Examples of bounty in the following topics:
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- They gave bounties and subsidies or monopolies to sawmills, grist mills, iron mills, pulling mills (which treated cloth), salt works, and glassworks.
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- Some motives for joining the American forces may have been a desire for adventure, belief in the justice and goals of the Revolution, and the possibility of receiving a bounty.
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- However, as the war dragged on, bounties and other incentives became increasingly commonplace.
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- A tariff was placed on imports and a bounty given for exports, while the export of some raw materials was banned completely.
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- Another was hunting enemy Indians for the purpose of scalping them and claiming the cash bounty offered by colonial governments.
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- This growth was stimulated by a British bounty of six pence per pound.
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- They were allowed to keep the possessions of warring Indians and received a bounty on all captives.
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- The invasion would allow the Confederates to live off the bounty of rich Northern farms while giving war-ravaged Virginia a much-needed rest.
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- Federal marshals and professional bounty
hunters known as slave catchers pursued fugitives as far as the Canadian
border.