Chapter CC. *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish and to protect National Cemeteries.”* July 1, 1870.1867, ch. 61
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CHAP. CC.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish and to protect National Cemeteries.”* July 1, 1870.1867, ch. 61.Vol. xiv. p. 399. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Jurisdiction, &c. of the United States over national cemeteries to the purchase of which any State has given its consent. That from the time any State legislature shall have given, or shall hereafter give, the consent of such State to the purchase by the United States of any national cemetery mentioned in the act entitled “An act to establish and protect national cemeteries,” approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, the jurisdiction and power of legislation of the United States over such cemetery shall in all courts and places be held to be the same as is granted by section eight, article one, of the Constitution of the United States ; and all the provisions of said act of February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, shall be applicable to the same.
Sec. 2. Copies of this act to be sent to the governors of such States.*And be it further enacted*, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to cause copies of this present act to be sent to the governors of all such States, wherein any of such national cemeteries may be situated, to the end that the legislatures of such States may give the consent herein mentioned. Approved, July 1, 1870.