A bill to establish the historic cem# Congregation Mikveh Israel here as a historic shrine has been introduced # Council.
The bill, providing an appropriation of $5,000 for the cemetery’s main# now pending in the appropriations committee which is expected to report fa# it to the council. The cemetery dates back to the pre-Revolutionary era. Solomon, American Jewish patriot of the Revolution, is buried there.
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