Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-09-26
sR hHE VOL. %, NO. II.
who Are Entitled to Bounty Lands

Who Are Entitled to Bounty Lands
The Commissioner of Pensions
will soon issue instructions and new
regulations for procuring bounty
and land warrants through that Of,
ficer. The following Instructions
viii be of interest to many:
The acts Of Congress, now in force
granting bounty land, entitlo each
OF the surviving persons in the fol-
lowing classes to certificate of war
rant for such quantity of land as
shall make, in the whole, with what
be may have heretofore received, 100
acres, provided he shall have served
period of not less than fourteen
days to wit:
/ Commissioned and non-com-
missioned officers, musicians, and
privatos, whether of the regulars,
volunteers, rangers, or militia, who
were regularly mustered into the
service Of the United States in any
of the wars in which the country
has been engaged since 1880, and
prior to March 3, 1855, to wit
II. Commissioned and non-com-
missioned, officers, seamen, ordinary
seamen, fotilla-men, marines, clerks,
and landsmen in the navy in any Of
said wars.
III. Militia, volunteers, and troops
Of any State or Territory called in
to military service, and regularly
mustered therein, and whose services
have been paid by the United States
~. Wagonmasters and teamsters
who have been employed under the
directions of competent authority, in
time of war, in the transportation of
military stores and supplies.
v, Officers and soldiers OF Tie
Revolutionary War, and marines,
scamen and other persons in the ma
val service Of the United States dur
ing that war.
vi. Chaplains who served with
the army in the several wars of this
country.
VII. Volunteers who served with
the armed forces Of the United States
in any of the wars mentioned, sub
ject to military orders, whether reg
ularly mustered into the service Of
the United States or not.
Each Of the surviving persons in
the following classes is cutitled to
"a certificate for like quantity of
land, without regard 10 the length
of service, provided he was regularly
mustered in the service, to wit:
/. Officers and soldiers vino have
been engaged in any battle in any of
the wars in which this country has
been engaged prior to the war of the
rebellion.
2. Those volunteers who served
at the invasion Of Plattsburg, in Sep.
TENDER, 1914.
3. The volunteers who served 10
the battle of Kings Mountain, in the
Revolutionary War.
4. The volunteers who served at
the battle of Nickojack against the
Confederate savages of the South.
5. The volunteers who served at
the attack on Lewiston, in Delaware,
by the British fleet in the war Of
1912.
In addition to these classes these
acts also extend to all Indians who
served the United States in any oi
their wars prior to the war Of the re-
bellion, the provisions OF this and all
bounty land laws heretofore passed,
in the same manner and to the same
extent as if the Indians had been
white men.
When the service has been render
ed by substitute, he is the person
entitled to the benefits of these acts,
and not his employer.
In the event Of the death of any
person, who, if living, would BIO en-
titled to certificate as aforesaid,
leaving widow, a minor child or
children, Is entitled to certificate
or warrant for the same quantity of
land such deceased person would be
entitled to receive under the provis-
ions of said acts if now living.
A subsequent marriage will not
impair the right Of any widow to
such warrant if she be widow at
the time of her application. Persons
within tho age of Fl years on the
third day of March, 1855, arc deemed
minors within the intont and mean
ing of said acts.