Chapter 631. To provide for the appropriate marking of the graves of the soldiers and sailors of the Confederate army and navy who died in Northern prisons and were buried near the prisons where they died, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 631.— An Act To provide for the appropriate marking of the graves of the soldiers and sailors of the Confederate army and navy who died in Northern prisons and were buried near the prisons where they died, and for other purposes. March 9, 1906. [[S. 1234](/us/bill/34/s/1234).] [[Public, No. 38](/us/pl/34/38).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Confederate soldiers and sailors.Care of graves of, who died in Northern prisons, etc.
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to ascertain the locations and condition of all the graves of the soldiers and sailors of the Confederate army and navy in the late civil war, eighteen hundred and sixty-one to eighteen hundred and sixty-five, who died in Federal pris0ons and military hospitals in the North and who were buried near their Purchase of grounds.places of confinement; with power in his discretion to acquire possession or control over all grounds where said prison dead are buried not now possessed or under the control of the United States Government;
Registers of the dead.to cause to be prepared accurate registers in triplicate, one for the superintendent’s office in the cemetery, one for the Quartermaster-General’s Office, and one for the War Record’s Office, Confederate archives, of the places of burial, the number of the grave, the name, company, regiment; or vessel and State, of each Confederate soldier and sailor who so died, by verification with the Confederate archives Erection of white marble headstones.in the War Department at Washington, District of Columbia; to cause to be erected over said graves white marble headstones similar to those recently placed over the graves in the “Confederate section” in the National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, similarly inscribed; to build proper fencing for the preservation of said burial grounds, and to care for said burial grounds in all proper respects not herein specifically Completion of the work.Report.mentioned, the said work to be completed within two years, at the end of which a report of the same shall be made to Congress.
Appropriation.That for the carrying out of the objects set forth herein there be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Appointment of commissioner.And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to appoint some competent person as commissioner to ascertain the location of such Confederate graves not heretofore located, and to compare the names of those already marked with the registers in the cemeteries, and correct the same when found necessary, as preliminary to the work Salary, etc.of marking the graves with suitable headstones, and to fix the compensation of said commissioner at the rate not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, who shall be allowed necessary traveling expenses.
Approved, March 9, 1906.