Chapter CCLXXVI. to authorize the Interment of honorably discharged soldiers, Sailors and, Marines in the national Cemeteries of the United States
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CHAP. CCLXXVI.— An Act to authorize the Interment of honorably discharged soldiers, Sailors and, Marines in the national Cemeteries of the United States.March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatHonorably discharged soldiers, sailors, or marines, hereafter dying, may be buried in national cemeteries. honorably discliarged soldiers sailors or marines who served during the late war either in the regular or volunteer forces, dying subsequent to the passage of this act may be buried in any national cemetery of the United States free of cost and their graves shall receive the same care and attention as the graves of those already buried.
The production of the honorable discharge of the deceased shall be authority for the superintendent of the cemetery to permit the interment. Approved, March 3, 1873.