Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 258.
(Report No. 263.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
February 29, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the
state of the Union.
Mr. W. R. W. Cobb, from the Committee on Public Lands,
reported the following bill:
A BILL
To provide for cases of lost military bounty land warrants.

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14 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That, when any officer or soldier of the revo-
lutionary army, or of the army engaged in the late war
with Great Britain, or the legal representative or repre-
sentatives of such officer or soldier having obtained a
military bounty land warrant from the United States,
shall have lost, or shall hereafter lose, the same, or said
warrant shall have been or may be by accident destroyed,
every such officer or soldier, or their legal representatives,
shall, upon proof thereof, to the satisfaction of the Secre-
tary of War, be entitled to another warrant for the same
number of acres of land as were granted by the warrant
originally issued.