Chapter 258. To amend section forty-eight hundred and seventy-five of the Revised Statutes, to provide a compensation for superintendents of national cemeteries
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CHAP. 258.— An Act To amend section forty-eight hundred and seventy-five of the Revised Statutes, to provide a compensation for superintendents of national cemeteries. July 30, 1912.[[H. R. 1739](/us/bill/62/hr/1739).][[Public, No. 245](/us/62/pl/245).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,National cemeteries.[R. S., sec. 4875, p. 943, amended](/us/rs/s4875/p943). That section forty-eight hundred and seventy-five of the Revised Statutes be amended to read as follows:
" Salaries of superintendents.“Sec. 4875. The superintendents of the national cemeteries shall receive for their compensation from sixty dollars to seventy-five dollars a month each, according to the extent and importance of the cemeteries to which they may be respectively assigned, to be determined by the Secretary of War, except the superintendent of the Arlington, Va.Arlington, Virginia, Cemetery, whose compensation may be one hundred dollars per month, at the discretion of the Secretary of War; and they shall also be furnished with quarters and fuel at the several cemeteries.
” " Approved, July 30, 1912.