The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-22
FROM wAsHfNGTON.

- W,AsHfNGToN, Sept, 21,-The Post
master General has, since yesterday,
made about 1870 changes Of Postmas-
ters and route agents, the latter prin-
cipally In the West. r. ~ -, r.. II
THE President has also appointed
the following named Postmasters
among others. and removed their i'm
mediate predecessors: BeDjaminiA.
Griffith, Monmouth, Illinois; Harvey
S. Weeks, Lockports, Illinois. Isaac
w, Webster, Kenosha, Wisconsin;
Craig D., Beebe,. Beaver Dam, Wis.,
consin; W. + H. Woodbury., Hillsboro,
Ohio. IL ,r
GThe Treasury Department has is
sued a circular in accordance. with the
act Of July last, repeating the fishing
bounties containing regulations gov
erning the allowance Of drawbacks on
imported salt for curing fish. - - .,'' r.
A heavy rain has been falling
throughout this afternoon, causing a
change in the temperature to the ex-
tent of about twenty degrees. va
) The following lrules.and regulations
for the payment of bounties, approx
ed July %, 1866, have just. been is
sued from, the War Department: i, =
i. AL applications shall be filed
within the period of six months from
the first day of October, 1866, and
before any Payments aremade shall be
classified by regiments, battalions or
other separate organizations, and no
applications filed after that period
shall be settled until the former shall
have been paid. .-.
a2..oNo applications shall be enter
tained unless accompanied by the
original discharge of the soldier, and
the affidavit required by the 18th sec
ton of the act, and t. further afida-
Wit that he has not received, nor is he
entitled to receive from the United
States under any laws or regulations
prior to the act of July %, 1866, more
than one hundred dollars bounty for
any or all military service rendered by
| him during the late rebellion, over
and above the amount therein claim
ed. ~, .r,easBIL a.f1 rs. Gof...s ot
3. All applications for the addition
al bounty authorized by this act from
surviving soldiers, shall be in form
hereafter prescribed, and the evidence
! of identity shall be the same as now
required, and applications from the
heirs Of deceased soldiers shall be in
form now required by the Treasury
/ Department.. ~,
! A. AS soon as the examination. of
the claims of any regiment or other
| independent organization shall have
been properly acted upon, the Pay
master General shall take necessary
steps for their prompt payment. =
3. Al register shall be kept in the
Paymaster Generals office, and also
/ in the Office of the Second Auditor
of all claims presented under the Law
in which the claimants will be classi-
| fed by regiments, &C. If the claims
be allowed, the amount of bounty
paid to each will be noted, and if re-
iected. the cause of the rejection will
| be stated. '"'7 ~ r.
| g. In the application for bounty as
required by the third of these rules
! the afidavits shall state each and
every period of service rendered by
i the claimant, and also that he never
| served otherwise than as therein
fstated. sa3 3va .1.s8 u
# Z. Organizations irregularly3 in the
service of the United States, or called
i out for special purposes, as State
. militia, homeguaTdsi &e., and not In
Z cluded in the general bounty clause
are not included within the meaning
of the act
S. Soldiers enlisted for three year: