BOUNTY

A gratuity, or an unusual or additional benefit conferred upon, or compensation paid to, a cla of persons. Iowa: v. McFarland, 110 U. S. 471, 4 Sup. Ct. 210, 28 L. Eld. 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 tllrough whose intervention, and by whose procurement, the recruit ls obtained and mustered.. Abbe v. Allen, 89 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 488; It is not easy to discriminate between. bounty, reward, and bonus. The former is the appropriate term, however, where the services O!':action of many. persons are desired, and eacli 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 -c - perative persons who succeed while others fail. Thus, bounties are offered to all who will enlist in the army or navy; to all wbo will -engage in certain frsheries 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; Ing111m v. Colgan, 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 tnlil's fer of property, or a surrender of a right. Abbott. -Bounty lands. Portions of the public domain given to soldiers for military services, by way of bounty.-Bount:, of Queen Anne. A name given to a royal chatter,. which was confirmed by 2 Anne, c. 11, whereby all the revenue · -0f firstafruitll and tenths •,was vested "in' trustees, ' to form a perpetual fund for the au1111entatlon [s. 154]