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 4 THIRTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 19. 1852. one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the locator of said warrants shall pay to the United States in cash the difference between the value of such warrants at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre and the tract of land located on. _ C'<>¤%P€¤¤¤·*i°¤ Sec. 2. And be it further rmactczd That the registers and receivers gc;§;g;:;°” md 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 eleventh day of February, eighteen hundred and forty- seven, the same compensation or percentage to which they are entitled by law for sales of the public lands for cash, at the. rate of one dollar BY whom Pm and twenty-five cents per acre, the said compensation to be hereafter 1’°“°"n‘°° paid by the assignees or holders of such warrants. How paid for Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That registers and receivers, P°"· ¥’· 20* sury of the United States, for services heretofore performed in locating military bountyland 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 oiieers under the act entitled “An act to require the holders of military land warrants to'c0m- 1848 ch M pensate the land-officers of the United States for serv1ces in relation to ’' fhe location of those warrants," approved May seventeenth, eighteen Pmviso. hundred mid forty-eight: 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: Proviso. 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. Militaryboum Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That in all cases where the miligr hmd W °f tie or volunteers, or State troops of amy State or Territory were called ep:. 28 1850, . . . . . . . eh_ 85 oxlmdm into military service, and whose services have been paid by the United States subsequent to the eighteenth 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 u.ct 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 mg, ,,1, 8_ of the eleventh of February, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, be, and Pmvlm 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. L,,,, mop Sw Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That where any company, batvlccdgcw com- taliou or regiment, in on organized form, marched more than twenty puh ‘ 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 tho 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 twenty-eighth September, eighteen hundred and fifty, there slmll 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, lmttnlion or regiment was discharged, to the place where it was O1‘g3.l1· ized, and from whence it marched to enter the service. Armzovmv, March 22, 1852.
 * ’l”m°" ‘~‘°"i°°*· 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 trea-