The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-10-23
Bounty Land Bill.

persons are interested, we insert a copy of it in
advance of the official publication, as follow -
Sec. /. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That each
of the surviving, the widow minor child
rem of deceased commissioned and non-commis-
stoned officers, musicians, or privates, whether
of regulars, volunteers, rangers militia, who
performed military service in any regiment,
company, detachment in the service of the
United States, in the with Great Britain,
declared by the United States on the 18th day
of June, 1912, in any of the Indian wars
since 1890, and each of the commissioned off,
GERS who was engaged in the military service of
the late with Mexico, shall be entitled to
lands follows: Those who engaged to serve
twelve months, or during the war, and actually
served nine months, shall receive one hundred
and sixty acres; and those who engaged to
serve six months and actually served four
months, shall receive eighty acres and those
who engaged to serve for any, or an indefinite
period, and actually served one month, shall re-
ceivc forty Provided, That wherever
any officer soldier was honorably discharged
in consequence of disability in the service be-
| fore the expiration of his period of service, he
shall receive the amount to winch he would
have been entitled if he had served the full
period for which he had engaged to serve Pro-
vided, The person SO having been in service
shall not receive said lands, or any part thereof
if it shall appear by the muster rolls of his re
giment or corps that he deserted, or was dishon
orably discharged from service, or if he has
ceived, or is entitled to any military land bounty
under any act Of Congress heretofore passed.
! SEC 2. And be it further enacted, &C., That
the period during which any officer soldier
may have remained in captivity with the enemy
shall be estimated and added to the period Of
his actual service, and the person so detained in
captivity shall receive land under the provisions
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be entitled in case he had entered the service
for the whole term made up by the addition of
the time of his captivity, and had served during
such term.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, &c, That
each commissioned and non-commissloned otii~
Ger, musician and private, for whom provision Is
. made by the first section hereof, shall receive
certificate, or 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 warrantce or his heirs at law, at any land
office of the United States, in one body, and in
conformity to the legal sub divisions of the pub
lie lands, upon rany of the public lands in such
: district then subject to private entry; and upon
the return of such certificate or warrant, with
evidence of the location thereof having been
legally made, to the General Land Office,
patent shall be issued therefor. In the event of
n the death Of any commits officer, musician
or private, prior subsequent to the passage OF
this act who shall have served as aforesaid, and
who shall not have received bounty land for said
services, like certificate or warrant shall be
issued in favor and inure to his widow who shall
receive one hundred and sixty acres of land, in
case her husband was killed in battle, but not to
her heirs Provided, She is unmarried at the
time of her application. Provided, further
That no land warrant issued under the provi-
sions of this act shall be laid upon any land of the
f United States to which there shall be a pre- emp
ton ri ght, upon which there shall be
tual settlement or cultivation, except with the
consent of such settler or be satisfactorily pro-
ven to the proper land officer.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted &c, That
all sales, mortgages, letters of attorney, other
instruments of writing going to affect the title
or the claim to any warrant or certificate issued,
or to be issued, CT any land granted or executed
prior to the issue, shall be null and void to all
. intents and purposes whatsoever shall
such certificate warrant, any land retained
thereby, be in any way affected by, charged
WITH or subject to the payment of any debt or
claim incurred by such officer soldier prior
to the issuing Of the patent Provided, That
the benefits this act shall not accrue to any per
: son who is member of the present Congress
Provided, further, That it shall be the duty Of
the Commissioner of the General Land Office,
4 under such regulations may be prescribed by
the Secretary of the Interior to cause to be To-
Gated, free of expense, any warrant which the
=, holder may transmit to the General Land Office
S for that purpose, in such States and land DIS
trict as the said holder or warrantee may desg-
nate, and upon good farming land, far as the
, same can be ascertained from the maps, plats,
and field notes of the surveyor, from any
other information in the possession Of the local
office; and upon the location being made, as
aforesaid, the Secretary shall cause patent to
be transmitted to such warrantee And provided
further, That no patent issued under this act
shall be delivered upon any power of attorney
or agreement dated before the passage of this
act; and that all such powers of attorney
agreements be considered and treated null
ana void