Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-03-09
Imuortant Bill.

The following is the boz nty land bill which passed
the House of Representatives on Wednesday. II IS
not the Senate bill, but substl tie therefor, onered
by Mr. Richardson, of Illinois, differing, however, in
several particulars has also passed the Senate and
has been signed by the President:
BE 1t enacted by the Senate and House Of RepreSe"'
tatUes Of the United States Of America an Congress
assembled Tha; each of the surviving commissioned
and non-commissioned officers, musicians, and pri-
Yates whether of regulars, volunteers, rangers, or
militia, who were regularly mustered into the ser
vice of the United States, and every othceT, COM
missioned ard non-commsSloned, seaman, ordinary
seaman marine, clerk and landsman IN the navy, In
any of the Iii which this country 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 Territory, called into
military service, and regularly mustered therein and
whose services have been paid by the United States,
shall be entitled to receive certificate or 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 a certificate warrant he shall be
entitled to a certificate warrant tor 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 II 1t shall
appear by the muster rolls of his regiment corps
that he deserted, was dishonorably discharged
| from service
Provided further That the benefits of this section
shall be held to extend to wagon-maste and team
sers 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 1t further enacted, That IN case OF
the death of any person who, If living, would be
entitled to certificate warrant aforesaid under
this act leaving widow, or, if no widow, minor
child or children, such widow, or, if widow, such
minor child children shall be entitled to receive
certificate 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 Pro-
uided, Thar subsequent marriage shall not impair
the right of any such widow to such warrant II she
be widow at the time of making her application
44nd provided, further That those shall be con-
sidered minors who at the time this act shall
take effect.
SEC. g. And be 1t further enacted, That in no case
shall any such certificate warrant be issued for
any service less than fourteen days, except where
the person shall actually have been engaged in
battle, and unless the party claiming such certificate
or shall establish his or her right thereto by
recorded evidence of said service
Sec f. And be 1t further enacted, That said certif-
Gates may be assigned, transferred, and
located by the warrantees, their assg nees their
heirs at-aw, according to the provisions of existing
laws regulating the assignment transfer and location
of bounty land warrants.
SEC 5. And be it further enacted That no warrant
issued under the provisions of this act shall be ocat-
ed on any public lands, except such shall at the
time be subject to sale at either the minimum lower
graduated prices
SEC. 6. And be II further enacted That the Regis
ters and receives of several land offices shall he
ally authorized to charge and receive for their servi
ces locating ali warrants under the provisions of
this act the compensation pei -centage Ia
which they entitled by law for sales of the pub
lie lands for cash, at the rate of dollar and
twenty-five cents per acre. The said compensation
to be paid by the ASST nees or holders Of such
rants.
SEC. 7. And be it further enacted That the provi
sons of this act, and all the bounty land laws here
ofore passed by Congress. shall be extended 10 In
dams in the same manner and to the extent as
if the said Indians had been white
Sec. 8. Ard be 1t further enacted, That the officers
and soldiers of the revolutionary war; their widows
or minor Children shall be entitled to the benefits Of
this act.
SEC 9. Ind be it further enacted, That the benefits
Of this shall be applied to and embrace those who
served volunteers at the invasion of Plattsburg, If
September, eighteen hundred and fourteen also a
the battle of Kings Mountain, in the revolutionary
war and the battle of Nickajack against the confed
2 Grated savages of the South
/ SEC. 10 And be 1t further enacted, That the pro
visions of this act shall apply to the chapains who
served with the army in the several wars of the coun
: try.
. SEC. II. Ind be 1t further enacted, That the pro
visions of this act be applied TO fotilla men and t
those who served as volunteers at the attack on Lew
stown, in Delaware, by the British feet, in the wa
f of eighteen hundred and twelve-flteen.
t SoUALLY T1MEs-The political caudron in Wash
ington has been bubblng and boiling famousIy. Al
the session has approached it's conclusion the mem
D bers have grown more and impatient AM
: irritable. They have had to work hard, and barC
work does not agree with them They soace them
selves by attacking each other spitefuy and rendn
e the Union to pieces. The abolitonists and free
soiles are perfectly rampant, and their deter
s mination TO bring the nose of the South to tn
" grindstone. Seward says that the Southern tall
= about the dssou of the Union is very laughahl
to him; that he has heard the cry of Wolf! Wolf!
too long to indulge any fears account of it.
: There is doubt that he is sincere in this declara
] ton, and that other Northern agitators serious
e entertain the same idea To talk of dissolution
the Union seems TO these men mere bravado; child
d ishness, nonsense. They laugh at it, and will pre-
l. coed in their purposes and plans, wholly unmove
is by it.
1t is considered by intelligent observers more ha
Ii probable that of the great schemes of the abo
lie onists will be triumphantly carried through Con
gress next winter-the abolition Of Slavery in til
District Of Columbia Should the measure pas
y Congress- the President of course will veto it, Br
u the abolitoniss will have shown their strength, an
y the South will no longer be able to close It's eyes
&c the future. 1t must wake up and combine its enel
II ges then, or But, let have no more tai
VI or menace. Let lay aside words for deeds, an
Il party for country. Decided and unanimous actio
d on the part of the South may yet the countr
O. from the perils which it, and preserve fo1
= Al