ADDENDA.

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BOUNTY LAND ACT OF MARCH 22, 1852.

An Act making Land Warrants assignable, and for other purposes.

1. All warrants issued, or to be issued, under any law, for military bounty land, declared to be assignable, under regulations of the General Land Office, and may be used in payments for lands sold. 2. Assignees or holders to pay to registers and receivers the same pay for locating said warrants to which they are entitled for locating public lands when sold. 3. Registers and receivers entitled to receive from the Treas ury like fees for like locations already performed, with certain exceptions and qualifications. 4. Militia, volunteers, or State troops, who have been called into service, and have been paid by the United States, since the twenty-eighth June, eighteen hundred and twelve, entitled to the benefits of the act of the twenty-eighth September, eighteen hundred and fifty, upon proof of length of service therein required: The last proviso of the ninth section of act of eleventh February, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, repealed; provided, that no person having already received bounty land shall be enti tled to additional bounty land by authority of this act. 5. Time consumed, at twenty miles a day, in marching to the place where mustered into service, or from the place of discharge, to be computed in the estimate of term of service that determines the quantity of land to which the claimant shall be entitled.

APPROVED, MARCH 22, 1852.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all warrants for military bounty land which have been or may hereafter be issued under any law of the United States, and all valid locations of the same, which have been or may hereafter be made, are hereby declared to be assignable, by deed or instrument of writing, made and executed after the taking effect of this act according to such form and pursuant to such regulations as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, so as to vest the assignee with all the rights of the original owners of the warrant or location: Provided, That any person entitled to pre-emption right to any land, shall be entitled to use any such land warrant in payment of the same, at the rate of $1 25 per acre, for the quantity of land therein specified: Provided, That the warrants which have been or may hereafter be issued in pursuance of said laws, or of this act, may be located, according to the legal subdivisions of the public lands, in one body, upon any lands of the United States, subject to private entry at the time of such location, at the minimum price: Provided further, That when said warrants shall be located on lands which are subject to entry at a greater minimum than $1 25 per acre, the locator of said warrants shall pay to the United States in cash the difference between the value of such warrants at $1 25 per acre, and the tract of land located on.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the registers and receivers of the land offices shall hereafter be severally authorized to

charge and receive for their services in locating all military bounty land warrants issued since the 11th day of February, 1847, the same compensation or per centage to which they are entitled by law for sales of the public lands for cash, at the rate of $1 25 per acre, the said compensation to be hereafter paid by the assignees or holders of such warrants.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That registers and receivers, whether in or out of office at the passage of this act, or their legal representatives in case of death, shall be entitled to receive from the Treasury of the United States, for services heretofore performed in locating military bounty land warrants, the same rate of compensation provided in the preceding section for services hereafter to be performed, after deducting the amount already received by such officers under the act entitled "An act to require the holders of military land warrants to compensate the land officers of the United States for services in relation to the location of those warrants," approved May 17, 1848: Provided, That no register or receiver shall receive any compensation out of the treasury for past services who has charged and received illegal fees for the location of such warrants: And provided further, That no register or receiver shall receive for his services during any year a greater compensation than the maximum now allowed by law.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That in all cases where the militia or volunteers or State troops of any State or territory were called into military service, and whose services have been paid by the United States subsequent to the eighteenth of June, eighteen hundred and twelve, the officers and soldiers of such militia, volunteers, or troops, shall be entitled to all the benefits of the act entitled "An act granting bounty land to certain officers and soldiers who have been engaged in the military service of the United States," approved September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, and shall receive lands for their services according to the provisions of said act, upon proof of length of service, as therein required; and that the last proviso of the ninth section of the act of eleventh of February, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall authorize bounty land to those who have heretofore received or become entitled to the

same.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That where any company, battalion, or regiment, in an organized form, marched more than twenty miles to the place where they were mustered into the service of the United States, or were discharged more than twenty miles from the place where such company, battalion, or regiment was organized; in all such cases, in computing the length of service of the officers and soldiers of any such company, battalion, or regiment, with a view to determine the quantity of

land any officer or soldier is entitled to under said act, approved 28th of September, 1850, there shall be allowed one day for every twenty miles from the place where the company, battalion, or regiment was organized, to the place where the same was mustered into the service of the United States; and also one day for every twenty miles from the place where such company, battalion, or regiment was discharged, to the place where it was organized, and from whence it marched to enter the service.

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[Laws of the United States, Pamphlet Edition for 1845.]

CHAP. 15. An act restricting the grant of pensions in certain cases.
Widows' pensions limited.

APPROVED, FEBRUARY 20, 1845.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act a pension shall not be granted to any widow for or during any part or portion of the time her husband may have received one, whose declaration therefor shall not have been made on or before the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and shall not have been received at the pension office on or before the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.

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CHAP. 267. An Act making appropriation for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

The acts of the 28th September, 1850, the 22d March, 1852, and the 3d February, 1853, so far as they affect the rights of certain widows to bounty lands, explained.

APPROVED, AUGUST 5, 1854.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the act approved September twenty-eight, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, entitled "An act granting bounty land to certain officers and soldiers who have been engaged in the military service of the United States," the act approved March twenty second, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, entitled "An act to make land warrants assignable, and for other purposes," and the act approved February 3d, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, entitled "An act to continue half pay to certain widows and orphans," shall not be so construed as to deprive any widow from the benefits therein granted for the services of her husband, though she may have married again: Provided, however, That the applicant is a widow at the time of making the claim: Provided, Such party shall not receive pension during coverture.

INDEX.

THE index being the first thing looked at in a work of this character, we deemed it proper here, in order to enable all to consult this with the greatest profit, to give some elucidation of its arrangement, that it may attract the readiest attention, and thereby economize the time of the inquirer, as well as save him from the fruitless search he might occasionally be subjected to without such aid. Instead, then, of the simple alphabetical arrangement of 'catch words' and broken phrases, that convey little or no meaning more than to enable the reader to find the subject with which such words are connected in the text of the volume, with the execution of which we had at first intended to rest content, we have, upon further reflection, concluded to give such abstracts of the various subjects as we judged would be more useful to the reader, in preparing himself to make a more satisfactory examination of the details they refer to. To carry out this object with as great efficacy as practicable, we have, with no inconsiderable labor, cast the whole, as nearly as may be, into a chronological, analytical, and alphabetical, arrangement, with the view of combining every benefit that could promise to result to the reader, from the review of such a synopsis.

In the first place it must be remarked, that, taken together, the legislative enactments, as referred to under the heads of pensions to "invalids" disabled during and since the revolution, to indigents, and to survivors of the revolution, and their widows and orphans respectively, and also under the head of bounty lands of various periods and denominations, together with the supplementary acts relating to these subjects in the first part of this volume, constitute the principal and paramount matters of the work, whilst all the other items, as contained in the "Appendix," are mere accessories to them, and may be regarded as incidents, only, connected with, and carrying out the execution of the laws providing for pensions and bounty lands. Hence, conforming to this fundamental order of principal and accessory, or primary and secondary subjects, we should present an Index of two parts-1st, an Index of the laws, or the subjects provided for in the said laws; and 2d, an Index of administrative measures, with their details of advisory opinions, decisions, instructions, and forms: but from further considerations, we have thought proper to subdivide the secondary matters into two parts. Accordingly, PART I refers to the Laws: PART II refers to the Opinions of Attorneys General: and PART III refers to the Decisions, Regulations, and Forms of the Pension Office.

To the subjects however, of PART I, PART II, and PART III of this Index, we have given an alphabetical arrangement, as nearly as practicable, consistently with their arrangement in classes, and according to the chronological order of their legislative enactment, or their administrative expounding and execution. Passing by the miscellaneous items, which are referred to in the simple alphabetical order, we have combined the chronological and alphabetical arrangement of the principal subjects of each Part, into classes, according to their respective denominations, as follows, viz:

I. OF HALF PAY PENSIONS.-The "half pay" for life, or its "commutation" to full pay for five years, to certain officers of the revolution, and extended to their widows and orphans under certain circumstances, constitute a very different kind and class of pensions from those of invalids, or of widows and orphans as heirs and representatives of deceased invalid pensioners, or of persons killed, or who died of wounds or casualties