The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-03-17
Old Soldiers Bounty Land Bill.

| Deen In the service OF the united states Qu-
ring any of it's wars, Or if deceased, to their
widows or minor children, has become a
law. 1t is measure which interests many
of our readers. The following is published
as a correct copy of the act:
AN ACT in addition to certain acts grant
! ing bounty land to certain officers and
soldiers who have been engaged in the
military service of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled, That each
of the surviving commissioned and non
commissioned officers, musicians, and prl-
Yates, whether 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 seaman, 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 regularly mustered
therein, and whose services have been paid
by the United States subsequent to the eigh-
teenth day of June, eighteen hundred and
twelve, shall be entitled TO receive a certif-
cate 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 re-
Ceived certificate or warrant, he she'll be
entitled to a certificate or warrant for such
quantity of land as will make, in the whole,
with what he may have heretofore received,
one hundred and sixty acres to each such
person having served as aforesaid: ProUided,
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 dishonora-
bly, discharged from service.
SIC. 2. And be 1t further enacted, That in
case of the death of any person who, if liv-
ing, would be entitled TO a certificate or,
warrant as aforesaid under this act, leaving
widow, or, if no widow, minor child or
children, such widow, or if no widow, such
minor child or children, shall be entitled to
receive certificate or warrant for the same
quantity of land that such deceased person
would be entitled to receive under the provis
ions of this act ifnow living ProUided, 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: And prouided, further, That
those shall be considered minors, who are so
DIT Tie lllie llllS act SIldIl take eucCl.
SEC. 3. And be IL further enacted, That in
no case shall any certificate or warrant be
issued for any service less than Ia days, ex-
cept 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 record evil
dence of said service.
SEC. a. And be 1t further enacted, That
said certificates or warrants may be assigned,
transferred, and located by the warrantees,
or their heirs at-law, according TO the pro-
visions Of existing laws regulating the assign
ment, transfer, and location Of bounty land
warrants.
Sec 5. And be it further enacted, That no
warrant issued under the provisions of this
act shall be located on any public lands, cx-
cept such as shall at the time be subject to
sale at either the minimum or lower gradu-
ated prices.
SEC. g. And be 1t further enacted, That
the registers and receivers Of the several land
offices shall be severally authorized to charge
and receive for their services in locating all
warrants under the provisions Of this act,
the same compensation or per centaga toI
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 compensation to be paid by the assign
ees or holders Of such warrants.