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130 srxrr-FIFTH coiaemass. sms. 1. cu. 27. 1917. B•*¤¤ For waste, oil, boiler repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, $1,400; two engineers, at $1,000 each; two laborers, at $500 each; in all, $4,400; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $2,933.33. _ H§;:g'°_Qg* °°‘°°°°S· For continuing construction of the necessary accommodations for ° the Seacoast Artillery in the _Hawaiian Islan s, and for temporary cantonments for over-sea garrisons, $93,000. _ _ _ §;§1°¤*'°·¤°*¤**°¤· Nxrronnn cmmrmmzsz For mamtaming and improving national ` cemeteries including fuel for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of too and materials, $120,000. _ ¤¤¤¤’*¤°¤¤¤¤¤*¤- For pay of seventy-six superintendents of national cemeteries, $63,120. H¤$¤*¤*°'¤¤¤ *°* ¤°I· For contin the work of furnishing headstones of durable stone dm mm" or other duralblggmaterial for unmarked graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marin in national, gat, city, town, and ‘ village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy yar and stations of the mV°lk8{Z·`}’6L‘3‘f¢lQ’g•& United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March ’° ’ hundred and seventy-three, February tlm·d, eighteen hun and seventy-nine, and ninth, nineteen hundred and civmm. six; continuing the work of fiunislnng headstones for unmarked

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twenty-eight, nineteen hundr and four, and June tbirtieth, mneteen °·>¤f•<*•¤¤¤ hundred and six; and furnishing headstones for the unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national cemeteries, $50 000. ~ §$,}’f,",,_*° '°“°"““· Iior repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been m%5S¤?gg)}%%rg¤by eongtructed Eglspecial authority of Congress, $12,000: Promded, That ' no railroads be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroaeh upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained R°""‘°“°“· by the United States: Provided further, That no part of this sum shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village. Uggm ¢¤ M ¤v· No part of any appropriation for national cemeteries or the repair Pm of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance of more than a single approach to any national cemetery. ,,,W,,",§},,j,’f D"f‘€{‘°"” For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers,. ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either R lar or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired anllgivlvho die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding $45 for such burial nses in each case, ,,?${,S{'°‘“ m“““ exclusive of cost of grave, $2,000, one—half of wliillihgum shall be paid _ out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. Mg‘§“""""“ "‘““°“°'“· Antietam battle field: For repair and preservation of monuments Y¤¤¤¤¤‘=·¤¤¤· ¤¢¤- tablets, observation tower roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United, States upon public lands within the limits _ of the Antietam battle field, near S arpsburg, M land, $3,000. S""°"'“'*""’°°*· For pay of superintendent of Antietam battldgeld, said superintendent to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the mon selecte and appointed to this position to be Immmtofmmm an honorably Union soldier, $1,500. .,;.,e;C.,$,s.,;d,.,,-S, mi Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, civilian employees, and so forth: For interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes or to such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper authority, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of the remains of officers, including acting assistant surgeons and enlisted men of the Army active list; interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes, of the remains of civil employees of the Army in the em-