The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1855-03-23
Important Bill.

Important Bill.
The following is the Bounty Land Bill which
passed both Houses OF Congress, and has been
signed by the President:
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House Of Re
personalities oftjte United States OF America in
Congress assembled, That each Of the surviving
commissioned and non commissioned officers mu
| sicians, and prIvates, whether Of regulars, volun.
teers, rangers, or militia, who We're regularly
mustered into the service OF the United States, and
every officer, commissioned and non-commis.
stoned, seaman, ordinary seaman, marine. clerk,
and andsman IN the navy, IN any OF the wars IN
which this country has been engaged since seven.
teen hundred and ninety, and each of the survivors
OF the militia, volunteers 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 10 receive certificate warrant from
the Department of the Interior for one hundred
and sixty acres Of land and where any of those
who have been so mustered into service and paid
shall have received certificate or warrant, he
shall be entitled 10 certificate or warrant for
such quantity of lands as will make, in the whole,
with what he may have heretofore received, one
hundred and sixty acres TO each such person
having served aforesaid: Provided, The person
having been in service shall not receive said
land warrant if it shall appear by the muster rolls
Of his reg iment or corps that he deserted, was
dishonorably discharged from service:
Provided, further, That the benefits of this
section shall be held to extend 10 wagon. masters
and teamsters who may have been employed under
the direction of competent authority in time OF
war, in The transportation of military stores and
supplies.
Sec. 2. And 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, or If widow,
minor child children, such widow, or, if no
widow, such minor child or children, shall be
titled 10 receive certificate or warrant for the
same quantity of land that such deceased person
would be entitled to receive under the provisions
OF this act If now living: Provided, That a sub.
sequent 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 at the time this act shall take
eftc'.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That in no
case shall any such certificate warrant b.
issued Tor any service less than fourteen days, ex-
cert where the person shall actually have been
engaged in title, and unless the party claiming
such certificate warrant shall establish 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, trans
lerred and located by the warrantees, or their
heirs-at.law according to the provisions Of existing
laws regulating the assignment, transfer, and loca-
ton of bounty land warrants.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That
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 graduated prices.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the
Registers and receivers of the several land offices
shall be severally authorised to charge and ~.
ceve for their services in locating all warrants
under the provisions OF this act the same compen-
sation percentage 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 compensation to be paid by the
assignees or holders OF such warrants.
Sec 7. And be it further enacted, That the
provisions of this act. and all the bounty land
laws heretofore passed by Congress, shall be ex.
tended TO Indians in the manner and 10
the extent if the said Indians had been
white men.
Sec, g. And be it further enacted, That the
officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war; or
their widows minor childIen shall be entitled 10
the benefits Of this act.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the
benefits Of this act shall be applied 10 and embrace
those who served volunteers at the invasion Of
Piattsburg, in September. eighteen hundred and
fourteen; also at the battle Of Kings Mountain in
the revolutionary war, and the battle OF Nckaja
against the confederate6 savages of the South.
Sec. 10. And be 1t further enacted, That the
provisions Of this act shall apply TO the plains
who served with the army in the several wars OF
the country. -
Sec. IL. And be it further enacted That the
provisions Of this ACT be applied to fotilla-m
and 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
fifteen