The daily Minnesota pioneer., 1855-03-22
BOUNTY LAND BILL.

Representatives of the United States Of Ameri-
ca IN Congress assembled, That each of the
surviving commissioned and non-commissioned
officers, musicians, and privates, whether of
regulars, volunteers, rangers, or militia, who
were regularly mustered into the service OF
the United States, and every officer, commits
stoned, and non-commissioned Seamen, ordina-
ry seamen, marines, clerks, and landsmen in
the navy, in any of the wars in which this
country has been engaged since seventeen hun
dred 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, shall be entitled to receive certificate
or warrant from the Department of the Inte-
rior for one hundred and sixty acres Of land;
and where any of those who have been so mus
tered into service and paid shall have received
certificate or warrant, he shall be entitled to
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 such person having served
as aforesaid: Prorided, The person 30 having
been in service shall not receive said land war
rant if it shall appear by the muster rolls 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 ext nd to wagon-mas-
tiers 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 1t 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, a minor child or children, such
widow, or if no widow, such minor child or chill
dren, shall be entitled to receive certificate
Or warrant for the same quantity of land that
such deceased person would be entitled to re-
ceive 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 proulded fur
tier, That those shall be considered minors
who are so 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
he issued for any service less than fourteen
days, except the person shall have been actu-
ally engaged in battle, and unless the party
claiming such certificate or warrant shall es
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evidence of said service.
SEC T. Ind be at 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. Ind be it further enacted, That the
registers and receivers of the several land Off
ces shall be sevcray authorised to charge and
receive for their services in locating all war
rants under the provisions of this act the same
compensation or per centage to which they
are entitled by law fer sales of the public
lands for cash at the rate of one dollar and
twenty-five cents per acre. The said compen-
sation to be paid by the assignees or holders
of such warrants.
Sec. /. And be 1t further enacted, That
the provisions of this act, and all the bounty
land laws heretofore passed 10y Congress, shall
bc extended to Indians in the same manner
and to the same extent as if the said Indians
had been white men.
SEC. s -dnd be ii further enacted, That the
officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war,
or their widows or minor children, shall be en-
titled to the benefits Of this act
Sec. 9. Ind be 1t further enacted That
the benefits of this act shall be applied to and
embrace those who served as volunteers at the
invasion OF Plattsburg, in September, eighteen
hundred and fourteen; also at the battle OF
Kings mountain, in the revolutionary war,
and the battle of Mickojack against the con-
federated savages Of the South.
Sec 10. And be 1t further enacted, That
the provisions of this act shall apply to the
chapIains who served with the army in the
several wars of the country
Sec. IL. And be 1t further enacted, That
the provisions of this act be applied to fotilla-
men and those who served as volunteers at the
attack on Lewistown, in Delaware, by the
British fleet, in the war of eighteen hundred
and twelve-ffteen.