United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 106
[Expired.]
Chap. CVI.—An Act to amend the act, entitled “An act granting in land and extra pay to certain Canadian volunteers,” passed the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the 1816, ch. 25.
Six months’ service; and name on the muster roll a condition of bounty.
Provided, &c.
Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 25.passing of this act, no bounty in land shall be given to any Canadian volunteer, except where it shall appear that the full term of six months’ service shall have been performed in some corps in the United States service, and whose name shall appear upon the muster-rolls of such corps: Provided, That where it shall appear that the said term of service had not been performed by reason of wounds received in battle, or other disabilities, occasioned by the performance of his duty while in such corps, such claimant shall be considered as having performed the full term of service for which he had engaged.
Warrants to be located on lands offered at public sale.
Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 25.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all warrants issued in pursuance of the act, entitled “An act granting bounties in land and extra pay to certain Canadian volunteers,” and which have not been located, and those which shall be issued in pursuance of this act, shall be located on such lands as have been offered at public sale according to law, and no other.
Rates of land to grades specified.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That instead of the bounty given in the act hereby amended, the following rates shall be given: For a colonel, four hundred and eighty acres; for a major, four hundred and eighty acres; for a captain, three hundred and twenty acres; for a subaltern, three hundred and twenty acres; to a non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, one hundred and sixty acres; and to the medical and other staff, in proportion to their pay.
Contrary provisions of former act repealed.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all such parts of the act hereby amended, as shall be inconsistent with, or contravene, the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.
This and former act in force for a year.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That this act, together with the act hereby amended, shall continue, and be in force, for the term of one year, and no longer.
Approved, March 3, 1817.