The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-09-22
Washington News.

WASHINGTON, September 21.-POst-
master General has since yesterday made
about 160 changes of postmasters and 70
of route agents, the latter principally In
the West.
The President has also appointed the
| following named postmasters, among
others, and removed their immediate
predecessors: Benjamin A. Griffith, Mon
mouth, Illinois; II. s. Weeks, Lockport,
Illinois; Isaac w. Webster, Keroska,
Wisconsin; Craig D. Beebe, Beaver Dam,
Wisconsin; Wm Fl. Woodrow, Hillsboro,
Ohio.
The Treasury Department has issued a
circular in accordance with the act Of
July last, repeating the fishing bounties,
containing regulations governing the
allowance of drawbacks on imported salt
for curing fish. ~
A heavy rain has been falling through
out the afternoon, causing chan nge III
temperature to the extent of about Two
| degrees.
The following rules and regulations for
the payment of bounties, approved July
%, 1866, have been issued by the War
Department !;
First All applications shall be filed
within the period Of six months from the
first day OF October, 1866, and before any
payments are made shall be classified by
regiments, battalions, or other separate
organizations, and no application filed
after that period shall be paid until the
former shall have been paid.
Second. No application shall be enter
tanned unless accompanied by the original
+ln nd
required by the l4th section OF the act
and the further affidavit that he has
not received nor is he entitled to
receive from the United States, under
any laws or regulations prior to the act
of July 28th, 1866, more than one hum
dred dollars bounty for any and all mill
tary service rendered by him during the
late rebellion, over and above the amount
therein claimed.
Third. All applications for the addi-
tional bounty authorized by this act from
surviving soldiers shall be in the form
hereinafter prescribed, and the evidence
of identity shall be the same as is now
required and applications from the heirs
of deceased soldiers shall be in the form
now required by the Treasury Depart
ment.
Fourth As soon as the examination of
the claims of any regiment or independent
organization shall have been properly
acted upon, the paymaster shall take tile
necessary steps for their prompt pay
ment.
Fifth. A register shall be kept in the
Paymaster Generals Office and also in the
office of the Second Auditor of all claims
ha To- in rvh al IN
ants will be- classified by regiments, &c
If the claims be allowed, the amount OF
bounty paid to each will be noted, and If
rejected the cause of rejection will be
distinctly stated.
Sixth In the application for bounty as
required by rule third, the affidavit shall
state each and every period of service
rendered by the claimant, and also that
be never served otherwise than as there
in stated.
. Seventh. Organizations irrogularly
in the service of the United States, called
Militia Home Guards, are not included
in the general bounty laws, and not in
cluded within this act.
Eighth. Soldiers enlisted for three
wears, or during the Wal, who were dis
charged by reason OF the. termination
of the war, shall be considered as hav-
ing served out the period of their en-
Iistment, and are entitled to bounty un-
der this act
Ninth. The minority Of heirs, claim
ants for bounty under this act, must be
proven to have existed at the date OF
its passage. Parents shall receive, joint
ly, bounty to which they may be entitled,
as heirs; unless the father has abandoned
the support of his family, in which case
it shall be paid to the mother,
non residence shall not be O. bar to
the claim. Heirs who would otherwise
legally inherit the prov son OF the act,
and exclude from its benefits the follow
| ing classes:
First. Those who after serving the
| full period of enlistment were dlshonor-
ably discharged at its expiration.
Second. Those discharged during en-
listment by way of favor OF punishment.
Third. Those discharged on account
of disability contracted In the service,
but not ocoasioned by wounds receiV'
ed in the line of duty who shall not have
previously served two or three years
respectively at the time Of discharge.
| Fourth. Those discharged on account
of disability existing at the time of their
enlistment.
Fifth. The heirs Of those who have
died since their discharge, of wounds or
! disease not contracted in the service, and
in the line of duty.
Sixth. The surviving soldiers and heirs
of deceased soldiers, who under previous
laws have received or are entitled to re.
ceive bounty Of more than 500 from
| the United States.
| Seventh, The surviving soldiers, as
| well as heirs of deceased soldiers, when
such soldiers have bartered, sold assigned,
loaned, transferred, exchanged or given
away their final discharge papers, or any
interest in bounty provided by this or
any other act Of Congress.
| Eighth. The act of the 23th OF July,
1866, creates no right of inheritance be-
yond those vested by the law under
which these heirs received, or were enti-
tied to receive the original bounty, and
debars certain classes, brothers and sis
ters or heirs that were entitled to receive
the original bounty from any claim for
additional bounty provided by this act.
The above having been referred by the
Secretary of War to the Attorney Gen.
eral for his opinion on the point wheth'
er the rules and regulations as within
amended are in conformity with the law,
| the latter has given an affirmative re