TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 215. 1830.
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shall be a separate certificate or scrip, for such sum as shall, at the time ofissuing the same, be equal to the then minimum price of each quantityof eighty acres of land due by such warrant, and remaining unsatisfiedat the time of such surrender, and a like certificate or scrip for suchsum as, at the time, shall be equal to the minimum price of the quantitythat shall so remain unsatisfied, of any such warrant after such subdivi-sions of the amount into quantities of eighty acres. And where anysuch warrant shall have been lost or mislaid, by time and accident, itshall and may be lawful for the party desiring to surrender the same, tosurrender an official copy thereof, certified under the seal of the landoffice of Virginia , with the affidavit of the party endorsed upon, or ac-companying the same, stating that such warrant has been lost or mislaid,and that the original hath not been sold or transferred, to the knowledgeor belief of the party so surrendering, or his or her guardian.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of thecommissioner of the general land office, to request the executive of Vir-ginia to furnish him with a statement of all such warrants, within thepurview of this act, as have already issued, showing the number anddate of each warrant, and the quantity of acres granted by each, andalso a monthly statement of the same description, showing the number,date, and quantity, of such warrants as shall hereafter be granted. Andno warrant shall be taken to be within the provisions of this act, whichshall hereafter be granted, unless the executive of Virginia shall cause acertificate to be endorsed thereon, signed by some proper officer, statingthat the party to whom such warrant shall be so granted, his, her, or theirancestor or devisor, was entitled thereto by some law or resolution of thesaid state, in force at the time of the deed of cession, by the state of Vir-ginia, to the United States .
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That before the Secretary of theTreasury shall issue the scrip required by the provisions of this bill, theapplicants shall produce to him the certificate of the register of the landoffice in Kentucky , and the certificate of the surveyor of the militarylands of the Virginia line, that the warrants (when the original is pre-sented, or the copy, when the original has been lost or destroyed,) hasnot been located, surveyed, or patented, in Kentucky , attested by theseal of his office.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the certificates or scrip to beissued by virtue of this act, shall be receivable in payment for any landshereafter to be purchased, at private sale, after the same shall have beenoffered at public sale, and shall remain unsold at any of the land officesof the United States , established, or to be established, in the states ofOhio, Indiana, and Illinois . And all such certificates or scrip, as shall beissued by virtue of this act shall be assignable, by endorsement thereon,attested by two witnesses: Provided, That all certificates or scrip to beissued, in virtue of auy warrant hereafter to be granted, shall be issuedto the party originally entitled thereto, or his heir or heirs, devisee ordevisees, as the case may be.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act shall bedeemed and taken to extend to all such officers, soldiers, sailors, marines,chaplains, musicians, surgeons, and surgeons’ mates, in the land or sea ser-vice of the state of Virginia during the revolutionary war, and generally,to every person to whom the state had engaged to pay a land bounty forservices in that war, of any description, by any law or resolution passedbefore, and in force at the date of the said deed of cession; except onlysuch persons as are mentioned in, and provided for by the reservationcontained in the said deed of cession in favour of the officers and sol-diers of the said state on continental establishment: Provided, That noscrip issued under the provisions of this act, shall entitle the holder toenter or'purchase any settled or occupied lands, without the written con-
Certificate ofnon-location.
Scrip receiva-ble, &c.
Proviso.
Persons con-templated bythis act.
Proviso.