Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-03-22
The New Land Bounty Act.

luS Uouut Auu W ot-tSSfS "oS IVA
diers who have been engaged in the
military service Of this country. 1T
will be seen that those soldiers who
have received less than ONE hundred
and sizty acres, are entitled to an adj
ditiopal number of acres, sufficient to
make that amount
AN AcT-In addition to certain
acts granting bounty land to certain
officers and soldiers who have been
engaged in the military service In the
United States. !
BE it enacted By the Senate and
House Of Representatives Of the Um-
ted States Of Anerica IN Congress
assembled, That each Of the suryi-
wing commissioned officers, musi-
clans, and privates, whether of regu-
Jars, volunteers, rangers, militia, who
were regularly mustered into the SER
vice of the United States, and every
officer, commissioned and non-com-
missioned, seamen, ordinary seamen,
marine, clerk, and landsmen, in the
navy, in any Of the wars in which
this. country has been engaged, since
seventeen hundred and ninety, and
each survivor of the militia, or vol.
unteers, or State troops of any State
or Territory, called into military SER
vice, 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 Department Of the Interior tor
one hundred and sixty acres oil land;
and where any of those who have SO
been mustered into service and paid,
shall have received a certificate or
warrant, he shall be entitled to a GER
tificate or warrant of such quantity
of land as will make, and the whole,
with what he may have heretofore
received, one hundred and sixty
acres to each such person having
served as aforesaid: Prousded, The
person 50 having been in service.
Shall not receive said land warrant
fit shall appear by the muster-roiis
of his regiment OF corps that he de-
serted, OF was dishonorably discharged
from service.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
That in case Of the death of any
person who, if living would be enti-
tied to certificate or warrant as
aforesaid under this act. leaving a
widow, or, if no widow, minor child,
or child or children, shall be entitled
to receive certificate or warrant Tor
the same quantity Of land that such
minor child or children shall be en-
titled to receive certificate or war
rant for the same quantity Of land
that such deceased person would be
entitled to receive under the provis-
ion of this act, if now living: Pro-
eided, That subsequent marriage
shall not impair the right of any
such widow at the time of making
her application; And provided fur.
Their, That those shall be considered
minors who are so at the time this
act shall take effect.
SEC. g.. And be it further enacted,
That in no case shall any such GER
tificate or warrant be issued for any
service less than fourteen days, ex-
cept where the person shall actually
have been engaged in battle. and un-
less the party claiming such certIh-
cate or warrant. shall establish his or
her right thereto by record evidence
Of said service.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted,
That said certificates or warrants
may be assigned, transferred, and To-
Gated, by the warrantees, or their
heirs at law, according to the provis'
ions of existing laws regulating the
assignment, transfer, and location OF
bounty land warrants.
SEC. 8. And be ii 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 the minimum or lower grad
uated prices.
SEC. 6. And be IL further enacted,
That the registers and receivers OF
the several land Offices shall be sew
orally authorized to charge and re- e.
ceiye for their services in locating all
warrants under the provisions OF this
act, the same compensation or per
oentage to which they are. emitted
by law, Cor sales of the public lanes
for cash. a. the rate of one dollar and