Chapter 169. To provide for the erection of memorials and the entombment of bodies in the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, in Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia
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CHAP. 169.— An Act To provide for the erection of memorials and the entombment of bodies in the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, in Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. March 4, 1921. [[H. R. 8032](/us/bill/66/hr/8032).] [[Public, No. 397](/us/pl/66/397).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That a commission is Arlington Memorial Amphitheater.Commission created to submit recommendations for memorials, etc., in.hereby created, to be composed of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, which shall submit annually to the President, who shall transmit the same to Congress by the first Monday in December, recommendations as to what, if any, inscriptions, tablets, busts, or other memorials shall be erected, and what, if any, bodies of deceased members of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps shall be entombed during the next ensuing year within the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, in the Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia: *Proviso.*Restriction on nearby interments, etc.*Provided,* That no memorial shall be placed and no body shall be interred in the grounds about the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater within a distance of two hundred and fifty feet from the said memorial.
Officers of commission. Sec. 2. That the Secretary of War shall be the chairman of the said commission and the depot quartermaster of the Army in Washington shall be its executive and disbursing officer. Specific authorization of Congress required for inscriptions, etc. Sec. 3. That no inscription, tablet, bust, or other memorial shall be erected nor shall any body be entombed within the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater unless specifically authorized in each case by Act of the Congress.
Distinguished military or naval service requisite for memorials, etc. Sec. 4. That no inscription, tablet, bust, or other memorial as herein provided for shall be erected to commemorate any person who shall not have rendered conspicuously distinguished service in the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, nor shall the body Lapse of time required for interments, etc.of any such person be entombed in the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater; nor shall any such memorial be erected or any body be entombed therein within ten years after the date of the death of the person so to be commemorated, except as heretofore or hereafter authorized by Congress.
Commission to approve designs, etc. Sec. 5. That the character, design, and location of any such inscriptions, tablets, busts, or other memorials when authorized as Advice of Commission of Fine Arts.herein provided shall be subject to the approval of the commission herein created, which shall in each case obtain the advice of the Commission of Fine Arts. Approved, March 4, 1921.