A History of the Land Bonus of the War of 1812

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University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1922 - 106 sider

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Side 1 - With this evidence of hostile inflexibility in trampling on rights which no independent nation can relinquish, Congress will feel the duty of putting the United States into an armor and an attitude demanded by the crisis, and corresponding with the national spirit and expectations.
Side 29 - That each of the surviving, or the widow or minor children of deceased commissioned and non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, whether of regulars, volunteers, rangers, or militia, who performed military service in any regiment, company or detachment in the service of the United States...
Side 37 - General may, however, provide, by regulation, for transmitting unpaid and duly certified letters of soldiers, sailors, and marines in the service of the United States to their destination, to be paid on delivery.
Side 1 - ... from service, who shall have obtained from the commanding officer of his company, battalion, or regiment, a certificate that he had faithfully performed his duty, whilst in service...
Side 2 - ... years after he shall accept the same, and shall be bound to continue in service for the term of twelve months after they shall have arrived at the place of rendezvous, unless sooner discharged; and when called into actual service, and whilst remaining therein...
Side 6 - Resolved, That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of...
Side 11 - ... shall be set apart and reserved for the purpose of satisfying the bounties of one hundred and sixty acres, promised to the non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the United States, their heirs and legal representatives, by the act entitled "An act for completing the existing military establishment...
Side 11 - States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be surveyed a quantity of the public lands of the United States, fit for cultivation, not otherwise appropriated, and to which the Indian title is extinguished...
Side 12 - A treaty of petire had arrived, unheralded by any promIM, taking the country by surprise. pledge to those who had enlisted under the banners of their country to defend its soil and enforce its rights. He therefore moved — " That a committee be appointed to inquire into the expediency of laying off as much of the public lands as shall be necessary to satisfy the claims of the Army of the United States, and of fixing the location thereof.
Side 1 - I recommend, accordingly, that adequate provision be made for filling the ranks and prolonging the enlistments of the regular troops ; for an auxiliary force to be engaged for a more limited term; for the acceptance of volunteer corps, whose patriotic...

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