Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-08-04
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TO the Editor's of the E1aouirer.

-at WASHINGTON, July IL, 1902.
tMRssRs. EDIToRs KNOWING the in
terest many Of Your readers have in the
subject. send you herewith copy o
the Virginia Bounty land Scrip Bill, as /
passed the Senate on Friday last.
For this long deferred measure of jus
tiee to a large number of our citizens, de
seendan's of revolutionary patriots, we
are mainly indebted to the untiring exer'
tions of our Senators Hunter and Mason,
who have labored most earnestly in Its
behalf, Notwithstanding the almost con-
tinual demands upon their time and at.
tention, growing out of their duties as
Chairnon--one of the Finance Commit
tee. the other of the Committee on For
eipn Relations. This measure has here
tolore encountered strong opposition in
Congress, and the unanimous vote by
which it passed the Senate bears honora-
bic testimony, as we'll to the estimation in
which Messrs, Hunter and Mason are
held by their fellow members, as to the
ability and fidelity with which they have
attended to the interests of their constit-
uents.
Should our delegation in the House
manifest the same united interest and
make the same exertions in its favor, there
can be no doubt of its easy passage
through that body also at an early day,
After few days struggle in Commit
tee of the Whole, the House have just
sustained the Senate amendment to the
Deficiency bill, making an additional APP
preparation to this Collins line Of steam
crs, by a vote of 81 to IS. This vote if
sustained in the House, of which no
doubt is entertained, viii settle the ques-
ton that our government means to sus-
tain American enterprise against Bril-
tish competition, almost exclusively sup
ported by its government.
This measure is also important in an
other aspect--that of creating an auxilia-
ry navy, engaged in time Of peace in COM
mercial pursuits, but always ready to be
converted into war vessels, whenever an
emergency shall arise rendering it ne
cessary, and thus supply at comparative
" little expense to the government, sort
of naval militia, far more accordant with
the genius of our institutions than such
an increase OF our navy proper, as the
policy of other maratlme nations will rem
der it absolutely necessary.
NllI6lNUS.
ABnI
Appropriating land scrip in full and final
satisfaction Of Virginia military boun-
ty land warrants.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
all unsatshcd outstanding military land
warrants or parts of warrants issued pri-
or to the first day of March eighteen
hundred and fifty two, by the proper au-
thorities of the Commonwealth Of Virgil
MIA. for military services performed by
the officers and soldiers of the Virginia
State and continental lines in the army
of the Revolution, may be surrendered to
the Secretary of the Interior, who, upon
being satisfied, by revision of the proofs
or by additional testimony that any war.
rants thus surrendered was fairly and
Justly issued in pursuance of the laws of
said Commonwealth, for military services
SO rendered, shall issue land scrip in ia
vor Of the present proprietor Of any war
rant thus surrendered, for the whole or
any portion thereof yet unsatished, at the
rate of one dollar ana twenty-five cents
for each acre mentioned in the warrant
thus surrendered, and remains unsatis
fled, which scrip shall be receivable in
payment for any lands owned by the Uni
ted States subject to sale at private entry;
and said scrip shall, moreover. be assign
able by endorsement attestcd by two wit.
nesses. In issuing such scrip the said
Secretary is authorized, where there are
more persons than one interested in the
same warrant, to issue to each person
script Tor his or her portion OF the war
rant and where infants or female CO
verts may be entitled to any scrip, the
guardian Of the infant or the husband OF
the female may receive and sell or locate
the Same Provided, That no less than u
legal subdivision shall be entered and paid
for by the scrip issued in virtue of this
act,
SECT. 2. And be it further enacted,
That this act shall be taken as a full and
final adjustment of all bounty land claims
to the officers and soldiers of the State OF
Virginia, for services in the war of the
Revolution. Provided, That the State
of Virginia shall, by proper act of the
Legislature thereof, relinQuish all claim to
the lands in the Virginia Military land
district in the State of Ohio.
The WoRLDs FAIR AT New YORK;
The N. Y. Evening Post says the follow
ing is memorandum Of objects lately re-
ceivcd from Europe, as promised for the
exhibition in the new Crystal Palace
About eighty packages which arrived