Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 63 Part 1.djvu/884

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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 688 -OCT. 13, 1949 Headstones. 62 Stat. 1215. 24 U. 8. C., Supp. . §§ 279a-279c. Confederate ceme- teres. Oommercial ceme- teries. Encroachment by railroad. Roadway repairs. Additional person- nel. Limitation on ex- penditures. Report to Congress. Purchase of motor vhicles, motorboats, and aircrat. 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 Act of July 1, 1948 (Public Law 871), 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 Confed- erate 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 maintenance of graves used by the Army for burials in commercial cemeteries; $4,500,000: 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 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. SIGNAL CoRPS ALASKA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Alaska Communication System: For expenses necessary for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the Alaska Communica- tion System, including purchase (not to exceed one) and hire of passenger motor vehicles, $3,000,000, to remain available until the close of the fiscal year 1951, and in addition not to exceed 15 per centum of the current fiscal year receipts of the Alaska Communi- cation System may be merged with and used for the purposes of this appropriation. CORPS OF ENGINEERS RIVERS AND HARBORS AND FLOOD CONTROL To be immediately available and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, and to remain available until expended: Provided,That the services of such additional technical and clerical personnel as the Secretary of the Army may deem necessary may be employed only in the Office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors and flood control, surveys, and preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor and flood- control estimates and bills, to be paid from such appropriations: Providedfurther,That the expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year shall not exceed $1,450,000, and the Secretary of the Army shall each year, in the Budget, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each: Provided further, That the various appropriations for rivers and harbors and flood control may be used for the purchase (for replace- ment only) in the current fiscal year of five hundred passenger motor vehicles and ten motorboats (to be acquired from surplus stock where practicable) and the purchase (not to exceed five, to be acquired from surplus stocks), maintenance, repair, and operation of aircraft. 846 [63 STAT.