The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-05-11
BOUNTY FOR DEWEY'S MEN
Quite Sum Will be Divided Be-
tween the Victors at Manila.

NEW YORK, May 1O.-A dispatch to
the Times from Washington says:
Rear Admiral Dewey and his men
will not have been fully rewarded for
their victory at Manila when they re-
ceive the thanks of Congress and the
medals ordered to be struck for them.
Under the law they have become en-
titled to a rich bounty. Unless the nu-
merical Importance of the fleet of Ad-
miral Montejo has been overestimated
and it's losses overestimated, the Off
GERS and men of the Asiatic squadron
something like S1S7,G bounty money.
Section /, $50 of the Revised Statutes
of the United States provides:
"A bounty shall be paid by the United
States for each person on board any
ship or vessel of war belonging to an
enemy at the commencement of an en-
gagement which is sunk or otherwise
destroyed in such engagement by any
ship or vessel belonging to the United
States. or which it may be necessary to
destroy in consequence of injuries sus-
tanned in action, of 500 if the enemy
vessel was of inferior force, and OF 500
Iif equal or superior force, to be divided
among the officers and crew IN the
same manner as prize money, and when
t the actual number of men on board any
lsuch vessel cannot be satisfactorily as
icertained, it shall be estimated accord
ing to the complement allowed TO YES
sells of its class in the navy or the
! United States, and there shall be pald
as bounty to the Captain for any vessel
captured from an enemy, which they
are instructed to destroy, or which Is
Immediately destroyed for the pubic
interest, but not in consequence OF IN
juries received in action, $50 for every
person who shall be on board at the
time of such capture"
According to the reports from Manila,
the Spanish fleet destroyed by the
Americans consisted of ten or eleven
icruisers, gunboats and torpedo boats,
with crews amounting in all to 1,Sl2
men At 500 for each man of the
Spanish naval force, the amount to be
divided among the American sailors
will be $1S7 200. The vessels of the
United States were, if anything, under
manned The numbers will be under
rather than over 1,733
The S1S7, 200 will be distributed to the
fleet under Section 4,631 of the Revised
Statutes relating to prize money. Ad-
miral Dewey will get onetwentieth Of
the whole amount of bounty awarded
to his command That will give him
SO, 300. If he has a fleet Captain, o.
what passes for one, the latter will have
"a share of something like 1900. There
will be left to be distributed to the yes
sells of the fleet, according to their pay
rolls, about $175,000 This will go to
seven ships and in about the following
shares:
Olympia, $4,000; Baltimore, $4,000,
Boston. $50, 600; Raleigh, 1000; Con-
cord, S20,000; Petrol, $4,000; McCul-
loch, $4,000.
To the commander of each single ves-
sci there will go one-tenth of the
amount assigned to that vessel.
After the amounts mentioned have
been deducted the residue will be dis
itributed to the lesser officers and sea-
men of the ships in proportion to their
rates of pay on the day of the engage
ment The amount to each seaman, it
lis believed, will be in the neighborhood
lof 500.