Volume 20
Public Law 45–101
directing the Secretary of War to purchase a lot of ground, situated near the city of Columbus, Ohio, now used by the United States as a cemetery.
Approved February 25, 1879
Statutory text
An act
directing the Secretary of War to purchase a lot of ground, situated near the city of Columbus, Ohio, now used by the United States as a cemetery.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of War be,
Camp Chase Cemetery.
Purchase of site.
and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase from the present owners a certain lot of ground, containing two and one-half acres, more or less, situated near the city of Columbus, Ohio, on the site of what was formerly known as Camp Chase, and used by the United States as a burial-place for the rebel prisoners who died while confined in the said Camp Chase (Ohio) military prison; and the sum of five hundred dollars
Appropriation.
is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for this purpose.
Approved, .