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 '[`rr1.m xxxu.—THE PUBL1C LANI)S.—Uu. 10. 443 locator shall pay to the United States in cash the diifcrence bctwacn the value of such warrants at one dollar and twenty-tive cents per acre and the tract of lgnd located on. But where such tract is rated atuna dollar and twenty-bye cents per acre, and docs not exceed the area specified in the warrant, It must be taken in full satisfaction thereof. S1-nc. 2-L16. In all cases of warrants for bounty—lsmds, issued b * virtue Ukimsforbounof an uct. approved July twenty-seven, one thousand eight hun<])red and *Y'l“”d“ i'? "i’t“° forty-two, und of two acts approved January twenty-seven, one thousand °f °:d’ tg "' °°°” eight hundred and thirty-hre, therein and thereby revised, and of two E`—--— acts to the same intent, respectively, approved June twentv-six, ci htm-an 2 July, 18**, °· hundred and forty-eight, and Fcbruafy eight, eighteen hu1{dred ang fifty- gg s' 1’ `·' m' P' four, for military services i u the revolutionary war,or in the war of eighteen ’ l hundred and twelve with Great Britain, which remained unsatistied on the second {hy of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, it is lawful for the person m whose name such warrant issued. his heirs or legal representatives, to enter in quurte1·-sections, at the proper local land-officc in any of the States 01* Territories, the uantity of the public lands subject to private entry which he is entitle? to under such warrant. Sec. 2417. All warmnts for b0unty—Iands referred to in the preceding Same subject. section may be located at an * time, in conformity with tL\· general laws Qfjm in force- at the time of such location. 226,s.2,x¥j1::,p.579; Sec. 2418. Each of the surviving, or the widow or minor children of Bounty-landsfor déccased commissioned and non-commissioned ofH<·crs, musicians, or $?ldi°'° i" "°"**i¤ ¥riva.te·s, whether of regulars, volunteers, rangers, 01* militia, who per- l"L__`-_. ormed military service in any regiment, company, or dcmcbment, in i1F¢b-.1847, c- the S€l'\’i('8 of the United States, in the war with Great Britain, declared 83“·9·"·”•PP·l25» on the eighteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and twelve, or in any Ugg Sew 1850 C of the Inegun wars since seventeen hundred and ninety, and prior to the 85,s. 1,v. 5, p.520; third of March, eighteen hundred and fifty, and each of the commissioned o£ccrs who was engaged in the military service of the United States in the war with Mexico, shall be entitled to lands as follows: Those who engaged to serve twelve months or during the war, and actually served nine months, shall rec·eivc one hundred und sixty acres, and those who engaged to serve six months, and actually served four months, shall receive eighty acres, and those who engaged to serve for any or an indefinite period, and actually served one month, shall receive forty acres; but wherever any officer or soldier wma honombly discharged in consequence of disability contracted in the service, before the expiration of his period of service, he shall receive the amount to which he would have been entitled if be had served the full period for which he hud cn?nged to serve. All the persons enunneratcd in this section who an isted in the regular army. or were mustered in any volunteer company for sn riod of not less than twelve months. and who served in the war with lwcxico and received an honorable discharge, or who were killed or died of wounds received or sickness ill('\\l'l'0d in the course of such service, or were discharged before the expiration of the term of service in consequence of wounds l‘€U0iV(‘d_0l'HiUkD0.*S incurred in the course of such service, shall be entitled to l‘t‘('€i\’(‘ an <·e—rtilicm.c or wm-- rant for one hundred and sixty acres of land: or at option T1·0n.sury scrip for one hundred dollars bearirg inter0st_ at six per cent. per annum, payable sqmi-annually, at the p ensure of the Gcvgrnmcqt. Qu the event of the death of any one of the persons lll€llt10ll(?d 1p thm section during service, or after his discharge. and before the xssmng of a certificate or warrant, the warrant or scrip shall be assured m favor of his fnmil or l'(¥l|\ti\’(':§; tirst, to the widow and hm children: second. his father; tgird, his mother; fourth, his brothers and sisters. _ _ _ Sec. 2419. The mens enumerated in the preccding section rccmved fC¤r¤•¤¤ g·b¤s·n¤¤ into service after tg; commencement of the wsu- with Mvxnco, foy less than twelve months, and who served such term, or were h<m0ruhly (hN('h§1'gGd knows_ &(,_,’ mw are entitled to revcivv a certificate or warrant for forty acres, or soup for tied in ion;-at-ree. twenty-tive dollars if prefm·re—<L and in the; event of tho dvnth of such Em; Iraniperson during service. or after honorable dnu·hm·gc before the vlevengh of February, eighteen hundred and forty-se·vcn. the warmnt or scrap