Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-03-07
THE BOUNTY LAND BILL.

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We publish below, from the Washington Union,
the bounty land bin as it passed the two Houses of
Congress. 1t is rs broad and rs full as any one
could have wished:
Be at enacted 6y the Seaate and House Of Repre-
sentatres Of the United States Of AnaericG in Con-
gress asscmbled That each of the surviving commits
stoned and non commissioned officers, musicians,
and privates, whether of regulars volunteers,
gers militia, who were regularly mustered into
the service of the United States, and every officer
commissioned and non-commissioned, seaman Or
binary seaman, marine, clerk, and landsinan 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 uf the militia, or volun
teers, State tro. ps 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 certit-
cate warrant from the Department of the Int
ror for one hundred and sixty acres of land; and
where any of those who have been so mustered in
to service and paid shall have reccided certificate
or warrant he shall be entitled to a certificate
warrant for such quantity of land will make, in
the whole, with what he may have heretofore receiv
ed, one hundred and sixty acres to each such per-
son having served aforesaid Pr0cldeG, The per-
son SO having been in service shall not receive said
land warrant if it shall appear by the muster rolls
of his regiment corps that he deserted,
diShoRorabiy discharged from service:
PrOrided, t;trther, That the benefits of this Sec
ton shall be held to extend to wagon masters and
transfers who have been employed, under the di-
rection of competent authority in time of war; in
the transportation of military and supplies.
Sec 2. Ind be 1T further enacted, That in case
of the death of any person who, if living would be
entitled to certificate 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, children, shall be entitled to receive
a certificate 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: Preceded, That subsequent marriage shall
such
warrant if she be widow at the time of making
her application ndprocided, further, That those
shall be considered minors who are SO at the time
this act shall take effect.
SEC 8. AnG be it furthe- enacted, That in no
shall any such certificate warrant be issued
for service less than fourteen days except where
the pc shall actually have been engaged in bat
tie and unless the party claiming snch certificate
warrant shall establish his or her right thereto
by recorded evidence of said service.
Sec 4. And be it FURTHER enacted, That said
certificates warrants may be assigned, transfer
red and located by the warraneeS, their assgnees,
their heirs-at-law, according to the provisions Of
existing laws regulating the assignment, transfer
and location of bounty-land warrants.
SEC ). And be II further enacted, That no war
rant issued under the provision of this act shall be
located any public lands, except such shall at
the time be subject to sale at either the minimum
lower gradua ed prices.
SEC 6. d7sd be it further Gnucted, That the regis
and receivers of the several land offices shall be
scvcraly authorized to charge and receive for their
services in locating all warrants under the prCvls-
ions this act the compensation or percentage
to which they entitled by law for sales of the
public lands, for cash, at the rate Of one dollar and
twenty-five cents per The said compensation
to be paid by the assignees holders OF such war
rants.
SEC. Z. Amd be it further enacted That the pro-
visions of this act, and ali tlo bounty-and laws
heretofore passed by Congress, shall be extended to
Indians, in the same manner and to the extent
as if the said Indians had been white
SEC. 8. lind be it further enacted, That the off,
and soldiers of the revolutionary war, their
widows minor children, shall be entitled to the
benefits of this act.
SEC. 9. ind be it further enacted, That the bene
fits of this act shall be applied to and embrace those
who served volunteers at the invasion of Piatts
burg, in September, eighteen hundred and fourtccn
also at the battle of Kings mountain, in the revoiu
tionary war, and the battle of NckCack against the
confederated savages of the South.
SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the pro-
visions of this act shall apply to the chaplans who
served with the army in the several of the
country.
SEC. IL. Ind be it further enacted, That the pro-
visions of this act be applied to Hota-men and to
those who served volunteers at the attack on
Lewistown in Delaware, by the British fleet, in the
war of eighteen hundred and twelve-fteen.