United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 25
Chap. XXV.—An Act granting bounties in land and extra pay to certain Canadian Volunteers.
Donations to the citizens of the United States inhabitants of Canada at the commencement of hostilities who suffered by taking a part on the side of the United States in the war.
Act of April 26, 1816, ch. 76.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 106.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all such persons as had been citizens of the United States anterior to the late war, and were at its commencement inhabitants of the province of Canada, and who, during the said war, joined the armies of the United States, as volunteers, and were slain, died in service, or continued therein, till honourably discharged, shall be entitled to the following quantities of land respectively, viz: Each colonel nine hundred and sixty acres; each major to eight hundred acres; each captain six hundred and forty acres; each subaltern officer to four hundred and eighty acres; each non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, to three hundred and twenty acres; and the bounties aforesaid shall extend to the medical and other staff, who shall rank according to their pay. And it shall be lawful for the said persons to locate their claims in quarter sections, upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States, within the Indiana Territory, which shall have been surveyed prior to such location, with the exception of salt springs, and lead mines therein, and of the quantities of land adjacent thereto, which may be reserved for the use of the same, by the President of the United States, and the section number sixteen, in every township to be granted to the inhabitants of such township, for the use of public schools; which locations shall be subject to such regulations, as to priority of choice, and the manner of location, as the President of the United States shall prescribe.
Land warrants to be issued by the Secretary of War.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary for the Department of War, for the time being, shall from time to time, under such rules and regulations as to evidence as the President of the United States shall prescribe, issue to every person coming within the description aforesaid, a warrant for such quantity of land as he may be entitled to by virtue of the aforesaid provision; and in case of the death of such person, then such warrant shall be issued to his widow, or if no widow, to his child or children.
Three months’ additional pay to be made to them by the Treasurer of the United States.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Treasurer of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized and required, to pay to each of the persons aforesaid three months’ additional pay, according to the rank they respectively held in the army of the United States during the late war.
Approved, March 5, 1816.