The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-10-13
From the Illinois State Register
The RadicalCOngress
VOTED
FOR TIL YLSEEVES
$4,000 BOUNTY!
FOR THE NEGRO SOLDIERS.
$500 B0UNlYI
For The Vhite soldier.
SlOO Bounty!
THE Law AND THE PROOF!
White Men, Voters, Read! Read!
Read!
THE Law AND THE PROOF!
White Men, V0terS, Read! Read!
Read!
ASTOUNDING RECORD.

BY the act OF congress approved June 10, 1864,
section 4tb, (see statutes at. large, LIST section
38th congress page 1897 it is provided as fol-
lows;
''.4nd be 1t further enacted, That all persons OF
color who were free on the 18th day of April,
1861, and vino have been enlisted and mustered
into the military service of the United States
shall, from the time of their enlistment, be emit
tied to receive the pay, bounty, and clothing al
lowed to such persons by the laws existing at the
time of their enlistment,
And the attorney general of the United States
is hereby authorized to determine any question
of law arising under this provision.
And if the attorney general aforesaid shall de
termine that any of such enlisted persons are en-.
titled to receive any pay. bounty or clothing in
addition to what they have already received, the
secretary of war shall make all necessary regu-
lations to enable the pay department to make
payment in accordance with such determine
ton"
1t will be- observed that the above section
applies to those "persons of color Uho scere
free on the 1871 day Of April, 1861"
In accordance with the PROVISION of this
law, the paynasser general of the United
States army, by his order dated May 90,
1865, memorandum No. AZ directs the
payment of bouuties to coiored troops, as fol-
lows
call persons of color, who have been enlisted
and mustered into the service of the United
States and are mustered the rolls free or
before Apri 10, 1861 are entitled to bounty, as
follows, viz:
''If enlisted prior to October "a, 1863, SlOO.
at enlisted in an old organization after Octo-
Der "a, 1868, and prior to April !, 1864, $780,
IF enlisted in organization after De-
cember "a, 1858, and prior to April, l. 1864,
$500.
eff enlisted between April /, 1864, and July
II, 1864, (inclusive) 500.
''All enlistments of colored men after July Is.
1854, for one t,go or three years, entitle them to
bounty of 500, $500 and $500 respectively
This, then, was the status of the negro sol.
der as TO bounty up to the meeting of the
session just ended of the present 'rumu" con
gress. The negro must be mustered on the
rolls as free, on or before april 10. 1861"
TO entitls him to claim and receive his
bounty.
We thought, and our brave soldiers
thought, that the darkey had justice done
him according to his merit, and that this &C.
tion of the negro-loving law. givers of the ses-
sion Of 1864 was to be the final act of the
sable drama. But it was reserved to the i'm
mortal "RUMp" to pay still another tribute of
gratitude and admiration to the memory of
those dusky warriors, who, tearing them
selves away from all the fond and tender en-
dearmsnts Of Dinah, buckled on their armor
and rushed to the deadly breach" and who
thus, by their self.sacrifcing patriotism. give
birth to that heroic sentiment-"And The
colored troops fought molly"
10 is thus that the "rump" find language
wherewith to express their gratful aoknowl-
sdgments of "past favors," viz: By Public
Resolution No. 40, of June, Is, 1866, it is
"Resolued 6y tie Senate and House Of Representa-.
tree ofhe United States of dnaeraca IN Con-
gress assembled,
'sThat the omission in the muster rolls of the
words free on or before April nineteen, eighteen
hundred and sixty-one,' shall not deprive any
colored soldier of the bounty to which he is en-
withheld by reason of such omission but where
nothing appears on the muster-ron or Of record