Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-03-14

warrants cam be issued Under y, az new
mates viii have to be gets Soldiers who
bave had warrants need not trouble them
selves about further testimony
1,hese who have nothad q warrant had
better be looking up their testimony, We
win publish the rules adopted.b the Com
missioner OF Pensions in few days Ca'-
cdgo Democrat;
Be /! enacted By The Snqtc qqd House Of
REPRESENTATIVES OF the Iaihd States 81 Amera-
ca IN Congress assembled, That each OF the
surviving commissioned and nonrcolnlnis-
stoned officers, musicians and privates,
whether of regulars, volunteers, rangers or
militia who were regularly mustered INTO
the service { the United States, anu every
officer. commissioned and non-commlssion-
ed. seaman, ordinary seamen, marine CLERK
and land sman in the navy, IN any OF the
wars in viii h this country mas been en-
gaged since seventeen hundred and ninety
and each of the survivors OF the militia pr
volunteers. or S ate troops Of any State or
Territory, called into military services, and
re- ularly mustered therein, and whose ssr-
vices have been paid by the United States,
shall be entitled to receive certificate or
warrant from the Department oil the Inter
ior for one hundred and sixty acres OF iandi
= I'll where any of those who have been 50
mustered into service aud paid shall have
received a certificate or warrant, he shall
ne entitled to d certificate or warrant for such
quantity Of land as will make, IN the whole,
with wha, he may hare heretofore received,
! one hundred aud sixty acres to each suct
person having served as aforesaid: Proradsd,
\ The person SO having been in service shall
! not receive said land warrant il II shall aP-
/ pear bv the muster rolls of his regiment or
corps that he deserted or was dishonorahly
discharged from service:
Proriasd further, That the benefits OF this
j section shall be held to extend to wagon
masters and teamsters who may have been
! emp,oyed. under the direction OF COM
petent authority in time Of war, IN the
transportation of military stores and sup
plies.
Src. .. And be IL further enacted, That in
case of the death oi any person who. II NV
inn. would be entitled 10 a certificate or
warrant as aforesaid under this act, leaving
a widow, or, if no widow minor child or
children, such widow, or, il no widow, such
minor child or children, shall be entitled 70
receive certificate or warrant tor the same
quantity OF land that such deceased person
would be entitled to receive under the pro-
visions Of this act If now living: Pr0ctded,
t. at a subsequent marriage shall not I'M
pair the right of any such widow to SUCH
warrant if sh be widow at the Tine OF max
ing applications; And procidad further, That
those shall be considered minors who
are so at the time this aci shall take ef-
4 feet
Src 3. And be il further enacted, That in
no case shall any such certificate or warrant
be issued for any service less than fourteen
DAYS, except where the person shall actual
II have been eugugedin battle, and unless
the party claiming such certificate or war
rant shall establish his o. her right thereto
by recorded evidence OF said service.
SEC. L. And be 1t further enacted, That
said certificates or warrants may be assign,
ed, transferred and located by the warran.
tees, their assignees, or their heirs at law
ac cording to the provisions OF existing laws
regulating the assignment, transfer and To-
cation OF bounty land warrants.
SEC 5. And he 1t further enacted, That NJ
warrent issued under 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.
Src. 6. Aud be ii further enacted, Tia, the
registers and receivers OF the several land
. offices shall be severally authorised tc
charge and receive for their services in loca-
ting all warrants under the provisions OF
this act the same compensation or pc cen
,aue to which they are entitled by law for
sales Oft the public lands, for cash, ut the
rat, Of one dollar and twenty five cents pei
< acre. The said compensation TO be paiC
j by the si.uees or holders Of such war
rants.
SEc, 7. And be ii further enacted Tba
the provisions OF this act, and all the bouL
ty-land laws heretofore passed by Congress
: shall be extended to Indians in the SAM
manner and TO the same extent as il the suiJ
Indians had been white men.
Slc s. Ind be II further euacted, Tha
the officers and soldiers OF the revolutionary
war, or THAR widows or minor children shat
be entitled to the benefits of this act.
SEC g. AID BE- IL further eaacted, Tha
the benefits OF this act shall be applied 70
and enibraccthose WIN served as volunteer,
, Mt the invasion OF Plattsburg, in Septenibe r
eighteen hundred and fourteen; also, al thu
battle OF Il ug's mountain, the revolution
ary war, ard the battle of Nckejact
against the confeaerated slvdgcs OF tie
. South,
SIC. 10. AnJbe il further caa ted, Thn
the provisions OF this act shall apply 10 th'
: chapains who served with the army in The
2 several wars Of the country.
SIC. H. And b. ii further enacted Tha
the provisions OF this act be applied to fotl
, ia-men and to those who served as yolun
teers at tn. attack on Lewistown, in Del
. aware, by the British feet, in the war 0
r eighteen hundred and twelye-litteen.