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58 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 2D SESS.--CHS. 274, 275-JUNE 26, 1944 Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended, to certain employees in the legislative and judicial branches of the Government", approved July 13, 1937, as amended, shall be construed to prevent the deduc- tion and withholding from the basic salary, pay, or compensation of any employee with less than seven years of service, whose salary or any part thereof is paid by the disbursing officer of the Senate, of sums required to be deducted and withheld by section 10 of the Civil Service Retirement Act, approved May 29 I930, as amended, if such employee shall have given notice in accordance with section 3 of the Civil Service Retirement Act, approved May 29, 1930, as amended, of his desire to come within the purview of such Act. This section shall take effect as of January 24, 1942. Approved June 26, 1944. [CHAPTER 275] ANT ACT 327 Certain employees of legislative, etc., branch. Deductions. 46 Stat. 475. 5 U.S . O. §§ 719,721, 722; Supp. III, 1 719. 46 Stat. 470. 5U..C., Supp. III, § 693. une 26, 1944 Making appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, for civil functions [H. R. 4183] administered by the War Department, and for other purposes. [Public Law 352] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- wise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, for civil functions administered by the War Department, and for other purposes, namely: QUARTERMASTER CORPS CEMnTERIAL ESXPENSES For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for and pay of superintendents and the superintendent at Mexico City, and other employees; purchase of grave sites; purchase of tools and materials; repair, maintenance, and operation of passenger-

  • carrying motor vehicles; care and maintenance of the Arlington

Memorial Amphitheater, chapel, and grounds in the Arlington National Cemetery, and that portion of Congressional Cemetery to which the United States has title and the graves of those buried therein, including Confederate graves, and including the burial site of Pushmataha, a Choctaw Indian chief; repair to roadways but not to more than a single approach road to any national cemetery con- structed under special Act of Congress; for headstones or markers for unmarked graves of soldiers, sailors, and marines under the Acts approved March 3, 1873, February 3, 1879, February 26, 1929, and April 18, 1940 (24 U. S . C . 279-280b), and civilians interred in post cemeteries; for repairs and preservation of monuments, tablets, roads, fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell; care, protection, and maintenance of the Confederate Mound in Oak- wood Cemetery at Chicago, the Confederate Stockade Cemetery at Johnstons Island, the Confederate burial plats owned by the United States in Confederate Cemetery at North Alton, the Confederate Cemetery, Camp Chase, at Columbus, the Confederate Cemetery at Point Lookout, and the Confederate Cemetery at Rock Island; and for care and maintenance of graves used by the Army for burials in commercial cemeteries, $1,224,000: Provided, That no railroad shall be permitted upon any right-of-way which may have been acquired by the United States leading to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1945. Pot, pp. 872, 876. Maintenance, etc. Headstone. 17 Stat. 545; 20 Stat. 281; 45 Stat. 1307; 54 Stat. 142. Confederate ceme- teries. Commercial ceme- teries. Encroachment by railroad.