The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-01
REIMBURSEMENT
Of GOVERNORS
Comptroller Rendersa Decision on
the Pay Of Volunteers
IF TROOPS WERE CALLED OUT
For Purpose of AANrwards En-
listing in tb= $ ny the
rs
STATE WILLS : REIMBURSED
IS
50
All Payment Ss>.e BY the Governors
t : MiIitiamen
PRIOR TO TIME OF ENLISTMENT
Will be Refunded by the United States
If the Men Were Accepted ard
Afterwards Served in tie
Volunteer Army.

Washington, September So-A. P. Mitch
ell, acting comptroller of the treasury has
rendered a decision the question of re-
endorsement of governors of states and ter
ritories for costs and expenses which they
may have incurred in aiding the United
States to raise volunteer army
Ha holds that If upon the call of the
president for volunteers the governor of
States to raise volunteer army, called
out any part of the militia of his state or
territory, In order that they might enlist
as such in the volunteer army and any of
its organized militia were afterward ac-
cepted into the volunteer army of the
United States, the governor may be reim-
bursed under the act of July 8, 1898, for
| reasonable costs, charges and expenses
| which ne may have incurred by making
proper payments to them for service from
| the day they entered the service as such
militia in response to the call of the gov
ernor to the day on which they were af-
terward accepted in the volunteer army
and the rate of pay provided by the laws of
the various states for their militia must be
held to be reasonable within the meaning
of said act"
1t is further held that "for all payments
made by the governor to such militiamen
as pay for service rendered by them prior
to the time they had their names enrolled
for service in the volunteer army and Joined
for duty thereon, no charges or deductions
should be made by the pay department of
tho United States against their pay.
Prevent Double Payment
"For all payments made by the governor
| to such militlamen for service rendered by
| them between the day on which they had
| their names enrolled for service In the
| volunteer army and joined for duty therein,
| which is the day their pay and allowances
| shall be deemed to commence by the United
States under the act of July Z. 1898. and the
day they were afterward accepted into the
| United States, deductions should be made
| by the pay department of the United States
| from the pay that would be due the soldier,
| except for such payments by the governor,
in order to prevent a double payment to
the soldier, which the law does not contem-
plate.
'If the governor made payments to men
who had their names enrolled for service
in the volunteer army and Joined for duty
therein, and who were afterwards accepted
into the volunteer army. but who did not
enter the service as part of a. military or
ganzation as above mentioned the amount
for which the governor should be reim-
bursed in such case should not exceed in
amount the pay allowed to soldiers by
the law of the United States, and in such
cases such reimbursement should only be
for payments for service from the time the
soldier was enrolled.
"rhe governor is in no instance entitled
| under said act to be reimbursed for any
| payments made by him to volunteers for
| service by them after their acceptance in
| to the service of the United States"