Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-07-30
Public 1871

AN ACT 10 amend the IN addition certain acts grant
bounty land to certain officers and soldiers who have
been engaged in the military service of the United
States, approved March third eighteen hundred and fifty
five.
enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled
That all where certificate for bounty
land for any less quantity than hundred and sixty
acres shall have been issued officer soldier
the widow minor child children Of any officer SOL
der under existing laws the evidence upon which such
certificate warrant issued shall be received esta
bsh the service of such officer or soldier in the appca
tion Of himself Of his widow minor child Children
for certificate or warrant for much land be
quired TO make the full of hundred and sixty
acres proof identity Of such officer soldier
in Of his DEATH of the and identity Of his
child children: Provided nevertheless That if upLn
review Of such evidence the Commissioner of Pensions
was granted he may require additional evidence
as we'll the term as Of the fact Of service.
Skc And be further enacted That in all where
pension has been granted to any officer soldier the
evidence upon which such pension granted shall be
cved to establish the service of such officer soldier in
upon proof of bis identity as such pensoner certificate
warrant be issued to him for the quantity land
t. which be- sh. be entitled and in case Of the death Of
led to certificate for the quantity of land
to which her husband would have been entitled if living
upon proof that she is such widow and in of the deah
of such officer or soldier, leaving minor child children
and no widow where the widow may have deceased be-
fore The Issuing Of any certificate warrant such minor
child children shall be entitled certificate or war
rant for the same quantity of land the father would
have been entitled to receive if living upon pruuf Of the
That review Of such evidence the Commissioner Of
Pensions shall not be satisfied that the pension pro-
granted he may require additional evidence well of
SEC g. And be it further enacted That much Of the
third section of the act in addition to certain grant
ing bounty lands to certain officers and soldiers who have
been engaged military service of the United Sates'
approved March third eighteen hundred and fty.ve as
n, sGe party Ginning certificate or variant under
record evidence of the service for which such
certificate or warrant has been may be claimed be- and
the same s hereby repealed and par evidence where
record exists be admitted prove the SER
vice Perormed under such rules and regulations as the
Commissioner OF Pensions may prescribe.
Ssc4 And be it farther enacted That the eighth Sec.
ton Of the act above mentioned the third ay of
March in the year eighteen hundred and five, shall be
or persons engaged in the naval service the Tilted States
during the revolutionary and the widows and minor
saloren Of an such ocer marines seamen and other per-
And be it further enacted That the provisions of
the sad act shall extend to all who served as
ject to military ORDERS for the space of fourteen DAYS in
any Of the wars specified in the first aecon Of the said act
cn were or were not mustered into the
SEC And be it further enacted That the widows and
minor children OF all such persons specified in the
as section OF this act and dead shall be
entted 70 the same privileges the widows and minor
children Of the benecares named in the act to which this
SEC 7,And be it further enacted That when anv conn
pany battalion or regiment in any organized FORM march
~ oso t.ou twenty miles 10 the place where thew were
mustered into the service Of the United States ar were
discharged more than twenty miles from the place where
such battalion, regiment was Organized in ali
sncn cases. IN computing the length of service of the Off
ce ana soldiers OF any such company battalion or
shall be allowed day for every twenty mes
o Ioe place where the company, battalion or regiment
was to the place where the same was mSstered
INTO me service Of the United States and also one av IN
every twenty miles from the place where such compsnv
1aIton or regiment was discharged to the place hers
and from whence marched to enter the
service Provided That such march was in Obedience tn the
or direction of the President uf the Uned
Or some gne.ai officer Of the United States cosmaSdne
y or department, or the chief execution officer 81
~, OF Territory by which such company battalion or
Approved April 80, 1856.
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