CHAP. CCV.- An Act to extend the time of issuing military land warrants to officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army.
| Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the time allowed for issuing military land warrants to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army shall be extended to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the further quantity of three hundred thousand acres of land be, and the same is hereby appropriated, in addition to the quantity heretofore appropriated by the act entitled “An act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the Virginia line and navy, and of the continental army during the revolutionary war,” approved the thirtieth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, which said appropriation shall be applied in the manner provided by the said act to the unsatisfied warrants which have been or may be issued as therein directed to the officers and soldiers and others as described in the first, fifth, and seventh sections of said act. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the last paragraph of the first section of the said act which authorizes the issuing of warrants upon an affidavit that the original was lost, and upon the production of an official copy thereof, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed. APPROVED, July 13, 1832. |