BOUNTY

in the commercial sense, money paid by the government to a new industry, the amount in proportion to production, to a ist its growth and to protect it from foreign competition. In the United States the word subsidy is preferred, bounty referring specially to money paid to soldiers and sailors to enlist in army or navy. The payment of bounties was a practice in England two hundred years ago. During the American Revolution the British Government offered a bounty of £10 to any colonial who enlisted. To meet this situation the Continental soldiers had also to be offered bounties, which varied in amount, some of the states paying their recruits more than others. Washington impre ed on the Continental Congre the nece ity of increasing these amounts, and in 1780 recruits were offered $200 at enlistment. It was during the Civil War that the U.S. Government paid the highest bounties. Toward the end of the war period recruits sometimes received, from the Federal Government and their state government together, as high as $1,500. Over $300,000,000 was paid in bounties during the Civil War. Bounties are still paid in the U.S. Naval Service, in time of peace, to encourage re-enlistments, the amount varying with the rating of the man re-enlisting. E.), rocky islands, E. of New Zealand; uninhabited.