Bounty

An additional benefit conferred upon, or a compensation paid to, a class of persons. It differs from a reward, which is usually applied to a sum paid for the performance of some specific act to some person or persons. It may or may not be part of a contract. Thus, the bounty offered a soldier would seem to be part of the consideration for his services. The bounty paid to fishermen is not a consideration for any contract, however.

An additional benefit conferred upon, or a compensation paid to, a class of persons. It differs from a reward, which Is usually applied to a sum paid for the performance of some specific act to some person or persons. It may or may not be part of a contract. Thus, the bounty offered a soldier would seem to be part of the consideration for his services. The bounty paid to fishermen is not a consideration for any contract, however. See Fowler v. Danvers, 8 Allen (Mass.) 80; Eichelberger v. Sifford, 27 Md. 320; Abbe v. Allen, 39 How. Pr. (N. Y.) 481. A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service. Abbe v. Allen, 39 How. Pr. (N. Y.) 4S1.

A gratuity or an unusual or additional benefit conferred upon or compensation paid to, a class of persons. Iowa v. McFarland, 110 U. S. 471, 4 Sup. Ct. 210, 28 In Ed. 198. A premium given or offered to Induce men to enlist into the public service. The term is applicable only to the payment made to the enlisted man, as the inducement for his service, and not to a premium paid to the man through whose intervention, and by whose procurement, the recruit is obtained and mustered. Abbe v. Allen, 39 How. Prae. (N. Y.) 488. It is not easy to discriminate between, bounty, reward, and bonus. The former is the 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 a single service, which can be only once performed, and therefore will be 'earned only by the person or co-operative persons who succeed while others fail. Thus, bounties are offered to all who will enlist in the army or navy ; to all who will engage in certain fisheries which government desire to encourage ; to all who kill dangerous beasts or noxious creatures. A reward is offered for rescuing a person from a wreck or fire; for detecting and arresting an offender; for finding a lost chattel. Kircher v. Murray, (C. C.) 54 Fed. 624; Ingram v. Co.lgan, 106 Cal. 113, 38 Pac. 315, 28 L. R. A. 187, 46 Am. St. Rep. 221. Bonus, as compared with bounty, suggests the idea of a gratuity to induce a money transaction between individuals; a percentage or gift, upon a loan or transfer of property, or a surrender of a right. Abbott.

— Bounty lands. Portions of the public domnin given to soldiers for military services, by way of bounty.

— Bounty of Queen Anne. A name given to a royal charter, which was" confirmed by 2 Anne, c. ll, whereby all the revenue of first-fruits and tenths was vested in trustees, to form a perpetual fund for the augmentation of poor ecclesiastical livings. Wharton.

— Military bounty land. Land granted by various laws of the United States, by way of bounty, to soldiers for services rendered in the army; being given in lieu of a money payment

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

^ 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.^