The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-05-23
rHE AMENDED BOUNTY LAND BILL.


The two Houses of Congress having
agreed upon the following bill amendatOry
Of the bounty land acts, it now only requires
the signature of the President Of the United
States to become law:
AN ACT to amend the act in addition to
certain acts granting bounty land to GER
tain officers and soldiers who have been
engaged in the military service OF the
United States, approved March third, eigh-
teen hundred and fifty-ive.
n. il enacted bv The Senate and House of
Representatives of The United States Of Amer
lea in Congress assembled, That in all cases
wba,a n certificate or warrant for bounty
land for any less quantity than one hundred
and sixty acres shall have been issued 10 any
officer or soldier, or to the widow or minor
child or children Of any officer or soldier un.
der 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 him
self, or of his widow or minor child or chill.
dren, for certificate or warrant for so much
land as may be required to make up the full
sum Of one hundred aud sixty acres, on proof
of the identity of such officer or soldier, or,
in case of his death, of the marriage and
identity of his widow, or in case of her
death, of the identity of his minor child or
children, Provided, nevertheless, That II upon
review of such evidence the Commissioner
OF Pensions shall not be satisfied that the
former certificate or warrant was properly
granted, he may require additional evidence
as well of the term as of the fact of ser.
vice.
SEC. 2. And be h further enacted, That in
all eases where pension has been granted TO
any officer or soldier, the evidence upon
which such pension was granted shall be re-
ceived TO establish the service of such officer
or soldier in his application for bounty land
under existing laws and upon proof of his
identity as such pelsioner, certificate or
warrant may be issued to him for the qnan.
tity of land to which he shall be entitled;
and in case of the death of such pensoned
officer or soldier, his widow shall be entitled
to a certificate or warrant for the same Qunn.
tity Of land to which her husband would have
been entitled il 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 widow
may have deceased before the issuing of any
certificate or warrant, such minor child or
children shall be entitled to a certificate or
warrant for the same quantity of land MS the
fnther would have been entitled to receive if
living, upon proof Of the decease of father and
mother: PrOuided, nevertheless, That if, upon
a review OF such evidence, the Commissioner
of Pensions shall not be satisfied that the
pension was properly granted, he may require
additional evidence as well OF the term us of
the fact Of service.
Sec. 3. And be ii further enacted, That SO
much Of the third section of the "Act in nd.
dition 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 the third, eighteen
hundred and fity-ive, as requires the party
claiming certificate or warrant under the
provisions of said act to establish his or her
right thereto by record evidence of the service
for which such certificate or warrant has been
or may be claimed. he and the same is hereby
repealed; and parol evidence, where no record
evidence exists, may lie admitted to prove the
service performed, under such rules and
regulations rs the Commissioner of Pensions
may prescribe.
Sec. 4. And be ii further enacted, That the
eighth section of the act above mentioned,
approved the third day of March, in the year
eighteen hundred and fiity-fve, shall be con.
strued us embracing officers, marines, seamcn,
and other persons engaged in the naval SER
vice Of the United States during the Revolu.
tionary war, and the widows and minor chill.
dren of all such officers marines, seamen, and
other persons engaged as aforesaid.
Sec. s. And be ii further enacted, That the
provisions of the said act shall extend to all
persons who have served ms volunteers with
the armed forces of the United States, sub
ject to military orders, for the space Of four
teen days, in any of the wars specified 10 the
first section of the said act, whether such
persons were or were not mustered into the
service of the United States.
Sec. 6. And be IL further enacted, That the
widows and minor children of all such per.
sons rs are specified in the Inst preceding
section of this act and are now dead shall be
entitled to the same privileges as the widows
and minor children Of the beneGciares named
in the net 70 which this is an amendment
Sec. Z. And be ii further enacted, That
where any company, battalion, or regiment, in
nm organized form, marched more than TWEEN.
ty miles to the place where they were mus.
tered into the service Of the United States, or
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, battalion,
o. regiment, there shall be allowed one day
for every twenty miles from the place where
the company, battalion, or regiment was Or
gained to the place where the same was
mustered into the service of the United States;
and also one day for every twenty miles from
the place where such company, battalion, or
regiment was discharged to the place where
1t was organized and from whence il marched |
to enter the service: Prorided, That such |
march was in obedience to the command or
direction 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.
The COMING HARvEsT-The New York
Herald, Of the 9th says:
Our information from all quarters of the
Union, in reference to the prospects of the
coming harvest, is of the most cheering dc.
scription. One exchange says, "the wheat in |
this region looks well, and promises an album
dnnt YIELD" another, that sour, farmers are |