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AN ORDINANCE SETTING APART A CERTAIN SPACE IN OAK
GROVE CEMETERY, PADUCAH, KENTUCKY AS A SOLDIERS? AND SAILORSt BURYING
GROUND AND APPROPRIATING MONEY TO BE USED WITH OTIiER MONEYS TO BE
APPROPRIATED BY THE MCCRACKEN COUPITY FISCAL COURT AND OTHER MONEYS TO
BE APPROPRIATED, DONATED AND PAID FROirt OTHER SOURCES, WHICH ALTOGETHER
ARE TO BE USED IN THE ERECTION, INSTALLING AND PAYING FOR A CERTAIN
MONUMENT TO BE SELECTED AND AGREED UPON BY CHIEF PADUKE POST NUMBER 31
OF THE AMERICAN LEGION, AND PROVIDING FOR THE CONTROL AND MAINTENANCE OF
SAID BURYING PLACE AND MONUMENT.
WHEREAS, Chief Paduke Post Number 31, American Legion
has procured the submitted plans, drawings and other descriptions of a
certain monument to be erected at the burying ground of the soldiers
and sailors of the American Army -and Navy resident in McCracken County,
or the members of the said American Legion, and
IATEREAS, it is estimated that Nineteen Hundred and
Fifty (81950.00) Dollars to be appropriated by the City of Paducah and
the like sum of Nineteen Hundred and Fifty 01950.00) Dollars to be
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appropriatediby the McCracken County Fiscal Court, together with other
money and funds appropriated and donated for such purpose will be
required for the erection of said monument and the preparation of said
burial space, NOl7,THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COIsSijiISSIONERS OF THE
CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1.
There is hereby appropriated the sum of Nineteen
Hundred and Fifty ($1950.00) Dollars to be applied as a payment upon a
certain monument to be erected in Oak Grove Cemetery on the burial
ground and space set apart by this ordinance as a soldiers? and sailorst
burying ground, and to be paid upon and as part of the cost of said
monument whenever said monument has been erected according to the plans,
specifications and agreements as required by Chief Paduke Post Number 31
.of the American Legion and indicated by report of its proper officers.
SECTION 2.
There is hereby set apart a space approximately
sixty (60) feet by seventy (70) feet fronting upon the South side of the
main driveway in Oak Grove Cemetery and directly across the driveway
from a like space set apart for memorial services in said cemetery, which
space so set apart hereby is to perpetually remain a burying ground for
soldiers and sailors under the approval of the proper executive officer
of Chief Paduke Number 31 of the American Legion, and said burial ground
shall be used for no other purpose except that herein specifically des-
ignated, except as a place for holding memorial services. The city
authorities and its agents in charge of said cemetery shall keep said
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burying space in good condition so as to prevent the same from having
the appearance of neglect, and the foundation for said monument shall
be sufficient to hold said monument in place and to prevent the same
from falling or inclining. The city will not be liable beyond the
appropriation herein made for the installs'gion and placing said
monument and keeping same in place.
SECTION 3.
No mounds, vaults, slabs, curbs, shrubbery or other
monuments 6r markers of any kind shall be placed upon said grounds,
except the regulation headstone prescribed by the United States
Government to be placed at the head of the soldiers and sailors
graves;
SECTION 4.
The appropriation herein provided for shall become
and be effective from and after the date a like appropriation has
been made and made available for the payment of s@id monument as
herein provided for. Should the said Fiscal Court of McCracken
County fail to provide such appropriation, then this ordinance shall
be inoperative. The.funds hereby appropriated shall be charged
to the Contingent Fund and paid out upon order of the Board of
Commissioners.
SECTION 5.
Upon the appropriation of the funds by the McCracken
anty Fiscal Court as herein provided, and after said monument
s been erected, then the plot of ground hereby set apart as such
ldiers and Sailors burying ground shall be deemed perpetually
dicated for such purposes and for no other purposes; nor shall
id monument thereafter be removed therefrom, but the title to said
nument shall not thereby be vested in the City of Paducah.
SECTION 6.
This ordinance shall take effect ten days after its
ssage.
Signedc-:�
eyor /
Passed by the Board of Commissioners August 6, 1928
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Recorded by Hunt Crossland,Clerk, August 7, 1928