Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-07-02
LAWS OF THE u. STATES
PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE
TwENTY-FIRsT CONGRESS.
PUBLIC No.-6I.1

TwENTY-FIRsT CONGRESS.
PUBLIC No.-6I.
AN ACT for the relief of certain officers and
soldiers of tho Virginia line and Navy, and of
the continental Army, during the Revolution
ary war.
Be ii enacted By the Senate and House of Re-
preSentatiueS ofthe United States of .9merica in
Congress assembled, That the officers and SOL
diers, sailors and marines, who were in the SER
vice of Virginia her own State, establish
ment during the Revolutionary war, and who
were entitled to military land bountes, by the
laws and resol Ions of that State, their heirs
and assigns, shall be, and they hereby, au-
thorized TO surrender, to the Secretary of the
Treasury Of the United States, such of their
warrants for the said land hountles as shall re-
main unsatisfed, in whole or in part, and to re.
ceive certificates or scrip for the same. at any
time before the first day of January, inthe year
thousand eight hundred and thiriy-fve,
which certificates of scrip shall be issued by the
said Secretary, and signed by him, and coun-
terslgned by the CoInmiS' ioner OF the General
Land Office, in the following manner, that is to
say There shalt be separate certificate or
scrip for such sum as shall, at the time of issu-
ing the same, be equal to the then minimum
price of each quantity of eighty acres of land
due by such warrant, 81 remaining unsdtisfed
at the time OF such surrender, and a like certiG-
cato or scrip for such sum as, at the time, shall
be equal to the minimum price of the quantity
that shall SO remain unsutistied, of any such
warrant after such subdivisions of the amount
into quantities Of eighty acres. And where
any such warrant shall have been lost or mis-
laid, by time and accident, it shlll and NAV be
lawful for the party desiring ito surrender the
same. to surrender an official copy thereof,
certified under the seal of the land Office of Vir-
glnla, with the affidavit of the :party endorsed
upon, or accompanying the same, stating that
such warrant has been lost or mislaid, and that
the original hath not been sold or transferred to
tue knowledge or belief OF the party SO surren-
dering. or his or her guardians.
SEC. 9. find be ii further enacted, That it
shall be the duty of the commissioner of thu
Gdneral Land Office, 20 request the Executive
OF Virginia, to furnish him with a statement of
all SUCH worrants, within the peryiew of this
act, MS have already issued, showing the number
ana date .! each warrant, and the quantity of
acre" granted ny each, and, also u monthly state
mont OF The same description, showing the num-
Der, date, and quantity, of such warrants as
snail hereafter be granted And no warrant
snail to taken To be within the provisions of
this act, which shall hereafter be granted, un-
less the Executive Of Virginia shall cause a GER.
uhcate TO be endorsed thereon, signed by soRio
proper oincer' stating tina. the party to whom
such warrant shall be so granted lis, her or
their ancestors or devisor, was entitled thereto
ny some law or resolution of the said State in
!orce at the time of the deed of cession, by the
State Of Virginia, to The United States.
SEC. g. find be 1t further enacted, That be.
fore the Secretary of the Urea sury shall issne
the SCRIP required by the provisions ofthi bill.
the sPpiicants snail produce to him the certifi.
cate OF the Register of the Land Office in Ken
tucky, and the certificate ofthe Surveyor of the
military lands of the Virginia line, that the war
rants (when the original is presented, or the
copy, when the original has been lost or de-
stroyed) has not been located, surveyed, or pa.
X nnftt al,
office: ''"' " us
SEC. D. 8ndbe afnrther enacted, That the
ceitihcates or scrip to be issued by virtue off
this act, shall be receivable in navment for ,nr
amos hereafter TO be purchased at private sale
aiter the same shall have been offered at public
SAFE, ana snail remain unsol1 at anv Of the
Lana ehlceS OF the United States established |
OF 10 De established, in the State of Ohio. Indi
ana ana Illinois And all such certificates or
sGIiP as shaii be issued by virtue of this act
o" a1 20 dSSlgnaOie, By endorsements thereon.
allested oy two witnesses ProDidcd. Tha, ali
certificates or scrip to be issued. in virtne orI
any warrant hereafter, To- be- granted. shall be ia.
sue9 10 the party originally entitled thereto mr.
MS peir OF hdITs, dovisee or deysees as tho case
may be-. 20 '"' case
SEC: b. ind be IL further enasted Tb,, the
provisions OF this act shall be deemed and taken
10 eHteno TO all snch officers, soldiers, sailors
nnalIheS, chapia;ns musicians, surgeons and
surgeons mates in the land or sea service or,ba
state OF Virginia during the Revolutionary war
ana generally, II every person TO whom the
state mad engaged 10 pay land bounty for scr
VICES IN that war, Of any description by anv lao,
o! resolution passed before, and in force NJ The
date OF the said deed Of cession except only
such persons as are mentioned in and provided
~ oy Inc reservation contained in The said
h""J OF erosion IN favor Of the officers ond sol