Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1867-05-03

nently disabled in the same, or otherwise 90
disabled as to render their inability 10 per.
form manual labor equivalent to the loss oil
= hand or foot, SIS per month.
! 4th. All widows who have children By such
soldier, are entitled to an increase Of two
dollars per month, for each minor child, (un.
der i6) where the widow is dead or ie-inar
ried, the minor children are entitled to the
increase Of two dollars per month.
ENTITLED 70 CoxxuTArroS OF RATroxs WHILE
PRISONERS or WAR.
| All who have been confined in rebel pris.
! ons arc entitled to 25 cents per day for each
day, if they have not drawn such commuta-
ton.
ENTITLED TO EXTRA PAY.
All officers who were in commission March
| 3, 1865, and who we're discharged aftef April
| 8, 1865, are entitled to the three months
lextra pay proper, where they have not re-
ceived it. The Court Of Claims has decided
that all ofics rs are entitled to additional pay
| OF five dollars per month for each servant,
from May l, 1864, to March 3, 1865.
All prisoners Of war who were prisoners,
May 80, 1865 or On furlough May 30, 1865,
10 report to parole camp, or for muster Out,
or who were in parole camp May 30, 1865,
| providing they were not mustered cut in the
blundering manner that some were at Da>
| veDport.
ENTITLED TO PAY.
All who have not been paid in full
All officers who after being commissioned
officers, ard for reasons beyond their con
irul, were not mustered as such for 30 days
or more, are entitled 10 full pay for the time
| they were so serving as such officers.
Members Of the lst Iowa Cavalry are en-
titled to pay from date of enrolment to date
of muster, in cases where such pay was with
held.
STATE PAT.
Soldiers of the Second and Third Iowa In
fantry, who we're charged with gre, uniform,
are entitled TO pay certificates forthe amount
wrongfully charged to them.
ENTITLED TO LAND WARRANTS.
All who served in any of the wars from
1890 to March 3, 1855, one minute in battle,
or days in camp or elsewhere, are enti>
tied to l60 acre land warrant. Where the
soldier is dead, the widow, wher, there is no
widow, those who were minor children fun
der 2l March 3, 1866, are entitled, provi
ding the soldier did not receive it.
There is no law giving bounty land to sol
diers Of the late war, but Congress may pass
law for their benefit.
NAVY CLAIMS.
There are over 200 prize lists ready for
payment, also lists for the destruction of
Rebel Rams Of Mobile and Memphis. A
large number Of captures are still pending
in the courts, and several millions Of dollars
remain to be paid on the lists now ready and
those to be adjudicated.
All seamen and ordinary seamen who en-
listsd between February "a and July l, "a,
are entitled to bounty equal to three
months pay.
All men in the Navy and Marine Corps,
who enlisted after July !, 1864, are entitled
to the same bounty a. in the Army, viz !:
800 for one year, 5000 for two years, and
$500 for three years. Those discharged be-
fore expiration Of term Of enlistment are on
ly paid matured install .nents.
Enlisted men who have lost their bags and
hamn ocks BY the loss or destruction OF the
vessel on which they served, or BY being con
demned by survey on account of contagious
disease and destroyed, are entitled to $50
indemnity.
Soldiers transferred to the Navy, are en-.
titled to the same bounty as If they had serv-
| ed the full term Of their enlistment in the
Army.
Officers losing their personal effects BY the
loss Of or destruction Of United States ves.
sells, are entitled to receive one months sea
pay as indemnity.