Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-03-23

Inc lOllOWlnS is an OHlClal ana correct copy
of the Bounty Land Bill, passed by the
last Congress
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-com-
missoned officers, musicians and privates,
whether of regulars, volunteers, rangers or
militia, who was regularly mustered into the
service Of the United States, and every officer,
commissioned and non-c commissioned seaman,
ordinary seaman, marine, clerk, and lands
man in the navy, in any of the wars in which
this country has been engaged since 1870,
and each of the survivors of the militia 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, shall be entitled to
receive u certificate or warrant from the De-
rartment 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 certificate or war
rant, he shall be entitled to a certificate or
warrant for such Quantity of land ms will
make in the whole with what he may nave
heretofore received, one hundred and sixty
acres to each such person having served as
aforesaid Provided, the person So having
leen in service shall not receive said land
warrant if it shall appear by the muster roll
of his regiment or corps that he deserted, or
was dshonorably discharged from service.
Provided, further, That the benefit of this
section shall be held to extend to wagon mas
ters and teamsters who may have been
employed under the direction Of competent
authority in time Of war, in the transporta-
ton of military stores and supplies.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in
Of bp Iaat oF vel
would be entitled to a certificate or warrant
as aforesaid, under this act, leaving widow,
or, if no widow, u minor child or chill
dren, such widow, 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 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 making her application: and 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 war
rant be issued for any service less than
fourteen days, except the person shall actual
ly have been engaged in battle, unless the
party claiming such certificate or warrant
shall establish his or her right thereto by
recorded evidence of said service.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That
said certificates or warrants may be assigned,
transferred, and located by the warrantees,
their assgnees, or their heirs at law, accord
ing to the provisions Of existing laws regua-
/ ting the assignment. 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 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 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 assignees OF
holders Of such warrants
SEC. !. And be it 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 man
ner and to the extent as il the said Indians
had been white men.
SEC. s. And be 1t further enacted, That
]
war, or their widows OF minor children
shall be entitled to the benefits of this act
SEC. Q. And be it further enacted, Tina
the benefits Of this act shall be applied to
and embrace those, who served AS volunteer
at the invasion of Plattsburg, in September
eighteen hundred and fourteen also at tn
battle of Kings Mountain, in the revolu
tiunary war, and the battle of Nickoiack
against the coniedcruted sayages Of tn
South.
SEC, 10. And be it further enacted, Tha
the provisions of this act shall apply to til
aylains who served with the army in tn
several wars of the country
SEC. IL. And be it further cnac ted, Tha
: the provisions of this act shall be applied t
, hotllamen, and to those who served 70
unteers at the attack On Lewiston, in De
aware, by the British fleet, in the war
eighteen hundred and twelve and fifteen.
t The WAsHINGroNIA GIGANTEA. ANON
Il the novelties Of California vegetation
nothing is more wonder full than the . big
! much attention from travellers to that coui
n try. This gigantic tree, it now appears,
It entirely new and distinct from any 9th,
u heretofore known, and it is proposed to ca
e it the " Washingtonia gigantea," nan
which towers above all others, as this tr
towers aboyeithe surrounding vegetants in
r native locality. The editor of Houey's VI
: gd>inc has given a full account oft from
- correspondent, who lately visited the pla
"a where they grow, and justly remarks TIL
~ this name should be the recognized til
"a throughout the country, An English bota
~ list met with it in 1850, two years after
,e s was first discovered, Us48,) aud sent spe
mems of it to England, when DR.. Llndley, I
u botanst, called 1t Wcllingtona -
trust that no lover of trees will ever ado
A., any other name than that of" Washingtonii
40 The writer in Uorey's Magazine DESERT
- grove of these trees as containing oigli
- live trees in the area of fifty acres. Tn
~ average three hundred feet in height. I
y largest perfect tree standing is ninety-t
w. feet in circumference at the base, and TIN
hundred aud twenty five feet high,
The largest in the group has been blo'
Of down, and is undoubtedly the largest Il
RI in the world. 1t is one hundred and I
r feet in circumference at the basc, and
We height when standing must have been fu
v hundred and fifty feet. Three hundred f
So from its base it measures twelve feet in
a ameter The number of consecutive lay,
ed indicate that it is three thousand years OF
ms and it contains three hundred cords Of SO
ir- wood.
ng The timber of these trees is very Ii,
ed when dry, ard when green very hea'
on Forty couples have danced ON the b,sc of {
lid oil these giants Of the forest