving, and inclosing with rubble stone wall, topped m£l¤°1°" m °““' with wrought-iron fence, the lot on Antietam battlefield in which the monument in memory of the late President William McKinley was erected by the State of Qhio; and for grading and improving the approach road thereto from the Burnside Bridge, three thousand do lars. BRINGING 1I01m THE REMAINS or OFFICERS AND Sonnmns wuo mn mE§§§,'§§, §‘§,“§§,f°' A1moAD: 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, twenty-two thousand dollars. · _ BBINGING Home THE REMAINS or CIVIL Em=•I.orEEs or THE ARMY mgzigqgswavmelw WH0 DIE ABROAD AND s0I.DIERs WH0 DIE ON TRANSPOBTSZ To enable msmiiwxmeismfncil; the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to °“ ’·”‘“'P°"‘* their homes the remains of civilian employees of the Armly who have died or may hereafter die while in the employ of the War epartment in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, China, Alaska, and the Philippines, includin the remains of any honorablv discharged soldiers who are entitlegd under the terms of their discharge to return transportation on Government transport, and who die w ile on said transport, two thousand five hundred dollars. CoNEEonaAtrE MoUND, OAKWOOD CEMETERY, CHICAGO; For care, C€£2¤;f¤g¤¤¢¤M¤¤¤d. protection, and maintenance of the plot of ground known as "Con— g ` federate Mound" in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, two hundred and fifty dollars. ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, VIRGINIA: For continuing grad- ·““¤¤*°¤·V¤- ing, draining, makingroads, planting trees, and otherwise preparing the grounds in the addition to the Ar mgton, Virginia, National Ceme— tery, ten thousand dollars. _ For construction of a neW Sf~Bbl0 at the Arlington, V11‘ginia, National S”‘bl°- Cemetery, to replace one destroyed by iire; for the installationof a water main and proper fire system, and for placing a heating system in the mansion at that national cemetery, twe ve thousand dollars. (jnrrrsnuno NA·r1oNAL CEMETERY, PENNSYLVANIA: For the con- G¢¤¤¤¤=s·P•» struction of a lodge for the use of the superintendent, six thousand dollars. NA·rro1uI, CEBIETEBY, KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE: For construction of K¤c·xv¤1e.'1’en¤. a lodge for the use of the superintendent and for new gateway, six thousand dollars. MARX1N:: CIVILIAN GRAVES IN POQT GEMETERIES:_ For completing in the marking of the civilian graves ID post cemeteries, two thousan Pm ' llars. — d0Cmm*mnY, SAN JUAN, PORTQ RICO1 Fo!' the purchase of two acres mmoppd of land near San Juan, Porto Rico, for use as a post cemetery, three ' hundred dollars.