 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz
 Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AND TO PROTECT NATIONAL CEMETERIES. APPROVED FEBRUARY 22, 1867. * * * * Section 3.
And be it further enacted. That any person who shall willfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure, or remove any monument, gravestone, or other structure, or shall willfully destroy, cut, break, injure, or remove any tree, shrub, or plant within the limits of any said National Cemeteries, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any District of Circuit Court of the United States within any State of District where any of said National Cemeteries are situated, shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment of not less than fifteen nor more than sixty days, according to the nature and aggravation of the offense. And the Superintendent in charge of any National Cemetery is hereby authorized to arrest forthwith any person engaged in committing any misdemeanor herein prohibited, and to bring each person before any United States Commissioner of any District or Circuit Court of the United States, within any State or District where any said Cemeteries are situated, for the purpose of holding said person to answer for said misdemeanor, and then and there make complaint in due form.
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United States National Military Cemetery MOUND CITY. ESTABLISHED 1864. INTERMENTS 4827. KNOWN 2367. UNKNOWN 2460.
Mound City National Cemetery Preservation Commission. Walnut St. (IL-37), Mound City National Cemetery, N. Mound City, Pulaski County Illinois
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