Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-04-06

Az IsIroRrANT BoUNTT BHI.--The follow
ing bounty bin has passed the Heuse Of Rep
resentatives and we are informed will pass the
Senate. This is no more than an act Of Jus
tice. A number of volunteers re.enlisted in
the field and accredited themselves to locali-
ties which were reported to be paying large
bounties, those localities received the advan,
tage OF the credits, but on the return Of the
volunteers theyrefusedto pay the sums which
honestly due them. There are several in
stances of the kind in this county
WHEREAS, At the beginning of the late Re.
belion, certain volunteers entered the mill
tary service of the United States without re-
ceiving local bounty.
Ind Where0S, Many Of said volunteers.
while yetin said service, re-enlisted for three
years more, under General Orders No. l9l,
current series, War Department, Washington.
D. c., dated June 25, 1868, and its supple
ments;
Ind TFhereas Many Of said veteran volun-
teers, through a misunderstanding of an Act
of the Legislature entitled Gan Act relating
to the payment of bounties to volunteers, ?
approved the 18th day of March, 1864, have
not been able to secure local bounties from
the proper authorities of the places to which
they have given their credit;
Therefore,
SECTION ]. BE 1t enacted 5v the Senate and
House Of Representatives Of the Common.
reeaIh Of Pennsylvania, in General assembly
met, and 1t is hereby enacted bg the authority
Of tbe-same, That all veteran volunteers be-
longing to organizations of this State, who
have been regularly re-enlisted and re-mus-
tered under General Orders No. 191 from the
War Department, dated June %, 1868, and
extending to April l. 1854 and who have not
received any local bounty, nor given their
credit to localities outside Of this State, shall
be paid local bounty of three hundred dol
lars, which shall be paid by The proper au-
thorities of such Counties, Cities, Wards,
Boroughs and townships as received the cred
it Of such veteran volunteers Proriaed,
That in case such credit be given to localities
or places included in the limits of any Town
ship, such Township, or the proper authori-
ties thereof, shall pay said bounty.
Section 2. transcripts from the records in
the Adjutant- Generals Office of this State,
certified to by the Adjutant General, as well
as General Orders from the War Department
shall be received In evidence, and the place
of residence named in the re-enlistment and
muster-in rolls shall, in the absence of other
evidence, be considered the place of credit.
Section 8. That the School Directors of
each and every Township, Ward, or Borough
in which such credits for veteran volunteers
was received and counted in filling the quotas
under the several calls of the President of
the United States for troops, are hereby au-
thorized and required to levy and collect
sufficient tax to pay said veteran volunteers,
or their heirs or legal representatives j; Pro-
Uided, That said tax shall not be collected
from officers and soldiers now in the service
of the United States, or who have been in
such service and have been honorably dis
charged therefrom, or widows and orphans or
widowed mothers Of such officers and soldiers
who may have died from wounds received or
disease contracted while in said service.