Eastern times., 1855-03-22
Bountv Land Bill.

House of Representatives on Wednesday
2sth uIt., having previously passed the SEN
ate -
Bel enacted by the Senate and House o,
Representatives. of The United States of America
in Congress assembled, That each Of the sur
viving commissioned and non-commissioned
officers, musicians and privates, whether oi
regulars, volunteers, rangers or militia, who
was regularly mustered into the service of the
U. States, and every officer, commissioned and
non commissioned, seamen, ordinary seamen,
marine, clerk, landsman in the navy, in any
of the wars in which this country has been en-
gagged since 1870, and each of the survivors
of the militia, or State troops of any State OF
territory, called into military service, and reg
ularly mustered therein, and whose services
have been paid by the United States, shall be
entitled 10 receive a certificate or warrant
from the department of the interior, for one
hundred and sixty acres OF land and where
any of those who have been so mustered into
service and paid, shall have received certif-
cate or warrant, he shall be entitled to a GER
tifcate or warrant for such quantity of land as
will make, in the whole, with what he may
have received heretofore, one hundred and six
ty acres to each such person having served as
aforesaid Prorided, the person SO having
been in service shall not receive said land war
rant if it shall appear by the muster roll OF
his regiment or corps that he deserted, or was
dishonorably discharged from service.
Provided, further, That the benefits of this
section shall be held to extend to wagon mas
ters and teamsters who may have been en-
ployed under the direction of competent au-
thority 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 or warrant
aforesaid under this act, leaving widow, or
if no widow, minor child or children, such
minor child or children, shall be entitled to
receive a certificate or warrant for the same
quantity of land that such deceased person
would be entitled to receive under the provi-
sion of this act, if now living Prouided,
That 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, prorided, further, That
those shall be considered minors who are 50
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
| uu1S, SAOCpt tiO pCiSOH Sudli dCtudll1 HdhC
been engaged in battle, and unless the panty
claiming such certificate or warrant shall es-
tablish his or her right thereto by recorded ev-
dence of said service.
! SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That
said certificates or warrants may be assigned,
transferred, and located by the warraatees,
their assignees, or their heirs at law, accord
I ing to the provision OF existing laws regulat-
/ inn tho and location nf
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 ex-
cept such as shall at the time be subject to
sale at either the minimum or lower graduated
prices.
SEC 6. And be ii 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 centage TO which
they are entitled by law for sales of the pub
lie lands, for cash, at the rate of one dollar
and twenty-five cents per acre. The said
compensation to be paid by the assignee, or
holders of such warrants.
SEC. Z. And be at 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 extent as if the said Indians
had been white men.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That
the officers and soldiers Of the revolutionary
war, to their widows or minor children, shall
be entitled TO the benefit Of this act.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the
benefit of this act shall be applied to aid and
embrace tirvse who served as volunteers at
invasion OF Plattsburgh in September, 1914 !;
also at the battle Of Kings's Mountain, in the
revolutionary war, and the battle of Nicko-
jack, against the conferated savages of the
south.
Sec. 10. And be it 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. IL. And be it further enacted That
the provisions of this act shall be applied to
iotila men and 10 those who served as volun-
teers at the attack on Lewiston, in Delaware,
by the British fleet in the war of l6l2-15.
A HINDoo LIE NAILED. The. following
letter from Gen. Scott effectually nails Hin
doc lie that has been put in circulation, and
which has recently been zealously reiterated
in New Hampshire by Hon. VIM. S. Dam
rell, an INSCRIPTIONS Hindoo leader of Massa-
chuseus
New YoRK, March l, 1855.
| GENTLEMEN Il have Just received through
the Hon. Mr.. Hibbard, M. c., at Washing
ton, your joint letter dated the 24th ultimo, in
which you say TO me that, in some recent po-
litical address, delivered in your neighbor-
hood and in your presence, the speaker de-
clared substantially that in the last Presiden-
tlal CANVASS
g Bishop Hughes of New York, proposed
10 Gen. Scott TO sell the Catholic vote, who
hesitated to reply when the proposition was
made to Gen. Pierce, and he assented."
And your letter to me is thus concluded
Believing the statement to be false and
basely calumnious of the fair fame of yourself
and other distinguished gentlemen implicated
thereby, we would respectfully request of you
to inform US at your earliest convenience
whether the statement OF Mr.. -, so far as
it relates to you, is true"
| l hasten to say that the statement or state
ments ! have quoted from your letter, as above,
are, in respect TO myself, ABSOLUTELY FALSE,
qnd haze no doubt they are equally so in re-
spect 10 my political friends and opponents in
the canvass alluded TO.
remain, gentlemen, with great respect,
your obedient servant. WINFIELD ScoTr.
r. l. IL