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going 10 affect ihe iitle Or claim to any such bounty figlA, made or executed prior to the issue of such warrant or certificate, shall hs nnll and void 10 all in,euts and purposes whais0eyer, nor shall such claim to bounty right be ip anywise affected by, or charged with, or subject to, the payment Of any debt or claim incurred by the soldier prior to the issuing Of such certificate or warrant Pro- pided, That no land warrant issued under the provisions of ihis act shall be laid upon any lands of the United States to which there shall be presumption right, or upon which there shall be an actual settlement and culIi-

 yation: Proridtd, further, That every such |non-commissioncd officer, musician, and

 private who may be entitled, under the pro visions of this act. to receive certificate or

 warrant fof one hundred and sixty acres oE land, shall be allowed tbe option to receive such certificate, or warrant, or Treasury scIip fo, one hnndretl dollars, and such scrip, whenever Il is preferred, shall be is- sued by the Secretary of the Treasury to such person ov persons as would bc aulhoV-. ized to receive such certificates or warrants

 for lands; said scrip to bear an interest of 9iA pNt SShe' tsct Nuhuus payd "St"t'~tt7 nualiy, redeemablc at the pleasure of tho |GoveFnmenL And that each private, noti- commissioned officer, and musician, who shall have been received into the service of the United States since the commencement of the war sth Mexico, for less than twelve

 mouths, and shall have served for such term, or until honorably discharged, shall be en- titled 10 receive q warrant for forty acres of land, which may be subject to private entry. or twenty-five dollars in scrip il preferred !; aud in the event oI tho death of such volun- teer during his term of service, or after an honorable discharge, but before the passage of this act, then the warrant for such land, Of scrip, shall issue to the wife, child. or children, if there be any, and If none, then to the father, and if there be no father, then 10 tie mother of sach deceased volunteer Provided, That nothing contained in this section shall be so construed as to give bounty lands to such volunteers as were ac- cepted into service, and discharged without being marched to the seat of war.