The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1855-03-14
From the N. c. Standard.
THE BOUNTY LAND BILL.

THE BOUNTY LAND BILL.
We publish below, from the Wash
ington Union, the bounty land bill as
it passed the two Houses Of Congress.
It is as broad and as full as any one
could have wished:
Belt enacted byth Senate and House
Of Representatives. Of The United States
Of .America in Congress assembled, That
each Of the surviving commissioned
and non-commissioned officers, musi.
clans, and priyates, whether Of regu-
lars, volunteers, rangers, or militia, who
were regularly mustered into the SER
vice Of the United States, and every
officer, commissioned and on-commis-
stoned, seaman, ordinary seaman, ma
rine, clerk, and landsman in the navy,
in any of the wars in which this coun-
try 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 Terri
tory, called into military service, and
regularly mustered therein, and whose
services have been paid by the United
States, shall be entitled to receive a
certificate or warrant from the Depart
ment 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 re.
ceiyed 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 his regi-
ment or corps that he deserted, or was
iishonorably discharged from service /:
Prouided further, That the benefits
of this section shall be held to extend
TO wagon-masters and teamsters who
have been employed, under the direc-
ton Of competent authority, in time Of
war, in transportation Of military stores
and supplies.
SEc. .. find be IL further enacted,
That in case of the death of any per-
son who, il living, would be entitled to
certificate or warrant as aforesaid
under this act, leaving widow, or, il
no widow, a minor child or children,
such widow, or, if no widow, such mi
nor child or children, shall be entitled
to receive a certificate or warrant for
the same quantity Of land that such de,
ceased person would be entitled to re-
ceive under the provisions of this act
If now living: Prouided, That sub
sequent marriage shall not impair the
right Of any such widow to such war.
rant if she be widow AZ the time oI
making her application: find propided
further, That those shall be considered
minors who are SO at the time this act
shall take effect.
SIC. 5. .4s,d be II further enacted
/ That in no case shall any such certili,
cate or warrant be issued for any ser
vice less than fourteen days, excep
/ where the person shall actually have
been engaged in battle, and unles,
the party claiming such certificate OF
warrant shall establish his or her RICH
thereto by recorded evidence of salt
service.
SEc. 4. find be Il further enacted
That said certificates or warrants ma,
be assigned, transferred and located b,
the warrantees, thcirassignees, or thei
heirs at-law, according to the proyi
sions Of existing laws regulating th,
assignment, transfer, and location Q
bOunty.land warrants.
! SEc. 5. find be IL further enacted
That no warrant issued under the pro
vision Of this act shall be located OF
any public lands, except such as shal
at the time be subject TO sale at eithe
| the minimum or lower graduated pri
ces.
4 SEc. 6. find be Il further enacted
That the registers and receivers Of III
several land Offices shall be several,
authorized to charge aud receive 70
their services in locating all warrant
under the provisions OF this act tn
same compensation or percentage I
which they are entitled BY law for sale
Of the public lands, for cash, at the rat
, Of one dollar and twenty-five cents pc
acre. The said compensation TO be pai
by the assignees or holders Of sue
warrants.
SIC. Z. .aad be il further nacte0
That the provisions Of this act. and al
the bounty Land laws heretofore passc
by Congress, shall be extended TO IL
/ dams, ID the same manner aud TO th
same extent as il the said Indians ha'
been white men.
Src. s. .7nd be IL FURTHER endctec
That the officers and soldiers Of the rt
. vulutionary war. or their widows I
. minor children, shall be entitled TO u
: benefits Of this act.
SKc. Q. Ind be Il further enaeie,
, That the benefits Of this act shall !