The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-02-11
IOWA, FEBRUARY II. 1852
In THE SENATE OF THE UNITED
STATES

II JANUARY 10, 1852.
|. The Senate proceeded to consider, as in Con
mittec ofthe Whole, the Joint Resolution IS. 3
explanatory of The act approved September 2
leoj, entitled can act granting bounty land ,
d certain officers aud soldiers who have been er
). @aged III the military service Of the Unite
> States,
Mr.. Underwood submitted an amendmen
which, having been amended, was agreed to
c Committee of the Whole, and reported to tn
! senate as follows Strike out all after tie en-
-, Gct'ng ctanse ami insert the toito,oing, ri-:
That all warrants for military bounty land
: winch have been or may hereafter be issue
under aAy law Of the United States, and all val
I'd locations Of the same which have been o
may hereafter be made, are hereby declared t.
be assignable, by deed or instrument of wri ting
made and erected after the taking effect of th,
act, according to such form, and pursuant t
such regulations as may be prescribed by tn,
Commissioner ofthe General Land O!iicr So
as to vest the assignee with all the r;gh's Of the
! original owner of the warrant or location: Pro
f,ded, That any PRISON entitled to pre-emplon
right to any land shall be entitled to use any
such land warrant in payment for the same al
the rate of one dollar and twenty five cents
! per acre, for the quantity of land therein speci-
| fed.
Sect 2. .2nd be IL futher enacted, That the
Registers and Receivers of the land offices
shall hereafter be sevcraly authorized to charge
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
age 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 said
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 adjust
mcnt of the accounts of such officers, where il
shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Com
missioner of the General Land Office that the
warrant was located by the soldier or warran-
tee, or his next of kin, and provided for by
law.
Sect. 3. ind be Il further enacted, That
Registers and Receivers whether in or out of
office al the passage of this act, or their legal
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 rrovided in the preceding
section or services hereafter 10 be performed
after deduclng the amount already received by
such officers under the act entitled GA n act to
require the holders of military land warrants to
compensate the land officers of the United
States for services in relation to the location of
those warrants, approved May seventeenth,
eighteen hundred aud fory-eight Proridcd,
That no Register or Receiver shall receive any /
compensation cut of the treasury for past servi
ces, who has charged and received Illegal fees
tor the location of such warrants Ind pro-
rtdcd further, That no Register or Receiver shall
receive Tor his services during any year great
er compensation than the ma xnum now allow
ed by law.
SEoT.4. ind be It further enacted That in
all cases where the militia, or volunteers, or
Stale troops OF any State or territory were
called into military service, and whose services
have been paid by the United States subse
quent to the eighteenth June eighteen hundred
and 'welve, the officers and soldiers of such
militia, volunteers or troops shall be entitled 10
ali the benefits of the act entitled can act
granting bounty land to certain officers and SOL
diers wEo have been engaged in the military
service OF the United States,' approved Sep
tember 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
The act OF the eleventh of February, eighteen
hundred and forty seven, be, and the same is
contained shall authorize bounty land 10 those
who have heretofore received er become e,ti
led to the same.
SES--5. he 1turther enacted, That where
my company, battalion or regiment, in an or f,
ganlzed form, marched more than twenty miles |
0 the place where they mustered into the SER
ice OF the United States, o were DISCHARGED
nore thTn twenty miles from the place where
uch company, battalion or regiment was organ
led; IN all such cases, in computing the length
1 service OF the officers and soldiers of any
uch company, battalion or regiment, with view
D determine the quantity of land any offices or
older is entitled to under said act, approved
wenty eighth September, eighteen hundred S
nd fifty, there shall be allowed one dav for i
very twenty miles from the place where the q
ompany, battalion or regiment was organized, I
} the place where the same was mustered into @
le service of the United States and also one i
ay for every twenty miles from the place where r
lch company, battalion or regiment was dis v
harged, t. the place where it was organized. u
nd from whence it marched to enter the SER b
ice. u