Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-01-29
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS


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Respectfully submitted.
Laws A. soLoaoS,
Chairman.
CoRsELITs l. HARyEy,
Clerk.
WILLIAM ID. FRosr,
HESEY ii. HAvEss.
SIcEoI d. EaHoSs,
Committee.
Mr.. j. w. Walker moved that the
sum OF ten dollars each for the chair
man and clerk tor extra services rend-
cred BE- added TO said report, and that
the report as amended be adopted, and
the accounts allowed as recomm ended
by the committee, which prevailed. =
majority of the members elect voting
therefor.
The Committee on Claims made the
following report and on motion of Mr..
Roberts the same was adopted:
To the Honorable Board OF Supervisors
of Kent County:
GEyrLENES-The matter OF the claim
Of stephen Clonan, Theodore G. Houck
klnnecum Randall and Isaac Tower
for bounties claimed to be due, having
heen referred TO your Committee on
Claims. We would respectfully report
rs follows:
stephen Clonan claims s20o.00 for re-
enlisting as a veteran in the Third
Michigan Infantry Volunteers. Under
resolution of the Board of Supervisors
passed January IA, 1854, a bounty OF
$4,000 was offered t. all members of
that regiment WHO re-erlisted at
Brandy, Va, December, 1865. THIS
claimant rc-enlisted in said regiment
February 3, 1864. On January 18th,
Iol. Pierce, who Was IN command OF
the regiment, telegrsphed from Chat
ssnooga, asking the following question:
"will veterans re-enlisting here be en-
titled to bounty offered by Kent
county, and the following answer Was
returned: mo, quote full and more
too" tsse proceedings Of the Board of
supervisors, January IL, 1864. The
claimant not re-enlistipg until February
B, 1864, could not come under the reso-
1utfen of the board, IS the board limited
bhe number of Refreshments to I25,
md more than that number had re-
Enlisted prior to the time of the re-
Enlistment Of the claimant, and for the
further reason that he did not re-enlist
Gntil February 3. 1864.
Theodore Houck ciaims $4,000 for
xe-enlistiug rs . veteran in the Third
NIsch. Infantry Volunteers. He CLAIMS
90 have re-enlisted ut Brandy, Va, in
December, 1868, and under all favorable
conditions would have been entitled to
the bounty offered by said board to
the members of the Third Michigan
Infantry, re-enlisting in December,
1855, TO the number of i25.
But in the resolution the conditions
were that the veterans re-enlistng were
st the time OF their original enlist
'm-nt. residents OF Kent county; aud
also claimant must furnish written
statements from either the state or
federal governments that such veter-
ans re-cnlisting were residents of or &C
credited to Kent county, either upon
the call then made or as an excess to
be deducted from any further de-
rnsnds. The claimant shows no proof
whatever as required by the Board of
Supervisors in their resolution.
kInnlcum Randsll-Tnis claimant
claims that he il the only heir of his
son. Lafayette Randall, VINO enlisted
December 10, 1851; that Kent county
was then offering . bounty of 500 to
men who enlisted IN Kent county: that
hrs son died Of wounds received At the
battle of Stone River. aud that his said
son never received the bounty. The
records OF Kent county do not show
that the county was Offering any
lhauntv at the time Of the enIistmsnt of
claimants sen; 80 that claimant can
not be entitled after 1861 thereto. unless
fhere has been some later resolution of
the Board offering tounties Of $50. the
,sme 10 ever prior enlistmsnts. of
waich resolution we have been unable
&c End any recorsl.
The claim Of Isaac r.. Tower is gov
erned By the preceding one. All of