The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-09-22
WAsHISorok, Sept. 81.

WAsHISorok, sept. II.
The Post Master General has since yes
terday made about $50 changes of Postmas-
ters, and $50 route agents, the latter princi-
pally in the West. The President has also
appointed the following named Postmasters
among others and removed their immediate
predecessors: Benjanin A. Griffith, Mon
mouth, ILL.,; Harvey o. Weeks, Lockport,
H.; Isaac W. Webster, Kenosha, Wis;
Craig D. Dubee, Beaver Dam, Wis; VIM.
Hoodman, Hillsboro, Ohio.
The Treasury Department has issued cir.
cular, in accordance with the act Of July FIRST,
repeating the fishing bounties, and containing
regulations for the government allowance Of
drawbacks, on imported salt for curing
fish.
A heavy rain has been falling throughout
this afternoon, causing q change IN the tenn
perature to the extent Of about two degreeA
The following rules and regulations for the
payment of bounties, approved Jnly 2e, 1859,
have just been issued BY the War Depart
ment:
lst. All applications shall be fled within
the period of six months from the LIST day Of
October, 1886; and before any payments are
made shall DO classified by regiments, battal
ions and other separate organization; and no
applications filed after that period shall be
settled until the former shall have been paid.
I'd. No application shall be entertained
unless accompanied by the original discharge
of the soldier and the afidavits required by
the 14th section of the act, and further aff
davits that he has not received, nor 10 he en>
titled to received, from the United States
under any laws or regulations prior 70 the act
OF July 18th, 1866, more than one hundred
dollars bounty for any and all military SER
vice rendered by him during the late rebel
lion over and above the amount therein
claimed.
Sd. All applications for the additional
bounty authorized BY this act from surviving
soldiers shall b in the form hereinaftK pre-
scribed, and the evidence of identity shall be
the same rs is now required, and applications
from the heirs of deceased soldiers shalftp
in the form now required BY the Treasury
Department.
4th. As soon as the examination Of the
claims of any regiment or other Independent
organizations shall have been properly acted
necessary steps for their prompt payment
9th. A register shall be kept in the Pay
master General s0fice, and also in the Office
of the Second Auditor, Of ell claims pre-
sented under the law in which The claimants
will be classified by rights DC, il the claims
be allowed. The amount Of bounty paid 70
each soldier will be noted, and if rejected the
cause Of the rejection viii be distinctly
stated.
9th. In applications for bounty, % required
BY the third Of these rulea. the a6dsvit shall
state each and every period Of ssrIcs Sen-
dered BY the claimant, and also that he never
served otherwise than - therein stated.
7th. Organizations irregularly in the ser.
vice of the United States. or called o.t for
special purposes, = State militia. home
guards. &c, and not included in he bountv
lava are nct included within the neanine q
tbs act.
or Sar;nS ~ -. = v6o vsrs "a d;scAs,,:T 4,
reason 81 terminst;on Of the v.r. shell s. con
siderrd 3 Sayirr asrved ont ~ psr;od Of
their enlistment, and are entitled % tie