East Saginaw courier., 1864-02-24
THE BOUNTY BILL.
The ACT Authorizing the Payment OF
Bountios to Volunteers.

SEC. j. Ih6 people Of the State Of
Michigan enact, That in casa any town
ship, county or city in this State shall
have heretofore voted 10 raise by tax,
or shall have hired or borrowed mon
ey, or shall have authorized or direct
el committee Of citizens, or any
township officer or officers to hire, adj
vance or raise money, or issued or au-
thorized the issuing of bonds or other
evidence Of Indebtedness, either by
the action of the corporate authority
of such township, county or city, or by
the vote of the electors thereof, had
for such purpose, or where tho board
of supervisors of any county, common
council of any city, or township board
of any township, have agreed by reso-
luton 10 issue bonds, or other evilen-
COS of Indebtedness, with tho object
and to the end Of encouraging enlist
ments by paying bounties for volun-
teers III the military service Of the
United States, or with the object and
to the end of encouraging the procur-
ing Of substitutes by persons who may
have boon or shall be drafted into said
service, or to encourage drafted
men TO enter into said service PERSONAL
", such action shall DO deemed legal
md valid, and the money so voted,
raised or hired, or so authorized or di-
rected to be hired, advanced or raised,
and tho bonds or other evidences of in
debtedness so issued or to be issued,
shall be deemed to have been legally
voted, raised or hired, and the said
bonds or other evidences Of indebted
ness shall be deemed to have been le-
gally issued, and shall be valid and
lawful claim against the township,
county or city, having voted, raised,
hired, authorized or issued the same,
and shall be paid in the same manner
rs the ordinary township, county or
city expensis arc paid and the obliga-
tions made, or to be made, to evidence
tho indebtedness of such township,
county or city, for such money so rails
ed, advanced or hired, and the bonds
or other evidences OF indebtedness SO
issued, or to be issued, shall be deem
ell valid and binding upoh such town
ship, county or city and tho tax rolls
for the collection Of the tax voted or
raised asaforesaid or for the collection
of the amountof money hired, advanc-
cd or raised as aforesaid, underauthor-
ity as aforesaid, whether spread upon
the general tax roll or special tax roll
made for that purpose, shall bedeam-
ed and are hereby declared to be legal
and valid and whenever the faith of
any county has been pledged and
bonds issued, and loaned by such
county to any township ward, supervi-
sor-district or city therein, the amount
so taken, with interest as provided |
therein, shall be assessed upon the
township, ward, supervisor-district or
city, taking the same, and shall be paid
at the same time and in the same man
ner as other county taxes are collected |
and paid.
SEc. =. In all cases where the board |
of supervisors of any county, the COM
mon council of any city, or the town
ship Board of any township, or the le-
gal voters of any city, township or
county have, in their corporate capaci-
ty, offered or agreed to pay any boun-
ty to any person or persons for yolun-
tering in the military service of the
United States, or have offered or
agreed to pay any bounty to any per-
son who may have been drafted into
said service or serving therein, either
in person or by substitute, or have is
sued bends, or other evidences Of debt,
or other instrument claimed to be such,
issued in good faith, to pay such boun-
ties, or to raise money to pay the same,
the said counties, townships and cities
are respectively authorized and en-
powered to allow and pay the same as
valid claims and such allowance and
payment shall, except as is herein 9TH
erwise provided, be made in the same
manner as ordinary claims are allowed
and paid. And such township, city or
county, may issue bonds or certificates
of Indebtedness, in lieu of any such
bonds, q certificate or instrument
claimed to be evidence of Indebtedness
heretofore issued in good faith for the
purpose aforesaid and so allowed as
aforesaid, which bonds or certificates,
when issued by a city, or county, shall
be under the seal thereof; and if by
city, shall be signed by the mayor
and city clerk, or recorder thereof;
and if by county, shall be signed by
the chairman Of the board of supervi-
sors and county clerk and if by a
township, shall be signed by the chair
man of the township board and town
ship clerk, and shall bear a rate of in
terest not exceeding seven per cent
per annum, and be payable at any
time not exceeding twenty years from
the time Of such allowance.
SEC. 3. In case the board Of supervi- !
sors of any county, or the common
council of any city, or the mayor and
recorder, or mayor and city clerk of
any city, have issued or caused to be is
sued, or shall hereafter issue in pursu-
ance of resolution heretofore adopted
bonds, warrants, certificates or other
evidences of Indebtedness purporting
to be such bonds, warrants, certificates,
or other evidences of indebtedness, for
the purpose of filling the quota of any
township, city, ward, supervisor-dis-
trict, or judicial district of any city un-
der the draft first ordered for the fifth
day of January, A. ID. 1864, or the
call previous thereto, by volunteers or
substitutes for drafted men or drafted
men actually entering the military SER
vice of the United States, such instru-
ments shall be legal evidence Of the in
debtedness Of such county or city
and the board of supervisors in such
county, and the common council of
such city, is hereby authorized and re-
ouired To ASSESS raise and collect. OF