Volume 52
Public Law 75–50
To amend the Act approved February 7, 1913, so as to remove restrictions as to the use of the Little Rock Confederate Cemetery, and for other purposes.
Approved March 26, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act approved February 7, 1913, so as to remove restrictions as to the use of the Little Rock Confederate Cemetery, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 1 of
Little Rock Confederate Cemetery, Ark.
the Act of Congress approved February 7, 1913 (37 Stat. 663), be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
“That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to accept a conveyance
Acceptance by the Government.
to the United States of the Confederate Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas, which adjoins the national cemetery at that place, and when so accepted the Government shall take care of and properly
Maintenance, etc.
maintain and preserve the cemetery, its monument or monuments, headstones, and other marks of the graves, its walls, gates, and appurtenances, and preserve and keep a record, as far as reasonably practicable, of the names of those buried therein, with such history of each as can be obtained, and the said conveyance shall be such that
Burial therein.
it will permit the burial in said cemetery of all soldiers, sailors, or marines and all officers or men of the Coast Guard, dying in the service of the United States, or dying in a destitute condition after having been honorably discharged from the service, or who served, or hereafter shall have served, during any war in which the United States has been, or may hereafter be, engaged, and, with the consent of the Secretary of War, any citizen of the United States who served in the army or navy of any government at war with Germany or Austria during the World War and who died while in such service or after honorable discharge therefrom, as provided in Revised Statutes, 4878, amended by the Act of April 15, 1920 (41 Stat. 552;
R. S. § 4878.
24 U. S. C. § 281; Supp. Ill, § 281.
U. S. C., title 24, sec. 281), and the Act of June 13, 1935 (Public, Numbered 132, Seventy-fourth Congress), in addition to men who were in the military and naval service of the Confederate States of America: Provided, That the Secretary of War shall at all times
Provisos.
Space for future burials of Confederate veterans.
Privileges provided for, under regulations.
leave sufficient space in said cemetery for the purpose of future burials of Confederate veterans: Provided further, That organized bodies of ex-Confederates or individuals shall have free and unrestricted entry to said cemetery for the purposes of burying worthy ex-Confederates, for decorating the. graves, and for all other purposes which they have heretofore enjoyed, all under proper and reasonable regulations and restrictions made by the Secretary of War.”
Approved, March 26, 1938.