The age-herald., 1898-05-11
PRIZE MONEY FOR
 DEWEY'S FLEET More Than $1OO,OOO Will Be
 Divided AMONG TIE ASlATIC SAIL LORS Section of Statutes Provides That a Bounty Shall Be Paid for Every Sailor on the
 Enemys Fleet Captured or
 Sent to the Bottom.
AMONG TIE ASIATIC SAIL L0RS

Washington, May 10.-Rear Admiral Dsw- ey and his men will not have been fully re- warded for their victory at Manila when they receive the thanks of congress and the medals ordered to be struck for them. Un- der the law they have become entitled to rich bounty. Unless the numerical impor- tance of the fleet of Admiral Montejo has been over-estimated, and it's losses over stated, the officers and men of the Asiatic squadron will be entitled to share among them something like s1S7OOo bounty money.
 Section 46S5 of the Revised Statutes of the United States provides: "A bounty shall be paid by the United States for each person on board a ship or vessel of war belonging to an enemy at the commencement of an engagement, which is sunk or otherwise destroyed in such engagement by any ship or vessel belonging to the United tates, or which it may be necessary to destroy in consequence of injuries sustained in action, of $100, if the enemy's vessel was of inferior force; and of $2O0 if of equal or superior force: to be divided among the officers and crew in the same manner as prize money, and when the actual number of men on board any such vessel cannot be satisfacto- rily ascertained, it shall be estimated ac- cording to the complement allowed to ves- sels of its class In the navy of the United States; and there shall be paid as bounty to the captors of any vessel Of war captur- ed from an enemy which they be Instructed to destroy, or which is immediately oes- troyed for the public interest, but not In consequence of injuries received in actlon' $50 for every person who shall be on poaro at the time of such capture.
 According to the reports from Manila tne Spanish fleet consisted of ten or eleven cruisers, gunboats and torpeoo poals ea mlen crews amounting in all to l,oI2 men. feAr Admiral Dewey destroyed some of these vessels and perhaps all of them, but If he did not, then a number were destroyed by the enemy to prevent them rom Iaii,ns into the hands of the United States. Au- miral Montejo was increasing bounty Iunu with every vessel he sank and Spain VIII undobutedlv have to pay for these losses in making up the indemnity at the close of the war. At $100 for each man or the Spanish naval force the total to be divided among the American sailors will be $1S7, 200.
 The vessels of the United States were, if anything undermanned. The numbers VIII be under, rather than over 1,73S.
 The S1S7 200 will be distributed to the fleet under section 4se1 of the revised statutes, relating to prize money. Admiral Dewey will get one4twanti jet h infa the whole amount of bounty awarded to his command That will give him $9,S00 If he has fleet cap- tain or what passes for one the latter Will have a share of something like $l,Soo. There will be left to be distributed to the vessels of the fleet according to their pay rolls, about s175o oo0.i This will go to seven ships and in about the following shares:
 Olympia 9sA5, ,O0o.s Baltimore. s4O.o0o; Bos- ton, $25.0O0; Raleigs.s s22Doo. Concord s2o'- OOO; Petrel, $12, ,OOO McCuloch, 5000.