Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1857-11-19
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AN ACT

To amend the act in addition TO certain acts grant
ing Bounty Land to certain Oheers and Soldiers
who have been engaged in the Military service Of
the United States approved March third, eighteen
hundred and ffly-hVe.
Be It enacted by the senate aud House Of Represen-
tGtiIes Of The United States of Amerez fl Congress
assembled, Thai, in all where certificate or
warrant for bounty land any less quantity than
one hundred and sixty acress shall haFe been issued
TO any officer or soldier;Or to the widow or minor
child or children ofany officer soldier, under
isting laws the evidence upon which such certificate
or warrant was issued shall be received TO establish
the service of such officer soldier in the appliea
ton of himself, or Of his widow or minor child
children for certificate or warrant for so much land
as NAV be required TO make up the full sum of one
hundred and sixty acres proof of the identity of
such officer soldier, or In CT his death of the
marriage and identity OF his widow IL case OF her
DEATH Of the identity Of his minor child children
Provided, nevertheless, That if upon q review Of
such evidence, the Commissioner of Pensions, shall
notbe satisfied that the former certificate warrant
was properly granted, he may require additional
evidence as well of the term as Of IL, fact ser
vice.
Sec 9. And be 1t further enacted That in all
cases where pension has been granted to any Off
soldier, the evidence upon which snch pension
granted, shall be received to establish the
vice of such officer soldier in his application for
bounty land under existing laws and upon proef of
his identity as such pensioner certificate or war
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TO which he shall be entitled and in the Of the
death Of such pensiOned officer or soldier his widow
shall be entitled to a 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 the case of the death of such
Oicer or soldier, leaving minor child or children
and no widow, or where the widow may have decea-
sed before the issuing of any certificate warrant
for the same quantity of land as the father would
have been entitled to receive if living, upon ptoof
of the deeease of father and mother Provided
nevertheless That if, upon a review of such eYi-
dence the Commissioner of Pensions shall not be
tisfed that the pension was properly granted, he
may require additional evidence, well of the term
as of the fact of service.
Sec. 3. And be 1t further enacted, That so much
of the third section of the "Act in addition to
tain acts granting bounty land to certain officers and
soldiers who have been engaged in the military
vice of the United States, approved March third,
eighteen hundred and fftyfve, as requires party
claiming certificate warrant under the provision
of said act establish his her right thereto by
record evidence of the service for which such eertf
cate or warrant has been or may be claimed be and
| the same is hereby repealed, and parol evidence,
where record evidence exists may DO admitted to
prove I'd seltase FeIlormea, unaefseaeh rules and
FelEnlatiens aF rhe COmn,issioncr " Pensions mag
pFesefibes
ssc A. -Ea h le e ,s.ikssr - .,sss7 rft thl rlh
section of th8 ilhoEe mentien apfkSfsd tpe third
day Of MARCH,, liz the year eehtesn hundfed and
Hfty-fte shall BE- construed as enhnteine o1ice1s,
marines, seaTaen and other persons engaged in the
naval service Of the United States during the revo
| utionary war, and the widows and minor children
Of all such officers, marines, scamen and other per-
sons engaged as aforesaid
Sec 5. And be 1t further enacted, That the pro-
visions of the said act shall extend to ell persons who
served as volunteers with the armed forces of the
United States, subject to military orders, for the
space Of fourteen days, any of the specified
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were or were not mustered into the service of the
United States.
Sec g. 1lnd be 1t further enacted, That the wi
dOWs and minor children Of all such persons as are
specified in the last preceding section of this act
and are now dead shall be entitled to the pri-
vileges as the widows and minor children Of the be-
nsfciaries named In the act to which this Is an
amendment ts
Sec. Z. Aud be 1t further enacted, That when
any company battalion, or regiment, in organized
FORM marched more than twenty miles to the place
where they were mustered into the service of the
United States, or were discharged more than twenty
miles from the place where such conIany, battalion
OF regiment organized, in all ,ch eases, IN com
putting the length Of service of the officers and sol
diers Of any such company, battalion, or regiment
there shall be allowed one day for every twenty
miles from the place where the company, battalion
or regiment was organized to the place where the
samewas mustered into the service of the United
States and also day for every twenty miles from
the place where such company, battalion, regimen
was discharged to the place where was organized
and from whence it marched to enter the service =:
Il Provided That such march was In obedience to the
command OF direction Of the President of the United
States or some general officer of the United States
commanding an army or department, or the chic
executive officer of the State or Territory by which
such company, battalion, or regiment ives called int
service.
Approved, May Il, 1885,