Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-10-09
BOUNTY LAND BILL.

This act being one in which many per-
sons are interested, we hasten to insert a
copy as it finally passed both houses Of
Congress, and was signed by the President:
Be it enacted By the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatues Of the United States of .4merica Congress
assembled, That each of the surviving, or the widow
or minor children of deceased commissioned and
non-commssioned officers, musicians privates,
whether of regulars volunteers rangers, or militia
who performed military service in any regiment,
company, or detachment in the service the United
States, in the war with great Britain, declared by
the United States the 18th day of June, 1872 or
in any of the Indian since 1890, and each of
the commissioned officers who was engaged in the
military service of the United States in the late
with Mexico, shall be entitled to lands as follows :
Those who engaged to serve twelve months, or dur
ing the war, and actually served nine months, shall
receive one hundred and sixty acres and those who
engaged to six months, and actually served
four months, shall receive eighty acres; and those
who engaged to serve for any, indefinite Pc
riod and actually served one month, shall receive
forty Prouided, that wherever any officer or
soldier honoraby discharged in consequence
of disability in the service before the expiration
of his period of service, he shall receive the a.
mount to which he would have been entitled if he
had served the whole period for which he had engag
ed to serve: Prouided, the person so having been
in service shall not receive said lands, any part
thereof if it shall appear by the muster rolls of his
regiment or corps that he deserted or was dshonor-
ably discharged from SERVICE if he has received,
or is entitled to any military land bounty under any
act of Congress heretofore passed
Sec. 2. find be 1t further enacted, &C., That the
period during which any officer soldier may have
remained in captivity with the enemy shall be esti-
mated 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 the same
manner that he would 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. g.. find be it further enacted, &c., That each
commissioned and nor,-comnlissioned officer, must
clan and private, for whom provision is made by the
first section hereof shall receive certificate,
warrant from the apartment of the INTERIOR for the
quantity of land to which he may be entitled, and
which may be located by the warrantee, his heirs
at law, at any land Office Of the United States in
one body. and in conformity to the legal subdiv
sions of the public lands, upon any of the public
lands in such district then subject to private entry
and upon the return of such certificate warrant
with evidence Of the location thereof having beer
legally made to the General Land Office, paten
shall be issued therefor. In the event of the deatl
of any commissioned non-commissoned officer
musician or private prior subsequent to the pas
sage of this act, who shall have served aforesaid
and who shall not have received bounty land for sale
services alike certificate warrant shall be ISSUED
in favor and enure to the benefit of his widow. who
shall receive one hundred and sixty acres of land il
case her husband was killed in battle, but not te
her heirs. Provided, She is unmarried at the date
of her application. Provided further, That lane
warrant issued under the provisions of this act shall
be laid upon any land Of the United States to which
there shall be presumption right, or upon which
there shall be an actual settlement cultivation
except with the consent of such settler, TO be salts
factoriy proven to the proper land officer.
Sec. 4. find be it further enacted, &c., That al
sales mortgages letters of attorney, other nstru
ments of writing going to affect the title claim
to any warrant certificate issued or to be issued
or any land granted, to be granted under the pro-
visions of this act made executed prior to the is
sue shall be null and void, to all intents and purpo
ses whatsoever; nor shall such certificate warrant
r the land obtained thereby, be in any wise affected
+, or charged with, or subject to, the payment O.
NY debt or claim incurred by such officer soldier
prior to the issuing of the patent Provided, That
the benefits of this act shall not accrue to any one
who is member of the present Congress Provided
further, That it shall be the duty of the Commits
soner of the General Land Office, under such regu
lations as may be prescribed by the Secretary OF
the Interior to to be located, free of expense
any warrant which the holder may transmit to the
General Land Office for that purpose, in such State
and land district as the said holder warrantee may
designate and upon good farming land, far the
same can be obtained from the maps, plats, anG
field notes of the surveyor, from any other infor
nation in the possession Of the local Office and up
on the location being made, aforesaid, the Secre
tary shall cause patent to be Transmitted to such
warrantee: and provided further, That patent is
sued under this act shall be delivered upon any pow
err of attorney agreement dated before the passage
of this act and that all such powers of attorney,
agreements, be considered and treated as null an6
void
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