The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-22
Post once MISREPRESENTATION for
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master General has, since yesterday,
made about $50 changes of Postmasters
and p of route agEnts-the latter prin.
cipaIIy In the west. The President has
also appointed the following named
PostmRsters among others and renioV-
1auin A. Griffith, Monmouth, ILL.,; II.
8. Weeks, Lockport, ILL.,; Isaac w.
Webster, kerwaskR, Wis; Craig ID.
Beebe, Beaver Dam, Wis; VIM. n.
Woodrow, Hillsboro, Ohio.
The Treasury Department has issued
July last, repeating the fishing boun-
ties containing regulations governing
the allowance of draw backs on import.
ed salt for curing fish.
A henyy rain has been falling through
out the afternoon, causing a change in
the temperature to the extent of about
20 degrees.
for the payment of bounties offered
July 18th, 1866, have been issued by the
War Departments:
LIST. All applications shall be filed
within the period of six months from
the first day of October, 1866, and be-
fore any payments are made shall be
classified by regiments, battalion or
other separate organizations, and no
application filed after that period shall
be paid until the former shall have
been paid.
End. No application shall be enter
tanned unless accompanied by the origi-
nal discharge of the soldiers and the
affidavit required by the 14th section of
the act and the further affidavit that he
has not received nor is he entitled to re-
celve from the United States, under any
laws or regulation prior to the act of
July Is, 1866, more than 500 bounty
for any aud all military service render
ed by him during the late rebellion.
over and above the amount therein
claimed.
Sd. All applications for the additional
bounty authorized by this act from sur
ytving soldiers shall be in the form
herein after prescribed, and the evil
dence 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 Treas
ury Department.
4th. AS soon as the examination
of the claims of AZ y regiment
or other Independent organizations
shall have been properly acted
upon, the Paymaster General shall
take the necessary steps for their
prompt payment.
9th. A register shall be kept in the
fPaymaster Generals Office, and also in
the office of the Second Auditor, of all
claims presented, the law in which the
claimant will be classified, by regi-
ments, &c. If the claim be allowed,
the amount ofbounty paid TO each will
be noted, and if rejected, the cause of
rejection will be distinctly stated.
9th. In the application for bounty, as
required by the third of these rules, the
athdavit shall state each and every Pc
Rod of service rendered by the claim
ant, and also that he never served other
wise than as therein stated.
9TH. Organization irregularly in the
service of the U. s. service, or called
out for special purposes as State militia,
Home Guards, &c, not included in the
general bounty laws, are not included
within the meaning of the act.
Sth., Soldiers enlisted for three years,
or during the war, who were discharg-
ed by reason of the termination of the
war, shall be considered as having serv-
ed out the period of their enlistment
and are entitled to bounty under this
act.
9th. The minority of the heirs claim
ants for bounty under this act must be
proven to have existed at the date of its
passage. Parents shall receive Jointly
bounty to which they may be entitled
as heirs, unless the father has ADAM
doned the support of his family in
which case, ii shall be paid to the
mother; non-residence in the uni
ted States shall not be a bar to
the claim of heirs, who would otherwise
legally inherit. The provisions of the
act exclude from its benefits the follow
ing classes:
period of enlistment were dishonorabIy
discharged at its expiration.
I'd. Those discharged during enlist
ment by way of favor or punishment.
Sd. Those discharged on account of
disability contracted in the service, but
not occasioned by wounds received in
the time of duty, who shall not have
previously served two or three years
respectively at the time of discharge.
4th. Those discharged on account of
disability existing at the time of their
enlistment.
5th. The heirs ofthose who have died
since their discharge of wounds or dis
ease not contracted in the service and
in the time of duty.
6th-The surviving soldiers and heirs
of deceased soldiers who under previ-
GUS laws. have received, or are entitled
to receive, bounty of more than SlOO
from the United States.
7th-The surviving soldiers as well as
heirs of deceased soldiers, when such
soldiers have bartered, sold, assigned,
loaned, transferred, exchanged, or giv-
en- away their discharge papers, or any
Interest in bounty provided by this or
any other act of Congress.
Sth-The act of the 2Sth of July, 1865,
creates no right of Inheritance beyond
those vested by the law under which
these heirs received, or were entitled to
receive, the original bounty, and debars
certain classes- brothers and sisters-of
heirs that were entitled to receive the
original bounty from any claim for nd
ditional bounty provided by this act.
The above having been referred by
the Secretary of War to the Attorney
General for his opinion on the point
whether the rules and regulations as
within amended are in conformity with
the law, the latter has given an affirm
alive response.