The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-09-01
EMPORIsA NEWS.
Friday, September 1. 1871.
WHO ARE ENTITLED TO BOUNTY
LAMBS


The Commissioner of Pensions will
issue instructions and new regulations
for procuring bounty land warrants
through that Office. The following in
structions will be of interest to many /:
The acts of Congress now in force
granting bounty lands, entities each of
the surviving persons in the following
classes to certificate or warrant of
such quantity of land as shall make, in
the whole, with what he may have
heretofore received, one hundred and
sixty acres, provided he shall have
served period of not less than four
teen days, to-wit:
/. Commissioned and non-commis-
sioued officers, musicians and privateG,
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 this
country has been engaged since 1790
and prior to March Sd, 1856, to-wit:
IL. Commissioned and non-commik-
stoned ofhcers, seamen, ordinary sea-
men, fotillamen, marines, clerks and
landsmen in the navy in any of the
said wars.
III. Militia, volunteers and State
troops of any State or Territory called
into military service, and regularly
mustered therein, and whose services
have been paid by the United States.
w. Wagonmasters transfers who
have been employed under the direc-
ton of competent authority, in the
transportation of military stores and
stores.
v. Oficers and soldiers of the Rev
dictionary war, and marines, seamen,
and other persons in the naval service
~ he ynfk Aknk
vi. Chaplains who served in the
army in the several wars of this conn
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 the service of the United
States or not.
Each of the surviving persons In the
following classes are entitled to like
certificate for like quantity of land
without regard TO length of service
Crowded he was regularly mustered
into service), to-wit:
i. 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 o.
the rebellion.
2. Those volunteers who served al
the invasion of Plattsburg, in Septem.
Der, 1914.
3. The volunteers who served at the
battle of Rings Mountain, in the Revo.
lutionary war.
4. The volunteers who served at the
battle of Nickojack against the confed.
crate savages of the South.
8. The volunteers who served at the
attack on Lewiston, in Delaware, by
the British feet in the war of 1872.
In addition to these classes acts also
extend to all Indians who served the
United States in any of their war;
prior to the war of the rebellion, the
provisions of this and all the bounty
land laws heretofore passed, in thu
same manner to the same extent as i
the Indians had been white men.
Where the service has been rendered
by substitute, he is the person entitled
to the benefits of these acts, and no
his employer.
In the event of the death of any per
son who, If living would be entitled tC
n certificate or warrant as aforesaid
leaving a widow, or, If no widow, sucl
minor child or children, is entitled to /;
certificate or warrant for the same
quantity of land such deceased persons
would be entitled to receive under thu
provisions of said acts if now living
A subsequent marriage will not i'm
pair the right of any snch widow Il
such warrant if she be a widow at thu
time of her application. Persons with
in the age of twenty-one years on tn
Sd day of March, 1855, are deemed
minors within the intent and meaning
of said acts.