Volume 45
Private Law 70–847
To provide for the reinterment of bodies now interred in the grounds of Saint Francis de Sales Church in the District of Columbia.
Approved May 28, 1928
Statutory text
An Act
To provide for the reinterment of bodies now interred in the grounds of Saint Francis de Sales Church in the District of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That Michael J. Curley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore, a corporation sole under the laws of the State of Maryland, be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered, under such regulations as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may prescribe, to transfer the bodies interred in the grounds of the Saint Francis de Sales Church in the District of Columbia, known as parcel 155/1, to some other suitable
Further interments therein prohibited.
cemetery, or cemeteries, within the District of Columbia. Further interments in such grounds shall be prohibited from and after the
Use of grounds.
passage of this Act; and the proprietors thereof are authorized to use the same for any legal purposes they may deem proper, subject to such proceedings in eminent domain as may have been or shall hereafter be taken.
Approved, May 28, 1928.