Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-03-17
To old soldiers

| To Old soldiers
The following bill has been signed by the
President. 1t will be many months before
warrants can be issued under it, as new plates
will have to DE got. Soldiers who have had
warrants need not trouble themselves about
| further testimony.
| Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives. Of the the United Statss Of
America IN Congress assembled. That each
of the surviving commissioned and non-com-
missoned officers musicians and privates,
whether Of regulars, volunteers, rangers or
militia, who were regularly mastered into SER
vice Of the United Stats, and every officer,
commissioned and nom commissioned, sea-
men, ordinary seamcn, 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 militia or volunteers, or
State troops Of any State or Territory, cal
| led into military service, and rcSulaly mus
tered therein, and whose sevices have been
paid by the United States. shall be entitled to
receive certificate or warrant from the De-
partment of the Interior for one hundred and
sixty acres of land: and where any of those
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paid shall have received a certificate or
warrant, he shall be entitled to 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
warrant if it shall appear by the muster rolls
of bis regiment or corps that he deserted
or WIS disonorably discharged from survice.
Prorided further, That the benefits Of
this section shall be held to extend to wagon
masters and teamSters WHO may have been
employed, under the direction Of competent
authority in time of war in the transporta-
ton of military stores and supplies.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in
case of the death of any person who, if liv-
ing, would be entitled to a certificate or war
rant as aforesaid under the act, leaving a
widow, or if no widow, a minor chlld 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 dec 'ased person
would be entitled to receive under the pro-
visions of this act if now living; Prorided,
That 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: Ind provided further, That III use
shall be considered minors who are so at the
time this act shall take effect.
| SEC. 3. And be II further enacted, That in
no case shall any such certificate or warrant
be issued for any service less than fourteen
days, except here 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 re-
corded evidence of said service.
SEC. 4. And be 1t further enacted, That
said certificates or warrants may be as
signed, transferred and located by the war
rantees, their assignees, or their heirs at-law,
according to the provisions of existing laws
regulating the assignment, transfer and To-
cation Of bounty land warrants.
! SEC. 5. And be 1t further enacted. That
no warrant issued under the provisions of this
act shall be located on any public lands, ex-
cept such as shall Mt the time be subject to
sale at either the minimum or lower graduated
| prices.
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted. That
the registers and receivers of the several
land Offices shall be severally authorized to
charge and receive for their services in oca-
ting all warrants under the provisions of this
act the same compensation or per centage
to which they are entitl by law for sales
OF the pubic lands, for cash, at the rate of
one dollar and twenty five cents per acre.
The said compensation to be paid by the as
signees or holders of such warrants.
Sec. I. And be 1t 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 In
dams had been white men.
Sec. 8. A,,d be 1t 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 Q. And be 1t further enacted. That
the benefits of this act shall be applied to
and embrace those who served as volunteers
at the invasion of Pattsburgh, in Septem5e
eighteen hundred and fourteen; also, at the
battle of Kings mountain, in the revolution
AIRY war, ana ut the battle of Nickoiack
against the confederate savages Of the
south.
Sec. 10. and be it further enacted, That
the provisions o. this act shall apply to the
chaplains who served with the army in the
several wars Of the country
SEC. IL. And be it turtle. enacted, That
the provisions Of this act be applied TO fotil-
la-men and those who served as volunteers
at the attack on Lewistown, in ID Delaware, by
the British fleet in the war of eighteen hun
dred and twelve-iftcen.
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