Volume 54
Public Law 76–452
For the marking, care, and maintenance of the Mount of Victory plot in the Cypress Hills Cemetery, in Brooklyn, New York.
Approved June 29, 1940
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the marking, care, and maintenance of the Mount of Victory plot in the Cypress Hills Cemetery, in Brooklyn, New York.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to accept (on behalf of, and without cost to, the United States) title to that certain burial plot in the Cypress Hills Cemetery, in the Borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, in the State of New York, known as the Mount of Victory plot and designated on a map of said cemetery filed according to law as lots numbers 354 to 359, inclusive, in section 2, comprising approximately two thousand four hundred square feet, in which plot are interred the remains of the last survivor and of other veterans of the War of 1812, and to make said plot part and parcel of the Cypress Hills National Cemetery acquired in 1870 from and also located
Care, maintenance, and marking.
wholly within said Cypress Hills Cemetery. The said Mount of Victory plot shall thereafter receive care, maintenance, and marking as provided by U. S. C., title 24, sections 278 and 279.
Approved, June 29, 1940.