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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CHS. 414, 415-JUNE 24, 1940 [CHAPTER 414] AN ACT To provide for the local delivery rate on certain first-class mail matter. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proviso in section 1001 of the Revenue Act of 1932 (relating to posta rates) is amended to read as follows: "Provided, That such additional rate shall not apply to first-class matter mailed for local delivery or for delivery wholly within a county the population of which exceeds one million, provided said county is entirely within a corporate city". Approved, June 24, 1940. [CHAPTER 415] AN ACT 505 June 24, 1940 IS. 3667] [Public, No. 652] Revenue Actof 1932, amendment. 48 Stat. 254, 1 3. 39U. .C.C 280 (note); Supp. V,§ 280 (note). Proviso. Additional postal rate, restriction. June 24, 1940 Making appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, for civil functions [H. R. 8668] administered by the War Department, and for other purposes. [Public, No. 653] 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, 1941, for civil functions administered by the War Department, and for other purposes, namely: QUARTERMASTER CORPS CEMETERIAL EXPENSES For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for and pay of superintendents and the superintendent at Mexico City, and other employees; purchase of land; purchase of tools and materials; purchase and exchange of two passenger-carrying motor vehicles; repair, maintenance, and operation of passenger-carrying motor vehicles; care and maintenance of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, chapel, and grounds in the Arlington National Ceme- tery, 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 constructed under special Act of Congress; headstones for unmarked graves of soldiers, sailors, and marines under the Acts approved March 3, 1873 (24 U. S. C. 279), February 3, 1879 (24 U. S. C . 280), March 9, 1906 (34 Stat. 56), March 14, 1914 (38 Stat. 768), and February 26, 1929 (24 U. S . C . 280a), and civilians interred in post cemeteries; recovery of bodies and disposition of remains of military personnel and civilian employees of the Army under Act approved March 9, 1928 (10 U. S . C. 916); travel allowances of attendants accompanying remains of military personnel and civilian employees; 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 main- tenance of the Confederate Mound in Oakwood Cemetery at Chicago, the Confederate Stockade Cemetery at Johnstons Island the Con- federate 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 Con- federate Cemetery at Rock Island; and for care and maintenance of War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1941. Post, p. 971. Maintenance, etc., of national cemeteries. Post, pp. 601, 971. Arlington National Cemetery. Portion of Congres- sional Cemetery. Headstones. 17 Stat. 545; 20 Stat. 281; 45 Stat. 1307. Recovery of bodies, etc. 45 Stat. 251 . 10 U. S. C., Supp. V, I 916. Confederate ceme- teries, etc.

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