Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-03-09
LYNCHBURG VIRGINlAN.
FRIDAY MORNING
The Bounty Land Law

/ bounty land bill which passed the House oil hel
resentatives Wednesday Of last week. The IN
as passed was presented by Mr.. Richardson oil
/ Illinois. rs a substitute for the Senate bill. II
was subsequently, eoneurred in by the senate ana
/ is now a law of the lapd. 1t is estimated TINT
| under it, provisions about 2OOOoBooo aefes 81
the public lands will be conveyed
SECTION !. b II enacttd Sc, That each al
the surviving commissioned and non commits
stoned officers musicians, and priyates, whether
of regulars, volunteers, rangers, or mlliuh, who
were regularly mustered INTO the service oi the
United States, and every officer, comnizsiohed
aud non commissioned, seaman, or ordinary sea
man. marine, clerk, aud landsnan in the navy
in any of the wars IN which this country has been
engaged since seventeen hundred and ninety
and each of the survivors of the militia, or vol
unteor>, or State i.oops Of any state or territory
called into military service, and regularly mus
tered therein. aud whose services have been pald
by toe United States, shall bo entitled 10 feceiFo
Il certificate or warrant from the department o
the interior for one hundred and sixty neres o'
land; and where rny Of thoso who hhfe been 50
mustered int service and paid shall have re-
ceiyed "A certificate 81 warrant, he shnli he chtl.
tied to Il certificate or warrant for such quantity
# land rs will mike, in the whole with what he
may have heretofore received, one hundred ana
sixty acres 10 eaeh such person having served rs
aforesaid: Prorided, The person 50 having been
in service shall not receive said land warrant II
il shall appear hY the muster rolls OF his regl-
ment or corps that h. deserted, or was dlshonor-
ably discharged from service
Proridod further, That the benefits Of this
section shall be held to extend to wagon masters
and team.ters who may have been employed, I'M
der direction of competent authority IN time OF
war, in tire transportation Of military stores and
supplies.
SEC. . Tint in case of the death Of any per
son who, if living, would be entitled To II certli-
eate or warrant a. aforesaid, under this nct, eav
ing widow or, if no widow, minor child or
children, such widow, child shall be entitled 10
receive certificate warrant for the same guam
tlty of Mnd, that such deceased person would bo
entitled to receive under the provisions 81 this
act if now living Prorided, That II subsequent
marriage shnll not impair the right oi my such
widow to such warrant, If she be- IA widow nj the
time OF making her Application: Ind prouatd.
further, That those shnll be considered minors
who are at the time this net shall take effect
SEC. 3. Tint in case shall any such ecrti-
fcnto warrant be issued for any service less
than fourteen dnys, except where the person
shall actually have been engaged IN battle, and
unless the party claiming such certificate or war
rant shall establish his or her right thereto by
recorded evidence II sad service.
SEC. J. That snid certlit ates or warrants hay
be assigned, transferred, and located by the war.
rnntecs their assgnees, or their heirs at law,
according 10 the provisions ofoNisting laws reg
ulating the assignment, transfer, and location of
bounty land wnrrants.
SEC :. That no warrant issued under the pro-
visions of this act shall be located on my public
lands, except such n- shall at the time be sub
icct to sale Mt either the minimum or lower grad
uatrd prices
Sec. 6. Tint the registers and receivers Of TIN
4. -. /
10 cbnrrr and rrreiyo for ,hoir services in loca.
ting all warrants under the provisions IF this act,
the same compensation or per ccutage IL which
they are entitled by Ia" Tor sales "i Tue Po'H1
iah'-' '.' 'es,' d Tue '''y W '',' o5'"' '''''
- L.. ,La as.i,.nr,. ~, b.l,lers 81
sncb warrants.
Sc. :. That the provisions ot this net, and
all the bounty land hws heretofore passed hy
Congress snAa he tA'ena'" /" Inolaos' ~ ,,'
SUM-; . ,,'i,'',''' ,l'' - ~,
Srr p 'rLat the elircr- and soldiers of ;lu
revolutionary Nar. or thrjr widows or mrol
children, ,hall be eutltlel to the benefits OF TIN
act
,.l..1 ...,,,, h., . .,,s.,s
nntecrs nj the Invasion If phtt-bpr,,, in Sop
tomb,r, eighteen hundred and tourtern. also al
the battle # King mountain, ia the revolution
AIRY war and the oatiio "t N'oN"Jaek a&'ns' tn.
con''1''n'9 sH aaes'' ''.' '''"'"
o,niy f., fin, ,6aniai1,l ubo.,ryal with iloara,
! in the sryrrnl var. Of tic country.
SEC. H. That the provisions of TIN act be op
| piled to itotilla men and to those "ho zerNed a
At wa
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kAItWAYS.=stroma an article ~ areeent mum
Der of Hunt Merchant Magazine we gather Il