The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-10-10
Bounty Land Bill.

| insert copy as II hnally passed both
Houses of Congress, and was signed by
the PRESIDENT
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
! of Representatives of the United States
Of .An,erica, in Congress assembled. That
each of the surviving, or the widow or
minor children of deceased commissioned
and non-commissioned officers, musicians.
or privates, whether of regulars, volun-
teers, rangers, or militia, who performed
military ser:;ce in any regiment, cGmpa-
ny or detachment, in the service of the
United States, in the war with Great
Britain, declared by the United States on
the ls,h day of June, 1912, or in any of
the Indian wars since 1890, and each of
I the commissioned officers who was en-
gagged in the military service of the United
States in the late war with Mexico, shall
be entitled 10 lands, as ws:-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 receive forty acres Provided,
that wherever any officer or soldier was
honorably discharged in consequence of
disability in the service before the expira-
ton of his period of service, he shall re-
ceive the amount 10 which he would have
been entitled if he had served the full pc
riod for which he had engaged to serve
ProUided, 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 regiment or corps that
he deserted, or was dishonorably dis
charged from service, or if he has received,
or is entitled to any military land bounty
under any act of Congress heretofore
passed.
Sec. 2. find be it further enacted, &c.
That the period during which any officer
or 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 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,
SEC. 3. find be 1t further enacted, &c.
That each commissioned and non-com-
missioned officer, 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 To-
Gated by the warrantee, or his heirs al
law, at any land Office of the United
States, III one body, and in conformity TO
the legal subdivisions of the public lands,
upon any of the public lands i'll such dis
trlct then subject TO private entry; and
upon the return of such certificate or war
rant, with evidence of the location thereof
having been legally made to the General
Land Office, patent shall be issued
therefor. In the event Of the death of any
commissioned or non-commissioned Off
Ger, musician or private, prior or subse-
quent 10 the passage of the 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 enure TO the benefit
| of his widow, who shall receive enc hun
dred and sixty or acres of land, in case
her husband was killed in battle, but not
to her heirs. Provided, She is unmarried
at the date Of her application. Provided
| further, That no land warrants issued
under the provisions OF this act shall be
laid upon any land of the United States to
which there shall be pre-emplion 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.
SEC. 4. Ind be IL further enacted, &c.
That all sales, mortgages, letters OF attor-
ney, or other instruments of wiring, 60
ing TO affect the title or claim TO any war
rant or certificate issued, or TO be issued,
or any land granted, or TO be granted, un-
der the provisions of this act, made or ex-
ecuted prior 10 the issue, shall be null and
void, to all intents and purposes whatso-
ever; nor shall such certificate or warrant,
or the land obtained thereby, be in any
wise affected by, or charged with, or sub
Iject 10, the payment OF any claim incurred
by such officer or soldier prior to the is
suing of the patent: ProUided, That the
benefits of this act shall not accrue to any
person who is member of the present
Congress: Provided further. That il
shall be the duty of the Commissioner OF
the General Land Office, under such reg
ulations as may be prescribed by the Sec
! retary of the Interior, to cause TO be loca-
ted, free of expense, any warrant which
the holder may transmit to the General
1 Land Office for that purpose, i'll such