Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-10-12
BOUNTY PAYmENTs-CIRoULAR
WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJ n GEN's OFgTcE !
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WAR DEPART8IENT, ADJ'T GEMS OFFICE
WASHINGTON Sept. l6.
RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE PAY.
NENT OF BoUNTIEs, UNDER THE ACT TO
EQUALIZE BoTNTIEs, APPROVED July
2S, 1866.
Il, All applications shall be fled within
the period of six months from the lst day
OF October, 1866, and before any payments
ary made shall be classified by regiments,
battalons, OF other separate organization,
and no application filed after that
period shall be settled until the former shall
have been paid.
l. NO application shall be entertained
unless accompanied by the original discharge
OF the Soldier, and the affidavit required BY
the I4th section of the act, nor is he enti-
tied to receive from the United States,
under any laws or REGULATIONS prior to the
act OF July 28th 1866, more than 800
bounty for any and all military service rem
dered by him during the late rebellion, over
and above the amount therein claimed
3, All applications for the additional
bounty, authorized by this act, from snrvi-
wing soldiers, shall be in the form hereinaf-
ter prescribed, and the evidence of identity
snail 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 Department
4. As soon as the examination of the
claims Of any regiment or other independ-
ent organization shall nave seen properly
acted, upon, the Paymaster General shall
take the necessary steps for their prompt
payment.
4. A register shall be kept in the Paymas-
ter General Office, and alsoin the Office of
the Second Auditor, of all claims presented
under the law in which the claimants will
De classified by regiments, ETC. IF the
claims be allowed, the amount of bounty
paid to each viii be noted, and if rejected,
the cause Of rejection viii be distinctly sta
ted.
6. In the applications for bounty as
required by the Sd Of these rules the afEida-
Wit shall state each and every period of
service rendered by the claimant, and also
that he never served otherwise than as
therein stated.
Z. organizations lrregularly in the service
Of the United States, or called out for
special purposes, as State Militia, Home
Guards, &c, and not included in the gener-
al bounty laws, are not included within the
meaning Of the act
8 Soldiers enlisted for three years or
during the war, who were discharged bv
reason of the termination Of the war, shall
be considered as having served out the peri
od Of their enlistment, and are entitled to
bounty under this act.
9. The minority Of heirs, claimants for
bounty under this act, must be proven to
have existed at the date Of its passage.
Parents shall receive jointly the 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 in the Uni
ted States shall not be bar to the claims of
heirs, who would otherwise legally inherit.
The provisions Of the Act exclude from
its benefits the following classes:
/. These who after serving the full peri
cd OF their enlistment were dishonMably
discharged at its expiration.
?. Those discharged during enlistment by
way OF favor or punishment.
3. Those discharged on account Of djsa-
biilty contracted in the service, but not
occasloned by wounds received in the line
of duty, who shall not have previously
served two or three years respectively at the
time of discharge,
4. Those discharged on account Of disa-
biity existing at the time of their enlist
ment.
5. Heirs Of those WHO have died since
tlei' diaelisisg, OF wounds or disease not
contracted IN the service, and in the luo OF
duty,
6. The surviving soldiers and heirs Of
deceased soldiers who, under previous laws
have received or are entitled to receive a |
bounty Of more than 500 from the United
States
Z. The surviving soldiers, as well as the
heirs Of deceased soldiers when such sol
diers have barterod, sold assigned loaned,
transferred, exchanged or given away their
fiuaidischarge papers, or any interest in the
baauty provided b. this or any other act Of
Congress
S. The act Of the 2Sth Of July 1866
creates no right of inheritance beyond those /
vested by the law under which these heirs
received, were entitled to receive the origin !
al bounty, and debars certain classes, broth
ers and sisters of heirs that were entitled to
receive, the original bounty from any claim
for the additional bounty provided by this |
act:
Respectfully referred to the Attorney
General for his sopinion on the point wheth- |
er the rules and regulations as within |
amended are in conformity with law.
EDWIN NJ. STANTON,
September IA, 1866. Secretary of War
] have examined these amended regula |
tions, and am Of opinion they are in con-
formity with law.
HENRY STANBERY, Atty. General. |
The foregoing rules and regulations are
published for the infol matipn and guidance !
of all concerned.
BY order of the Secretary of War.
e. d. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General.