73-306. Removal of remains of deceased ex-soldiers from abandoned cemetery or pauper burying ground. - Kansas Statutes

73-306

Chapter 73.--SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND PATRIOTIC EMBLEMS Article 3.--BURIAL

      73-306.   Removal of remains of deceased ex-soldiers from abandonedcemetery or pauper burying ground.It shall be the duty of the trustees of the several townships of thisstate, and of the mayors of the cities of the first and second class ofthis state, to cause to be removed the remains of any deceased ex-soldiersof the civil war of 1861-1865, also ex-soldiers of the Spanish-Americanwar, also members of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Kansas cavalry, whichmay be buried in any abandoned cemetery, or in any ground set apart for theburial of paupers, in such township or city, from such abandoned cemeteryor pauper burying ground to some regularly chartered cemetery, or to somecemetery specially set apart for the burial of deceased ex-soldiers withinthe same county; and the expense of such removal shall be paid by thecounty in which such removal is made: Provided, That the expense ofsuch removal shall in no case exceed the sum of twenty-five dollars foreach body so removed: And provided further, That no county shall berequired to pay the expenses of the removal of any such remains to anyplace outside of the county in which the same was originally buried.

      History:   L. 1909, ch. 221, § 1; May 29; R.S. 1923, 73-306.