The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1855-03-15
THE BouNTY LAND BILL.


Surviving commissioned and non- commits
stoned officers, musicians and privates,
whether of regulars, volunteers, rangers
or militia, who were regularly mustered
into the service of the United States, and
every officer, commissioned and non com
missioned, seamen, ordinary seamen, ma
rine, clerk and landsman in the navy, in
any Of the wars in which this country has
been engaged since 1920, and each of the
survivors Of the militia, or volunteers, or
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 to receive a certificate or warrant
from the Department of the Interior for
one hundred aud sixty acres Of land; and
where any of those who have been SO mus
tered into service and paid shall have re-
celVed certificate or warrant for such
i quantity of land as will make, in the
whole, with what be may have heretofore
received, one hundred and sixty acres TO
each such person having served as afore,
said. Provided, the person so having
been in service shall not receive said land
warrant if it shall appear by the muster
rolls of his regiment or corps that he de-
serted or was hOnOrably 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.
! See. 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 a widow, or, if no widow, mi
nor child or children, such widow, or, If
no widow, such minor child or children,
shall be entitled to receive certificate or
warrant for the same quantity Of land
;hat such deceased person would be enti-
tied TO receive under the provisions Of
this act, if now living: Provided, That
a subsequent marriage shall not impair
the right of any such widow TO such war
rant, if she be a widow at the time of ma
king her application; And provided fur
ther, That those shall be considered mi
nors who are SO at the time this act shall
take effect
Sec 3. And be it further enacted, That
in no case shall any such certificate or
warrant be issued for any service less
than fourteen days, except where the per-
son shall actually have been engaged in
battle, and unless the party claiming such
certificate or warrant shall establish his
or her light thereto by recorded evidence
Of said service.
! Sec. T. And be it further enacted, That
said certificates or warrants may be as
signed, transferred, and located By the
Warrantees, their assignocs, or their heirs
at law, according to the provisions OF ez-
isting laws regulating the assignment,
transfer, and location Of bounty land war
rants.
See. 5. And be il 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 graduated prices.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That
the registers and receivers of the seyeral
land Offices shall be severally authorized
to charge and receive for their services in
locating all warrants under the provisions
Of this act tie same compensation or per-
centagage to which they are entitled by
law for sales Of the public lands for cash
at the rate of one dollar and twenty Eve !
cents per acre, the said compensation to
be paid By the assignecs or holders Of such
warrants
Sec. Z. And be it further enacted, That
the provisions Of this act, and all the boun-
ty land laws heretofore passed BY Con-
gress, shall be extended to Indiana3 in /
the same manner and to the same extent
as if the said Indians had been white men.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That
the officers and soldiers Of the Revolu-
tionary war, or their widows or minor
children, shall be entitled TO The benefits |
of this act.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That
the benefits Of this act shall be applied to
and embrace those wbo served as yolun-
teers at the invasion Of Plattsburg, in
lSl4; also at the battle Of
Kings Mountain, in the Revolutionary
war; and at the battle Of Nickojack,
against the eoufedcrated savagcs of the
South.
Sec. 10 And be it further enacted, /
That the provisions Of this act shall apply
TO the chaplains who served with the army
n the several wars ofthe country.
See. IL. And be it further enacted,
That the provisions of this act be applied
20 foatilIa men aud those who served as
volunteers at the attack on Lewistown,
Del, by the British fleet in the war OF
l8I2-'I5.