The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-11-22
Who Are EntItled to Bounty Lands.

Who Are Entitled to Bounty Lands
The Commissioner OF Pensions vii
soon issue instructions and new regula
tons for procuring bounty land warrant
through that office. The following in
structions will be of interest to many:
The acts Of Congress now Ia force giant
ing bounty land, entitle each of the suryi
wig persons in the following classes to
certificate or warrant for such quantity o
land as shall make, in the whole will
what he may have heretofore received
100 acres, provided he shall have served
period Of not less than fourteen days, 10
wilt; ...r
/. Commissioned and non.commissioneC
officers, musicians and priVales, Whethe
Of the regulars, volunteers, rangers, O
militiR, who were regularly mustered int
the service OF the United States in any o
the wars in which this country has beer
engaged since 1890, and prior 70 March .
1855, to-wit:
II. Commissioned and non. commIssion
ed officers, seamen, ordinary seAmen, 10
tillamen, marines, clerks and landsmen Ii
the navy in any Of said wars.
III. Militia, volunteers and State troop!
of any State or territory called into mill
tary service, and regularly mustered
therein, Sand whose SserviCes have been
paid by the United States. -
~. Wagon masters and teamsters who
have been employed under the direction
oil competent authority, in time ofwar, in
the transportation OF military stores and
supplies.
" Officers and soldiers Of the revolu.
tionary war, and marines, seamen and
other persons in the naval service of the
United States during that war,
vi. ChaplainS who served with the
army in the several wars Of this coun-
try.
VII. Volunteers who have served with
the armed forces of the United States in
any of the wars mentioned, subject TO
military orders, whether regularly mus
tered into the service 6f the United States
or not
Each Of the surviving persons Ia the
following classes are entitled 10 q like
certificate for like quantity of land,
without regard TO the length Of service
provided he was regularly mustered into
SERVICE, to-WIt:
/. Officers and soldiers who have been
actually engaged In any battle in any Of
the wars in which this country has been
engaged prior to the war Of the rebel
lion.
2. Those volunteers who served at the
invasion Of PAttSbwg, IN September,
1874 vs. =
8. The volunteers who served at the
battle of Kings Mountain, in the Revolu-
tionary war. ........
A. The volunteers who served OF the
battle of Nickojack against the Confed-
crate savages OF the South.
B. The volunteers who served at the
attack on Lewiston, In Delaware, by the
British fleet In the war OF 1919. '
In addition TO these classes, these acts
also extend To all Indians who served the
United States In any Of their wars prior
to the war Of tue rebellion, the provisions
OF this and all the bounty land laws here.
toiore passed In the same manner and to
the same extent as II the Indians had
been white men, %
Where the service has been rendered
by substitute, he Is the person entitled
TO tho benefit OF these acts, and not his
In the event OF the death OF any person
who, II living, would be entitled to GER
ti6cate or warrant as aforesaid, leaving a
widow, or, II no widow, such minor child
or children, Is entitled 10 o certificate or
warrant for the same quantity Of land as
such deceased person would DO entitled
to receive under the provisions Of said
Acl II now living.
A subsequent marriage will not impair
Tue right Of any such widow 10 such
warrant II she be a widow at the time Of
her application. Persons within the age
81 81 years on the Sd day Of March, 1856,
are deemed minors within the intent and
Of said acts.