The County Bounty.

The action of the Board of Supervisors, at their adjourned session this week, comes fully up to the public expectation. We public their proceedings in the next column.

A liberal county bounty, exceeding that of most other counties in the State, is now offered to all of our fellow citizens who will come forward and enlist before the next draft. In addition to the $302 bounty paid by the Government, Bay county will pay $150 bounty, making in all $452 bounty to every volunteer who is mustered in and credited to her quota.

Our citizens, one and all, should now take the matter in hand, and encourage enlistments by all honorable means. If they but imitate the example given them by the Supervisors, the quota of the county will be nearly or quite filled before the draft takes place. We base the suggestion upon the fact that men have ben enlisted in this city almost every day for the last three weeks by recruiting officers from other counties, and without the inducement of the county bounty now offered. In fact, a large number of volunteers have been taken away from our county by recruiting officers, for whom we have as yet received no credit. With the extra inducement of $150 the number of enlistments should be largely increased.

Work, Work! is what is now imperatively demanded on the part of all our citizens, if they would clear the county from the draft. Let them aid the recruiting officers in encouraging men to enlist – men who circumstances are such that they can go into the service without great sacrifice of family interests. There are a large number of this class of men in our locality, who with proper encouragement will not hesitate to enroll themselves among the defenders of the county.

Bay County has done nobly in the past, and she must maintain her position. She is represented in Burnside’s army, at Knoxville, East Tennessee, by a gallant company of brave men, under command of one of our townsmen, and by many others, in all branches of the service. Capt. Raymond’s company has been fortunate in its participation in the ware thus far, keeping its numbers quite well. But thirty men are needed to fill the company, and W. L. Lewis, of this city, is authorized to enlist the requisite number. Sure Bay County will keep her own company full. It has just aided in the glorious achievement of repulsing the well appointed rebel army sent to driver our forces out of East Tennessee. We hope to see the thirty men enlisted within the next ten days. Mr. Lewis, whose office is at the Boutell House, is also authorized to recruit men for all the other Michigan regiments – the choice being left to the volunteers themselves which regiment they will go into.

Every person who enlists and who desires to secure the bounty should report himself to the county committee, so that he may be properly credited; and all officers who administer the oath of enlistment to volunteers, should keep a memorandum of the name and residence of each volunteer, to which reference can be made when necessary. The precaution has heretofore been almost entirely neglected.

Every one who has given the subject any attention, knows that Bay County has been grossly cheated by officers sent here for that purpose. Let every citizen now make it a part of his business to prevent the continuance of this fraud. It is a matter of vital interest to all, and no one should permit himself to thing it is unnecessary for him to give any attention tot he subject.

The county committee are instructed to collect all the information possible relative to the names and number of persons enlisted in the county, and see that they are properly credited. Any person possessing such information will confer a public favor by calling at this office and stating the facts.

The Board of Supervisors of Bay county met this day pursuant to adjournment.

The preceedings of the last meeting were read and approved.

The following resolution was adopted, every member voting therefor:

Resolved, That Wm. A. Bryce, Nathan B. Bradley, and Appleton Stevens, be appointed a county committee to enquire into and ascertain the number of soldiers credited to Bay county, and to see that proper credits are given thereto; also to visit the Board of Enrollment, and endeavor to get an allowance made upon the quota of said county for the foreigners enrolled therein; and to take such other action as may to them seem necessary to secure the enlistment of soldiers sufficient to fill the quota assigned to this county for the next draft. And in the accomplishment of these objects the said committee appointed for a like purpose in Saginaw county and report their proceedings to the Board at some future meeting thereof.

The Board adjourned till to-morrow morning at 11 o’clock.

The board met pursuant to adjournment; a quorum present. On motion of Mr. Rowden, the following resolution was adopted:

Resolved, That the Clerk be instructed to insert the word “semi” before the world “Annually” in the first line of page one hundred and sixty two of the record of proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of Bay county in the resolution relating to raising money for county buildings so as to make the payment of interest sem-annually instead of annually.

The following resolutions were offered and adopted by the unanimous vote of the Board.

The following Bills was audited and allowed,
John McDowell for sundries for new jail, $34.29

The minutes were read and approved and the Board adjourned to Monday the 4th day of January 1865.

The draft for this town will positively take place on the 6th of next month. Remember take that there will be no exemption then and all that are drawn will have to go. Other towns are filling their quotas by enlistments. Is it not policy for Hampton to be stirring in the matter and thus avoid a draft. The rebellion is well nigh used up and wants only the men under the present call to finish up the work.

SPECIAL SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE. – The impression prevails that the Governor will call a special session of the Legislature for the purpose of legalizing the bounties offered by the several counties of the State. He has the matter under consideration, aud, in all probability, unless the bounties are already legalized by a law now existing on our Statue books, they will be so by legislative action. – Det. Adv. & Trib. 9th.

At home. – Lieut. F. J. Forsyth, of the 16th Michigan Infantry, well know to many of our citizens, returned home a few days since, having resigned his commission on account of the disability for further active service. He will, we understand, go into the Invalid Corps. – Lieut. Forsyth was in the Mexican war, and has passed through 27 battles, second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorville, Middleburg, and Gettysburg. He has been twice wounded and has won a most honorable distinction as a true soldier and a capable officer, and is entitle to wear with proud satisfaction the honorary badge of the 5h Army Corps, of whose member he was by no means among the last distinquished. In behalf of the people of Bay County, we welcome him to the rest and comforts of home, which has so well earned, and of which he is so much need.