Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-07
%MUSTER-OUT OF 4TH.
ADVANTAGE TO MEN OF QUITTING
SERVICE At CAMPS.
THE FREEDMAE'S BANK PAYMENTS.
Misapprehension With Respect 10
scope of the Act-Dcposftors Who
Have neen Paid FIVE Dividcn"s
Will Receive Nothing Additional.

VIII Receive Nothing Additional.
WASHINGTON, d. c., March s.-(Spe-
cial)-Captain Lamb has received the
| following letter from Assistant AdJutant-
General John A. Johnston:
orders have not been received direct
| ing muster-out OF the Fourth Virginia,
and as yet no place has been designated.
The law, however, requires that volunteer
regiments be mustered out at United
States camps. on muster-out, each officer
and soldier is entitled to travel allowance
AZ the rate Of one days pay for every
twenty miles Of distance between place
o. discharge and place Of enrolment, to
which is added. in the case of the en-
listed men, so cents for subsistence for
each twenty miles Of distance. If this
regiment were ordered mustered out at
the place where II was mustered In, this
| d~istince becomes zero; also, the travel
allowance, and the officers and men OF the
regiment would thus be deprived Of seve-
raj thousand dollars. 1t IS, therefore the
desire Of the officers and men TO be mus
tered out at camps and not at the place
Of muster-in, because they do not desire
TO lose this amount"
DISCHARGES FROM THE ARMY,
The Assistant Secretary Of VA has Or
dered, or confirmed, the following dis
charges:
Fourth Virginia-Corporal Henry s.
Sehermerhorn. Company -; Private Harry
Wrenn, Company a.
Fourth Immunes-Private Wilbur l..
Titus. Company y; First-Sereeant W.. j.
Taylor. Company c; Private Marquis O..
Rowland, Company +.
First North Carolina-Corporal Gordon
II. Cilley and Private John S. Lewis, Com
pany A; Prlvates ID. b. Holler. Company
Il. and T. y. Ensley, Company IT.
Four ~privates IN the Tenth immunes.
one Of the negro regiments. have been
sentenced to terms Of imprisonment. vary
ing from three 20 six months. and for
fixture OF certain pay and allowance.
Three Of them were dishOnOrably dis
charged.
FREEDMAN'S BANK PAYMENTS.
Referring to the act which passed Con-
gress on March %. authorizing the Com
missioner Of the Freedman's Savings and
Trust Company to pay certain barred
dividends heretofore declared I'm favor Of
the depositors in said company. Mr..
Charles G.. Dawes. Comptroller Of the
Currency, who is ex-oficio commissioner
Of said company, says that the impression
seems TO prevail that Congress has made
| provision by this act for the payment of
the balances due 10 all depositors. Such,
however, is not the case.
Five dividends have heretofore been de-
clared, as follows:
/. Twenty per cent, November !, 1873.
.. Ten per cent, March %, 1873.
3. Ten per cent, September ], 1880.
4. Fifteen per cent. June l, 1852.
:. Seven per cent, May Il, 1888.
Aggregating 62 per cent.
ONLY BARRED CLAIMS TO BE PAID.
By act of Congress approved February
p, 1881, all claims not presented for ex-
animation and audit within six months
from the passage OF that act, and all div
idends declared upon audited accounts not
called for within two years from the date
| Of their declaration, were barred from
payment. Tho act just passed removes
these restrictions, and authorizes the pay
ment Of all such barred claims and GiyI-
dends.
Those depositors who have been paid
the C2 per cent, or five dividends. viii re-
ceive nothing additional under the act just
passed. but those who have received no
part Of or less than the 60 per cent, will
be paid that amount, or the difference be-
tween what they have received and o.
per cent, so far as the funds in hand Will
permit.
HOW MANY DIVIDENDS?
The date and amount Of each dividend
paid. Mr.. Dawes says, is plainly entered
in the pass-book of each depositor who
has received them. and where the pass
book shows five dividends paid the de-
...t.-- L~.11 .,.1nrrt.uI th.f ~, aIIf-
tional payment can be made. 1t IS use
less. therefore, Mr.. Dawes says. to for
ward such pass-books to the Comptroller
OF the Currency. Only those books which
show less than five dividends paid, or
none. should be forwarded.
Where pass-books are lost, any inquiry
in regard TO an account should state the
full name Of the depositor and the name
of the branch agency in which the de-
posts were made There were thirty-three
of these agencies, scattered principally
throughout the Southern States. and the
books of each were kept separately.
All pass-books and inquiries relative to
the AFFAIRS Of the company should be ad-
dressed TO the Commissioner Of the Freed
mans Savings and Trust Company,
Washington, ID. c.
POSTAL
A new post-ofnce has been established
az Fisherman, Lancaster county, va,
with w. G. Foxwell as postmaster.
Fourth-class pCstmasters were ap-
pointed to-day in Virginia as follows:
Church Road, Dinwiddie county, J. T..
Dedmon; Knoxville, buckingham county
]. NJ. Hines; Orgainsville, Mecklenburg
county, Thomas A.. organ; Wilson, Din
widdie county, j. i. y. Rucks.
Star mail service has been established
In Virginia between Beverly and Col
lands, Pittsylvania county, daily. to date
from April LIST. In North Carolina service
has been established as follows: Reedy
Branch to Stony Fork, daily; Reedy
Branch TO Wilkesooro'. daily; Boone TO
stony Fork. daily; Yuma 70 Beaver
Creek. semi-weskly; Lewis Fork to
Champion, semi-w eekly; Wheallon to
South Creek, tri-weekly.
Personal.
Among tho visitors to the city to-day
were these:
Metropolitan-A. p. Strother, Pearls
burg. Va; DR.. George T.. Meredith
Charles c. Hulcher, DR.. c. W. =. Brock,
Richmond; w. D.. Moore. Wytheville; +.
b. White. L~eesburg, Va; p. j. Beard,
| Scottsburg. Va.