The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-04-07
NUMBER l4--VOLUME |.


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For the benefit of our readers, many
of whom are no doubt interested in the
matter, we publish the Bounty Land Bill
which passed the House of Representa-
tives on the 28th of February:
See. /. Be Il eRacted, de-, That each
of the surviving commissioned and non
commissioned 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 Hon-commissioned, seamen or ordi-
nary seamen, marine, clerk, and landsnaa
in the navy, in any of the wars in which
this country has been engaged since sew
enteen 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 Departments 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 certif-
cate or warrant, he shall be entitled to q
certificate or warrant for such quantity of
land aswill make in the whole, with what
The may have heretofore received, one
hundred and sixty acres to each person
having served as aforesaid: Prorided,
The person so having been in services
shall not receive said land warrant if it
shall appear by the muster rolls of his
regiment or corps that he deserted, or
was dishonorably discharged from SER
vice.
PROVIDED further. That the benefits of
this section shall be held to extend to
wagon-mssters and teamsters who may
have been employed, under direction of
competent authority in time of war, in the
transportation of military stores and sup
plies. So
SEC. 2. That in case of the death of
any person who, if living. would be enti-
| tied to certificate or warrant as afore-
said, under this act, leaving widow, or,
| if no widow, a minor child, or children,
such widow, or child, shall be entitled to
receives certificate or warrant for the same
quantity of land, that such deceased per
son would be entitled TO receive under
the provisions of this act if now living
Prorided, That a subsequent marriage
shall not impair the right of any such
widow to such warrant, if she be widow
at the time of making her application
Aad provided, further, That those shall
be considered minors who are SO at the
time this act shall take effect.
SEc. 8. That in no case shall any such
certificate or warrant be issued for any
service less than fourteen days, except
where the person shall actually have been
engaged in battle, aud unless the party
claiming such certificate or warrant shall
establish his or her right thereto by re-
corded evidence of said service.
SEC. 4. That said certificates or var
rants may be assigned, transferred, and
located by the warrantees, their assignees,
or their heirs at law, according to the
provisions of existing laws regulating the
assignment, transfer, and location Of bom-
ty land warrants.
| SEC. 5. 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. That the registers and reeeiy-
ers of the several land offices, shall be
seyerally authorized to charge and receive
for their services in locating all warrants
under the provisions of this act, the same
compensation or percentage to which they
are entitled by law for sales Of the public
land for cash, at the rate of one dollar and
twenty-five cents per acre. The said
compensation to be paid by the assignees
or holders of such warrants.
SEC. z. That the provisions Of this act,
and all the bounty land laws heretofore
passed by Congress, shall be extended to
Indians, in the same manner and to the
same extent as if the said Indians had been
white men.
SEC. 8. That the officers and soldiers
OF the revolutionary war, or their widows
or minor children, shall be entitled to the
benefits of this act.
| SEC. 8. That the benefit of this act shall
be applied to and embrace those who
served as volunteers al the invasion OF
Plattsburg, in September, eighteen hun
dred and fourteen; also at the battle OF
Kings Mountain, In the revolutionary
war, and the battle of Niekojack against
the confederaled sayages of the South.
| SEC. 10. That the provisions of this act
lshali apply to the chapiains who served
| with the army, in the several wars in the
country.
! SEC. II. That the provisions Of this
act be applied to fotilla-mea, and to those
: who served as volunteers at the attack Oh
, Lewistown, in Delaware, by the British
feet, in the year eighteen hundred and
, twelye-ffteen.