Daily American organ., 1856-05-10
The Amended Bounty Land Law.


the following bill, amendatory Of the bounty land
acts ID now only requires the signature Of the Pre-
sident Of the United States 70 become law:
AN ACT to amend the act in addition TO certain
acts granting 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-ive.
Be IL enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America IN
Congress assembled, That in all eases where GER
tificate or warrant for bounty land for any less
quantity than one hundred and sixty acres shall
have been issued to any officer or soldier, or to
the widow minor child or children of any officer
or soldier, under existing laws, the evidence upon
which such certificate or warrant was issued shall
be received to establish the service Of such officer
or soldier in the application of himself, or Of his
widow or minor child or children, for certificate
or warrant for 30 much land as may be required
TO make up the full sum of one hundred and sixty
acres, on proof of the identity of such officer or
soldier, In Of his death, of the marriage and
identity ofhis widow in case Of her DEATH of the
identity Of his minor child or children: Provided,
ncvcvtheiess, That IL upon review Of such evi.
dence the Commissioner Of Pensions shall not be
satisfied that the former certificate or warrant was
properly granted, he may require additional evil
dence well Of the term as of the TACT of service.
SEc. 2. And be ID further enacted, That In all
cases where pension has been granted to any of.
fcer soldier, the evidence upon which such pen
sion granted shall be received to establish the
service of such officer soldier in his application
for bounty land under existing laws: and upon
proof Of his identity as such pensioner, certif-
cate warrant may be issued to him for the guam
tity Of land TO which he shall be entitled and in
case Of the death of such pensioned officer or SOL
der, his widow shall be entitled to certificate or
warrant for the same quantity of land to which her
husband would have been entitled If living, upon
proof that she is such widow, and in case of the
death Of such officer or soldier, leaving minor
child or children and no widow, or where the wild
ow may have deceased before the issuing of any
certificate warrant such minor child or children
shall be entitled to certificate warrant for the
same quantity of land as the father would have
been entitled to receive If living upon proof of the
decease of the father and mother Provided, nev-
ertheless, That if upon review of such eviderce,
the Commissioner of Pensions shall not be salts
fed that the pension was properly granted, he
may require additional evidence az well Of the term
as Of the fact of service.
SEc. 8. And be 1t further enacted, That 80 much
of the third section of the "act in addition to GER
tain acts granting bounty land to certain officers
and soldiers who have becn engaged in the mill
tary service of the United States, approved March
the third, eighteen hundred and fifty-fye, as re-
quires the party claiming a certificate or warrant
under the provisions of said act to establish his or
her right thereto, by record evidence of the SER
vice for which such certificate warrant has been
or may be claimed, be, and the same is hereby, re-
pealed, and parol evidence, where no record evi-
dence exists, may be admitted to prove the SER
vice performed, under such rules and regulations
as the Commissioner of Pensions may prescribe.
SEC. 4. 4nd be IL further enacted, That the
eighth section of the act above mentioned, ap-
proved the third day of March, in the year eight
cen hundred and ffty-fve, shall be construed as
officers, marines, seamen, and other
persons engaged in tho naval service of the United
States during the Revolutionary war, and the Wild
ows and minor children of all such officers. ma
rines seamen, and other persons engaged as aforc-
said.
SEC. 8. Ard be 1t further enacted, That the pro-
visions of the said act shall extend to all persons
who have served as volunteers with the armed
forces of the United States subject to military or
iers for the space of fourteen days. in any Of the
wars specified in the first section of the said act,
whether such persons were or were not mustered
into the service of the United States.
SIC. 8. And be IL further enacted, That the
widows and minor children Of all such persons as
ire specified in the last preceding section of this
same privileges as the widows and minor children
Of the benefciaries named in tie act to which this
d an amendment. z05
SEC 4. And be it further enacted, That where
any company, battalion, or regiment, in an organ
zed form, marched more than twenty miles to the
place where they were mustered into the service
of the United States, were discharged more than
twenty miles from the place where such company,
battalion, or regiment, was organized; in all such
cases, in computing the length Of service of the
officers and soldiers of any such company battalisn
Or regiment, there shall be allowed one day for
every twenty miles from the place where the COM
pany, battalion, or regiment was organized, to the
place where the same was mustered into the SER
vice of the United States; and also, one day for
every twenty miles from the place where slch COM
pany, battalion, or regiment was discharged to the
place where it was organized, and from whence it
marched to enter the service Provided, That such
march was in obedience to the command or direc-
ton of the President Of the United States, or some
general officer of the United States commanding an
army or department, or the chief executive officer
of the State or Territory by which such company,
battalion, or regiment was called into service.
aa From the New Orleans Pcayune.
Later from New Mexico.
We have files of tho Santa Fe Gazette to the
goth Of March, from which we gather the following
intelligence.
! The Gazette Of March s says: sa e
u We notice the arrival at this post on the 5th
instant OF Colonel bonneville, Sd infantry, Majors
Grier and Carlton, 1st dragoons, and Captain Da-
sidson and Lieutenant Williams, LIST dragoons-
The three first named officers, we understand, are
members of court Of inquiry in the case of Cap
tain Davidson called at his own request to be held
in this city on the 10th instant.
"We learn that the command under Colonel
Chandler, detailed to move against the Gila and
Mogoyon Apaches, is now in the Geld. DR.. Steck,
Indian agent, accompanies the command from Fort
Thorn. s'5
Z" " Doctor De Leon, United States Army, who
had been on visit to this post for some days, left
on Thursday morning for Albuquerque"
The Gazette, of the 18th, has an article urging
ON the farmers Of the Territory the importance Of