Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-03-10

place Of the domicile Of the deceased. and
can only be assigned or located by said
heirs.
Applications made by Indians must be
authenticated according to the regula-
tionS to be prescribed by the Ccmmis-
sioner Of Indian Affairs.
L. p. WALDO.
Commissioner Of Pensions.
The forms of declaration, etc, an.
nexed to the above instructions will be
published in our next issue
| AN ACT in addition 10 certain acts graptins
bounty land to certain offcers and soldiers
| who have been engaged in the military ser
| vice Of the United States
| BE IL enacted, &C., That each of the
surviving commissioned and non-com-
mlsSioned officers, musicians, and pri-
Yates, whether of regulars, volunteers,
rangers, or militia, who were regularly
mustered into the service Of the United
States, and every officer, commissioned
or non-commissioned, seaman. ordinary
seaman, marine, clerk. and landsman in
the navy, In any Of the wars in which
this country has been engaged since sew
enteen hundred and ninety, and each of
| the survivors Of the militia, 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.
| shall be entitled to receive certificate Cr
warrant from the Department of the In
Il tprior for ono bupd rad anl e;x, .,-z r
land; and where any Of those who have
oeen so mustered into service and paid
shall have received certificate or war
rant, 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 hum
tred and sixty acres to each such person
having served as aforesaid fTorided The
person so having been in service shall Lot
receive said land warrant if it shall ap-
pear by the muster rolls of his regiment
or corps that he deserted or was dishon-
orably discharged from service: Proui1ed
further, That the benefits of this section
shall be held to extend to wagonmasters
and teamsters who may have been en-
ployed, under The direction of competent
authority, in time of war, in the trans
portatiOn of military stores and supplies.
SFC. 2. And be ii fu ther e6Gctel, That
in case Of the death Of any person who,
if living, would be entitled TO a certiii.
cate or warrant as aforesaid under this
act, leaving a widow, or, il DO widow, a
minor child or children, such widow, or.
if no widow, Sdch minor child or chill
L. L. al,
ticate or warrant for the same quantity
of land that such deceased person would
he eatitled to receive under the provi-
Si)ns of this act If uow living: frOriLa,
Tnat subsequent marriage shall not i'm
pair the right Of any such widow to such
warrant if she be q wild Nv ct the time of
making her application: Ind proriGed
further, That those shall be considered
minors who are 80 at the time this act
SHALL take effect.
SEC. 3. And he 1t further enacted, That
warrant be issued fbr any service less
than fourteen days, except where the per-
son shall actually have been engaged in
battle and unless the pai ty claiming such
certificate or warrant shall establish his
or her right thereto by recorded evidence
Of said service.
Sec. 4. And be ii further enacted, That
said certificates or warrants may be as
signed, transferred, and located by the
warrantees, their assignees, or their heirs
at-law, according to the provisions of ex-
isting laws regulating the assignment,
transfer, and location Of bounty-land
warrants.
SIC. s. And be ii further enacted, That
no warrant issued under tie 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. q. Aad be It further erlacted, That
the registers and receivers Of the seS
eral land offices shall be severally au-
! thorized to charge and receive for their
services in locating all warrants under
| the provisions of this act the same cor-
pensation or per centage to which they
are entitled by law for sales Of the pub
lie lands, for cash, at the rate OF one
dollar and twenty five cents per acre.
The said compensation to be paid by the
assignees or holders of such warrants.
SEC. Z. And be 1t further enacted, That
the provisions OF this act, and ali the
bounty land laws heretofore passed by
Congress, shall be extended to Indians
in the same manner and TO the same ex-
tent as if the said Indians had been white
men.
SEC. s. And be 1t further enGcted, That
the officers and soldiers Of the revolution
| arv war or their widows or minor chill
dren, shall be entitled TO the benefits Of
this act.
Sec 9. And be IL further enacted, That
the benefits Of this act shall be applied
to and embrace those who served as VOL
unteers at the invasion Of Plsttsburg, in
September, eighteen hundred and Jour
teen also at the battle of Kings Noun
tain, in the revolutionary war, and the
battle of Nickojack against the confeder-
ated savages OF the South.