The American patriot., 1855-04-06

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Bounty Land Bill as It passed both Houses
Of Congress.
Be it enacted By the Senate and House OF
Representatives. Of the United States of Ame,'
ica in Congress assembled, That each of the
surviving commissioned and non n-commissioned
officers, musicians, and privates, whether of
regulars, volunteers, rangers, or militia, who
were regularly mustered into the service of tho
United States, and every officer, commissioned
or non-commissioned, seaman, ordinary sea-
man, marine, clerk, and landsman 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 mill
tia, or volunteers, or State troops Of any State
or Territory, called into military service, and
regularly mustered therein, and whose services
have been paid by the United States, shal, oe
entitled to receive a certificate or warrant from
the Department of the Interior for one hun
dred and sixty acres of land; and where any
of those who have been SO mustered into SER
vice and paid shall have received certificate
or warrant, he shall be entitled to a certificate
or warrant for such quantity of land as will
make, in the whole, with what he may have
heretofore received, one hundred and sixty
acres to each such person having served as
aforesaid: Provided, The person so having
been in service shall not receive said land war
rant if it shall appear by the muster rolls of
his regiment or corps that he deserted, or was
dishonorably discharged from service:
Id Provided further, That the benefits Of this
section shall Sc held to extend to wagon mas
ters and teamsters who may have been en-
ployed, under the direction Of competent au-
taority, in time for war, in the transportation
Of military stores and supplies.
SEC. Q. Aad be it further enacted, That in
case OF the death of any person who, if living,
would be entitled to certificate or warrant, as
aforesaid, under this act, leaving widow, en-,
if no widow, minor child or children, such
widow, or if no widow, such minor child or
children shall be entitled to receive a certificate
or warrant for the same quantity of land that
such deceased person would be entitled to re-
ceive under the provisions of this act, if now
living: P,oride3, That subsequent marriage
shall not impair the right Of any such widow
to such warrant, if she be a widow at the time
of making her application And proridea
further, That those shall be considered minors
who are so at the time this act shall take effect
| SEC. 8. And bo IL further enacted, That in
no case shall any such certificate or warrant be
issued for any service less than fourteen days.
except where the person shall actually have
been engaged in battle, and unless the party
claiming such certificate or warrant shall es-
tablsh his or her right thereto by recorded
evidence of said service.
SEC. 4. and be it further enacted, That
said certificates or warrants may be assigned
transferred, and located by the warrantees
their assignees, or their heirs-at law, according
to the provisions of existing laws regulating
the assignment transfer, and location Of boun-
ty-land warrant.
SEC. 5. And Ie 1t further enacted, That no
warrant issued under the provisions of this act
shall be located on any public lands, except
such as shall at the time be subject to sale
at either the minimum or lower graduated
prices.
SEC. &. ana De ~ furthef en0ctt1, That the
registers and receivers of the several land Of
tices shall be severally authorized to charge
and receive for their services in locating all
warrants under the provisions Of this act the
same compensation or per centage to which
they are entitled by law for sales Of the public
lands, for cash, at the rate of one dollar and
twenty-five cents per acre. The said compen
sation to be paid by the assignees or holders of
such warrants.
SEC T. And be it further enacted, That the
provisions of this act, and all the bounty-land
laws heretofore passed by Congress, shall be
extended to Indians, in the same manner and
to the same extent as if the said Indians had
been white men.
Sec. s. And be it further enacted, That the
officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war,
or their widows or minor children, shall be en-
titled to the benefits of this act -
Sec. 9. And be 1t further enacted, That the
benefits of this act shall be applied to and onl-
brace those who served as volunteers at the
invasion of Plattsburgh, in September, eigh-
teen hundred and fourteen; also at the battle
of Kings mountain in the revolutionary war,
and the battle of Nickojack against the con-
federated savages of the South.
SEC 10. And be 1t further enacted That
the provisions of this act shall apply to the
chaplains who served with the army in the
several wars of the country.
Sec H. Aad be 1T further enacted, That
the provisions of this act be applied to fotilla
men and to those who served as volunteers al
the attack on Lewistown, in Delaware, by thu
British fleet in the war Of eighteen hundred