Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-03-27

modification Of the details as may be consistent with the
general Of the plan and necessary and pro-
per the opinion Of the President of the United States
Approved, March 10, 1852.
PUBLIC Acr-No. Q.
AN ACT make Land Warrants assgnable and for other
purposes.
Be enacted By The Senate and House of Representatives
OF the United States of America Congress assembled That
all warrants for military bounty land which have been
may hereafter be issued under any law Of the United
States and all valid locations of the which have been
may hereafter be made hereby declared be assign
able by deed instrument writing made and executed
after the taking effect of this act according to such FORM
and pursuant to such regulations as be
the Commissioner Of the General Land Office as to vest
the assignee with all the rights Of the original owner Of
the warrant or location Prorded That any person emit
tied to presumption right any land shall be entitled to
any such land in payment for the same, at
the rate Of dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. for
the quantity of land therein specified Provided That the
which have been may hereafter be issued in
pursuance of said laws of this act may be located
cordng to the legal subdivisions Of the public lands
body upon any lands of the United States subject pr
vate entry at the time Of such location at the minimum
price: Provided further, That when said warrants shall be
located lands which subject to entry at greater
minimum than dollar and twenty Eve cents per acre.
in cash e q shah pay 70 the states
of land located on.
receivers of the land office. sha hereafter be seyeray
authorized to charge and recse for their services in To-
eating all military bounty land werans issued since the
eleventh day Of February, eighteen handred and forty
seven the same compensation per osntage TO which
heyare entitled by Law for sales Of the public lands for
cash. at the rate Of dollar and twenty-five cents per
acre. the said compensation to be hereafter paid by the
sssignees or holders of such warrants
Sec. g. And be- further enacted, That registers and re-
ceivers whether in out of Office at the passage Of this
act their legal representatives in case Of DEATH shall
be entitled to receive from the Treasurer Of the United
States for services heretofore performed in locating mill
ary bounty land warrants the same rate Of compensation
provided in the preceding section for services hereafter
be performed after deducng the amount already receiv
ed by such officers under the act entitled An act
qure the holders Of military land warrants compensate
the land officers Of the United States for services in rea
ton to the location Of those warrants, approved May
seventeen, eighteen hundred and forty eght Provided
That register receiver shall receive any compensa
ton out Of the treasury for past services who has charged
and received illegal fees for the location Of such warrants
And provided further That register receiver shall
receive for his services during any year greater
pensaton than the maximum now allowed by law.
Sec A. And Be further enacted That in oil where
the militia volunteers State troops Of any State or
Territory called into military service, and whose
services have been paid by the United States subsequent
to the eighteenth Of june eighteen hundred and twelve
the officers and soldiers Of such militia, volunteers
troops shall be entitled to all the benefits Of the emit
tied An act granting bounty land to 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 according to the provisions of said act upon
proof Of length Of service therein required and that
the last provso Of the ninth section Of the act Of the
eleventh Of February, eighteen hundred and forty
be and the is hereby repealed ovd Thatnothing
herein contained shall authorize bounty land to those who
have heretofore received become entitled to the
Sec. 8. And bet further enacted That where any compa
n.y. battalion, regiment in organized form, march
ed than twenty miles to the place where they we're
mustered into the service of the United States
discharged than twenty miles from the place where
such company, battalion, regiment organized, in
all such in computing the length Of service Of the
officers and soldiers Of any such company battalion, or
any ocer soldier IL entitled 10 under said act approved
of September eighteen hundred and fty
there shall be allowed day for every twenty miles
from the place where the company, battalion, or regiment
was organised the place where the mustered
the service Of the United States and also day for
every twenty miles from the place where such company
battalion regiment discharged to the place where
II was organised and from whence marched to enter
the service. Improved, March %, 1852.