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Volume 19 · 55

Public Law 44–103

Relating to interments in the Congressional Cemetery.

Approved May 23, 1876

Statutory text

An act

Relating to interments in the Congressional Cemetery.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That hereafter whenever any deceased Senator or Member of the House of Representatives shall be actually interred in the Congressional Cemetery, so-called, it shall be the duty of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, in the case of a Senator, and of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, in the

when, and how erected;

case of a member of the House, to have a monument erected, of granite, with suitable inscriptions, and the cost of the same shall be a charge upon and paid out either from the contingent funds of the Senate or of

how paid for.

the House of Representatives, to whichever the deceased may have belonged, and any existing omissions of monuments or inscriptions, as aforesaid, are hereby directed and authorized to be supplied in like manner, and all laws upon the subject of monuments in the Congressional Cemetery are hereby repealed.

Approved, May 23, 1876.

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