The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-17
YAyAL YErER4Ns, DAY.
A Good Time Arranged Fora Reunion
and Picnic at Merwin's Point The Com
ing National Enoanlpment.

A Good Time Arranged FORA Reunion
and Plonio at MerwIn's Point The Com
ing National Enoanpment.
The twelfth annual reunion of the
Gideon Wells Naval Veteran associa-
ton No. 8 OF Connecticut will be held
at Merwin's Point Wednesday, July "a,
1895. The following circular is issued
for the occasion:
Officers will report In uniform with
out side arms. Shipmates will wear
uniforms and badges; all shipmates will
be welcome with or without uniforms.
Shipmates William Jones will be on
deck at the Union station and Clinton
d. Rood at the corner OF Chapel and
Church streets to give shipmates the
course and bearings of Merwin's Point
via West Shore electric cars, Round
trip tickets twenty-five cents.
Business of Importance relating Ia
the tenth annual encampment at Louis
vile, Kentucky, to be held from Sep
TENDER 9th to the 14th, will come be-
fore the association. Chief-of-S staff
william Simmons of Philadelphia, Pa,
will be present and give valuable in
formation. Free sleeping quarters will
be furnished to all who may desire
them. The steamboat men have ten
dered the use of their vessels, as al
Pittsburg last year. A dog watch will
be held on the evening of the 9th
A parade will be made Tuesday morn.
Ing Of the 10th, escorted by Prisoners
Of War association, Colonel Ellet's
Ram Fleet association, Sons Of Veter-
ans and other civic societies.
The fare from New York and return
via Pennsylvania railroad or the Bal.
tinlore and Ohio. will be seventeen dol.
lars and thirty cents. Tickets will
be on sale from September 7.
All shipmates who intend to go tc
Louisville please notify the paymastel
on the enclosed card. This association
Is entitled to five delegates, who will
be elected at our reunion, The mess
cloth will be spread at two bells Il p
M. Dinner tickets can be obtained al
the paymasters desk for fifty cents
per plate.
Please notify Paymaster Hubbell. a!
soon as possible of the number of din,
ner tickets you may require. so tina
suitable provisions can be made.
The following shipmates will be pres
ent and deliver short addresses: Real
Admiral Francis B. Allen of Hartford
Past Rear Admiral William S. Wells
OF New Haven, Past Rear Admiral B
s. Osbon Of New York, Chief Stat
| William Simmons Of Philadelphia, Pa.
Division Chief W. o. Saville of Balti
more. Md, Division Chief Joseph Chace
| jr., of Providence, r. I.
The following act concerning soldier
and sailors was passed by the last gen
eral assembly:
Section Amy person who enlisted
or re-enlisted, in the army or navy o
| the United States for the suppression 0
| the rebellion, and who was honorabl,
| discharged from service, and who there
| by became entitled to any bounty vote,
by any town and has not heretofore re
| cefved the same, may recover from suol
town the amount Of amy such bount,
IN an action upon this statute An
such person shall be entitled to judg
rnent against town upon proof fror
the records Of the adjutant general
office by a certificate duly attested b.
the adjutant general, or his assistant
| that he was dtrly enlisted and credite
to such town and that such a vote ha
BEEN passed by the town.
| Section 1.-The statute of limitatto
shall not be pleaded by the defendan
| In any such action.
| Section 3--This act shafi take effec
from It's passage.
Section +This act shall not apply t
any person or persons who enlisted Q
re-enlisted outside Of the state Of Cor
necticut, who was not at the time G
such enlistment or re-enlistment resi-
dent of said state.
| Acknowledgement a town has beem d.
vided or portion of a town has bee
set off to another town since such en-
listment, the claim shall be against tn
town now containing the territory with
in which such soldier or sailor reside
at the time of his enlistment.
| The Naval Veterans used their Unfit
ence and made special efforts toward
the passag e of this act.
Many shipmates will receive recor
blanks. It Is important that thes
should be filled out, as they are of valu
to those looking for pensions, priz
money and additional bounty. Pleas
Il make IA special effort to Ali these OF
and send to Secretary Henry F. Mo
Collurn, 40 Shelter street, New Havel
Conn.