Chapter 172.
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CHAP. 172.— An act to protect Holmead cemetery in the District of Columbia. March 3, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That all the right and title of theDistrict of Columbia.Holmead cemetery granted to, for school purposes. United States to and in square number one hundred and nine, in the city of Washington, commonly known as Holmead’s cemetery, be, and the same is hereby granted to and vested in the District of Columbia, and shall be used by said District for public school purposes, and for none other.
The Commissioners of the District, or their successors inMay be sold. office, may at any time sell any part or the whole of said square; but the proceeds of such sale or sales shall be exclusively invested in sites for public schools or in the erection or purchase of school-buildings, and shall be used for no other purpose whatever. But before making anyRemoval of bodies. disposition of the said square, the District of Columbia shall remove all the bodies remaining interred thereinto some suitable burial-ground, together with all tombstones or other monuments remaining at the graves from which the bodies are so removed.
Approved, March 3, 1879.