Board of Commissioners v. Bearss

It was recently held by this court, in Coffman v. Keightley, 24 Ind. 509, that appropriations made by a county to pay bounties to induce volunteers to enter the military service of the United States, to satisfy quotas of troops assigned to be raised within such comity, under an impending and unexecuted draft, were legalized by the terms of the act of March 8, 1865; that such legislation is not repugnant to the constitution of the United Stales, and that the title of the act is sufficient to express the foregoing subject of legislation, under the nineteenth section of the fourth article of the…