Volume 45
Public Law 70–515
To amend section 2 of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize an appropriation for the care, maintenance, and improvement of the burial grounds containing the remains of Zachary Taylor, former President of the United States, and the memorial shaft erected to his memory, and for other purposes,” approved February 24, 1925.
Approved May 10, 1928
Statutory text
An Act
To amend section 2 of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize an appropriation for the care, maintenance, and improvement of the burial grounds containing the remains of Zachary Taylor, former President of the United States, and the memorial shaft erected to his memory, and for other purposes,” approved February 24, 1925.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 2 of an
Zachary Taylor.
Burial grounds, etc., of former President.
Vol. 43, p. 970, amended.
Post p. 929.
Act entitled “An Act to authorize an appropriation for the care, maintenance, and improvement of the burial grounds containing the remains of Zachary Taylor, former President of the United States, and the memorial shaft erected to his memory, and for other purposes,” approved February 24, 1925, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Title accepted from Kentucky, etc.
“Sec. 2.
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to accept, free of cost to the United States, from the State of Kentucky, and from any others having authority to donate the same, the land comprising the aforesaid burial grounds, and such other and additional land contiguous or adjacent thereto as in his judgment
To be known as Zachary Taylor National Cemetery.
may be deemed advisable; and upon the conveyance to the United States of a valid, fee-simple title to said land or lands the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to establish thereon a national cemetery, to be known as the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery.”
Approved, May 10, 1928.