Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1855-03-10
The Bounty Land Law.

AA6 6OuuCy AauQ LAW.
The following is the bounty land bill which
passed the House OF Representatives on Wednes-
day last. II is not the Senate bill, but a sub.
s,iiuie therefor, offered by Mr.. Richardson, Of
Illinois, differing, however, iu several psrticu.
lars. l. has also. passed The Senate, and is a
law
Section |. Be ii enacted, &c, That each
Of the surviving commissioned and uOn-com-
Imisioned ctfirers, musicians, and privates
whether Of regulars, volunteers, rangers or
militia, who were regularly mustered into the
service Of the Uutsd States, aud every officer
| cumm ssionpd and non-commissioned, seaman
ordinary seaman, marine, clerk, IsaGsnan in
/ the ! avy. III any Of The wars in which this
country has been engaged since seventeen
hundred aud ninety, and each of the survivors
OF the militia, OF volume re-, on State troops of
any Stale Or territory, called into Military
service. and regularly mustered therein, and
whose services have bsen raid ty the United
Sialss, shall be ettIlied 10 receive a certificate
or warrant from the Department Of the interior
| tor one hundred and sixty acres OF land, and
where any OF those who have 5sen 50 Mustered
into service and paid shall have received
ceI lfcaie or warrant, he shall be entitled 10
cerlicfiate orwarIaIh for such quantity OF land
as Will make, in the whole, with what we NAV
have heIsoioIe received, one hundred and
sixty acres 10 each person having served az
aforesaid Proridtd, The person so having
been in service shall not rereive said land
waJran, il II shall appear in he muster rolls
OF his regimen, Ut corps tina, he deserted or was
di.honorably discharged from service
Provided. further, That the benefits Of this
section shall be held to extend 10 waoonmastp,.
and teainsiers who have been employed, under
diIeclioD OF compete ut authority in time Of
aar, in the transportation OF military stores
and supplies.
Sec. 2. That in case Of the death of any
person who, il living, would be eniitled to a
certificate or warrant as aforesaid under this att
leaving widow, or, If no widow, minor
child or children, such widow, or child shall be
entitled TO rerleve certificate or warrant for
The same quantity oil land that such deceased
persons wohld be entitled to rece i've under The
provisions oil this aet if now living: Prordcd,
lhatla subsequent marriage shall not impair
the right ofany such widow to such warrant
If she tie widow at the lime of making her
application: And Prorided further That those
shall be considered miuors who are 50 a! tho
time this act shall take /. fleet
Sec. 3. That in no case shall any such Ger.
t'hcate or warrant b. issued for any service
less than fourteen days, except where the per-
son shall actually have been engaged in bat.
tie, aud nnless the party claiming such cerlif
cafe or warrant shall establish his or her rph,
thereto by recorded evidence of said service.
Sec. a That SAID certificates or warrants
may BE- assigned, transferred and located by
the warran,ees, their assignees, or heirs al law,
according 10 the provisions Of existing laws
regulalln. the assignment. transfer, and loca-
tlon Of bouuiy-lanl warrants
Sec. b. that no warrant issued I'm Ter the
provisions Of ibis act shall be locate d on any
rnhlic lanis, except such as shall at the
time be subject 10 sale al either the minimum
OF lover graduated prices.
Sec. g. That the registers and receivers of
the several land offices shall be severaIly au-
lhorized 10 charge and receive for their service
III lecaing all variants under the provisions
81 this act the Same compensation or per-senl.
aye 10 which they are entitled b, law for sales
of the public lands, for cash, a, the rate Of one
| dollar and twenty five cents per acre. The
said compensation to be paid by The asssnees
| or Insiders nf such warrants,
See 7. That the provisions If this act, and
all The bounty land laws heretofore passed ny
Congress- shall be extended TO Indians in HE
same manner and 10 the same extent as il The
SAID Indians had Teen while mea.
See. 8. I AT the officers and soldiers Of the
revolutionary. war, OF their widows or mlnor
chill iren, shah be entitled 20 the benefits vi this
act. rs
Sec. y. That the benefits oil this act shall
be applied 10 and embrace those vino served
as volunteers at tho invasion Of Pa,shufg
in September, eighteen hundred aud fourteen
also s, he battle If Kue's mountain. in III.
r,svuh,lonsry war, and the bat,l. Of Nckoi,c
AGAINST the c0nlederat.d sayases Of Inc
80 III.
SIC. To- That the provisions Of this act shall
apply TO the ehaplans who served ~ith The
Amy IN III. several wars OF this country.
Sec IL. HAT The provisions Of THIS acl
be appl,rd 10 iio,illa-nen and 10 these who
served as volunteers at tho attack on Lewis
nwn, in Dsleware, by The British fee,. in
HE Year eighteen hundred and twelve--Gf-
teen