The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1904-08-04

lands and the terms and conditions under
which they may be had. address the Com
missioner mis- ss; Of the General Land Office,
There are no land-warrants issued for
service in the war of the rebellion.
BURIAL IN NATIONAL CEMETERIES.
Section 1878, Revised Statutes, pro-
Sec. 4s7s. All soldiers, sailors. or ma
rines dying in the service of the United
States, or dying in destitute condition.
after having been honorably discharged
from the service or who served during the
late war, either in the regular or volun-
teer forces may be buried in any national
cemetery free of cost. The production of
the honorable discharge of a deceased man
shall be sufficient authority for the super
intendent of any cemetery to permit the
interment."
1t is held that Sec. 1878, Revised Stat
utes, above, applies equally to those who
served in the Spanish war.
HEADsroNEs FURNISHED.
The act of February 3. 1879, provides:
THAT the Secretary Of War is hereby
authorized to erect headstones over the
graves of soldiers who served in the reg
ular or volunteer army of the United
States during the war for the Union, and
who have been buried in private. village or
city cemeteries, in the same manner as
provided by the law of March 3, 1873, for
those inferred in national military GENE
teries;
And for this purpose, and for the ex-
penses incident to such work so much of
the appropriation Of $1.OOO,OOO, made in
the act above mentioned as has not been
expended, and as may be necessary, is
hereby made available.
1.-The Secretary of War shall cause to
t.nv vyaI in In rc ,f SO
ment the names and places of burial of all
soldiers tor whom such headstones shall
have been erected by authority of this Or
any former acts"
REIMBURSEMENT FOR TRANSPORTATION AND
BURIAL EXPENSES.
The following provision in the general
deficiency appropriation bill, approved
March 3, 1899, applies only to cases arts
ing before the date of the act and since
Jan. l. 1898:
THAT in all cases where an officer or
an enlisted man in either the army, navy,
or marine corps Of the United States, or
contract surgeon or trained nurse in the
employ of the Government has died while
ON duty away from home since the first
day of January, 1898, and the remains
have been taken home and buried at the
expense of the family or friends of the de-
ceased, the parties who paid the cost of
transportation and burying such remains
shall be repaid at the expense of the
United States by the Secretary of the
Treasury, not to exceed what it would
have cost the United States to have trans
ported the remains to their homes"
The following provision in the Army ap-
preparation law, approved March 3, 1899,
applies to future cases:
THAT in all cases where they would
have been lawful claims against the Gov
eminent, reimbursement may be made of
expenses heretofore or hereafter incurred
by individuals Of burial and transportation
of remains of officers including acting as
sistant surgeons, not to exceed what is
now allowed in the cases of officers, and
for the reimbursement in the cases of en-.
listed men of what is now allowed in their
cases, may be paid out of the proper funds
appropriated by this act, and that the dis
bursting officers shall be credited with such
reimbursement heretofore made"
In cases where only $35 was allowed as
reimbursement for expenses of Transport
tation home and burial Of remains Of sol
diers who died in service, additional re.
endorsement may be collected, under q
later decision; but in no case may the re.
endorsement exceed in amount what the
cost would have been to the Government
1t is held that if an officer or enlisted
man died while at home on furlough or
leave, no reimbursement or Communication
Of burial expenses can be allowed.
FINES REFUNDED.
All fines or forfeitures imposed by sum-
mary court-martial, from April 81, 1885,
to Aug. Is, 1898, inclusive, may be recov-
cred. General Order ia, A. q. O., Nov.
2, 1889
REFUNDMENT OF SUBSTITUTE coMMUTA-
TON.
The act Of February %, 1867, provides:
Whereas certain persons, drafted into
the military service under the calls of the
President of the United States, made Feb
ruary /, 1864, and March II, 1864, paid
the sum Of $500 each, being the amount Of
communication fixed for such service under
the fifth section of the amendatOry enroll
ment act of February "a, 1864, and the
same persons were afterward again draft
ed, under the call of December 10, 1864
(being within one year of the previous
draft and before the filing of the quotas
assigned under the two calls first named
above), and were then required to enter the
service or furnish substitutes; and whereas
the true intent and meaning of the fifth
section Of the amendatory act aforesaid
was to exempt persons thus paying COM
mutation from further draft until that
quota should be filled, and not exceeding
one year: Therefore,
BE it enacted, etc, That the Secretary
of War is hereby authorized and directed
to refund to each person drafted as afore-
said, who paid Communication and was also
required to enter the service or furnish u
substitute as aforesaid, the sum of $500.
being the sum of money so as aforesaid
paid by him; and there is hereby appro-
priated, out of any money in the Treasury
not otherwise appropriated, a sum suffi-
cient to make such payments.
"Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the Secretary of War is authorized and re-
quired to refund from the communication
money the amount mot exceeding $500 in
any one case) paid by any person drafted
during the late war who furnished sub
stitute or paid Communication money wher-
ever it shall appear that under the deci-
siOns and rules of the War Department
governing at the time the said person was
entitled to discharge from the obliga ton to
render personal service under the draft for
which he paid money or furnished sub
stitute, and to refund, in like manner, in
all cases wherein it shall appear that a
person SO having paid Communication money
or furnished a substitute was not legally
liable to draft: Provided, That this section
shall apply only to claims received at the
War Department prior to it's passage"
Claims under the first section, above.