United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/3rd Session/Resolution 7
No. 7. Joint Resolution relating to patents for bounty lands.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Mode of issuing patents to the heirs of persons entitled to bounty lands. That in all cases where an officer or soldier of the revolutionary war, or a soldier of the last war, was entitled to bounty land, has died before obtaining a patent for the land, and where application is made by a part only of the heirs of such deceased officer or soldier for such bounty land, it shall be the duty of the proper officers of the War Department to issue the warrant or patent in the name of the heirs of such deceased officer or soldier, without specifying each; and the patent so issued in the name of the heirs, generally, shall inure to the benefit of the whole, in such portions as they are severally entitled to by the laws of descent in the State or Territory where the officer or soldier belonged at the time of his death.
Approved, March 3, 1843.