Chapter 516. For the improvement and care of Confederate Mound, in Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, and making an appropriation therefor
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CHAP. 516.— An Act For the improvement and care of Confederate Mound, in Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, and making an appropriation therefor. February 7, 1903.[[Public, No. 67](/us/pl/57/67).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.Contract for improving “Confederate Mound” authorized.That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter into a contract with the.
Oak Woods Cemetery Association for the improvement and ornamentation of the plot of ground owned by the United States and known as “Confederate Mound” located in Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, in which are buried twelve Union and four thousand and thirty-nine Confederate soldiers, who died at Camp Douglas during the war of the rebellion, so as to bring the condition of the said plot *Provisos.*Limit of expense.of ground up to, the standard of the improvements in the cemetery surrounding it: *Provided*, That the expense of such improvement shall not exceed the sum of three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
Sec. 2. Contract for care, etc.That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized from time to time to enter into contract with the Oak Woods Ceme-805tery Association for the proper care, protection, and maintenance of the said plot of ground known as “ConfederateMound” and described in*Proviso.*Limit of expense. section one of this Act: *Provided, however,* That the annual expense thereof shall not exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars. Sec. 3. That to defray the expenses of theAppropriation. improvement provided for in section one of this Act the sum of three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, February 7, 1903.