Chapter 162. To Authorize appropriations to be made for the disposition of remains of military personnel and civilian employees of the Army
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Chap. 162: To Authorize appropriations to be made for the disposition of remains of military personnel and civilian employees of the Army. 1928-03-09 162 Chapter 45 Stat. 251 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public Chapter 162.— An Act To Authorize appropriations to be made for the disposition of remains of military personnel and civilian employees of the Army.
March 9, 1928.[[H. R. 248](/us/bill/70/hr/248).][[Public, No. 117](/us/pl/70/117).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there is herebyArmy.Authorization for disposition of remains of officers, etc.*Post*, pp. 354, 1375. authorized to be appropriated from time to time such sums as may be necessary for expenses of interment, cremation (only upon request from relatives of the deceased), or of preparation and transportation to their homes or to such national cemeteries as may be252designated by proper authority, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of the remains of officers on the active list and retired officers who die while on active duty, cadets, United States Military Academy, acting assistant surgeons, members of the Army Nurse Corps, and enlisted men in active service and retired enlisted men who die while on active duty, and accepted applicants for enlistment; for interment or preparation and transportation to their homes of the remains of civilian employees of the Army in the employ of the War Department who die abroad, in Alaska, in the Canal Zone, or on Army transports, or who die while on duty in the field; for interment of military prisoners who die at military posts; for the interment and shipment to their homes of remains of enlisted men who are discharged in hospitals in the United States and continue as inmates of said hospitals to the date of their death; for interment Recovery of bodies.Removal from abandoned posts, etc.of prisoners of war and interned alien enemies who die at prison camps in the United States; for recovery of bodies of the abovementioned military personnel; for removal of remains from abandoned posts to permanent military posts or national cemeteries, including the remains of Federal soldiers, sailors, or marines interred in fields, abandoned graves, or abandoned private and city cemeteries;
Cemeteries in Great Britain and France.*Proviso*.Reimbursement to individuals for expenses of burial of officers, etc.and for expenses of the segregation of bodies in permanent American cemeteries in Great Britain and France: *Provided*, That in any case where the expenses of burial or shipment of the remains of officers or enlisted men of the Army who die on the active list, or retired officers or enlisted men who die while on active duty, or of any of the military or civil personnel mentioned above, are borne by individuals, where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement to such individuals may be made of the amount allowed by the Government for such services, but no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to July 1, 1910.
Approved, March 9, 1928.
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