Chapter 306.
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CHAP. 306.— AN ACT To authorize an appropriation for the care, maintenance, and improvement of the burial grounds containing the remains of Zachary Taylor, former President of the United States, and of the memorial shaft erected to his memory, and for other purposes. February 24, 1925.[[H. R. 9724](/us/bill/68/hr/9724).][[Public, No. 456](/us/pl/68/456).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Zachary Taylor.Care of burial grounds, etc., of former President, authorized, in Jefferson County, Ky.
That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $10,000, for the care, maintenance, and improvement of the burial grounds, comprising*Post*, p. 1345. approximately five acres, containing the remains of Zachary Taylor, former President of the United States, and of the memorial shaft erected to his memory, located on the Brownsboro Road in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Supervision of expenses.The appropriation herein authorized shall be expended by and under the supervision of the Secretary of War.
Sec. 2. Title accepted and land established as a national cemetery. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to accept, free of cost to the United States Government, from the State of Kentucky and from any others having authority to convey same, the land comprising the aforesaid burial grounds; and upon the presentation of good and perfect title to said land the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to establish thereon a national cemetery. Approved, February 24, 1925.