Chapter 44.
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CHAP. 44.— An act authorizing the Secretary of War to erect headstones over the graves of Union soldiers who have been interred in private, village, or city cemeteries. Feb. 3, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of War isHeadstones for soldiers’ graves in private cemeteries. hereby authorized to erect headstones over the graves of soldiers who served in the Regular or Volunteer Army of the United States during the war for the Union, and who have been buried in private village or city cemeteries, in the same manner as provided by the law of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, for those interred in national1873, ch. 229,[17 Stat., 545](/us/stat/17/545). military cemeteries; and for this purpose, and for the expenses incident to such work, so much of the appropriation of one million dollars, madeExpenses. in the act above mentioned, as has not been expended, and as may be necessary, is hereby made available.
The Secretary of War shall cause to be preserved in the records ofRecords. his Department the names and places of burial of all soldiers for whom such headstones shall have been erected by authority of this or any former acts. Approved, February 3, 1879.