Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-03-07
OLD soLDIIRs BOUNTY LAND arrI

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OLD soLDIiRs' BOUNTY LAND BILL
AN ACT in addition to certain acts eraptin,
bounty land to certain officers and soldier
| who have been engaged in the military ser
vice CT the United States.
BE 1t enacied, &C., That each of the
| surviving commissioned and non-commis-
! 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 nom
commissioned, seaman, ordinary seaman,
marine, clerk, and landsman in the navy,
IN any of the wars in which this country
has been engaged since seventeen hun
dred and ninety, and each of the suryiy-
ors of the militia, or volunteers, or State
troops of any State or Territory, called
into military service, and regularly mus
tered therein, and whose services have
been paid by the United States subse-
quent to the eighteenth day of June.
eighteen hundred and twelve, shall be
| entitled to receive certificate or warrant
from the Department Of the Interior for
cne hundred and sixty acres of land:
and where any of those who have been
so mustered into service and paid shall
have received certificate or warrant, he
shall be entitled to a certificate or war
| rant for such quintity of land as will
make, in the whole, with what he NAV
have heretofore received, one hundred and
sixty acres to each such person having
served IS aforesaid: Prorided, The Der.
son SO having been in service shall not
receive said land warrant if it shall ap.
pear by the muster rolls of his regiment
or corps that he deserted or was honora-
bly, discharged from service.
SEC. 9. And be tt fu,ther enacted, Tha.
in case Of the death of any person who,
if living, would be entitled to certifi-
cate or warrant as aforesaid under this
act, leaving widow, or, If no widow, a
miRor child or children, such widow, or,
if no widow, such minor child or chill
dren, shall be entitled to receive a certi-
ticate or warrant for the same quantity
of land that such deceased person would
be entitled to receive under the proyi-
sions Of this act if now living: Provided,
That subsequent marriage shall not i'm
pair the right Of any such widow to such
warrant if she be widow at the time of
making her application: And proUmed
further, That those shall be considered
minors who are SO at the time this act
shall take effect.
SEC 3. And be tt further enacted, That
in no case shall any such certificate or
warrant be issued Dr any service less
than fourteen days, except where the per-
son shall actually have been engaged in
battle and unless the pa, ty claiming such
certificate or warrant shall establish his
or her right thereto by record evidence Of
said service.
SEC. 4. And be 1t further enacted, That
said certificates or warrants may be as
signed, transferred, and located by tho
warrantess, or their heirs-at-law accord
ing to the provisions Of existing laws
regulating the assignment, transfer, and
location of bounty-land warrants.
Sec 5. And be 1t 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. +. And be 1t further enacted, That
the registers and receivers Of the sew.
eral hand offices shall be severally au-
thorized to charge and receive for their
services in locating all warrants under
the provisions of this act the same corl-
pensation or per centage to which they
are entitled by law for the sales Of the
public lands, 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. And be 1t further enacted, 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 ex-
tent as if tie said Indians had been white
men.
SEC. s. And be 1t further enacted, That
the widows Of officers and soldiers of the
revolutionary war be entitled to the BEN
efits of this act.
SEC Q. And be ii further enacted, That
the benefits Of this act shall be applied
to and embrace those who served as vol
untecrs at the invasion Of PlattSburg, In
September, eighteen hundred and four
teen.
SEC. 10. And be Il further enacted That
the provisions of this act shall apply to
the chaplains who served with the army
in the several wars of the country.
SEC. Ill. And be ii further enacted, That
the provisions of this act be applied to
those who served as volunteers at the
attack on Lewistown, in Delaware, by
the British fleet, in the war of eighteen
hundred and twelve-ffteen.
PROFIT IN KEEPING FowLS-An intel
innnt farmnr latoIr nnhlished the follow.