The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-10-12
Rnlcs nud Regulations aor the
Payment Of BDuntlcs.
what 70 DO, How to DO, aud When to
DO.

The following rules. aud regulations for
the payment of bountios under the Act to
Equalize Bounties, approved July %. 1866
have Just boon issued by the War Depart
ment
FTrst--All applications shall be filed within the
period Of six months from the list day of October,
| 1886 and, before any payments are made, shall
| be classified by regiments, battalions or other
separate organizations, and no application filed af-
ter that period shall bo settled until tho former
! shall have been paid
,ycond--No application shall be entertained un-
less accompanied by the original discharge of the
soldier, and the affidavit required by the l4th Sec
ton Of the Act, and the further ani lavit that he
has not received nor is he entitled to receive from
the United States, under any laws regulations
prior to the Act Of July rs, 1855, more than one
hundred dollars bounty, for any and all military
service rendered by him during the late rebellion,
over and above the amount therein claimed.
Tird-All applications for the llitiona bounty
authorized by this Act from surviving soldiers,
shall be in form hereinafter provided, and the evi
donce o. identity shall be the same as is now re-
quircd aud applications from the heirs of deceased
soldiers shall be in the form now required by the
Treasury Department.
F0aTi-As soon as the exami nation Of the
claims Of any regiment other independent sr-
ganzation shall have been properly acted upon,
the Paym lster-General shall take the necessary
steps for their payment
EUh "A register shall be kept in the Paymas-
ter Generals Office, and also in the Office of the
Second Auditor, fall claims presented under the
law in which the claimants will be classified by
regiments, &c. 1t the claims be allowed, the
amount Of bounty paid to each will be noted, and
if rejected tue Of rejection will be distinctly
stated.
Srth-In the application for bounty as required
by the 81 of those rules, the applicant shall state
each and every period of service rendered by the
cllimaut, and also that he never served otherwise
than MS therein stated.
S'Cenh-Organizatons irreguIarly in the service
Of the United States, or called out for special pur
poses as State militia, home guards, &C., and not
incud cd in the general bounty laws, are not in-
cluded within the meaning of the act
Eighth Soldiers enlisted for three years or du-
ring the war, who were discharged by reason Of
the termination of the war shall be considered as
having served out the period of their enlistment,
and are entitled to bounty under this act.
Nmh-The minority of heirs, claimants for
bounty under this act, must be proven to have ex-
istcd at the date of its passage. Parents shall re-
ceivc 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 will be
paid tD the mother. Non residence in the United
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 LIST. Those who after serving the full
period of their enlistment were dshOnOraby dis
charged Mt its expiration. ID. Those discharged
during enlistment by way of favor or punishment
3D. Those discharged on account of disability CON
tracted in the service, but not occasioucd by
woun Is r,c1ivel in the line of duty who shall not
have previously sirved two three years respect
lively at the time of discharges 4.h. Those dis
charged on account of disability existing at the
time of their enlistment 9TH. The heirs of those
who have dej since thor discharge of wounds or
disease not contracted in the service and in the line
of duty, 6t. The ST. v,,inG sol licrs AMI heirs of
deceased soldiers who, under previous laws, have
received or entitled to receiveA bounty of more
than 100 from the United States 9TH. The sur
viying soldiers as well as heirs of deceased sol
diers, when such soldiers have bartered, sold as
signed. loaned, transferred, exchanged or given
away their final discharge papers or any interest
in the bounty provided by this or any other act oi
Congress. S.h. The act of the 28th Of july 1866
creates M 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 tn receive the orr !inal bounty,
from any claim for additional bounty provided by
this Act.
The above having been referred by tht
Secretary OF War to tho 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 affirmative response.