Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-01-15
For the Gazette.
Local Bounty Question Again.

D.
DELAWARE. Jan. o. 1859.
EDIToBs GAzEFTE,-Tni your issue oi
Il the Sth inst, I notice an articlein reply
4 to ing uiries in regard to County and
Township Bountiess and believing you
! are in error in some of the statements
therein contained, allow me to suggest
I a correction through the columns of
your paper. ~
The Legislature of Ohio passed a
Law, April 6, 1866, (VoI. 63 Ohio Laws,
/ Page 1861 authorizing the County Com
1 mlSE1oneIS to levy 3 tax III certain cases
to pay Local Bounties and required the
ItaK to be levied in the year 1866. The
attention of the mmiSsiOnerS of our
county was called to the provisions of
this law, but not until the levy of Lakes
had beeu-Fn made for the year 1866, and
a1terWard the commissioners refused to
levy the Bounty tax for the reason that,
as they supposed, the tax could only be
aeYied In the yalst Isset5- eaf5ee
ward. The Supreme Court of Ohio,
however. on the 10th day Of March,
1868, in the case of The State of Ohio
Elk. Rel. of James Anderson Us Jesse A.
Harris ct dL. missioner, of Holmes
County, decided that 1.-THE performance
of the duty enjoined by this act on the
commissioners, to levy the tax therein
provided foTs IS not limited to the year
1866. In req quiring the tax to be levied
and the bounties to be paid, the Act is
imperative in prescribing the time
within which the levy is to be made it
is directory. ard the neGlect of the
commissioners to levy the tax within
the time reqnired Will not deprive the
volunteers, who ara not responsible for
the default, of the bounty the Act was
passed to cOnfer.'' 3 5'fThe taxes :. levied
under the Act are to be placed on the
tax duplicate and assessed as other
taxes against the. taxable property for
the year in which the. leVYf-1is5F made .
dSe. After this decision WAS made, I
again caIIedlthe attention of our COM
7fnissiouersf to the matter, and in view of
the requirements of said law as declared
blythe Supreme Gourt, they at once
proceeded to levyfthe tax for the pay
ment Of bounties to those4Who are en-
titled tOsthe sames II 400 FeE Esa-s.a-s.- lal
Under the provisions of this Act the
following persons are entitled to a -Lo-,
cal Bounty in Delaware County;
e All persons who enlisted under the
calls of the President of the United
States for the volunteers issued on the \
"a day of July and the -4th day of Au-
gust, 1862, and such bounty was pledged !
to volunteers entering the service at
the time Of their enlistment, whether
so pledged by the County Commission
ers, Military Committees or by recruit
ing officers appointed by the Governor,
acting with the acquieseence of Military !
Committees DC, and where such sol |
dier was credited to this county.
'LAl1S bounty WILL .p8 PAID IN the. 1O1- /
lowing order, viz 1st, To the soldier |
if living. I'd, If he died in service; un-
married it will go first to his father, if !
living, If not living, then to. his moth |
er, if living, if she is not Lying, then to
his brothers and sisters. or legal Rep
Tesentatiyes. Sd, If the soldier LETT a |
SyldoW, she is entitled, if living, if not, !
his children if any OF. legal represen
ftativesJ liol b fz#r ~ o5
r Under this law, the. members of the |
H96th Regt., l21st Regt, and palss Rf the
45th and'Slst Regiments, Ohio Vols. are |
entitled to this Bounty, or their heirs
in the order allowed. named, and all 9TH /
ers who enlisted under said calls of the
President and We're credited to this 1
county. a7 s7erEr |
Allow me to say further to those for /
whom have already made application 1
for the balance of their local bounty
that I will have the same ready to pay
them the latter part of February, or 1st
of March next, and will collect the
same for all others who may apply.
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