Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1822-02-28

" draw lots for the numbers, which they shall
" have power to locate soon as they shall
thinl proper"
AT the May session, in the year 1889, the
legislature passed AN act, in which, amongst
other things, are the following provisions, in
relation 10 the military bounty lands:
f'lrst-That whereas ii is Necessary that the
Number of claims To any part of the lands APP
propriated for the benefit cf the said officers
aud soldiers should be speedily ascertained =
be IT. therefore. enacted, that all persons hav-
ing CLAIMS rs aforesaid, be required, and they
are hereby directed, To transmit authenticated
vouchers Tor the same to the war Office, Oh or
before the first day Of JANUARY next and ir
any person having such claim shall, he with
out the state, he shall transmit the same, on or
before the first day ofJunc next following
Secondly-That the register Of the land of
flee should grant to the said officers and sol
dieis, warrants for the lands allotted tn them,
upon producing certificate of their claims,
respectively, from the commissioner of war,
and not otherwise.
| lhirdly-" Iir,t any officer or soldier, who
hath not been cashiered or superseded, and
who hath served the term OF three years sue
cessiveiy. shall have an absolute and uncon-
6 diionat i,tic 10 his respectire apporlionment of
g he land appropriated as aforesaid.
| And iourthiy-" That no surveyor shall be
| permitted To receive any location upon any
warrant for lands within the country reserved
for the officers and soldiers, until the appor-
tionment and draft for the same, as directed
by the act of November, 1891, above noticed"
At the October session, in the year 1888
the legislature passed another act for survey
Ing the lands, given by law To the officers, and
soldiers, on continental and state establish
| nent.
BY this,act, Populations of certain officers
from the continental anu State lines, were, au-
thoriscd 10 appoint superintendent for the
purpose of regulating the surveys, and sur
'eyofs To execute them. The holders OF
military warrants were required, on ar before
the 18th of March next, to deliver them to
the survevors-and the warrants ofnon.com-
missloned officers and soldiers were 10 he class
ed and numbered. Priority ofIocation was TO
he determined by lot, under the direction and
| management OF the principal surveyors and
superlntenuents, according To such regulations
as should be fixed on by the deputations of
officers. All warrants delivered To the survey
ors before the sixteenth of March ensuing,
were to ne first suIveyed-and those delivered
on that day, or subsequently, were to be- sur
veycd, iii the order in which they were deliver
eat. Officers and soldiers were authorized TO
attend In person or by agent, to the locating
and Surveying OF their lands, and if they did
not so attend, the locations and surveys were
| to be made under the direction of the super
intendents.
| The ACT further provided, that the survey
ors. under the directions ofthe su2erir,eDdents
and claimants, should proceed in the LIST place.
TO survey all the good lands, to be adiu.igcd
by the superintendcnts, IN that tract of coi,n-
| Try lyiaS on the Cumberland and Tennessee
| rivers, as set apart by law for the said officers
SliIInrs MI lam,
ner, To survey on the northwest sid. of the
river Ohio, between the rivers Scioto and the.
Little Miami, until the deficiency in ali militia
ny bounties III lands shall be fully and amply
made up. " Aud whatever lands may han
pen to be left within the tract of country, re
served for the army on this side the ONO
and Mississippi, shall be 81, ed, subject Is the
order and particular disposition OF the legisla
ture of this state''
To enable the parties interested to carry
this act into effect, the executive nf Virginia
were authorised to furnish the superntend-
ents with military aid, not exceeding an hun
dred men, to bc taken from the Kentucky
country.
During the same session Of the General As
sembiy, in the month of December in the wear
1888, an act was passed ceding to the United
States the territory belonging To Virginia, on
the northwest OF the Ohio river. with rcser-
vaton in the words following" That in case
The quantity of good lands, on the southeast
side OF the Ohio, upon the waters of Cumber-
land river, and between the Green river and
Tennessee river, which have been reserved by
law, for the Virginia troops, upon continental
establishment, should from the North Carolina
line bearing in further upon the Cumberland
lanes, than was expected, prove insufficient for
theIr legal bounties the deficiency should be
made up to the said troops, in good lands, TO
De lald OIL between the rivers SciOto and little
Miami, on the northwest side of the river O.
mo, In such proportions as have been engaged
TO them, by the laws of Virginia"
In the same month of December, 1888, the
committee are informed, that the deputaiions
OF officers for the state and continental lines
respectively, having appointed surveyor for
each line, and DESTROYS to avoid the probable
lnteTferences, which would result from the
proceedings of two surveyors, acting without
concert IN the same common limits, agreed on
INES OF Partition, separating the lands which |
should he surveyed for the continental line
from those which should he surveyed for the
state line BY this partition, the great body of
the lands between Green river and Cumber
land river, was allotted to the continental
troops; and the lands east Of Big Barren river.
with "A narrow margin bordering the North
Carolina line, between Big Barren and Cum
berland rivers, and all the lands between Cum
berland and Tennessee, and between Tennes- |
see and the Mississippi were allotted to the
troops on state establishment. OF these, the |
lands between Tennessee and the Mississippi, |
were regarded as the most valuable, and were
looked TO blythe state troops, as the principal |
source, from which their clnms were to be |
satisfied
In the year 1884, the superintendent APP
pointed by the deputation of officers, pro |