The true Democrat., 1855-08-28

AppfOVed, MATCH ,, 1Ooo.
 AN ACT in addition to certain Acts granting
 Bounty Land to certain Officers and Soldiers
 who have been engaged in the Military Ser
 vice of the United States
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re- presentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That each of the sur viving commissioned and non- n-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, whether of re- gulars, volunteers, rangers or militia, who were regularly mustered into the service of the Uni ted States, and every officer, commissioned and on-commlssloned, seaman, ordinary seaman fotllla- man, marine clerk, and landsman in the navy, Tn any of the wars in which this country has been engaged since 179O, and each of the survlvors ot the militia, or volunteers, or State troops of any State or Territory, called the mi lltla service, and regularly mustered therein, and whose services have been paid by the Uni ted States shall be entitled to receive a certi- hcate or warrant from the Department of the Interior for 1GO acres of land; and where any of those who have so been mustered into ser vice and paid shall have received a certificate or warrant he 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, 16O acres to each such per son having served as aforesaid PyoUldel The person so having been in service shall not re- ceive 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: Provide1 tuther, That the benefits of this section shall be held to extend to wagon. masters and teamsters who may have been en- ployed, under direction of competent authority in time of war in the transportation of military stores and supplies.
 2, And be it further enacted, That in case of the death of any person who, fliving, would be entitled to certificate or warrant as afore- said 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 war rant for the same quantity of land that such deceased person would be entitled to receive under the provisions of this act, if now living: Pro0ided That subsequent marriage shall not impair the right of any such widow to such warrant if she be a widow at the time of mak- ing her application: And provided turtter, That those shall be considered minors who arc so at the time this act shall take effect
 2 3. And be 1t further enacted, That in no case shall any such certificate or warrant be is- sued 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 esta- blish his or her right thereto by record evidence of said service.
 4. And be it further enacted, That said certificates or warrants may be assigned, trans ferred, and located by the warrantees, their as- signees, or their heirs Jaw, according to the provisions of existing laws regulating the as- signment, transfer and location of bounty land warrants.
 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
 6. And be it further enacted, That the registers and receivers of the several land of- fees 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 percentage to which they are entitled by law, for sales of the public lands for cash, at the rate of $1 25 per acre; the said compensation to be paid by the assgnees or hol- ders of such warrants.
 2. And be it further enacted That the provisions of this act, and all the bounty-land laws heretofore passed by Congress, shall be ex- tended to Indians, in the same manner, and to
  white men.
 8. And be it 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.
 9. And be it further enacted, That the benefits of this act shall be applied to and em- brace those who served as volunteers at the invasion of Plattsburg, in September, 1914; al- so at the battle of Kings Mountain, in the re- volutionary war, and the battle of Nickojock, against the confederated savages of the South. 10. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act shall apply to the chap lans who served with the army, in the several wars of the country.
 II. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act be applied to those who served as volunteers at the attack on Lewis town, in Delaware, by the British fleet, in the war of 1812-15.
 Approved, March 3, 1855.
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