Squatter sovereign., 1855-09-04

Laws of the United States.
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ora Rivers, FOR satisfying the legal bounties to
her officers and soldiers upon continental es-
tablishment, shall be allowed the further time
of two years from and after the passage of this
act to make and return their surveys and war
rants, TO the general land-otfice.
SkC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the
act entitled San act allowing the further time
of two years to those holding lands by entries
in the Virginia military district IN Ohio, which
were made prior to first January, eighteen hum
dred and fifty-two, to have the same surveyed
and patented" )" approved December nineteenth,
eighteen hundred and ffty-four, be, and the
same is hereby, repealed
Approved March 3, 1855.
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AN ACT in addition to certain Acts granting
Bounty Land to certain Officers and Soldiers
who have been engaged in the Military Ser
vice of the United States.
Be it enacted by the SeIate and House or lie
presentatives of the United States Of America
in Congress assembled, That of the surviving
commissioned and non-comWissioned officers,
| musicians, aRd privates, whether OF regulars,
volunteers, rangers, militia. who were Tegu-
larly mustered into the service of the United
States, and every officer, commissioned and
non-commissioned, seaman, ordinary seaman.
fiotlla-m man, marine, clerk, and fandsman IN the
navy, in any of the wars in which this country
has been engaged since seventeen hundred and
ninety. and each of the survivors OF the militia,
| or volunteers, State troops of any State or
Territory, called into military service, and reg
nlarIy 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 so been mustered into service
| and paid shall have received a certificate or
warrant for such quantity OF land as VIII make,
in the whole, with what he may have hereto
fore received, one hundred and sixty acres TO
each such person having served as aforesaid: /:
| 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 deserted, or was dishonorabiy discharged
| from service: Provided, That the benefits of
this section shall be held to extend 10 wagon
masters and teamsters who may have been en-
ployed, under direction Of competent authority
| in time Of war in the transportation of military
stores and supplies.
| SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in
case of the death of any person who, If living,
would be entitled to certificate warrant as
aforesaid under this act, leaving widow, or ii
no widow, minor child or children, such wild
ow, OF, il no widow. such minor child OF child
ren, shall be entitled to receive a certificate or
warrant for the same quantity OF land that snch
deceased person would be entitled to receive
under the provisions of this act. If now living:
| Provided, That subsequent marriage shall not
impair the right of any such widow to such
warrant if she be widow at the time OF max
| ing her application: And provided, further,
That those shall be considered minors 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 person shall actually have
been engaged in battle. and unless the party
| claiming such certificate or warrant shall es-
tablish his her ri ght thereto by record evi-
dence of said service
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That said
certificates warrants may be assigned, trans
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signees, their heiTs-at-law, according to the
provisions Of existing laws regulating the as
signment, transfer, and location of bounty land
warrants.
SEC. >. And be it 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 it further enacted, That the
| registers and receivers of the several iand-of-
fees shall be severally authorised to charge,
and receive for their services, in locating all
warrants under the provisions Of this act, the
same compensation per centage to which
they are entitled by law, for sales of the public
| lands, for cash, at the rate of one dollar and
twenty-five cents per acre; the said compensa-
ton TO be paid by the assignees or holders of
such warrants.
SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the
provisions of this act, and all the bounty-land
laws heretofore passed by Congress, shall be
| the samsextent. as if the said Indians had been
white men.
SEC. s. And be ic further enacted, That the
officers and soldiers Of the revolutionary war,
or their widows or minor children, shall be eli
| titled to the benefits Of this act.
SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the
benefits of this act shall be applied TO and en-
brace those who served as volunteers at the in
| vason of Plattsburg, in September, eighteen
hundred and fourteen; also at the battle OF
Kings Mountain. in the revolutionary war, and
the battle of Nickojock. against the confedera-
| ted savages of the South.
SEC. TO- And be it further enacted, That the
provisions of this act shall apply to the chap
laIns who served with the army, in the several
wars of the country.
SEC. 27. And be it further enacted. That the
provisions of this act be applied to those who
served as volunteers at the attack Lewis
town. in Delaware, BY the British fleet. in the
war Of eighteen hundred and tHelve-hfteen.
a. Approved arch 3- 1885.