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The Bounty Land Bill.


additional compensation to soldiers and
others, Which passed Congress before its
adjournment
An act in addition TO certain acts granting
bounty land to certain officers and sold
iers who have been engaged in the mil
itary service Of the United States
BE it enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives Of the United States of
America i'll Congress assembled, That
each of the surviving commissioned and
non commissioned officers, musicians, and
privatcs, whether of regulars, volunteers.
rangers, or militia. who were regularly mus
tered into the service of the United States,
and every officer, commissioned and nom
! commissioned, $camcn, ordinary scanen
| marine, clerk, and landSmcm 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 mi
litia, or volunteers, or State troops Of any
State or Territory, called into military ser
vice, and regularly mustered therein. ANA
whose services have been pail by the Uni
ted States subsequent to the eighteenth
day Of June, eighteen hundred and twelve
shall be entitled TO receive Il certificate or
warrant from the Department Of the Intcri-
or for one hundred and sixty acrcsc of land ::
and where any of those who have so been
mustered into service and paid shall have
| received Il certificate or warrant he shall le
entitled to Il cctifcatc or warrant for such
quantity of land rs will make the whole,
with what he may have heretofore received
one hundred and sixty acres to each suc!
persons having served as aforesaid: Irovi-
dcI. The person SO having been in service
shall not receive said Ianl warrant if it shall
appear by the muster rolls of lis regiment
or corps that he deserted or WAS diShonora-
bly, discharged from service: And provi-
d",i, ist.:tt,a.cr That no niiiccr, non commits
stoned officer, Or private, of the militia or
volunteers, who was called out Tor the SER
vice of the State and refused by the att
thorities of such State to be placed in the
service of the United States, shall be enti-
! tied to the benefits of this act.
SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That
in the case Of the death Of any person who,
if living, would be entitled to certificate
or warrant as aforesaid under this act, lcav-
ing a widow, or it no widow. a minor child
or children, shall be entitled to receive u
certificate or warrant for the same quantity
Of land that such deceased person would
be entitled to receive under the provisions
Of this act if now living: Provided, That n
subsequent marriage shall not impair the
right of any such widow to such warrant,
! il she bca widow at the time of making
her application; And provided, further,
That those shall be considered minors who
arc so al the time this act shall take effect.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That
in no case shall any such certificate or war
rant be issued for any service less than
fourteen days except where the person
shall actually have been engaged in battle,
} and unless thcparty claiming such certificate
or warrant shall establish his or her right
thereto by record evidence of said service.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That
said certificates or warrants may be assigned
transferred, and located, by the warr,ntecs
or their heirs at law, according to the pro,
visions of existing laws regulating the as.
signment, transfer, and location of bounty.
land warrants.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That
: no warrant issued under tho provisions o
} this aet 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. 6. And be it further enacted, That
the registers and receivers of the scvera
land offices shall be scvcrally authorized tc
: charge and receive forstheir services in 10
a eating all warrants under the provisions O
this act the same compensation or per cent
age to which they are entitled by law tol
: sales of the public lands for cash, at tile rate
] Of one dollar and twenty five cents per acre
if thezsaid compensation to be paid by the
assignees or holders Of such warrants.
\, SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, Tha
- from and after the passage. of this act al
> persons now enrolled upousthe invalid pen
G sion list whose pensions have been allowe,
under any general law or laws shall b
i entitled to receive, if a commissioned officer
{ twenty-one per centum upon the amour
. now allowed, and non-commissioned officer
J, and priyates forty-two per centum on tn
d amount now allowed or paid under existln
= laws. i
Sec. 8: And be it further enacted, Tha
q the provisions Of this act and all the bount
al land laws heretofore passed by Congress
snahail be extented to Indians, in the sam
3 AAher, and to- the same extent as if tn
5said Indians had been. white men.
HE SIC. q. And be it further enacted, Tba
..s widows of officers and soldiers Of tn
iotionaryy war be entitled to the benefi!
Ee And be i. further enacted, aa Tha
of this act shall sbe applied I
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