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Public Law 74–223
To amend section 4878 of the United States Revised Statutes, as amended, relating to burials in national cemeteries.
Approved June 13, 1935
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 4878 of the United States Revised Statutes, as amended, 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 4878
National cemeteries; burials In.
Certain members of Cabinet.
Vol. 41, p. 552; U. S. C., p. 992.
of the United States Revised Statutes, as amended, be further amended by adding at the end of said section a new sentence reading as follows: “Persons who were members of the Cabinet of the President of the United States at any time during the period between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, may be buried in any national
Proviso.
Interment without Federal expense.
cemetery: Provided, That the interment is without cost to the United States.”
Approved, June 13, 1935.