Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-09-27
The Equalization of Bounties.
RULES REGULATING THEIR PAYMENT IN
DER THE LATE ACT OF CONGRESS.

RULES REGULATING THEIR PAYMENT IN
DER THE LATE ACT OF CONGRESS.
The following rules and regulations
for the payment of bounties under the
act to equalize bounties, approved July
%, 1866, have just been issued by the
War Department:
FIRST, All applications shall be filed
within the period of six months from the
LIST day of October, 1866 and before any
payments are made, shall be classified by
regiments, battallions, or other separ-
ate organizations, and no application
filed after that period shall be settled
until the former shall have been paid.
Second, No application shall be
entertained unless accompanied by
the original discharge of the SOL
der 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 receive from the United
States under any laws or regulations
prior to the act of July 26, 1866, more
than 500 for any and all military SER
vice rendered by him during the late re-
belliOn over and above the amount there
in claimed.
ThUd All applications for the addi-
tional bounty, authorized by this act
from surviving soldiers, shall be in form
hereinafter prescribed, and the evidence of
identity shall be the same as is now re-
quired, and applications from the heirs
Of deceased soldiers shall be in the form
now required by the Treasury Depart
ment.
Fourth, As soon as the examination of
the claims OF. any regiment or other in
dependent organization shall have been
properly acted upon, the Paymaster-
General shall take the necessary steps for
their prompt payment
Fifth, A 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 classified by regiments,
&c. 1.-THE claims be allowed the amount
of bounty paid to each will be noted and
if rejected, the cause of rejection will be
distinctly stated.
Strh, In the application for bounty,
as required by the third of these rules,
the affidavit shall state each and every
period of service rendered by the claim
ant, and also that he never served other
wise than as therein stated.
Seventh, Organizations irregularly in
the service of the United States, or
called out for special purposes as State
Militia home guards, &C., and not in
cluded in the several bounty laws are
not included within the meaning of the
act.
Eghth Soldiers enlisted for three years
or during 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.
Fnth The minority ofheirs claimants
for bounty under this act must be proved
to have existed at the date of its passage.
Parents shall receive jointly the bounty
to which they may be entitled as hciIs,
unless the father has abandoned the SUP,
port of his family, in which case it shall
be paid to the mother Non. residence in
the United States shall not be a bar to
the claims of heirs who would otherwise
legally inherit. The provisions of the
act exclude from its benefit the following
classes:
/. Those who, after serving the full
period of their enlistment We're dshon-
orably discharged at it's expiration.
2. Those discharged during enlistment
by way Of favor or punishment
3. Those discharged on account of dis
ability contracted in the service, but not
Occasioned by wounds received in the
line of duty, who shall not have previ-
ously served two or three years respect
lively at the time Of discharge,
4 Those discharged on account of dis
ability existing at the time of their en-
listment.
6. The heirs of those who have died
since their discharge of wounds or dis
ease not contracted in the service and in
the line of duty.
&. The surviving soldiers and heirs of
deceased soldiers who under previous
laws have received or are to receive a
bounty of more than 500 from the United |
States.
I. The surviving soldiers as we'll as |
heirs of deceased soldiers when such sol
diers have bartered, sold, assigned, |
loaned, transferred, exchanged or given
away their final discharge papers, or any
interest in the bounty crowded by this or |
any other act of Congress.
8. The act of the 28th of July, 1866, |
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 ad-
ditional bounty provided by this act.
The Attorney General has decided that
these rules and regulations are in con-
formity with the law.
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