Bounty

a grant or benefaction from the Government to those whose services directly or indirectly benefit it, and to whom, therefore, it desires to accord some recompense, or at least recognition. ‘ Bounty hel a term used during the Civil War in the United States to denote one who enlisted in the United States military service to secure the bounty paid by_ the Govae for volunteers, and then dee serte _ Bouquet de la Grye, Jean Jacques Anatole, a French hydro graphical engineer, born in Thiers May 20, 1827. He became a member of the Institute; commander of the Legion of Honor, and a member of the Academy, elected in 1884. A project which he has long urged is tc make Paris a seaport by means of ship-canal up the Seine.