Volume 64 · 435
Public Law 81–672
To provide for the expansion and disposition of certain national cemeteries.
Approved August 10, 1950
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the expansion and disposition of certain national cemeteries.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed—
a.
to expand existing facilities at the Rock Island National
Rock Island National Cemetery.
Cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, by utilizing not to exceed thirty acres of federally owned lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army adjoining the present national cemetery facility, which are surplus to military needs, and to provide for the care and maintenance thereof under the same regulations as prescribed for other national cemeteries under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army; and
b.
to expand existing facilities at the Fort Leavenworth
Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery.
National Cemetery, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, by utilizing not to exceed eight acres of federally owned land under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army, adjoining the present national cemetery facility, which are surplus to military needs, and to provide for the care and maintenance thereof under the same regulations as prescribed for other national cemeteries under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to transfer, without
Barrancas National Cemetery.
compensation therefor, to the Secretary of the Army for cemeterial purposes such Government-owned land under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Navy, located adjacent to the Barrancas National Cemetery near the city of Pensacola, Florida, as may be determined by the Secretary of the Navy to be available for the expansion of said cemetery. The lands transferred pursuant to the provisions of this Act shall be constituted a part of the Barrancas National Cemetery.
Approved August 10, 1950.