Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-15

OH SoLDrERs' BouxrT LAND BILL.-
The bill granting bounty lands to Of
I6esrss soldiers, seamen, volunteers, &C.,
who have been in the service Of the
United States during any Of its wars,
or. If deceased, to their Widows or
minor children. has become law. Il
is measure which interests many Of
our readers. The fOllOwingis IS published
as correct copy Of the act:
AN ACT in addition to certain acts
granting bounty land to certain Of
6cers and soldiers who have been en-
gagged in the military service of the
United States.
Be e enacted By the Senate and Roass
Of Representatives. of tie United States
| Of America N Congress assembled, That
each Of the surviving commissioned and
non-commissioned officers, musicians,
and privates, whether regulars, yolun-
teers, 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 oG
any State or Territory, called into mill
tary service, and regularly mustered
therein, and whose services have been
paid by the United States subsequent to-
the eighteenth day of June, eighteen
hundred and twelve, shall be entitled to-
receive certificate 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 received certificate or warrant,
be shall 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 hun
dred and sixty acres to each person hav-
ing served as aforesaid: Provided, The
person so having been in service shall
not receive said land warrant if it shall
appear by the muster rolls of his regi-
ment or corps that he deserted or was
dishonorably discharged from service.
SEC. 2. And be Il further enacted,
That in case of the death of any person
who, if living, 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 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 a
widow at the time Of making her appli-
cation: And provided, further, That
those shall be considered minors, who
are so at the time this act shall take eff
feet.
SEC. 8. Ard Be Il further enacted,
That in no case shall any certificate or
warrant be issued for any service less
than IA days, except where the person
shall actually have been engaged in bat
tie and unless the party claiming such
certificate or warrant shall establish his
or her right thereto by record evidence
Of said service.
SEC. 4. ARd Be Il further enacted,
That said certificates or warrants NAV
be assigned, transferred, and located by
the warrantees, or their heirs-at-law,
according to the provisions of existing
laws regulating the assignment, transfer,
and location Of bounty land warrants.
SEC. 5. And be Il further enacted, 4
That no warrant issued under the pro-
visions 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. Ind Be IL 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 centsge to
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 assignees or holders Of such war
rants.
SEC. 4. And Be IL further enacted,
That the provisions of this act, and all
the bounty land laws heretofore passed
by Congress, shall be extented to In
dians in the same manner and to the
same extent as if the said Indians had
been white men.
SEC. 8. And Be Il further enGcted,
That the widows of officers and soldiers
of the revolutionary war be entitled to
the benefits of this act.
SEC. 9. And Be Il further enacted,
That the benefits of this act shall be ap-
Piled to and embrace those who served
IS volunteers at the invasion of Platts-
burg, in September, eighteen hundred
md fourteen.
SEC. 10. And Be Il further enacted,
That the provisions Of this act shall ap-
'ly to the chaplsins who served with the
rmy in the several wars Of the coun-