Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-22
BOUNTY LANDLAw.

AN ACT in addition to certain acts granting
bounty lard to certain officers and soldiers who
have been engaged in the military service Of the
United States,
Ben enacted By the Senate and House Of Rep
resentotires of tie United States Of America in
Congress assembled, That each of the surviving
commissioned and non-commissioned officers
musicians, and privates whether of regulars
volunteers. rangers, q militia, who were regu,
larly mustered into the service of the United
States, andTevery officer, commissioned or non
commissioned, seamen, ordinary seamen, ina
rinc, clerk, land landsnan in the navy, in any
of the wars in which this country has been en-
gagged since seventeen hundred and ninety, and
and each OF the survivors of the militia, or vol
unteers, or State troops OF any State or Terrific,
~, called into military service, and regularly
mustered therein, and whose services have been
paid by the United States, shall be entitled to
receive a certificate or warrant from the Depart
ment 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 II certificate or warrant, he
shall be entitled 20 certificate or warrant for
such quantity of land as will make, in the
whole, with what he may have heretofore receiv-
ed, one hundred and sixty acres OF land to each
such person having served as aloresaid Proud
ed, Tie pcrsonyso having been in service shall
not receive said land warrant 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 DO held to extend to wagon-maste
and teamsters who may have been employed I'M
der the direction OF competent authority, in
time of war, in the transportation Of military
stores and supplies.
SEC. 2. In case of the death Of any person,
who, if living, would be entitled to certificate
or warrant, as aforesaid, under this act, leaving
a widow, or, if no widow, IL minor child or
children, such widow, or, ii no widow such
minor child or children, shall be entitled to re-
ceiye u certificate or warrant for the same guam.
tity of land that said deceased person would be
entitled to receive under the provisions of this
act, if now living, Pror,ded, That subsc-
quent marriage shall not impair the right of
any such widow to such warrant, if she be a
widow at the time of making her application
And provided, further, That those shall be con-
sidered minors who are so ut the time this act
shall take effect.
SEC, 3. In no case shall any such certificate
or warrant be issued for any service less than
fourteen days, except where the person shall
actually have been engaged in battle, and unless
the party claiming such certificate Or warrant
shall establish his Or her right thereto by record
cd evidence of such service
SEC. 4. Said certificates Or warrants may be
assigned, transferred, and located by the war
rantecs, their assignees, or their heirs-at.law,
according to the provisions of existing laws reg
ulating the assignment, transfer, and location
of bounty land warrants.
SEC 5. No warrant issued under the pro-
visions of this act shall be located on any pub
lie lands, except such as shall at the time be
subject to sale ut either the minimum or lower
graduated prices.
SEC. 6 The registers and receivers OF the
several land Offices shall be severally authorized
to charge and receive for their services in To-
eating all warrants under the provisions OF. this
act the same compensation or percentage to
which they are entitled by law for sales Of the
public lands, for cash, at tho rate of one dollar
and twenty-five cents per acre; the said com
pensation to be paid by the assignees or holders
of such warrants.
SEC. 7. The provisions of this act and all
tiit DOuIt1 -luuu laws uCiOtOIuiO pdccSu Wy Soh
grcss, 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. The officers and soldiers of the rev
olu tionary war, Or their widows or minor child
rem, shall be entitled to the benefits of this act
Sec. 8. The benefits Of this act shall be APP
piled to and embrace those who served as volun
teers at the invasion of Piattsburg, in Septem
Der, eighteen hundred and fourteen; also at the
battle Of Kings Mountain in the revolutionary
war, and the battle Of Nickojack against The
confederated savages Of the South
SEC. 10. The provisions of this act shall ap-
ply to the chaplains who served with the army
in the several wars of the country.
SEC. IL. The provisions of this act be appli.
ed to flotilla men and to those who served as
volunteers at the attack on Lcwistown, in Del
aware, by the British fleet. in the war of eight.
eea hundred and twelve-ffteen
Approved, March 3, 1855.