Arizona citizen., 1871-09-09
Who Are Entitled to Bounty
 Lands.

The COmmlSSlOner Of PenSlOnS Will
 soon issue instructions and new regu-
 lations for procuring bounty land war
 rants through that office. The fol-
 lowing instructions will be of interest
 to many:
 The acts of Congress now in force
 granting bounty land, entitle each of
 the surviving persons in the following
 classes to a certificate or warrant for
 such quantity of land as shall make,
 in the whole, with what he may have
 heretofore received, 160 acres, provided he shall have served period of not less than fourteen days, to-wit:
 1. Commissioned and non-commis- stoned officers, musicians, and privates, whether of the regulars, volunteers, ranger or militia, who were regularly mustered into the service of the United States in any of the wars in which this country has been engaged since 1790 and prior to March 3, 1865.
 II. Commissioned and non-commis- stoned officers, seamen, ordinary sea- men, hotillamen, marines, clerks, and landsmen ill the navy in any of said warS
 III. Militia, volunteers, and State troops of any State or Territory call cd into military service, and regu- larly mustered therein, and whose services have been paid by the United States.
 ". Wagonmasters and teamsters who have been employed under the direction of competent authority ill time of war, in the transportation of military stores and supplies.
 V. Officers and soldiers of the Rev olutionary war, and marines, seaman, and other persons in the naval serv1ce of the United States during that war.
 VI. Chaplains who served with the army ill the several wars of this country.
 VII. Volunteers who served with | the armed forces of the United States in any of the wars mentioned, subjected to military orders, whether regularly into the service of the United | States or not.
 Each of the surviving persons ill the following classes are entitled to a like certificate for @ like quantity of land, without regard to the length of service (provided he was regularly into service) to-wit:
 l. Officers and soldiers who have been actually engaged in any battle n any of the wars ill which this coun- ny has been engaged prior to the war of the rebellion.
 ?. Those volunteers who served at 5he invasion of Plattsburg, in Sep 5ember, 1874.
 3. The volunteers who served at the battle of Kings Mountain, in the evolutionary war.
 4. The volunteers who served at he battle of Nickojack against the confederate savages of the South.
 ,. The volunteers who served at the lttack on Lewiston, in Delaware, by he British fleet in the war of 1872. !;
 In addition to these classes these tets also extend to all Indians who erved the United States i'll any of heir wars prior the war of the rebel ion, the provisions of this and all the bounty land laws heretofore passed, Il the same manner and to the same ; xtent as if the Indians had been white men.
 Where the service has been rendered I y substitute, he is the person ( ntitled to the benefit of these acts, I nd not his employer. ;
 In the event of the death of any C 'erson who, if living, would be enti- e led to certificate or warrant as s foresaid, leaving widow, CT if no widow, such minor child or children, 5 entitled to 8 certificate or warrant : or the same quantity of land such eceased persons would be entitled to eceive under the provisions of said cts if now living.
 A subsequent marriage will not s impair the right of any such widow < 9 such warrant if she be a widow at q q he time of her application. Persons I '1thin the age of 21 years on the Sd E ay of March, 1S55, are deemed minors within the intent and meaning f said acts.
 WE learn from our exchanges that 7 : is the intention of the Atlantic and 'acitic Company to push their road Ii