Volume 71
Public Law 85–41
To amend the act of March 3, 1911 (36 Stat. 1077), to remove restrictions on the use of a portion of the Springfield Confederate Cemetery, Springfield Missouri, and for other purposes.
Approved May 31, 1957
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the act of March 3, 1911 (36 Stat. 1077), to remove restrictions on the use of a portion of the Springfield Confederate Cemetery, Springfield Missouri, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the condition contained in the first section of the Act of March 3, 1911 (36 Stat. 1077), which requires that the land comprising the Confederate Cemetery at Springfield, Missouri, be used only as a cemetery for the graves of men who were in the military or naval service of the Confederate States of America, is applicable only to the portion of that cemetery inside the walled enclosure where those graves are located. The portion of that cemetery outside of the walled enclosure shall be used as part of the Springfield National Cemetery.
Approved May 31, 1957.