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 52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 330--JUNE 10, 1938 Whereas these sons of twenty-eight States who gave their all that this Nation might remain forever one people lie buried in beautiful Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Cemetery; and Whereas these heroes who gave their lives to the end that their sons and daughters might have the blessings of liberty and freedom that only a united Nation could preserve and sustain have descendants living today in every State of the Union; and Whereas the Governors of the twenty-eight States whose sons lie buried in Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Cemetery have expressed a desire to give to the people of these respective States an opportunity to make a pilgrimage to this national shrine under appropriate auspices; and Whereas the peoples of Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee by action of the Governors of those States have expressed a willingness and a desire to cooperate with the National Government in giving to the people of the several States an opportunity to make this pilgrimage on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge; and Whereas it is fitting that a Nation that has grown great in the strength of a unity preserved and bequeathed to it by those who sacrificed their all should pause to pay homage to its heroic dead; and Whereas it is fitting that the Nation by appropriate ceremonies should commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of peace between its pioneers and the Indians of the Cherokee race: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to appoint a commission for the commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Bat- tles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, and Mission- ary Ridge (hereinafter called the commission). SEC. 2. The commission shall be composed of three members, all of whom shall be residents of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and who shall serve without compensation. It shall be the duty of the commission to arrange for, supervise, and carry out appropriate observance of the said anniversary. The commission shall elect a chairman and a treasurer from among its members, and is authorized to adopt such rules and regulations for the conduct of its business as it may deem proper. SEC. 3. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $35,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for use by the com- mission in defraying expenses necessary for and incident to said observance. Any sums appropriated pursuant to the provisions of this Act shall be paid over to the treasurer of the commission by the Treasury of the United States for use by the commission as herein provided. All expenditures made by the commission shall be upon vouchers submitted by the treasurer of the commission and approved by its chairman. On or before the 1st day of January 1939 the commission shall make an accounting of all its expenditures, and a report of its activities to Congress. Approved, June 10, 1938. 637 Centenary of peace with the Cherokee Indians. Appointment of commission author- ized. Composition, resi- dence requirement. Election of chair- man and treasurer, adoption of rules for conduct of business. Appropriation au- thorized for observ- ance expenses. Post, p. 1116. Administrative pro- visions. Report to Congress.

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