Volume 29
Public Law 54–365
To amend an Act entitled “An Act to prohibit the interment of bodies in Graceland Cemetery, in the District of Columbia,” passed August third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.
Approved March 2, 1897
Statutory text
An Act
To amend an Act entitled “An Act to prohibit the interment of bodies in Graceland Cemetery, in the District of Columbia,” passed August third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section two of the Act entitled “An Act to prohibit the interment of bodies in Graceland Cemetery, in the District of Columbia,” passed August third, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereby amended as follows:
Conveyance by deed of trust authorized.
“The said board of officers are hereby authorized and empowered to convey the said property by mortgage or deed of trust to secure a loan, which they are hereby authorized to make, at such time and at such rate of interest as may be practicable, not exceeding six per centum per annum, which money so raised shall be used by them for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of the said Act, and for which they shall be accountable as for other moneys coming into their hands as such officers under the said Act.”
Approved, .