And Whereas no Law of this Commonwealth hath yet ascertained the Proportions or Quantity of Land to be granted, at the End of the present War, to the Officers of the Virginia Line on Continental or State Establishment, or to the Officers of the Virginia Navy; and Doubts may arise respecting the particular Quantity of Land due to the Soldiers and Sailors, from the different Terms of their Enlistments; Be, that the Officers who shall have served in the Virginia Line on Continental Establishment, or in the Army or Navy upon State Establishment, to the End of the present War; and the noncommissioned Officers Soldiers and Sailors upon either of the said Establishments, their Heirs or legal Representatives, shall respectively be entitled to, & receive the Proportion and Quantitys of Land following; that is to say (every Major-General 7000 Acres, every Brigadier-General 6000 Acres,), every Colonel 5000 Acres, every Lieutenant Colonel 4500 Acres, every Major 4000 Acres, every Captain 3000 Acres, every Subaltern 2000 Acres, every non Commissioned Officer, who having enlisted for the War shall have served to the End thereof, 400 Acres, and every Soldier and Sailor under the like circumstances 200 Acres; every non-commissioned Officer, who having enlisted for the Term of three years shall have served out the same, or to the End of the present War 200 Acres, and every Soldier and Sailor under the like Circumstances 100 Acres; every Officer of the Navy the same Quantity of Land as an Officer of equal rank in the Army: And where any Officer Soldier or Sailor shall have fallen or died in the Service, his Heirs or legal Representatives shall be entitled to, & receive the same Quantity of Land as wou'd have been due to such Officer Soldier or Sailor respectively, had he been living.