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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 324 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOUNTY (through O. Fr. bontet, from See also:Lat. bonitas, goodness)  , a See also:gift or gratuity; more usually, a See also:premium paid by a See also:government to encourage some See also:branch of See also:production or See also:industry, as in See also:England in the See also:case of the See also:bounty on See also:corn, first granted in 1688 and abolished in 1814, the See also:herring-See also:fishery bounties, the bounties on See also:sail-See also:cloth, See also:linen and other goods . It is admitted that the giving of bounties is generally impolitic, though they may some-times be justified as a measure of See also:state . The most striking See also:modern example of a bounty was that on See also:sugar (q.v.) . Somewhat akin to bounties are the subsidies granted to See also:shipping (q.v.) by many countries . Bounties or, as they may equally well be termed, grants are often given, more especially in new countries, for the destruction of beasts of See also:prey; in the See also:United States and some other countries, bounties have been given for See also:tree-planting; See also:France has given bounties to encourage the See also:Newfoundland See also:fisheries . Bounty was also the name given to the See also:money paid to induce men to enlist in the See also:army or See also:navy, and, in the United See also:Kingdom, to the sum given on entering the See also:militia reserve . During the See also:American See also:Civil See also:War, many recruits joined solely for the See also:sake of the bounty offered, and afterwards deserted; they were called " bounty-jumpers." The See also:term bounty was also applied in the See also:English navy to signify money payable to the See also:officers and See also:crew of a See also:ship in respect of services on particular occasions . See also:Queen See also:Anne's Bounty (q.v.) is a fund applied for the See also:augmentation of poor livings in the established See also:church . See also:King's Bounty is a See also:grant made by the See also:sovereign of his royal bounty to those of- his subjects whose wives are delivered of three or more See also:children at a See also:birth .

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