Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1852-03-31
LAND WARRANTS MADE Ass1GNABLE.

Ane lohowlng 10 copy OF the act making land
warrants assgnable, as it passed the Senate and
House on Thursday, the 18th instant. This act will
be received with Qualification by thousands of per-
sons, to whom the warrants have heretofore been of
but little if any value
AN ACT making Land Warrants assignable and for
other purposes.
BE enacted by tie Senate and House of Representa-
tsves Of TIE Onited States Of america tn Congress
senbed That all warrants for military bounty land.
which have been may hereafter be issued under any
law of the United Staes and all valid locations of the
same, which have been. or may hereafter be made,
are hereby declared to be assgnab!e, by deed or n.
strument OF writing, made and executed after the ta-
king effect of this act according to such form and
pursuant to such regulations may be prescribed by
the Commissioner of the General Land Office, so as
to vest the assignee with all the rights of the original
owners of the warrant or location: Provided, That
any person entitled to pre-empton right to any land,
shall be entitled to any such land warrant pay
ment of the same. at the rate of 81 25 per acre, for
the quantity of land therein specified Provided That
the warrants which have been may hereafter be is
sued in pursuance of said laws or of this act, may be
located, according to the legal subdivisions of the
public lands, in body, upon any lands of the Uni
ted States, subject to private entry at the time of such
location, at the minimum price: Provided, further,
That when said warrants shall be located on lands
which subject to entry at greater minimum than
81 IS per acre. the locator of said warrants shall pay
the value of such warrants at 81 25 per acre. and the
tract of land located on.
SEC. Q. find be it further enacted, That the regis
ters and receivers of the land Offices shall hereafter
be severay authorized to charge and receive for their
services in locating all military bounty land warrants
issued since the llh day Of February, ls47, the
compensation or per centage to which they enti-
tied by law for sales of the public lands for cash.
the rate of 81 25 per the said compensation to
be hereafter paid by the assgaees or holders of such
warrants.
Sec. 3. End be it further enacted, That registers
and receivers, whether in out of Office at the pass.
age OF this act their legal representatives in case
of death, shall be entitled to receive from the Treas
ury If the United States, for services heretofore per-
formed in locating military bounty land warrants the
of compensation provided in the preceding
section for services hereafter to be performed, after
deducting the amount already received by such off.
GERS under the act entitled An act require the
holders of military land warrants to compensate the
land officers of the United States for services in re-
lation to the location of those warrants approved
May H. 1913: Provided, That register or receiv-
shall receive any compensation out OF the treasury
for past services who has charged and received illegal
fees for the location of such warrants lind provided
further, That register receiver shall receive for
his services during any year greater compensation
than the maximum now allowed by law.
Sec 4. find be it further enaeted, That in all cases
where the militia or volunteers State troops of any
State Territory called into military service.
and whose services have been paid by the United
States subsequent to the of June, eighteen
hundred and twelvc the officers and soldiers of such
militia, volunteers, troops shall be entitled to all
the benefits of the entitled An act granting boun.
ty land certain officers and soldiers who have been
engaged in the military service of the United States"
approved September twenty-eight. eighteen hundred
and fifty, and shall receive lands for their services
cording the provisions Of said act, upon proof of
length Of service as therein required; aud that the
last provso of the ninth section Of the act of eleventh
of February, eighteen hundred and fory-seven, be-,
and the same is hereby repealed Provided, That
nothing herein contained shall authorize bounty land
to those who have heretofore received become en-
titled to the same.
Sec. 5. find be it further enacted, That where any
company, battalion, regiment in an organized form.
marched more than twenty miles to the place where
.hey were mustered into the service of the United
States, or were discharged more than twenty miles
from the place where such company, battalion. or
iment was organized in all such cases, in computing
the length of service of the officers and soldiers ol
any such company, battalion, regiment with view
to determine The quantity Of land any officer or SOL
dier is entitled to under said act, approved 2sh oil
September, $780, there shall be allowed one day fol
every twenty miles from the place where the compa
ny, battalion, regiment 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 sach company, battalion
or regiment was discharged the place where it was
organized and from whence it marched, to enter the
service.