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 59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CHS. 44, 45 -MAR. 29, 31, 1945 whenever necessary, the services of Government employees for fold- ing speeches and pamphlets at the prevailing rates provided by law. Approved March 29, 1945. [CHAPTER 45] AN ACT Making appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, for civil functions administered by the War Department, and for other purposes. 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, 1946, for civil functions administered by the War Department, and for other pur- poses, 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 grave sites; purchase of tools and materials; purchase (not to exceed one used), repair, maintenance, and operation of passenger-carrying motor vehicles; care and main- tenance 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 constructed 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 con- structed 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 Oakwood Cemetery at Chicago the Con- federate 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, $1,658,700: 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: Providedfurther, 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 For operation, maintenance, and improvement of the Alaska Com- munication System, including travel allowances and travel in kind as authorized by law, and operation and maintenance of passenger- carrying vehicles, $227,840, to be derived from the receipts of the March 31, 1945 [H. R. 2126] [Public Law 24] War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1946. Post, pp. 429, 654. Maintenance of na- tional cemeteries. Headstones. 17 Stat. 545; 20 Stat. 281; 45 Stat. 1307; 54 Stat. 142 . Confederate oeme- teries. Commercial ceme- teries. Encroachment by railroad. Roadway repairs.

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