The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-03-23
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Below viii be found The law passed towards
the close Of the last Congress, giving lands 10
soldiers and others who served in the armies OF
the United States since 1890
Be 1t cnacted by the Senate and House Of Rep
reseatatiges Of the United States Of .4agerii-
en- IN Congress assembled, That each Of the
surviving commissioned and non-conmissioned
officers, musicians, and privates, whether Of the
regulars, volunteers, rangers or militia, who
were regularly mustered into the service of the
United States, and every officer, commissioned
and non-commissioned, seaman, ordinary sea-
man, marine, clerk, and landsman 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, or State troops of any State or
Territory, called into military service. and reg
ularly mustered therein, and whose services
have been paid by the United States, shall be
entitled TO receive a certificate or warrant from
the Department Of the Interior, for one hun
dred and sixty acres of land: and where any Of
those who have been so mustered into service
and paid, shall have received Il certificate or
warrant he shall br entitled TO certificate or
warrant for such quantity of land will make,
IN the whole with what he may have heretofore
received, one hundred aud sixty acres TO each
such person having served as aforesaid ProDi-
rided, The person so having been in service shall
not receive said land If It shall appear by the
muster rolls of his regiment or corps that he de
serted, or was dishonorably discharged from SER
vice: Prorided, further, That the benefits Of
this section shall be held to extend TO wagon
masters and transfers who may have been eni-
ploved, under the direction Of competent au-
thority, in time of war, in the transportation Of
military stores and supplies.
Sec. .. And be it further enacted, That in
case of the death Of any prison who, if living,
would BE- entitled to certificate or warrants as
aforesaid, under this act. leaving d widow, or,
ii no widow, such minor child or children, shall
be entitled 10 receive certificate or warrant
for the same quantity ofland that such deceased
person would be- entitled to receive under the
provisions of this act, If now living procided,
That subsequent marriage shall not impair the
right of anv such widow to such warrant, if she
b. widow at the time of making her applica-
ton (: And provided, further, That those shall be
considered minors who are so al the time this
act shall take effect.
Sec g. And br 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 or her right thereto by recorded evil
dence OF said service.
Sec. T.. And be it further enacted, That said
certificates or warrants may be assigned, trans
lerrrd, aud located hy the warrantees, their as
sgnees, or their hers-a-law, according TO the
provisions of existing laws, regulating the as
sgnment, transfer, and location of bounty land
warrants.
Sec. 7. And BE- il further enacted, That no
warrant issued under the provisions OF this act
shall b. located on any public lands, except such
as shall at the time BE- subject 10 sale at either
the minimum or lower graduated prices.
Sec. g. And BE- it further enacted, That the re-
gistcr and receivers of the several land Offices
shall btrspvefaIly authorized to charge and re-
cpve for their service in locating all warrants
under the provisions of this act, the same com
prnSation, or per centage, to which they are en-
titled BY law, for sales of-the public lands, for
cash, al the rate of one dollar and twenty-five
cents per acre. The said compensation to be
paid by the assignees or holders of such
rants.
SEC. 7. ind be 1t further enacted, That the
provisions of this act and all the bounty land
laws heretofore passed by Congress, shall be eX-
tended to Indians, in the same manner and 10
the. same extent, as if the said Indians had been
white men.
SEC. 8. ind be it further enocted, That the
officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war,
or their widows or minor children, shall be en-
titled to the benefits of this act
Sec. 8. find be ii farfher enncfed, That the
benefits ofthis act shall be applied 10, and en-
brace those who served as volunteers at the in
vasion Of Patsburg, in September, eighteen
hundred and fourteen; also, at the battle OF
Kings mountain, in the revolutionary war, and
the battle Of Nickoack against the confederated
Savages of the South.
Sec. 10. ind be 1T further enncfed, 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. II. find be ii further enacted. That
the provisions Of this act be applied to flotlla-
men and TO those who served as volunteers at the