EXPENSES OF TRANSPORTATION AND BURIAL.

185. To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of officers and soldiers who die at military camps or who are killed in action, or who die in the field or hospital in Alaska, and at places outside of the limits of the United States, or who die while on voyage at sea, * * * dollars.-Act of Apr. 28, 1904 (33 Stat. 496).

186. In all cases where an officer or an enlisted man in either the Army, Navy, Marine Corps of the United States, or contract surgeon or trained nurse in the employ of the Government, has died while on duty away from home since the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the remains have been taken home and buried at the expense of the family or friends of the deceased, the parties who paid the cost of transportation and burying such remains shall be repaid at the expense of the United States by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed what it would have cost the United States to have transported the remains to their homes.Act of Mar. 3, 1899 (30 Stat., 1225).

187. (For) expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the field, or at military posts or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; and in all cases where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement may be made of expenses heretofore or hereafter incurred by individuals of burial and transportation of remains of officers, including acting assistant surgeons, not to exceed the amount now allowed in the cases of officers and for the reimbursement in the cases of enlisted men not exceeding the amount now allowed in their cases, may be paid out of the proper funds appropriated by this act, and the disbursing officers shall be credited with such reimbursement heretofore made; but hereafter no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.-Act of Apr. 23, 1904 (33 Stat., 269).

188. For the expenses of interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes or to such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper authority, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of the remains of officers, including acting assistant surgeons, and enlisted men of the Army active list; for the expenses of interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes, of the remains of civil employees of the Army in the employ of the War Department, who die abroad, inclusive of Alaska, or on Army transports; for the expenses of removal of remains from abandoned posts to permanent military posts or national cemeteries, including the remains of Federal soldiers, sailors, or marines interred in fields or abandoned private and city cemeteries; and in any case where the expenses of burial or shipment of the remains of officers or enlisted men of the Army who die on the active list are borne by individuals, where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement to such individuals may be made of the amount allowed by the Government for such services to be paid out of the funds appropriated by this act, but no reimbursement shall be made under this act of such expenses incurred prior to the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, dollars.-Act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat., 723).

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CARE AND MAINTENANCE.

189. The Secretary of War shall provide for the care and maintenance of the national military cemeteries, and for this purpose shall submit an estimate with his annual estimates to Congress, and section 4876 of the Revised Statutes is hereby repealed.Act of July 24, 1876 (19 Stat., 99).

190. The Secretary of War shall purchase from the owners thereof, at such price as may be mutually agreed upon between the Secretary and such owners, such real estate as in his judgment is suitable and necessary for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions for national cemeteries, and obtain from such owners the title in fee simple for the same. And in case the Secretary of War is not able to agree with any owner upon the price to be paid for any real estate needed for such purpose, or to obtain from such owner title in fee simple for the same, the Secretary is hereby authorized to enter upon and appropriate any real estate which, in his judgment, is suitable and necessary for such purposes.—Sec. 4870, R. S.

191. The Secretary of War, or the owners of any real estate thus entered upon and appropriated, are authorized to make application for an appraisement of real estate thus entered upon and appropriated to any circuit or distirct court within any State or district where such real estate is situated; and such court shall, upon such application, and in such mode and under such rules and regulations as it may adopt, make a just and equitable appraisement of the cash value of the several interests of each and every owner of such real estate and improvements thereon.-Sec. 4871, R. S.

192. When appraisement of the real estate thus entered upon and appropriated has been made under the order and direction of the court, the fee simple thereof shall, upon payment to the owner of the appraised value, or in case such owner refuses or neglects for thirty days after the appraisement of the cash value of the real estate or improvements as aforesaid to demand the same from the Secretary of War upon depositing the appraised value in the court making such appraisement to the credit of such owner, be vested in the United States, and its jurisdiction over such real estate shall be exclusive and the same as its jurisdiction over real estate purchased, ceded, or appropriated for the purposes of navy yards, forts, and arsenals. The Secretary of War is authorized and required to pay to the several owner or owners, respectively, the appraised value of the several pieces or parcels of real estate, as specified in the appraisement of any of such courts, or to pay into any of such courts by deposit, as hereinbefore provided, the appraised value; and the sum necessary for such purpose may be taken from any moneys appropriated for the purposes of national cemeteries.-Sec. 4872, R. S.

193. For the purchase of additional land in Cave Hill Cemetery, at Louisville, Kentucky, for the burial of soldiers of the Union Army in the late Civil War and in the War with Spain, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the amount of land herein authorized to be purchased and the price paid therefor shall be within the discretion of the Secretary of War.—Act of Aug. 24, 1912 (37 Stat., 440).

SUPERINTENDENTS OF NATIONAL CEMETERIES.

194. The Secretary of War shall cause to be erected at the principal entrance of each national cemetery a suitable building to be occupied as a porter's lodge; and shall appoint a meritorious and trustworthy superintendent to reside therein, for the purpose of guarding and protecting the cemetery and giving information to parties visiting the same.-Sec. 4873, R. S.

195. The superintendents of the national cemeteries shall be selected from meritorious and trustworthy soldiers, either commissioned officers or enlisted men of the Volunteer or Regular Army, who have been honorably mustered out or discharged from the service of the United States, and who may have been disabled for active field service in the line of duty.-Sec. 4874, R. S.

196. The superintendents of the national cemeteries shall receive for their compensation from sixty dollars to seventy-five dollars a month each, according to the extent

and importance of the cemeteries to which they may be respectively assigned, to be determined by the Secretary of War, except the superintendent of the Arlington, Virginia, Cemetery, whose compensation may be one hundred dollars per month, at the discretion of the Secretary of War; and they shall also be furnished with quarters and fuel at the several cemeteries."-Act of July 30, 1912 (37 Stat., 240), amending Sec. 4875, R. S.

INCLOSURES, HEADSTONES, AND REGISTERS.

197. In the arrangement of the national cemeteries established for the burial of deceased soldiers and sailors, the Secretary of War is hereby directed to have the same inclosed with a good and substantial stone or iron fence; and to cause each grave to be marked with a small headstone or block, which shall be of durable stone, and of such design and weight as shall keep it in place when set, and shall bear the name of the soldier and the name of his State inscribed thereon, when the same are known, and also with the number of the grave inscribed thereon, corresponding with the number opposite to the name of the party in a register of burials to be kept at each cemetery and at the office of the Quartermaster General, which shall set forth the name, rank, company, regiment, and date of death of the officer or soldier; or if these are unknown, it shall be so recorded.-Sec. 4877, R. S.

198. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to erect headstones over the graves of soldiers who served in the Regular or Volunteer Army of the United States during the war for the Union, and who have been buried in private, village, or city cemeteries, in the same manner as provided by the law of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, for those interred in national military cemeteries; and for this purpose, and for the expenses incident to such work, so much of the appropriation of one million dollars, made in the act above mentioned, as has not been expended, and as may be necessary, is hereby made available.

The Secretary of War shall cause to be preserved in the records of his department the names and places of burial of all soldiers for whom such headstones shall have been erected by authority of this or any former acts.—Act of Feb. 3, 1879 (20 Stat., 281).

MARKING GRAVES OF CIVILIANS IN POST CEMETERIES.

199. For supplying stone markers for civilian graves in post cemeteries dollars.-Act of Apr. 28, 1904 (33 Stat., 496).

JURISDICTION-CRIMINAL OFFENSES.

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200. From the time any State legislature shall have given, or shall hereafter give, the consent of such State to the purchase by the United States of any national cemetery, the jurisdiction and power of legislation of the United States over such cemetery shall in all courts and places be held to be the same as is granted by section eight, article one, of the Constitution of the United States; and all provisions relating to national cemeteries shall be applicable to the same.-Sec. 4882, R. S.

201. Every person who willfully destroys, mutilates, defaces, injures, or removes any monument, gravestone, or other structure, or who willfully destroys, cuts, breaks, injures, or removes any tree, shrub, or plant within the limits of any national cemetery, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than twentyfive dollars, and not more than one hundred, or by imprisonment for not less than fifteen days and not more than sixty. The superintendent in charge of any national cemetery is authorized to arrest forthwith any person engaged in committing any misdemeanor herein prohibited, and to bring such person before any United States commissioner or judge of any district or circuit court of the United States within any

State or district where any of the cemeteries are situated, for the purpose of holding such person to answer for such misdemeanor, and then and there shall make complaint in due form.-Sec. 4881, R. S.

UNITED STATES CEMETERY NEAR THE CITY OF MEXICO.

202. The President is authorized to provide, out of the ordinary annual appropriations, for establishing and maintaining United States military cemeteries, for the proper care and preservation and maintenance of the cemetery or burial ground near the City of Mexico, in which are interred the remains of officers and soldiers of the United States, and of citizens of the United States, who fell in battle or died in and around said city.-Sec. 4879, R. S.

203. The cemetery in Mexico shall be subject to the rules and regulations affecting United States national military cemeteries within the limits of the United States, so far as they may, in the opinion of the President, be applicable thereto.-Sec. 4880, R. S.

CONFEDERATE SECTION, ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY.

204. To enable the Secretary of War to have reburied in some suitable spot in the national cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, and to place proper headstones at their graves, the bodies of about one hundred and twenty-eight Confederate soldiers now buried in the National Soldiers' Home, near Washington, District of Columbia, and the bodies of about one hundred and thirty-six Confederate soldiers now buried in the national cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.-Act of June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 630).

205. Hereafter persons dying in the District of Columbia or in the immediate vicinity thereof who have served in the Confederate Armies during the Civil War may be buried in the Confederate section of the Arlington National Cemetery without additional expense to the United States upon the certificate of Camp Numbered One hundred and seventy-one, United Confederate Veterans of the District of Columbia, that such persons are entitled to burial under the authority herein given: Provided, That all such interments shall be under the supervision and subject to the approval of the Secretary of War.-Act of Aug. 24, 1912 (37 Stat., 440).

CONFEDERATE MOUND, OAK WOODS CEMETERY, CHICAGO.

206. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized from time to time to enter into contract with the Oak Woods Cemetery Association for the proper care, protection, and maintenance of the said plot of ground known as "Confederate Mound" and described in section one of this act: Provided, however, That the annual expense thereof shall not exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars.-Act of Feb. 7, 1903 (32 Stat., 804).

MARKING GRAVES OF CONFEDERATES WHO DIED IN FEDERAL PRISONS AND MILITARY HOSPITALS IN THE NORTH.

207. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to ascertain the locations and condition of all the graves of the soldiers and sailors of the Confederate Army and Navy in the late Civil War, eighteen hundred and sixty-one to eighteen hundred and sixty-five who died in Federal prisons and military hospitals in the North and who were buried near their places of confinement; with the power in his discretion to acquire possession or control over all grounds where said prison dead are buried not now possessed or under the control of the United States Government; to cause to be prepared accurate registers in triplicate, one for the superintend

ent's office in the cemetery, one for the Quartermaster General's office, and one for the War Record's Office, Confederate archives, of the places of burial, the number of the grave, the name, company, regiment, or vessel, and State of each Confederate soldier and sailor who so died, by verification with the Confederate archives in the War Department at Washington, District of Columbia; to cause to be erected over said graves white marble headstones similar to those recently placed over the graves in the "Confederate section" in the national cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, similarly inscribed; to build proper fencing for the preservation of said burial grounds, and to care for said burial grounds in all proper respects not herein specifically mentioned, the said work to be completed within two years, at the end of which a report of the same shall be made to Congress. That for the carrying out of the objects set forth herein there be appropriated out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to appoint some competent person as commissioner to ascertain the location of such Confederate graves not heretofore located, and to compare the names of those already marked with the registers in the cemeteries, and correct the same when found necessary as preliminary to the work of marking the graves with suitable headstones, and to fix the compensation of said commissioner at the rate of not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, who shall be allowed necessary traveling expenses. Act of Mar. 9, 1906 (34 Stat., 56)

2072. That the act entitled "An act to provide for the appropriate marking of the graves of soldiers and sailors of the Confederate army and navy who died in northern prisons and were buried near the prisons where they died, and for other purposes," approved March ninth, nineteen hundred and six, and continued in full force and effect for two years by joint resolution approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for the additional period of one year by a joint resolution approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for the further additional period of two years by a joint resolution approved December twenty-third, nineteen hundred and ten, is continued in full force and effect for two years from this date; and the unexpended balance of the appropriation made by said act of March ninth, nineteen hundred and six, is continued and made applicable for expenditure during the additional period of two years herein provided for: Provided, That hereafter the provisions of said act shall include and apply to the graves of Confederate soldiers and sailors lying in all national cemeteries and cemeteries at Federal military stations, or localities throughout the country: Provided further, That the compensation of the commissioner shall be fixed by the Secretary of War.-Joint resolution approved Mar. 14, 1914.

CONFEDERATE CEMETERY, SPRINGFIELD, MO.

208. That the Confederate cemetery near Springfield, Missouri, and which adjoins the national cemetery at that place, having been tendered by proper authority to the United States Government, the same is hereby accepted, under the conditions that the Government shall take care of and properly maintain and preserve the cemetery, its monument or monuments, headstones, and other marks of the graves, its walls, gates, and appurtenances; to preserve and keep a record, as far as possible, of the names of those buried therein, with such history of each as can be obtained, and to see that it is never used for any other purpose than as a cemetery for the graves of men who were in the military or naval service of the Confederate States of America; Provided, That organized bodies of ex-Confederates or individuals shall have free and unrestricted entry to said cemetery for the purposes of burying worthy ex-Confederates, for decorating the graves, and for all other purposes which they have heretofore