Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-10-05
[PunI1c-No. 62.l

AN ACT granting bounty land to certain onces and soaers
who have been engaged in the military service OF the
United States
Be it enacted BIZ the Senate and House Of Representa-
tvcs of the United States of merca in Congress assembled,
That each Of the surviving, the widow or minor children
Of deceased commissioned and officers mn
scans or prvaes whether of regulars volunteers rangers
militia, who performed military service in any regiment
company detachment in the service OF the United States
in the war with Great Britain, declared by the United States
on the eighteenth day of June eighteen hundred and twelve,
In any Of the Indian since seventeen hundred and
ninety and each of tho commissioned officers who was
engaged in the military service Of the United States in the
late war with Mexico shall be entitled to and follows
Those who engaged to serve twelve months, during the
war; actually served nine months shall receive one hun
ded and sixty and those who engaged to six
MONTHS and actually served four months, shall receive eighty
and those who engaged to for or 40 nde
finite PERIOD and actually served month. shall receive
forty Provided That wherever any officer soldier
honoraby discharged in consequence of disability in the
service before the expiration of his period of service he shall
receive the amount which he would have been entitled if
he had served the full period for which he had engaged
Provided the person SO having been in service shall
receive said lands any part thereof shall appear
by the muster rolls OF his regiment corps that he deserted
dshonoby discharged from services or if he has
ceived entitled to any military land bouay under any
act Of Congress heretofore passed.
Sec. 2. And be u further enacted That the period
during which any officer soldier have remained in
captivity with the enemy shall be estimated and added to the
period of his actual SERVICE and the person detained in
captivity shall receive land under the provisions Of this act in
manner
entered the service for the whole made up by the add
ton of the time Of his captivity and had served during such
time.
Sec. .. And be It, further enacted, That each COM
missioned and non-commssioned officer, musician, pri
vee for whom provision made by thers section hereof
shall receive certificate, warrant, from the Department
of the Interior for the quantity Of land to which he may be
entitled, and which may be located by the warrantee his
heirs law, any land Office of the United States in
body and in conformity to the legal subdivisions of the pub
lie ands upon any Of the public lands in such district then
subject to private entry and upon the return OF such cert
cate warrant with evidence of the location thereof having
been legally made the General Land Office, patent shall
be issued therefor In the event Of the death Of any
missioned on-commssoned officer musician private,
prior subsequent to the passage Of this act who shall have
served aforesaid and who shall have received bounty land
for said services like certificate warrant shall be issued
In favor and the benefit Of bis widow who shall
ceive hundred and sixty of and in her hus
BAND was killed IN battle, but not to her heirs Prorded,
She is unmarried at the date OF her application. ProUded
further That land issued under the provisions OF
this shall be laid upon any land Of the United States to
which there shall be presumption right, or upon which
there shall be actual settlement and cultivation except
with the consent Of such settler to be satisfactorily proven to
the proper land officer
Sec. A. And be it further enacted, That all sales,
mortgages letters of attorneys other instruments of writing
going to affect the title claim to any warrant certificate
issued to be issued any land granted be granted
under the provisions of this act made executed prior
the issue, shall be null and void to all ntens and purposes
whatsoever shall such certificate warrant the land
obtained thereby be in anywise affected by, charged WITH
subject to- the payment of any debt claim incurred by
such officer soldier prior the issuing of the patent
Proridcd, That the benefits of this shall
any person who member of the present Congress Pro-
Uidd further, That it shall be the duty Of the Commissioner
Of the General Land Office, under such regulations may
be prescribed by the Secretary Of the Interior be
located free of expense warrant which the holder
transmit to the General Land Office for that purpose such
State andland district the said holder may
gnae, and upon good farming land far the
be ascerained from the maps pat, and field notes of the
surveyor from other information in the possession of
the local office and upon the location being made afore
said the Secretary shall patent to be transmitted
such WARRANTED And proUided further, That patent is
sued under this shall be delivered upon any power of
torney dated before the passage Of this and
that all such powers Of attorney be sdeed
and treated as null and void
Approved, September 20, 1850.