Chapter CLXXIII. *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish and to protect national Cemeteries,” approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.*May 18, 1872. 1867, ch. 61
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CHAP. CLXXIII.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish and to protect national Cemeteries,” approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.*May 18, 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 the Secretary of War isSuperintendents of national cemeteries to be selected from honorably discharged trustworthy disabled soldiers; hereby authorized to select the superintendents of the national cemeteries from meritorious and trustworthy soldiers, either commissioned officers or enlisted men of the volunteer or regular army, who have been honorably mustered out or discharged from the service of the United States, and who may have been disabled for active field service in the line of duty.
Sec. 2. That the superintendents of the national cemeteries shall receivetheir pay, quarters, and fuel. for their compensation from sixty dollars to seventy-five dollars per month, according to the extent and importance of the cemeteries to which they may be respectively assigned, to be determined by the Secretary of War; and they shall also be furnished with quarters and fuel, as now provided at the several cemeteries. Sec. 3. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisionsRepealing clause. of this act are hereby repealed.
Approved, May 18, 1872.