Bounty

A gratuity, or an unusual or additional benefit conferred upon, or comto enlist into the public service. Theterm] is applicable only to the payment made to the enlisted man, as the inducement for his seryice, and not toa premium paid to the Tan through 8 whose intervention, and by whose procurement, the recruit sana is obtained; and mustered.

39 How. Pr. 488.

It is not easy to discriminate between bounty, reward, and bonus. Theformer isthe appropriate term, however, where the services or action of many persons are desired, and each who acts upon the offer may entitle himself to the promised gratuity, without prejudice from or to the claims of others; while reward is more proper in the case of asingle service, which can be only once performed, and therefore will be earned only by the person or co-cperating porsons who succeed while others fail.

— Thus, bounties are offered to all who will onlist in the army or navy;

— to all who will engage in certain fisheries which government desire to encourage;

— to all who kill dangerous beusts or noxious creatures, A reward is offcred for rescuing a person from a wreck or fire;

— for detecting and arresting an offender;

— for finding alost chattel, Bonus, as compared with bounty, suggests the idea of a gratuity to induce a money transaction between individuals; a percentage or gift, upona joan or transfer of property, or a surrender of & a aed