Chapter CCLVII. to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish and protect national Cemeteries,” approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven
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CHAP. CCLVII.— An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish and protect national Cemeteries,” approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.June 1, 1872.1867, 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,* That from and after the passageAll honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who die destitute may be buried in national cemeteries. of this act all soldiers and sailors honorably discharged from the service of the United States who may die in a destitute condition, shall be allowed burial in the national cemeteries of the United States. Approved, June 1, 1872.