Volume 53
Public Law 76–520
To provide for the establishment of a cemetery within the Crab Orchard Creek Dam Project, Williamson County, Illinois.
Approved August 7, 1939
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the establishment of a cemetery within the Crab Orchard Creek Dam Project, Williamson County, Illinois.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subject to the provisions of section 2, the Soil Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture, is authorized and directed to remove the bodies buried within the area of the Crab Orchard Creek Dam Project, Williamson County, Illinois, from their present location and reinter such bodies in any land within the area of such project which may be available for use as a cemetery.
Sec. 2.
The provisions of section 1 shall not be carried out until after the formation by private interests of a corporation for the operation and maintenance of such cemetery on a nonprofit basis.
Approved, August 7, 1939.