The American patriot., 1855-04-28
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Be 1t enacted BY tho Senate and House q
REPRESENTATIVES Of the United States Of Amer
ica in Congress assembled, That each Of the
surviving commissioned and non-commissioned
officers musicians, and privates, whether OF
regulars, volunteers, rangers, or militia, VINO
were regularly mustered into the service OF the
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 conntry mas
been engaged since seventeen hundred ana
ninety. and each of the survivors of the mill
tin. or volunteers or State troops OF any state
or Territory, called into military service, ana
regularly mustered therein, and whose services
have been paid by the United States, shaIi DC
entitled to receive certificate or warrant from
the Department Of the Interior for one nun
drcd and sixty acres Of land; and where any
of those who have been SO mustered into SER
vice and Maid 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:
Propided, further, That the benefits OF this
section shall be held to extend to wagon-mas-
ters and teamsters who may have been en-
bloved. under the direction of competent au-
thority, in time for war, in the transportation
Of military stores and supplies.
Sec. O. And be 1t 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, 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
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: Prorided, That q subsequent marriage
shall not impair the right of any such widow
to such warrant, if she be widow at the time
of making her application: And provided,
further. That those shall be considered minors
who are so at the time this act shall take effect
Sec. 3. And be 1t further enacted, That in
no case shall any such certificate or warrant be
except where the person shall actually have
been engaged in battle, and unless the party
claiming such certificate or warrant shall es-
tablish his or her right thereto by recorded
evidence of said service.
SEC. 4. And be 1t further enacted, That
said certificates or warrants may be assigned,
transferred, and located by the warrantees,
their assgnecs, or their heirs-at law, according
to the provisions Of existing laws regulating
the assignment, transfer, and location of boun-
ty-land warrant ~ I'll -asr.-
Sec. s. And be 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 tho minimum or lower graduated
prices.
SEC. 6. And be IL. further enacted, That the
registers and receivers Of the several land Of
fees shall be severally authorized to charge
and receive for their services in locating al
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 1--we cents per acre. The said compen,
sation to be paid by the assignees or holders o.
such warrants.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the
provisions Of this act, and all the bounty -lano
laws heretofore passed by Congress, shall bt
extended to Indians, in the same manner and
10 the same extent as If the said Indians had
ben white men. M
SEC. s. And be 1t 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. 0. And be it further enacted, That thu
benefits of this act shall be applied to and EN-
brace those who served as volunteers at thu
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 Nckojack against the con-
federated savages Of the South
Sec 10. And be 1t further enacted, Tha
the provisions of this act shall apply to thu
chaplains who served with the army in thu
several wars Of the country.
Sec. II. And be it further enacted, Thai
the provisions Of this act be applied to hotila
men and to those who served as volunteers a,
the attack on Lewistown, in Delaware, by thu
British feet, in the war Of eighteen hundred