Pennsylvania Act 1907-18 — MEMORIAL DAY ORGANIZATIONS - APPROPRIATIONS TO

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MEMORIAL DAY ORGANIZATIONS - APPROPRIATIONS TO
                  Act of Mar. 21, 1907, P.L. 22, No. 18               Cl. 16
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing the county commissioners of the several counties, or
        the town councils of the several boroughs, of this
        Commonwealth, or both, to appropriate annually a sufficient
        sum of money to each Post of the Grand Army of the Republic,
        in their respective counties or boroughs, to aid in defraying
        the expenses of Memorial Day.

        Compiler's Note:  Section 1051 of Act 447 of 1929 provided
            that Act 18 is repealed in effect as to counties other
            then counties of the first class.
        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That the county commissioners
        of the several counties of this Commonwealth are hereby
        required to appropriate annually to each post in their
        respective counties, or to a regular organized Memorial Day
        or similar organization where there was heretofore an
        established post,--in which latter case a certified list of
        expenditures shall be furnished the said commissioners,--a
        sum not to exceed fifty dollars, to aid in defraying expenses
        of Memorial Day: Provided, That if, upon the certificate of
        such organization, it appears to the county commissioners
        that the said organization decorated or will decorate over
        five hundred (500) graves, the said county commissioners may
        pay to the said organization the sum of one hundred ($100)
        dollars.
        (1 amended May 17, 1921, P.L.897, No.313)
        Section 2.  The above act is not to apply to posts situate in
     cities of the first, second and third class.