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This statement is believe to embrace all who by
possibility come within the law
In order ascertain the quantity OF land required under
the law, must determine, FIRST the number OF bens
hciaries who be entitled to the benefit of the provis
ions and secondly the number in the several classes
entitled respectively, hundred and sixty, eighty,
and forty acres, or the average quantity OF all
The militia and volunteers IN the war OF 1912 consb-
tute by far the largest class the above table, amount
ing TO more than hve-sixths OF the whole number
Fortunately not without authentic sources OF in
formation in regard TO the services OF this large class
An official and detailed report on this subject will be
found in House document No. 20, I'd session oath
Congress This document have examined with care,
and have caused the several classes 10 be asceained
theefrom and the quantity OF land to which they would
be entitled under the law, according to the length OF
vice find that the whole number mustered into
vice in that All ,622 Ot these l45 447 served
than month"; and are therefore not entitled by the
law 10 bounty OF the remainder only 9,a3l served
months and over. That number, then, only would be
entitled to 100 OF land each, giving sos 800
to all OF those who served four months and less than
nine there were e7,27s, and who, being entitled to so
each, would receive, in all. 77s2,240 acres The
number who served month, and less than four
and an aggregate of s,77s,6to acres The whole mum
Der OF thus required ior all would be $40
This is to each man entitled TO land OF So
Thus far and in relation TO hve-sixlhs of the whole
number of benefclaries, have accurate data. The
same applied those the list engaged in other
service would not vary far from this In regard 10 most
OF the others also, have official information not
definite the above. but sufficiently accurate for prac-
tcal purposes Thus, Of the soldiers in the Seminole
OF 1917 and 1885, 1t appears by report IN the Amer
ican State Papers MILITARY Affairs volume O. page oa,)
that part were Indians part would be entitled to no
bounty land and that most OF them served lees than four
months In House document No. al, 25tb Congress-,
second session. returns made o service IN the Black
Hawk and Florida wars, and the disturbances among the
Creeks 1885, the southwestern frontier IN 1885, and
in the Cherokee country 1896 and 1887 These returns
show the TO have been from three to six months
We cannot, apprehend, be far from the truth II we
suppose the ratio OF 55 average to each man,
found to be correct the volunteer and militia service
Of 1912, TO apply the service in all the wars embraced
by the terms of the act
Applying this average to the whole list in the table,
we find that the whole number OF men engaged IN all
the wars enumerated was, as have stated $50 .203 !;
from which number to deduct 45,447, who are
not entitled to bounty land and the remainder. or
1856 men, being entitled 10 53 each, would re-
qure q, ,756.5s0 acres OF land.
But this calculation based the suppositon that all
whose services might ente them TO the land arc yet
alive TO receive it at the hands Of the government We
must remember that thirty hve years have elapsed
the close OF the last war with Great Britain, and
ders OF the former could not be less than sixty, nor
OF the latter less than about eighty years OF age The
casuates of the service and the great length OF Tune
since elapsed have left but small remnant alive to
joy the bounty and their widows and minor heirs emit
lied to it are few The proportion OF all mustered into
who will claim and receive their land. has been
vaously estimated from onefouh to-one nall OF the
original number II one-half OF these men apply for
their land they would receive ii 37s ,2eo acres but II
only one-fourh living receive i, then only 36ss,
ll3 would be required, instead OF A. es
tmated by the Secretary Of the Treasury lhe error IN
the estimate referred has been made by basng the cal
cuation the suppostion that all were TO receive $50
acres o land each wble truth, AZ have shown only
small proportion of them entitled TO that quantity
The Secretary estimates the number OF men entitled 10