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Title 24USC / Chapter VII

Chapter 7 National Cemeteries

§283 Cemetery near City of Mexico

The President is authorized to provide, out of the ordinary annual appropriations for establishing and maintaining United States military cemeteries, for the proper care and preservation and maintenance of the cemetery or burial ground near the City of Mexico, in which are interred the remains of officers and soldiers of the United States, who fell in battle or died in and around said city.

(R.S. §4879; derived from Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 267, 17, Stat. 602; omitted; See section 2111 of Title 36, Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations)