62 STAT.] 80rT CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 655-JUNE 25, 1948 [CHAPTER 655] AN ACT 1019 June 25, 1948 Making appropriations for civil functions administered by the Department of the [H. R. 5524] Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1949, and for other purposes. [Public Law 782] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatves 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, 1949, for civil functions administered by the Department of the Army and for other purposes, namely: CIVIL FUNCTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY QUARTERMASTER CORPS CEMETERIAL EXPENSES Cemeterial expenses: For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for and pay of superintendents and other employees; purchase of grave sites; maintenance of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, chapel, and grounds in the Arlington Na- tional 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 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; 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 maintenance 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; maintenance of the Confederate Mound in Oakwood 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; for the establishment of national cemeteries on military, naval or territorial lands to be transferred or otherwise made available for this purpose at Punch Bowl Crater, Territory of Hawaii, and Bayamon Naval Gunnery Range, Puerto Rico; and for maintenance of graves used by the Army for burials in commercial cemeteries; $7,809,153, of which $1,021,000 shall be immediately avail- able: 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 con- structed thereon and maintained by the United States: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village. OEMrUERIAL EXPENSES, NO YEAR Cemeterial expenses (Act of May 16, 1946): For all expenses neces- sary, not otherwise provided for, to enable the Secretary of the Army to carry out his responsibilities in connection with the evacuation and return to their homeland of the remains of members of the armed forces and certain citizens and employees of the United States as authorized by the Act of May 16, 1946, as amended by the Act of August 5, 1947 Civil Functions Ap- propriation Act, 1949. Maintenance of na- tional cemeteries. Headstones. 17 Stat. 545; 20 Stat. 281; 45 Stat. 1307; 54 Stat. 142 . Post, p. 1215. Confederate ceme- teries. Commercial ceme- teries. Encroachment by railroad. Roadway repairs. 60 Stat. 182 . 50U.S.C., Spp.I. app. §§1811-1819. Ante, p. 334. 61 Stat. 779. 50U.S. C . Supp. I. app. if 1811-1819 . .44, P.33.
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