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Concurrent Resolution in regard to bounty to United States Volunteers and Missouri State militia. 1865 317 (1865)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0272 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS. MILITIA AND MILITARY: SOLDIERS' BOUNTY. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION in regard to bounty to United States Volunteers and Mis- souri State militia. Besolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring therein: That our Senators in Congress be instructed and our Representatives requested to urge upon the proper Department at Washington the neces- sity and justice of allowing United States volunteers and Missouri State militia, who have served the same length of time as would have entitled them to bounties if they had been in the United States volunteer service, who have been mustered out before the expiration of their term of service on account of their services being no longer required, the full amount of bounty offered to such volunteers at the time of their enlistment; and if existing laws do not authorize the payment of such bounty, then to urge upon Congress the passage of a law making it the duty of such officer to pay the same. MILITIA AND MILITARY: SOLDIERS' BOUNTY. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION making it the duty of our members in Congress to use their best efforts to secure a bounty to the fifteenth and sixteenth twenty months' Missouri Volunteer Cavalry. WHEREAS, the fifteenth and sixteenth regiments of Missouri twenty months' Volunteer Cavalry have been of great service to this Government, and as said regiments had served for sixteen months in the E. M. M. pre- vious to volunteering in the United States service, making in all a term of three years; therefore, Be it resolved by the Senate, the House concurring therein, as follows: §1. That our Senators in Congress be instructed and our Representa- tives requested to use all necessary and proper efforts to secure to the soldiers and their legal representatives a bounty in proportion to the time said regi- ments served in the United States service. § 2. That the Secretary of the Senate is hereby instructed to trans- mit a copy of these resolutions to each of our Senators and .Representa- tives in Congress. Approved February 19th, 1866. 317

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