Kansas weekly herald., 1855-07-28
By AUTHORITITY.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES


Acts granting Bounty Land to certain Officers
and Soldiers who have been engaged in the
Military Service of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress Assembled, That each Of the surviving
commissioned and non-commissioned officers,
musicians, and privates, whether of regulars,
volunteers, rangers, militia, who were regu-
larly mustered into the service of the United
States, and every officer, commissioned and non
commissioned, seaman, ordinary seaman, hot1i-
la-man, marine, clerk, and landsman in the navy,
in any of the wars in which this country has
been engaged since seventeen hundred and nine
ty, and each of the survivors of the militia, or
volunteers, or State troops of any State or Ter
ritory, called into military service, and regular
Iy mustered therein, and whose services have
been paid by the United States, shall be entitled
to receive a certificate warrant from the De-
partment 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 to certificate OF 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 per-
son so having been in service shall not receive
said land warrant if it shall appear by the mus
ter-rolls of his regiment corps that he DESERT
ed, or was dishonorably discharged from service:
Prorided further, That the benefits of this sec
tion shall be held to extend to wagon-masters
and teamsters who may have been employed,
under direction of competent authority in time
of war in the transportation of military stores
and supplies.
SEC 2 find be it further enacted, That in case
of the death of any person who, if living, would
be entitled to certificate warrant afore-
said under this act, leaving widow, or, if no
widow, minor child or children, such widow,
or, if no widow. such minor child or children,
shall be entitled to receive certificate war
rant for the same quantity of land that such de-
ceased person would be entitled to receive un-
der the provisions of this act, if now living {:
Provided, That subsequent marriage shall not
impair the right of any such widow to such war
rant if she be a widow at the time of making
her application: find Prouided, further, That
those shall be considered minors who are so at
the time this act shall take effect.
SEC. 8. find be it further enacted, That in no
case shall any such certificate or warrant be is
sued for any service less than fourteen days, ex-
cept where the person shall actually have been
engaged in battle, and unless the party claiming
such certificate or warrant shall establish his or
her right thereto by record evidence of said
service.
SEC. a. find be 1T furtia1 enacted, That said
certificates warrants may be assigned, trans
ferred, and located by the waria antees- their as
signees, their heirs at-iaw- according 10 the
provisions of existing laws regulating he assign
ment, transfer, and location of n,y-land war
rants.
SEC. 5. find be 1t further enacted, That no war
rant issued under the provisions of this act shall
be located on any public lands, except such as
shall at the time be Inject to sale at either the
minimum or lower graduated prices.
Sec. 6. find be it further enacted, That the re-
gisters and receivers of the several land-ofhces
shall be seVerally authorized to charge, and re-
ceive for their services, in locating all warrants
under the provisions of this act, the same COM
pensation or percentage to which they are enti-
tied by law, for sales of the public 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 7. .Aad 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, if the said Indians had been
white men.
SEC. 8. find be it further enacted, That the
officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war, or
their widows or minor children, shall.be entitled
to the benefits of this act.
Sec. 9. find be it further enacted, That the
benefits of this act shall be applied to and en-
brace those who served as volunteers at the in
vasion of Plattsburg, in September, eighteen
hundred and fourteen; also at the battle of Kings
Mountain, in the revolutionary war, and the bat
tie of Nickojock, against the confederated saw
ages of the South.
SEC. 10. find be it further enacted, That the
provisions of this act shall apply to the chap
Iains who served with the army, in the several
wars of the country.
SEC. IL. find be it further enacted, That the
provisions of this act be applied to those who
served as volunteers at the attack on Lewistown
in Delaware, by the British fleet, in the war OF
eighteen hundred and twelve-ffteen.
APPRovED, March 3, 1855.