The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-02-11
IOWA, FEBRUARY l
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED
STATES.
IANrARY 10. lS52.

ne senate proceeded To CONSIDER as III Sonl
mttec ofthe Whole, the Joint Resolution IS. B.,
explanatory of he act approved September q
1850, entitled "An act granting bounty land t.
certaia officers aud soldiers who have been en-
gagged in the military service Of the Unitet
States
Mr.. Underwood submitted an amendment
which, having been amended, was agreed to il
! Committee Of the Whole, and reported to the
senate as follows: Strike out all after the en-
acting clause and insert the toito,cing, ri-
That all warrants for military bounty land
| which have been or may hereafter be issuel
under any law of the United States, and all val
id locatons Of the same which have been OF
may hereafter be made are hereby declared to
be assignable, by deed or instrument of writing,
made and erected after the taking effect of the
act, according to such form, and pursuant to
such regulations as may be prescribed by the
Commissioner ofthe General Land O!iicr, 50
as to vest the assignee with all the r;uh's of the
original owner of the warrant or location Pro-
rtded That any person entitled to prescription
right to any land shall be entitled to use any
such land warrant in payment for the same at
the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents
per acre, for the quantity Of land therein speci-
fed
SECT. 2. .fnd be IL futher enacted, That the
Registers and Receivers of the land offices
and receive for their services in locating all
military bounty land warrants issued since the
eleventh day of FEBRUARY eighteen hundred and
forty seven, the same compensation or per cent
aye to which they are entitled by law for sales
of the public lands for cash. at the rate OF one
dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the sad
compensation to be hereafter paid by the as
signees or holders of such warrants where they
have been transferred under the provisions of
any act of Congress and the regulations Of the
General Land Office; and to be paid out of the
treasury of the United States upon the lust
mcnt of the accounts of such officers, where it
shall be shown to the sat sfaction of the Com
missioner of the General Land Office that the
warrant was located by the soldier warran-
tee, or his next of kin, and provided for by
law.
SECT. 3. .2nd be 1, further cnactc4, That
Registers and Receivers whether in out of
office at the passage of this act, or their legal
representatives in case of death, shall be cnti-
tied to receive from the Treasury of the United
States, for services heretofore performed in To-
eating military bounty land warrants, the same
rae OF compensation provided in the preceding
section services hereafter TO be performed,
after deducing the amount already received by
such officers under the act entitled "An act to
require the holders of military land warrants to
States for services in relation to the location of
those warrants, approved May seventeenth,
eighteen hundred and for'y-eight Pr0rided,
That no Register Receiver shall receive any
compensation cut of the treasury for past servi-
ces, who has charged and received Illegal fees
for the location of such warrants: Ind pro-
rided further, That no Register or Receiver shall
receive for his services during any year great.
er compensation than the maximum now allow
ed by law.
SECT. d. lind be It further enacted That in
all cases where the militia, volunteers, or
State troops of any Slate or territory were
called into military service, and whose services
have been paid by the United States suisse
quent to the eighteenth June eighteen hundred
and we've, the officers and soldiers of such
militia, volunteers or troops shall be entitled TO
all the benefits of the act entitled tAn act
granting bounty land to certain officers and SOL
dlers wEo have been engaged in the military
service of the United States approved Sep
TENDER twenty eighth, eighteen hundred and
fifty, and shall receive lands for their services
according to the provisions of said act, upon
proof of length of services as therein required
and that the last proviso of the ninth section of
tn e act of the eleventh of February, eighteen
hundred and forty seven, be, and the same is
hereby repealed, provided that nothing herein
contained shall authorize bounty land TO those
who have heretofore received er become e,.ti-
tied to the same.
So: BE nfurther enacted, That where
any company, battalion or regiment, in an or
ganlzed form, marched more than twenty miles
to the place where they mustered into the SER
vice of the United States, were discharged
more then twenty miles from the place where
such company, battalion or regiment was organ
lied; IN all such cases, in computing the length
of service Of the officers and soldiers of any
such company, battalion or regiment, with vie W
to determine the quantity of land any offices or
soldier is entitled to under said act, approved
twenty-eighth September, eighteen hundred
and fifty, there shall be allowed one day tor
every twenty miles from the place where the
company, battalion or regiment was organized,
to the place where the same was mustered into
the service of the United States; and also one
day for every twenty miles from the place where
such company, battalion or regiment was dis
charged, t. the place where it organized
and from whence it marched to enter the ser.
vice.