Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1855-03-22

BE it cnactsASN9s{ e.sz tlse efs
Representing slssie'! h6ssias
America in As-:ssIs---4 Nd. T'EFat !
each Of the safVfviHE Commissioned and
non commissioned officers, musicians, and
priyates, whether Of regulars, volun- |
! tcers, rangers, or militia, who were regu-
larly mustered into the service of the Uni
ted States, and every officer, commissioned
and non commissioned, seamcn, ordinary
seamen, marine, clerk, and landsmfn in the
navy in any Of the wars in which this coun-
try has been engaged since seventeen hun |
dred and ninety, and each of the survivors
Of the militia or volunteers, or State troops
of any State or Territory, called into militia, !
ry service, and regularly mustered therein,
and whose services have been paid by the
United States subsequent 10 the eighteenth
day of June, eighteen hundred and twelve,
| shall be entitled to receive a certificate OF
warrant from the Department of the Interior
for one hundred and sixty acres Of land;
and where any Of those who have so been
mustered into service and paid shall have
received certificate or warrant, he shall be
entitled 10 a certificate or warrant for such
quantity of land as will make, in the whole,
with what he may have heretofore rcoeiy.
el, one hundred and sixty acres to eaclI
such person having served as aforesaid:
Provided, The person 50 having been in
service shall not receive said LAID warrant
if it shall appear by the muster ra,.s or his
regiment or corps that he deserted, or vas
dishonoraby discharged from service.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That
in case Of the death OF any person who if
living, would be entitled to a certificate or
warrant as aforesaid under this act, leaving
widow minor child or children, such
widow, or if no widow, such minor child or
children, shall be entitled 10 receive q GER
, tificatc or warrant for the same quantity Of
= land that such deceased person would be en-
9 titled 10 receive under tie provisions of this
= act if new living; Provided, That subse-
. quent marriage shall not impair the right oil
5 any such widow TO such warrant if she be {
( widow at the time ofmakirg her application
5 And provided, further, That those shall Lt
y considered minors who arc so q: tic tim,
this act shall take effect.
= SEC. 5. And DC j, further enacted, Thai
1 in no case shall any such certificate OF war.
/ rant be issued for any service less .ha,
$ fourteen days, except where the person shal
= actually have been engaged il battle and un
1 less tie party claiming such certificate 0.
: warrant shall establish his or her righ
t thereto b. record evidence Of said service.
: SEC. /. And be It further enacted, Tia
5 said certificates or warrants may be assign
i cd, transferred, and located By the wayran
Q tees, or their heirs. law, according to th'
: provisions o.cXisling laws regulating the a.
a signment, transfer, and location ot bounty
:. land warrants.
= SEC. ). And Lc i further enacted, Tia
" no warrant issUed III ier the provisions c
o this act sha., le located on any public land
d except such as shall at the time be subject t
l. sale at either the minimum or lower gradu
: ated prices.
" SIC. 6. And be it further enacted Tha
the registers and receivers OF the scvera
!. land Offices shall be severUly authorized t
" charge and receive for their services in 10
= eating all warrants under the provision c
this act the same compensation or per cen
tage to which they are entitled by law 70
sales ofthe public lands, fox cash at the rat
of 81 2J cents per acre. The said compen
sation to be paid by the assigness or holder
OF such warrants.
SEC. 7. And be it further enacted. Tha
the provisions Of this act, and all the bount,
land laws heretofore PASSED by Congress
shall be extended to Indians, in the sam
manner and to the same extent as ii the salt
Indians had been white men.
SEC. s. And be it further enacted, Tha
the widows of officers and soldiers Of III
revolutionary war be entitled 10 the benefit
of this act.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, Tha
the benefits Of this act shall be applied Il
ard embrace those who served as volunteer
= at the invasion of Plattsburg, in Septembe
d 1914.
: SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, Tha
the provisions OF this act shall apply TO III
: chaplains who served with the army in tn
several wars OF the country.
Src. IL. And be it further enacted, Tha
n the provisions Of this act be applied 10 Ihos
$ who served as volunteers at the attack ol
: Lewistown, in Delaware, by the Britisl
+ fleet, in the war of eighteen hundred snc