Bounty

^ Money paid or a premium offered [usually by government] to encourage or promote an object, or procure a particular thing to be done. The context may restrict the meaning.5 "A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service." That is a proper and intelligent definition, indicating clearly that the word is only applicable to the payment made to the enlisted man, as the inducement for his service, and not as a premium paid to the man by whose procurement the recruit is mustered. « Bounties have also been established for those who kill dangerous animals or noxious creatures, or who engage in a particular business or industry which it is desired to encourage, as in a fishery, or in the manufacture of salt. While boimties are usually paid in money, they may be paid in land. Whence bounty lands, and bounty-land, warrants. Land or money, other than current salary or pay, granted by the government to a person entering the military or naval service, has always been called a bounty; and while it is by no means a "gratuity," because the promise to grant it is one of the considerations for which the soldier or sailor enters the service, yet it is clearly distinguishable from " salary " or pay measured by the time of service.'

1 Grand County v. Larimer County, 9 Col. 280 (1886). ^Hunnicutt u Peyton, 102 U. S. 364, 363 (1880), cases. See generally 2 Washb. H. P. 630-38, cases; 1 Greenl. Ev. §S 145, 301, cases; 1 Whart. Ev^ §§ 185-91, cases; 28 Am. Law Reg. 646-48 (1880), cases.

The highway as a boundary, 38 Alb. Law J. 305-S (1887), cases. = Coffee V. Groover, 1S3 U. S. 10(1887), cases, Bradley, J. Boundary between Georgia and Florida. <L. bonitas, goodness, gratuity: bonus, good. » Fowler v. Selectmen of Danvers, 8 Allen, 84 (1864), Bigelow, C. J. J. General encouragements, held out to all persons indiscriminately, to engage in a particular trade or manufacture, whether in the shape of bounties or drawbaclcs, or other advantage, are'always under legal control and may be discontinued at any time. Thus a law offering a sum for every bushel of salt manufactured in a State is a general law, regulative of internal economy, dependent for its continuance upon the dictates of public policy, and the voluntary good faith of the legislature. Such law does not belong to the class denominated "contracts," except so far as actually executed and complied with.^