Volume 29 · 626
Public Law 54–378
To amend section forty-eight hundred and seventy-eight of the Revised Statutes relating to burials in national cemeteries.
Approved March 3, 1897
Statutory text
An Act
To amend section forty-eight hundred and seventy-eight of the Revised Statutes relating to burials in national cemeteries.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section forty-eight hundred
National cemeteries.
R. S., sec. 4878, p. 944, amended.
and seventy-eight of the Revised Statutes be amended so as to read as follows:
“Sec. 4878.
All soldiers, sailors, or marines dying in the service of
Burials.
the United States, or dying in a destitute condition after having been honorably discharged from the service, or who served during the late war, either in the regular or volunteer forces, may be buried in any national cemetery free of cost. The production of the honorable discharge of a deceased man shall be sufficient authority for the superintendent of any cemetery to permit the interment. Army nurses
Army nurses permitted burial.
honorably discharged from their service as such may be buried in anyFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 378, 379. 1897. national cemetery; and if in a destitute condition, free of cost. The Secretary of War is authorized to issue certificates to those army nurses entitled to such burial.”
Approved, .