The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-30

The Bounty LAND BILL--The following is
the copy of an Act granting bounty land to GER
tain officers and soldiers who have been engaged
in the, military service of the United States, as
it passed the House of Representatives:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives Of the United States Of Ameri-
GA in Congress assembled, That each of the
surviving commissioned and non-commissioned
officers, musicians or privates, whether Of regu-
lars, volunteers, rangers, or militia, who per-
formed military service in any regiment, compa-
ny, or 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 aud twelve,o or in any of
the Indian wars since seventeen hundred aud
ninety, and each Of the commissioned officers
who were engaged in the military service Of the
United States in the late war with Mexico, shall
be entitled, for twelve months service, to 0ae
hundred and sixty acres of land /; for six months
service, to eighty acres of land; and for three
months service, to forty acres of land: Provided,
The person so having been in service shall not
receive said land, or any part thereof if it shall
appear by the muster rolls of his regiment, or
corps, that he deserted, or, was dishonorably
discharged from service, or ii he has received
or is entitled to any land bounty under any act
of Congress heretofore passed IA
Section 3D. And be it further enacted, That
each commissioned and non-commssioned officer,
musician, or private, for whom provision is made
by the first section hereof, shall receive certif-
cate or warrant from the Department of the In
terror, for the quantity Of land to which he may
be entitled, and which may be located by the
warrantee, or his heirs ut law, at any land Office
of the United States, in one body, and in con-
formity to the legal subdivisions of the public
lands, upon any, of the publicland in such dis
trict then subject to private entry: and upon the
return of such certificate or warrant, with evil
dence Of the location thereof having been le-
gally made, to tie General Land Office, patent
shall be issued therefor. In the event of the
death OF any commissioned or nOr-commission-
ed officer, musician, or private, prior or subse-
quent to the passage of this act, who shall have
served AS aforesaid, and who shall not have re.
ceived bounty land for said services, a like Ger
tfcate or warrant shall be issued in favor ane
inure to the benefit OF his widow Provided
She was married to such officer or soldier before
the conclusion of his service, and is unmarried
mt the date of her application: Prorided further
That no land warrant issued under the provi-
sions OF this act, shall be laid upon any land of
the United States to which there shall be a pre-
eminent right, or upon which there shall be an
actual settlement and cultivation, except with
the consent Of such settler, to be satisfactorily
proven to the proper land officer. o,a s.sIiig'
Section 8. And be it further enacted, That all
sales, mortgages, letters of attorney, or other
Instruments of writing, going to affect the title
or claim to any warrant or certificate hereinbe-
fore provided for, made or executed prior to the
issue of such warrant or certificate shall be null
and void, to all intents and purposes whatsoever,
nor shall such certificate or warrant or land OBJ
tanned thereby, be in any wise, affected by, or
charged with, or subject to the payment of any
debt or claim incurred by snch officer or soldier
prior to the issuing Of the patent Provided,
That the benefits of this act shall not accrue to
to any person who is a member of the present
Congress tittHast ~ &t Arel