People ex rel. Lomane v. Hammond

Christiancy J.:

This is an application for a mandamus to ‘compel the Quartermaster General to pay to the relator — a soldier who enlisted in the township of Riley, St. Clair county, March 12th, 1864, and was mustered and credited to the township on the twenty-eighth day of the same month — a State bounty of $100, which he claims is justly due him under the eighth section of the “act authorizing the payment of bounties to volunteers in the service of the United States,” approved February 5, 1864.

On the lYth day of October, 1863, the President of the United States, by his proclamation, made a…