The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-21
THE BOUNTY BILL.
As Finally Passed by the House OF
Representatives ar Washington.

oe SItuNtu w tle senate ana house
Of Representatives. Of the United States
of AmeTicG IN Congress Assembled, That
instead of any grant of land or other
bounty there shall be allowed to each
and every soldier, sailor, and marine8
who faithfully served as such in the
army, navy or marine corps of the
United States, including those reorgan-
lied by Congress in an act entitled, IAN
Act making appropriations for compile
ting the defences of Washington and
for other purposes, approved February
3, 1862, and including those on the rolls
as slaves, and who have been or who
may hereafter be honorably discharged
from such SERVICE" the sum of eight
and one-third dollars per month, or at
the rate of one hundred dollars per
year as hereinafter provided, for all the
time during which such soldier, sailor,
or marine actually SO served, between
the 18th day of April, 1861, and the 9th
day of April, 1865, and in the case of
any soldier, saitoS, or marine dis
charged from theservice on account of
wounds received in battle, or while en-
gagged in the line of his duty, the said
allowance of bounty shall be computed
and paid up to the end of the time of
service for which his enlistment was
made, and in case of the death of any
such soldier, sailor, or marine while in
the service, or in case of his death after
his discharge and before the end of his
term of enlistment If discharged on ac-
count of being wounded as provided,
the allowance and payment shall be
paid to his widow, if he has not been re-
married, or if there be no widow, then
to the child or children of the deceased
who may be under sixteen years of age.
SEC. = Ind be it further enacted,
That in computing and ascertaining
| the bounty to paid to any soldier, sal
lor or marine, or his proper representa-
tives under the provisions OF this act,
there shall be deducted therefrom any
and all bounties already paid or paya-
bic, under existing laws, by the United
States, or by any State, county, city,
town, or other municipal Organization,
or by any voluntary association, SO
that in no case shall the aggregate
amount allowed and paid from all
| sources exceed IS 33A for each month
of actually faithful service, or at the
rate of 500 per year and in the case of
any sailor or marine, to whom prize
money has been paid, or is payable, the
amount of such prize, money shall be
deducted, and only such amount of
bounty paid as shall, together with
such prize money, and any other boun-
ty paid or payable by the United States,
or any other State, county, city, town,
or other municipal organization, or by
| any voluntary association, amount in
the aggregate, to the sum allowed by
/ this act.
SEC. 8. And be IL further enacted, That
no bounty under the provisions of this
act shall be paid to or on account of
| any soldier, sailor or marine, who
served as substitute in the army or
navy, or who was captured prisoner
| of war at the time of his enlistment, nor
to any one who was discharged on his
own application or request, prior to the
| 10Th day of April, 1865, unless such dis
charge was obtained with view 10 en-
listment, or to accept promotion in the
military or naval service of the United
| States, or to be transferred from one
| branch of the military service to an
other, and such person did actually re-
enlist or accept promotion, or was trans
ferred and no bounty shall be paid to
any soldier, sailor or marine discharged
on the application or at the request of
| parents, guardians, or other persons, or
on the ground of minority.
SEC. 4. ARd be tfttTther enacted, That
every petition or application for bounty
made under the provisions of this act
shall disclose and state specifically un-
\ der oath, ,.and under the pains and PEN
altieS of perjury what amount of
bounty, either from the United States
or from any other source, and what
amount of prize money, if any, has
been paid or is payable to the soldier,
sailor, or marine, by whom or by
whose representations the claim is
made.
SEC. 5. And6 be IL further enacted, That
whenever application shall be made by
any claimant, through any attorney or
agent, the post-ofice address of the
claimant shall be furnished, giving ithe
name of the county and State in which
\ it is situated, and the amount of COM
mission or fee which the attorney or
agent is to receive for his service in The
settlement ofthe claimi which charges
| in no case shall exceed the sum of S5-
and every application shall be accom-
panied by the written affidavit Of the
| attorney or agent that he has not
charged nor agreed Tor, and Will not
accept more than such sum of IS for
hts services in the case. The Paymas-
ter-General, or proper accounting OFF,
Ger of the Treasury, upon ascertaining
| the amount due, shall cause to be
transmitted to such claimant the full
amount therefor, less the lee to be paid
| the attorney or agent, which fee shall
be paid to the said attorney or agent in
person, or transmitted to such address
i as the attorney may direct.
SEC. 6. and be itJUrther enacted, That
any attorney or agent who shall re-
ceive from or claim a sum greater than
s. for the prosecution of any claim
under the provisions OF this act, upon
| conviction thereof, shall pay a fine not
to exceed the sum of 81 900, or impris-
onment for q term not less than one
wear, or both, as the court or jury may
adjudga, and shall be forever thereafter
excluded from prosecuting claims of
any nature whatever against the Cow
eminent of the United States.
SEC. Z. And be II further enacted, That
| in case the payments shall be made in
the form of a check, order or draft upon
any paymaster, national bank, or gov
ernment depository in or near the dis
| trict wherein the claimant may reside,
it shall be necessary for the claimant to
establish, by the affidavits of two credi-
BILE witnesses, that he is the Identical
I person named therein. But in no cas- G
4 shall such check, order or draft be
made negotiable until after such identi-
fication.
it shall not be lawful for any soldier,
sailor, or marine to transfer, assign,
barter or sell his discharge, final state
ment, descriptive list, or other papers
for the purpose of transferring, assign
ing, bartering, or selling any interest
in any bounty under the provisions o
this act. And. all such transfers, as.
signments, barters. or sales heretofore
made are hereby declared null and void
: as to any rights intended to be SO con
veyed by any such soldier, sailor, ol
SEC. g.. And be 1t farther enacted, That
| tiu-any case, where q person entitled L
, receive payment of bounty under tn,
provisions of this bill shall make ap
plication therefor, or where any suci
} application shall be made by the prope
3 Representatives Of such person, beinl
deceased, and the discharge of suel
person has been lost, it shall be compe
D tent for the accounting officers to re
: ceiYe, in lieu of the actual production
g of such discharge, proof of the actua
:, loss OF the same, and secondary proc
: of its issue and contents, together will