r Militia and vol since 1812. 24 SEC. 2420. Where the militia, or volunteers, or State tro unteers in service State or Territory, subsequent to the eighteenth day of Jur hundred and twelve, and prior to March twenty-second, eighte and fifty-two, were called into service, the officers and soldi shall be entitled to all the benefits of section two thousand fo and eighteen upon proof of length of service as therein requ SEC. 2421. No person shall take any benefit under the provis three preceding sections, if he has received, or is entitled any military land-bounty under any act of Congress passe the twenty-second March, eighteen hundred and fifty-two. Persons not en titled under pre- Period of captivity added to actual service. Warrant and when. Widows of persons entitled. SEC. 2422. The period during which any officer or soldier in captivity with the enemy shall be estimated and added to of his actual service, and the person so retained in capt receive land under the provisions of sections twenty-four hu eighteen and twenty-four hundred and twenty, in the same m he would be entitled in case he had entered the service for term made up by the addition of the time of his captivity served during such term. SEC. 2423. Every person for whom provision is made b patent to issue, twenty-four hundred and eighteen and twenty-four hundred a shall receive a warrant from the Department of the Interi quantity of land to which he is entitled; and, upon the retu warrant, with evidence of the location thereof having bee made to the General Land-Office, a patent shall be issued ther SEC. 2424. In the event of the death of any person, for who ion is made by sections twenty-four hundred and eighteen and four hundred and twenty, and who did not receive bounty-lan services, a like warrant shall issue in favor of his widow, who entitled to one hundred and sixty acres of land in case her was killed in battle; nor shall a subsequent marriage impair of any widow to such warrant, if she be a widow at the time o her application. Additional SEC. 2425. Each of the surviving persons specified in the cla bounty-lands, &c. merated in the following section, who has served for a period o than fourteen days, in any of the wars in which the United Sta been engaged since the year seventeen hundred and ninety, and the third day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, shall be to receive a warrant from the Department of the Interior, for dred and sixty acres of land; and, where any person so entitled to the third day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, re warrant for any number of acres less than one hundred and shall be allowed a warrant for such quantity of land only as wi in the whole, with what he may have received prior to that hundred and sixty acres. Classes under SEC. 2426. The classes of persons embraced as beneficiaries u last section spec- preceding section, are as follows, namely: ified. First. Commissioned and non-commissioned officers, musicia privates, whether of the regulars, volunteers, rangers, or mili were regularly mustered into the service of the United States. Second. Commissioned and non-commissioned officers, seame nary seamen, flotilla-men, marines, clerks, and landsmen in the Third. Militia, volunteers, and State troops of any State or T called into military service, and regularly mustered therein, an services have been paid by the United States. Fourth. Wagon-masters and teamsters who have been employe the direction of competent authority, in time of war, in the tra tion of military stores and supplies. Fifth. Officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war, and n seamen, and other persons in the naval service of the United during that war. Sixth. Chaplains who served with the Army. Seventh. Volunteers who served with the armed forces of the States in any of the wars mentioned, subject to military orders, w regularly mustered into the service of the United States or not. SEC. 2427. The following class of persons are included as benef persons are en- under section twenty-four hundred and twenty-five, without reg titled under sec- the length of service rendered. What classes of tion 2425, without regard to length First. Any of the classes of persons mentioned in section twent of service. hundred and twenty-six who have been actually engaged in any ba any of the wars in which this country has been engaged since sev 25 hundred and ninety, and prior to March third, eighteen hundred and Second. Those volunteers who served at the invasion of Plattsburgh, Third. The volunteers who served at the battle of King's Mountain, in the revolutionary war. Fourth. The volunteers who served at the battle of Nickojack against the confederate savages of the South. Fifth. The volunteers who served at the attack on Lewistown, in Delaware, by the British fleet, in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. SEC. 2428. In the event of the death of any person who would be Widows and entitled to a warrant, as provided in section twenty-four hundred and children of pertwenty-five, leaving a widow, or, if no widow, a minor child, such widow sons entitled unor such minor child shall receive a warrant for the same quantity of land der section 2425. that the decedent would be entitled to receive, if living on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-five. SEC. 2429. A subsequent marriage shall not impair the right of any Subsequent widow, under the preceding section, if she be a widow at the time of marriage of her application. widow. SEC. 2430. Persons within the age of twenty-one years on the third Minors under day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, shall be considered section 2428. minors within the intent of section twenty-four hundred and twenty eight. SEC. 2431. Where no record evidence of the service for which a war- Proof of servrant is claimed exists, parol evidence may be admitted to prove the ice. service performed, under such regulations as the Commissioner of Pensions may prescribe. received in cer SEC. 2432. Where certificate or a warrant for bounty-land for any less Former eviquantity than one hundred and sixty acres has been issued to any officer dence of right to or soldier, or to the widow or minor child of any officer or soldier, the bounty-land to be evidence upon which such certificate or warrant was issued shall be tain cases. received to establish the service of such officer or soldier in the application of himself, or of his widow or minor child, for a warrant for so much land as may be required to make up the full sum of one hundred and sixty acres, to which he may be entitled under the preceding section, on proof of the identity of such officer or soldier, or, in case of his death, of the marriage and identity of his widow, or, in case of her death, of the identity of his minor child. But if, upon a review of such evidence, the Commissioner of Pensions is not satisfied that the former warrant was properly granted, he may require additional evidence, as well of the term as of the fact of service. for distance from or dis SEC. 2433. When any company, battalion, or regiment, in an organ- Allowance of ized form, marched more than twenty miles to the place where they were time, of service mustered into the service of the United States, or were discharged more home to place of than twenty miles from the place where such company, battalion, or muster regiment was organized, in all such cases, in computing the length of charge. service of the officers and soldiers of any such company, battalion, or regiment, there shall be allowed one day for every twenty miles from the place where the company, battalion, or regiment was organized to the place where the same was mustered into the service of the United States, and one day for every twenty miles from the place where such company, battalion, or regiment was discharged, to the place where it was organized, and from whence it marched to enter the service, provided that such march was in obedience to the command or direction of the President, or some general officer of the United States, commanding an army or department, or the chief executive officer of the State or Territory by which such company, battalion, or regiment was called into service. not SEC. 2438. No person who has been in the military service of the Deserters United States shall, in any case, receive a bounty-land warrant if it entitled to bounappears by the muster-rolls of his regiment or corps that he deserted or ty-land. was dishonorably discharged from service. SEC. 2439. When a soldier of the Regular Army, who has obtained a Lost warrants, military land-warrant, loses the same, or such warrant is destroyed by provisions for. accident, he shall, upon proof thereof to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior, be entitled to a patent in like manner as if the warrant was produced. SEC. 2440. In all cases of discharge from the military service of the United States of any soldier of the Regular Army, when it appears to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War that a certificate of faithful services and Discharges, omissions, loss of, provided for. New warrant lost warrant. has been omitted by the neglect of the discharging officer, struction of the law, or by any other neglect or casualty, suc shall not prevent the issuing of the warrant and patent as in And when it is proved that any soldier of the Regular Army 1 discharge and certificate of faithful service, the Secretary of cause such papers to be furnished such soldier as will entitle land-warrant and patent, provided such measure is justified b of his enlistment, the period of service, and the report of som the corps to which he was attached. SEC. 2441. Whenever it appears that any certificate or warr issued in lieu of in pursuance of any law granting bounty-land, has been lost or whether the same has been sold and assigned by the warrant the Secretary of the Interior is required to cause a new cen warrant of like tenor to be issued in lieu thereof; which new or warrant may be assigned, located, and patented in like n other certificates or warrants for bounty-land are now auth law to be assigned, located, and patented; and in all cases w rants have been, or may be, re-issued, the original warrant, ever hands it may be, shall be deemed and held to be null and the assignment thereof, if any there be, fraudulent; and no pa ever issue for any land located therewith, unless such presu fraud in the assignment be removed by due proof that the executed by the warrantee in good faith and for a valuable consi SEC. 4635. Bounty for persons captured on enemy's vesse under PRIZE.] March 3, 1875. APPROPRIATION. For collection and payment of bounty, prize money and oth of colored soldiers and sailors; salaries of agents and clerks Bounty, prizemoney, &c., of office; fuel, lights, stationery, and similar necessaries; office f colored soldiers and repairs; transportation of officers and agents, telegraph postage, seventy-five thousand dollars. and sailors. Bounties to For the payment of bounties to sailors and marines under sailors and laws, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces marines. Sec. BRIBES, PRESENTS, &c. 1546. Contributions for political purposes. 1782. Taking compensation in matters to which Title 15, Chap. 6. Contributions Sec. 5450. Bribery of member of Congress. 5451. Bribery of Government officers. 5500. Member of Congress accepting bril 5501. United States officer accepting bril 5502. Forfeiture of office. SEC. 1546. No officer or employé of the Government shall req request any workingman in any navy-yard to contribute or for political pur- money for political purposes, nor shall any workingman be rem discharged for political opinion; and any officer or employé of th ernment who shall offend against the provisions of this sectio be dismissed from the service of the United States. poses. Title 19. Prohibition SEC. 1781. Every member of Congress or any officer or agent Government who, directly or indirectly, takes, receives, or ag upon taking con- receive, any money, property, or other valuable consideration wha sideration for from any person for procuring, or aiding to procure, any co procuring con- office, or place, from the Government, or any Department ther tracts, offices, &c. from any officer of the United States, for any person whatever, giving any such contract, office, or place to any person whoms and every person who, directly or indirectly, offers or agrees to or gives, or bestows any money, property, or other valuable cons tion whatever, for the procuring or aiding to procure any such tract, office, or place, and every member of Congress who, direc indirectly, takes, receives, or agrees to receive any money, proper other valuable consideration whatever after his election as such me for his attention to, services, action, vote, or decision on any que matter, cause, or proceeding which may then be pending, or m law or under the Constitution be brought before him in his o capacity, or in his place as such member of Congress, shall be de guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be imprisoned not more than years and fined not more than ten thousand dollars. And any 27 contract or agreement may, at the option of the President, be declared matters to which SEC. 1782. No Senator, Representative, or Delegate, after his election Upon taking and during his continuance in office, and no head of a Department, or compensation in other officer or clerk in the employ of the Government, shall receive or United States is agree to receive any compensation whatever, directly or indirectly, for a party. any services rendered, or to be rendered, to any person, either by himself or another, in relation to any proceeding, contract, claim, controversy, charge, accusation, arrest, or other matter or thing in which the United States is a party, or directly or indirectly interested, before any Department, court-martial, Bureau, officer, or any civil, military, or naval commission whatever. Every person offending against this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be imprisoned not more than two years, and fined not more than ten thousand dollars, and shall, moreover, by conviction therefor, be rendered forever thereafter incapable of holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the Government of the United States. Prohibition of SEC. 1784. No officer, clerk, or employé in the United States Government employ shall at any time solicit contributions from other officers, contributions, clerks, or employés in the Government service for a gift or present to presents, &c., to superiors. those in a superior official position; nor shall any such official or clerical superiors receive any gift or present offered or presented to them as a contribution from persons in Government employ receiving a less salary than themselves; nor shall any officer or clerk make any donation as a gift or present to any official superior. Every person who violates this section shall be summarily discharged from the Government employ. SEC. 5450. Every person who promises, offers, gives, or causes or pro- Title 70, Chap. 5. cures to be promised, offered, or given, any money or other thing of value, or makes or tenders any contract, undertaking, obligation, gratu- member of ConBribery of ity, or security for the payment of money, or for the delivery or convey- gress. ance of anything of value, to any member of either House of Congress, either before or after such member has been qualified or has taken his seat, with intent to influence his vote or decision on any question, matter, cause, or proceeding which may be at any time pending in either House of Congress, or before any committee thereof, shall be fined not more than three times the amount of money or value of the thing so offered, promised, given, made, or tendered, or caused or procured to be so offered, promised, given, made, or tendered, and shall be, moreover, imprisoned not more than three years. Bribery of any officers. SEC. 5451. Every person who promises, offers, or gives, or causes or procures to be promised, offered, or given, any money or other thing of United States value, or makes or tenders any contract, undertaking, obligation, gratuity, or security for the payment of money, or for the delivery or conveyance of anything of value, to any officer of the United States, or to any person acting for or on behalf of the United States in any official function, under or by authority of any department or office of the Government thereof, or to any officer or person acting for or on behalf of either House of Congress, or of any committee of either House, or both Houses thereof, with intent to influence his decision or action on any question, matter, cause, or proceeding which may at any time be pending, or which may by law be brought before him in his official capacity, or in his place of trust or profit, or with intent to influence him to commit or aid in committing, or to collude in, or allow, any fraud, or make opportunity for the commission of any fraud, on the United States, or to induce him to do or omit to do any act in violation of his lawful duty, shall be punished as prescribed in the preceding section. SEC. 5500. Any member of either House of Congress who asks, Title 70, Chap. 6. accepts, or receives any money, or any promise, contract, undertaking, obligation, gratuity, or security for the payment of money, or for the delivery or conveyance of anything of value, either before or after he has been qualified or has taken his seat as such member, with intent to have his vote or decision on any question, matter, cause, or proceeding Member of Congress accepting bribe, &c. United States which may be at any time pending in either house, or befo mittee thereof, influenced thereby, shall be punished by a fi than three times the amount asked, accepted, or received, prisonment not more than three years. [See § 5450.] SEC. 5501. Every officer of the United States, and every officer accepting ing for or on behalf of the United States, in any official capa bribe, &c. or by virtue of the authority of any department or office of t ment thereof; and every officer or person acting for or o either House of Congress, or of any committee of either H both Houses thereof, who asks, accepts, or receives any mor contract, promise, undertaking, obligation, gratuity, or secu payment of money, or for the delivery or conveyance of a value, with intent to have his decision or action on any ques ter, cause, or proceeding which may, at any time, be pending may be by law brought before him in his official capacity, or i of trust or profit, influenced thereby, shall be punished as pre the preceding section. [See § 5498, under CLAIMS.] Forfeiture of SEC. 5502. Every member, officer, or person, convicted und visions of the two preceding sections, who holds any place o trust, shall forfeit his office or place; and shall thereafter disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit United States. Title 59, Chap. 6. SEC. 4877. In the arrangement of the national cemeteries esta for the burial of deceased soldiers and sailors, the Secretary of Inclosures, headstones, and hereby directed to have the same inclosed with a good and subs registers. stone or iron fence; and to cause each grave to be marked with headstone or block, which shall be of durable stone, and of such and weight as shall keep it in place when set, and shall bear th of the soldier and the name of his State inscribed thereon, wh same are known, and also with the number of the grave ins thereon, corresponding with the number opposite to the name party in a register of burials to be kept at each cemetery and office of the Quartermaster-General, which shall set forth the rank, company, regiment, and date of death of the officer or soldi if these are unknown, it shall be so recorded. Who may be cemeteries. SEC. 4878. All soldiers, sailors, or marines, dying in the service buried in national United States, or dying in a destitute condition, after having been orably discharged from the service, or who served during the lat either in the regular or volunteer forces, may be buried in any na cemetery free of cost. The production of the honorable discharg deceased man shall be sufficient authority for the superintendent cemetery to permit the interment. |