Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-06-16
[PCBLIo--No. 1871

[PCBLIo--No 1911
AN ACT to make Land Wa assgnabla and for
other Purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House nfRepresen
tatves o the United States Of America in Congress as
sembed, That all warrants Tor military bounty lands
which have been or may hereafter be Issued
under any law of the United States and all valid
locations Of the which have been or may here after
be made are hereby declared TO be assgnable by deed
or Instrument OF writing made and executed after the
taking effect OF this according to such form and
pursuantto such regu atoms as may be prescribed by
the Commissioner OF the General Land Office,
vest the assIgare with all the rights of the original
owner OF the warrant location: Provided,
That any person entitled to preemItion right TO
any land shall be entitled to any such land
warrant in payment for the at the rate of
one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, for the
quantity OF land therein specified Provided, That the
warrants which have beep may hereafter be issued in
pursuance OF said laws OF this may be l0aated
according the legal of the public lands
one body u.fon any lands of the Uuited States
subject to private entry at the time of such location.
the minimum price. Provided frhe". That when said
warrant shall be located lands which subject
entry at gre miimum Than dollar twenty
five cents per the locator of said shall
pay 10 the United States in cash the value of such
rants at dollar and twenty five per and
the tract of land located on.
SEC 2. Aud be it further enacted That the registers
and receivers of the and-oices shall hereafter be
several d horZed to charge and receive for ihsr
in locating all mill airy boupty land warrants
issued since the eleventh day of February, eighteen
hundred and iory-seven. he same conversation per
cehtaee to VIII CHI they are entitled by law for sales of
the public lands Tor cash, at the OF dollar and
twenty-five cents per acre. the said compensation be
hereafter paid by the ASST holders of such
rants.
SEC g. And be il further 3D. Tint resisers and
receivers, whether i'll of office the passage OF
this act, or their legal repes htatves in of DEATH
snail be titled receive from thu treasury f The
United States for services heretofore performed in loca
ting military bCuay land warrants, the same of
compensation provided in the preceding section TO-
services hereafter be performed after dedncing the
amount already received by such under the euttled
Gan act 10 require the holders of military land warrants
compensate he land officers of The Uni cd States for
services relation to tho location OF such warrants
app owed May seventeenth eighteen hundred and forty
eigh Provided That no regis receiver shall
ceve any compensation ont of the treasury for past
services, who h rs charged and received illegal fees
r the location of such And provided further
That no register receiver shall receive for his
vices during any year greater compensation than thr
mum now allowed by law.
SEC. A. And be it further enacted That in all
where tho militia or volunteers or State troops of
State Territory called into military service, aud
whose services have been paid by the United States
subsequent the eighteenth of june eighteen hundred
and twelve the officers and soldiers of such militia vol
troops shall be entitled all the benefits of
the act entitled "An act granting bounty land to certain
officers and soldiers who have been engaged in the mill
tary service OF the United States approved September
eighteen hundred and fifty and shall receive
lands for their services according to the provisions of
said act, upon proof Of leagth of service as therein
and that the last OF the ninth section OF
the of the eleventh OF February eighteen hundred
and forty-seven. be- aud the is hereby repealed
Provided That nothing herein contained shall authorize
bounty land to those who have heretofore received or
become entitled to the same.
SEC ;. And be it further enacted, That where any
company battalion reg ment in the organized form,
marched more than twenty miles to the place where
States or We're discharged more than twenty miles from
the place where such company battalion
organized in all such computing the length of
service ofthe officers and soldiers OF any such company