The National tribune., 1904-05-26
UNITED STATES PENSION LAWS.
Comprehensive Digest Of Pension Legislation From the Founda.
ton of the Government
copyrighted. 1904. by THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
THE CLIMAX OF BoUSTY-LAND LEGIsLA-
TIQN

THE CLIMAX OF BOCNTY-LAND LEGISLA-
The acts Of March 3. 1855, covers all
wars previous 10 the date of the act. The
classes Of persons-pr0yided for are as
follows, as embodied in the Revised Stat
utes:
Sec. 2425. Each of the surviving per-
sons specified in the classes enumerated in
the following section, who has served for
Il period of not less than II days in any
of the wars in which the United States
have been engaged since the year 1890
and prior to the Sd day of March, 1850,
shall be entitled to receive a warrant
from the Department of the Interior for
1GO acres of land; and, where any person
so entitled has, prior to the Sd day of
March, 1855, received a warrant for any
number Of acres less than 100, he shall
land only as will make, in the whole, with
what he may have received prior to that
date. 100 acres.
"Scc. 2426. The classes of persons en-
braced as beneficiaries under the preced-
ing section are as follows, namely:
First. Commissioned and nOn-cOmmis-
stoned officers, musicians, and privates,
whether of the regulars, volunteers, ran
gers. or militia, who were regularly mus
tered into the service Of the United States.
Second. Commissioned and non-com-
missioned officers, seamen, ordinary sea-
men. fotilla- men, marines, clerks, and
landsmen in the navy.
Third. Militia, volunteers, and State
troops of any State or Territory, called
into military service and regularly mus
tered therein, and whose services have
been paid by the United States.
Fourth. Wagon-masters and team
sters who have been employed under the
direction of competent authority, i'll time
of war, in the transportation of military
stores and supplies.
Fifth. Officers and soldiers of the
Revolutionary war, and marines, seamen:
and other persons in the naval service OF
the United States during. that war;
Sixth. Chaplains who served with
the army.
Seventh. Volunteers who served with
the armed forces of the United States
i'm any of the wars mentioned, subject to
military orders, whether regularly mus
tered into the service of the United
States or not.
"Sec. 2427 The following class of per-
sons are included as benefciaries under
section 2425, without regard to the length
Of service rendered:
"First Any of the classes of persons
mentioned in section 1926 who have been
actually engaged in any battle in any of
the wars in which this country has been
engaged since 1890, and prior to March 3.
1885.
Second. Those volunteers who served
at the invasion of Plattsburg, in Septem-
Der, 1914.
Third. The volunteers who served at
the battle, of Nickojack against the con-
fcderate savages of the South.
Fifth. The! volunteers who served ut
the attack on Lewist0wn. in Delaware. by
the British feet. in the War of 1872"
Free negroes duly enlisted into the
service. and officers and seamen OF rev.
enue cutters cooperating with the navy.
and their heirs, are entitled.
SERVICE coNFERRINa NO TITLE.
Troops employed in removing the Cher
okee Indians from North Carolina in 1898
are not entitled to bonnty-land unless
pose of suppressing the hostilities of the
Indians, or actively engaged in such
duty. Service in the northern frontier
disturbance. or Patriot War" in 1889;
or in tile Toledo War; sO-called. a dis
tnrbance between Michigan and Ohio in
1876: or in the Winnebago disturbance
in 1927: or in the "Indian Stream War."
Hampshire and Canada. lasting from No
vember. 1885,. till February. 1886, does
not give title. Contract surgeons, me-
chanics and laborers employed in the
army, quartermaster's employees, priva-
teersInen. or any persons in the service Of
the United States who were dishonOrably
DISCHARGED or deserted. are not entitled.
No person is entitled to bounty-land for
service rendered subsequent to March ),
1855.
WIDOWS AND CHILDREN UNDER THE ACT
OF MARCH 3. 1855.
The title of widows and children rs de-
fined by the act of March g. 1865. is en-
bodied in the Revised Statutes, as fol
lows:
''Sec. 242S. In the event of the death
of any person who would be entitled to a
warrant, as provided i'm section 1925,
leaving widow, or, if no widow. n minor
child, such widow or such minor child
shall receive a warrant for the same
quantity of land that the decedent would
he entitled to receive. if living on the Sd
day of March. 1855"
1t will be noted that this provision con-
fers title on widows and children debarred
under the Mexican war acts of 1917 and
amendments because of ina bility to show
the soldiers death due to his service in
that war.
wIDOwHoOD.
The Mexican war acts were addressed
to the widow" The act of September
%. 1850. relative to the 1912 and Indian
wars. contained the provso: Provided,
She is unmarried at the date of her APP
plication." The act Of March 3, 1855, con
tanned the following. as embodied in Sec
ton 2429. Revised Statutes:
Sec. 2429. A subsequent marriage
shall not impair the right of any widow,
under the preceding section, if she be a
widow ut the time Of her application"
A widow who remarked, but has been
divorced from the second husband. and
has not again married, is considered the
widow of the first husband.
MINORITY.
The Mexican war acts did not require
that children claiming bounty-land there
under be minors Mt the date Of the act.
The act of September %, 1850, relative to
the 1912 and Indian wars, was addressed
TO minor children" In the act of March
3, 1865. occurred the following. now en-
bodied i'm section 243O, Revised Statutes
.Sec. 243O. Persons within the age of
y years on the Sd day of March, 1855.
shall he considered minors within the in
tent of sectaoH OPS
1t has been. held that no child is en-
tilted under any Of the bounty laws
unless under y on March 3, 1865. bur
ibis Jew does not seem now to be adj
THE NAVY.
Except as To the officers and enlisted
men of the Marine Corps, serving with
he army in tht Mexican war, and their
ieirs provided for by the act of August
IN 1910 a,nanl;nn tho not of 70 ,,,,, -.