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PUBLIC LAW 504-JULY 11, 1952

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CHAPTER 669

Public Law 504

AN ACT Making appropriations for civil functions administered by the Department of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1953, 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 otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1953, for civil functions administered by the Department of the Army and for other purposes, namely:

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Civil Functions A p p r o p r i a t ions Act, 1953.

C IV I L F U N C T I O N S, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY CEMETERIAL EXPENSES

Cemeterial expenses: For necessary expenses of maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents; purchase of land, as authorized by law; purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only; maintenance 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 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 under the Act of July 1, 1948 (24 U.S.C. 279a, b); 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; and for maintenance of graves used by the Army for burials in commercial cemeteries; $4,160,000: 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: Provided further, That this appropriation shall not be obligated for construction of a superintendent's odge or family quarters at a cost per unit in excess of $14,000, but such limitation may be increased by such additional amounts as may be required to provide office space, public comfort rooms, or space for the storage of Government property within the same structure.

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CORPS OF ENGINEERS RIVERS AND HARBORS AND FLOOD CONTROL

The following appropriations for rivers and harbors and flood control shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, and shall remain available until expended: Provided, That the various appropriations for rivers and harbors and flood control may be used for examina93300 O - 53 - 40

Headstones. 62 Stat. 1215. 24 USC 2 7 9a279c. Confederate cemeteries.

Commercial cemeteries. Encroachment by railroad.

Roadway repairs.

Family quarters, office s p a c e, e t c.

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