Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1869 — Important to Soldiers. [ARTICLE]

Important to Soldiers.

j An act in relation to additional ! bounties, anil for other purposes: “Be it enacted hu the Senate and Huuee •/ - Representatives of the United States of America t n Congress assembled, I “That when a soldier’s discharge states thatlie is discharged by reason of ‘‘expiration of term of service,lie sbnl! be held to have completed the full tei’m of his enlistment and entitled tuianinty accordingly. “Sec. 2. That the widow, minor eliil1. <1 ren or parents, i n the order named, . of any soldier who shall have died, “rift er 1 id ng honorably ttisetraigetffrom i the military "service of the United States, shall be entitled to receive the additional bounty to which such soldier would be entitled if living, under the provisions of the twelfth and thirteenth sections of an act entitled “an aer making appropriations for simdgp# civil expenses of the tjumoot?RCfnT the year ending, J-flUinW, 1867, and for other approved July 28, TJjtiiM ~tfiiuTii said provisions of said pSfrshall be so construed. 1 “Sec. 3. That all claims for the addi- : tional bounties granted in sections ! twelve and thirteen of the act of July 28, 1860, shall, after the Ist of May ■ next, be adjusted and settled by the 1 accounting officers of the Treasury, ! under the provisions of said act; and such claims as may, on the said Ist of May, be remaining in the office of the 'Paymaster (tenera), unsettled, shall i be transferred to the Second Auditor of the Treasury for settlement. t'Sec. 4. That all claims for bounty ! under the provisions of the act cited in the foregoing section shall be void, ! unless presented in due form prior to i the Ist day of December, 18C9.’’ Approved Marcli 3, 1869. i J-gT'The Cincinnati Commercial says that 7,167 arrests were made in that city during last year, and thinks ! that six-sevenths of all the crimes and disorders are traceable to the excessive use ot spirituous liquors. -* y*. —* ■•••-*- - The Boston Traveller says: “In the years of 1851-2 George S. Boutwell was Governor of Massgchsetts, Henry Wilson was President of the Senate, ?md Nathaniel P. Banks was Speaker of the House of Representatives. It was quite a new era in the politics of this State. They held the three most important political offices in the Commonwealth. They were all young men,- educated in the public schools, without any powerful friends to lean upon or great-in-fluences in tfievr favori” ■ Ex-President) Johnson 1 reached hi* old home in GeeeavUie, Temnes- J see. Ust Saturday. <