Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-08-31
Who are Entitled to Bounty.

Who are Entitled to Bounty.
The Commissioner of Pensions will
soon issue instructions and new regd-
lations for procuring bounty land war
rants through that office. The fellow
ing instructions will be of interest to.
many:
The act of Congress now in force
granting bounty land entities each of
the surviving pels )ns 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, $50 acres, pro-
rided he shall have served period of
not less than fourteen days, to-wit:
l. Commissioned and non-commis-
stoned officers, musicians and privates,
whether of the regulars or volunteers,
rangers or militia, who were reg -:larly
mustered into the United States ser
vice in any of the wars in which this
country has been engaged since 1890
and previous to March 3, 1855, as fol-
lows:
II. Commissioned and non commis=
stoned officers, seaman, ordinary sen
man, hotillamen, mariners, clerks and
lahdsmcn in the navy in any of said
wars.
III. Militia, volunteers, and State
troops of any State or territory, called
into military service, and regularly
mustered therein and whose service
has been paid to the United States.
". Wagon masters and teamsters
who have been employed under the di-
rection of competent authority, in
time of war, IN the transportation of
military supplies and stores.
V. Officers and soldiers of the revo-
tionary war, and mariners, 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 served with
the armed forces of the United States
in any of the wars mentioned, subject
to military orders, whether regularly
mustered into the service of the Uni
ted States or not.
Each of the surviving persons in
the following classes are entitled to q
| like certificate for a like quantity of
land, without regard to length of ser
vice, (provided he was regularly mus
tered in, to-wit:
1. Officers and soldiers whs have
actually been engaged in any battle in
any of the wars i'll which this country
has been engaged prior to the war Of
the rebellion.
2 Those volunteers who served at
the battle of Kings Mountain, in the
revolutionary war.
3. The volunteers who served at the
battle of Nickojack against the cou-
federate south.
5. The volunteers who served at the
attack on Lewiston, in Delaware. by
the British feet in the war of 1912.
In addition to these classes these
acts also extend to all Indians who
served the United States in any of the
wars prior to the rebellion, the provis-
sions of this and all the bounty land
laws passed heretofore. in the same
manner and to the same extent as if
the Indians had been white men,
Where the service h as been rendered
by substitute, he is the person enti-
tied to the benefits of these acts, and
not the employer.
In the event of the death of any
person, who if living, would be entitled
to q certificate or warrant as aforesaid,
leaving a widow, or if not a widow,
such minor child or children shall be
entitled to q warrant for the same
quantity of land such deceased per-
sons would be entitled to receive un-
der the provision of that act if they
were now living.
A subsequent marriage will not inn
pair the right of any such widow to
such warrant, if she be a widow at the
time of her application. Persons with
in the age of 81 years on the Sd of
March, 1856, are deemed minors with
in the intent and meaning of said act.