Chapter 30. Providing for the taking over by the United States Government of the Confederate cemetery at Little Rock, Arkansas
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CHAP. 30.— An Act Providing for the taking over by the United States Government of the Confederate cemetery at Little Rock, Arkansas.February 7, 1913.[[H. R. 24365](/us/bill/62/hr/24365).][[Public, No. 363](/us/pl/62/363).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Confess assembled*,Little Rock. Ark.Confederate cemetery at, accepted by the Government. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to accept a conveyance to the United States of the Confederate cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas, which adjoins the national cemetery at that place, and when so accepted the Government shall take care of and properly maintain and preserve the cemetery, its monument or monuments, headstones, and other marks of the graves, its walls, gates, and appurtenances, and preserve and keep a record, as far as reasonably practicable, of the names of those buried therein, with such history of each as can be obtained, and to see that it is never used for any other purpose than as a cemetery for the graves of men who were in the military or naval service of the Confederate States of America: *Provided*, That organized*Proviso*.Burials. bodies of ex-Confederates or individuals shall have free and unrestricted entry to said cemetery for the purposes of burying worthy ex-Confederates, for decorating the graves, and for all other purposes which they have heretofore enjoyed, all under proper and reasonable regulations and restrictions made by the Secretary of War. 664 Sec. 2.
National cemetery keeper to have charge, etc. That the Secretary of War, under this Act, is directed to take the necessary steps for the proper transfer of the cemetery to the Government, and when the same has been duly completed, to put it in charge of the keeper of the national cemetery at Little Rock, Arkansas, requiring him to exercise the same care in the preservation, beautifying and caretaking generally as is done in regard to the national cemetery; also that a suitable gate or entryway be made in the stone wall which now divides the two cemeteries so that persons may readily pass from one to the other.
Whatever additional funds may be required for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act shall be paid out of any fund which may be available for the maintenance of national cemeteries. Approved, February 7, 1913.