, 1855-12-07

CEAP. CCVII.-An Act in sdd., on to oeIiain Acts
granting Eoun,y Land ee.tain Officers aud Sold
ieis who hive beel gagged Ia the Military Service
OF tie United S;atcs.
De L enacted bV Lie Senaf. and House Of Rep,essn-
t1ire of ne Ui;ied States Of AmtTica in Cong1sss
dssrmbLeti, III. eGcE OF ,he surviving commissioned
aGd nohconmis- officers, musicians and pfivntes,
whether Of leguars volunteers, rangers, or militia,
who were egularlr mrsterCd into the service Of the
United States, and every officer, commissioned and
non-commssioned, seaman, ordinary seaman, hoti.a-
man, marine, clerk, ard landsman In the navy, in any
o. the waIs 10 which this country has been engaged
since seventeen hundred and ninety and each OF the
survivors of the militia, volunteers or State troops
OF any State or Territory called into military service,
ard regula ly mustered therein, and whose services
have been paid by the United StJies shall be entitled
to receive certificate warrant from the Department
Of the Interior for hundred and sixty acres and
and where any Of those who have so been mustered
into service and paid shall have received certificate
or warrant for such quantity of lard will make in
the whole with what he may have heretofore received
hundred and sixty acres TO each such person hay
ing served aforesaid PnoUlded, The person 30
having been in service shall not receive said land war
rant II 1t shall appear by the musterrols OF his egi
ment or corps that he de- erted or was dshonombly
discharged from services Provided further, That the
benefits Of this section shall be held TO extend 10 wac
o i-mastcrs and teamsters who may have been en-
poyed under direction Of competent authority in time
OF war In tue transportation Of military stores and
supplies.
The death Of any per who II living would be enti-
tied 20 certificate warrant as Aforesaid under this
act leaving widow, or, IL no widow, minor child or
children, such widow, or, II no widow, such minor
child or children shall lie entitled to receive certh-
cate warrant the quantity Of land that such
deceased person would be entitled 70 receive under the
proys ons Of this t, il now living; Proriscd, That
subsequent marriage shall not impair the right Of
any uch widow to such warrant II she be a widow at
the time Of making her applitatio on: dnd prori66s
JDtser, That those shall be considered minors who
are 30 at the time this act shall take effect. II
\ g. And 10 II further endefed That in q
shall any snch certificate warrant he Issued Tor any
service less than fourteen days except where The per-
son shall actually have been engaged in battle, and un-
less tie party tlliming such certificate warrant
shall establ ID his or het right thereto by ocofd evil
delee Of i'd service.
SIC. 4. dad De il fLHer enc,icJ That said Ger
t6cates wannnts may he assigned, transferred, and
cated by the w.rrsntecs their assignees, or their
he rsatlaw, according 10 the Prov ons OF existing
laws regulating the assignment transfer, and location
OF bount y-land warrants.
SIC. 8. And tat Jus fher enacted, That no warrant
Issued under the provisions Of this act shall be located
on any public lads except such shall at the time
be subject to sale at either The minimum lower grad
SEc 8. And bc Il further c0aeteJ, That tn, regis
tes and receivers Of the several landoiccs shall he
severaly authorized to charge and receive for their
services In locrtng all warrants under the provisions
OF this act, The same compensation percentage 10
which they entitled by law, for sales OF the public
lands, for cash at the rate Of dollar and twenty
i've cents per acre the said compensation 10 be paid
W Nno hHa EueN1 VI uuluSlh VI huNh NNIlhuNh.
S c. l. And BE- il further sn0eied That the provl-
sOns Of this act and all the bOuntyland laws hereto
fore passed by Congress, shall be extended To Indians
In tie same mgnner and 10 the same extent IL the
said Indians bad been white men.
SEC. s. AEdbed fV.fh-r enacted 1hatthe officers
and soldiers of the revolutionary war their dows
o. minor children, thall be entitled to the benefits Of
this act.
SEC. .. And BE- i further tadetsd, That the benc.
s Df this act shall be applied 10 and embrace those
who served as volunteers at the invasion Of Pattsbu
In September eighteen hundred aud fourteen also n
the battle Of Kings Mountain, in the revolutionary
war and the battle Of NichoiOck against the coniede
rated savages Of the South
Sac. 10. And be IL further cnactrd That the pro-
visions Of this act shall apply to the chaplains who
served with the army in the several Of the
try.
Sc. II. And be IL fAfhsr enacted, That the provi-
sians OF this act be applied TO those who served vol
Tnteers at the attack lewiston in Delaware by the
British fleet, in the war of eighteen hundred and
Ap we'd, NJ 10, -cj5.