Full text of "Report of the Special committee on volunteering of the county of New York : of operations in filling the quota, under the call of the President dated December 19, 1864, for three hundred thousand men ... Document no. 12, Board of Supervisors, August 15, 1866"

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THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA

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REPORT

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OF THE

COUNTY OF NEW YORK,

OF OPEEATIOXS IN FILLING THE QUOTA, UNDER THE CALL OP
THE PRESIDENT DATED DECEMBER 19, 1864, FOR

VOL. I.

Document No. 12 ,
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS,

_A_-LXg-ULSt 13, 18G6,

NEW YORK:

THE N. Y. PRINTING COMPANY, PRINTERS FOR THE COUNTY,
81, 8.J & 85 CENTRE STREET.

1866.

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DOCUMENT No. 12.

BOAKD OF SUPEKVISOKS,

AUGUST 15, I860.

The accompanying report of the Special Committee on Volunteering, of
operations in filling the quota of the County of New York, under the call
of the President dated December 19. 1SC4, for three hundred thousand
(:!00,000) men, was presented, and ordered to be printed in Document form,
under (he direction of the Committee.

JOSEPH P,. YOUNG,

Clerk,

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REP OUT.

To tJtt Honorable the Board of Supervisors:

The Special Committee on Volunteering would re-
ppectfully

REPORT :

That they have prepared and present with this sum-
mary statement, a report of their operations in filling
the quota under the last call for men, together with a
statement of their proceedings in regard to the reim-
bursement of the County by the State, for payments of
bounties to volunteers credited to the County of New
York under that call.

It is proper to state that this report has been delayed
in order to embrace in it the facts in regard to the reim-
bursement of the County.

The report shows that there were enlisted under the
Jast call r

Doc, No. 12. 8

Of urmy volunteers 5,424

Of re-enlisted men 1 30

Of naval volunteers 434

Total 5,988

Substitutes enlisted \>y the County for the

army 554

Substitutes enlisted by the County for the

navy 73

Substitutes not enlisted by the County

for the army and navy 578

Total 1,205

Grand total 7,193

On the 25th of September, 1865, when credits were
stopped, there was claimed to be due the Government
from tliis County, under the call of December, 1864,
nine thousand two hundred and ninety-eight (9,298) men.

The whole number of men furnished, from first to last,
during the rebellion, by the City and County of New
York, was one hundred and forty-eight thousand six hun-
dred and seventy-six (148,676).

The whole expenditure in raising the quota under the
last call was three million five hundred and thirty-three
thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and thirty-
one cents ($3,533,234 31), of which two million five hun-
dred and sixty-five thousand one hundred and fifty dol*
lars ($2,565,150) has been reimbursed by the Sta.te.

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There was deposited with your Committee for sub-
stitutes, by individuals, under the last call. . $604,910 00

There was paid for six hundred and twenty-
seven substitutes , 490,605 00

Being so much saved to the County funds.

And there was returned to depositors 114,305 00

The business of reimbursing those who paid for sub-
stitutes is now in progress, through your Committee.
When completed, report will be made thereon.

ORISON BLUNT, ) Special
WILLIAM M. TWEED, V Committee on
WM. R. STEWART, ) Volunteering,

KEPOET.

To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors :

The Special Committee on Volunteering would re-
spectfully present their

REPORT

of operations in filling the quota under the last call of
the President for three hundred thousand (300,000) men,
embracing a statement of their operations in raising the
quota under that call ; which, with reports heretofore
submitted, forms a complete resume of the business of
this committee from the commencement of their opera-
tions in August, 1SG3, to the date of this report.

On the 28th of September, 1864, as stated in the re
port of your committee, of date October 1 3 all quotas
demanded of the County of New York up to that time
had been filled. This was verified by the official certifi-
cate of Brigadier-General William Hays, A. A. Provost-
Marshal General for the Southern District of New York,
who subsequently furnished your committee with a com-
plete statement of the quotas under the calls of February,
March, and July, 1864, with credits allowed, showing a
surplus over all demands on the 30th of September of
ninety-eight (98) men. The following is the statement :

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In their summary report of September 28, 1864,
announcing that the quota under call of July 18, 1864,
was filled, your committee stated, that unless otherwise
directed by your honorable body, it was their intention
to continue the work of recruiting, in anticipation of a
further call.

In accordance with this announcement, the work of
raising recruits was continued on the basis of the boun-
ties which were being paid when the quota of July 18
was filled, viz. : One hundred and seventy dollars ($170)
for one (1) year, two hundred dollars ($200) for two (2)
years, and three hundred dollars ($300) for three (3) year
men, with premiums or hand-money of one hundred dol-
lars ($100) for one (1) year, and twenty dollars ($20) for
two (2) and three (3) year men.

The number of men induced to enlist by these boun-
ties was very small, averaging only about two (2) men
per day. This paucity of numbers, it was believed, was
greatly contributed to by the enlisting of men in this
County for other localities, which was permitted by your
committee at the solicitation of General Hays, and of the
Governor (through Adjutant-General J. B. Stonehouse),
when our own quota, under the call of July 18, was
filled. The purpose of this permission, when first granted,
was to facilitate adjoining townships in this State in fill-
ing their quotas under that call by enlistments, this Coun-
ty having filled its quota mainly by credits. But it was.

Doc. No. 12. 16

understood that this permission was now being very much
abused, and used for the purpose of enlisting men here
for other States ; therefore, on the fifteenth of October,
your committee revoked their permission for recruiting
in this County for other localities, in the following letter
to General Hays :

COUNTY COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTEEKING, >
New York, October 15, 1864. $

Brig.-Gen. WM. HAYS,

Acting Assistant Provost- Marshal General
SIR

Understanding that the quotas of townships surround-
ing this County are .about filled, and thus the object for
which they were permitted to recruit and muster in this
County being accomplished, I would respectfully recom-
mend, on behalf of the Committe on Volunteering, that
you now issue an order to the various Provost-Marshals
in the County requiring them to muster in recruits for
their serveral districts only. We have been and are now
paying the County bounty for men raised in anticipation
of any future call, and recruiting for this County is again
likely to become brisk. For this reason, it is important
that we should have at our own office the services of an
experienced mustering officer, and we would be greatly
obliged, and believe the public interests M'ill be best sub-
served, if Lieut. Parker could be continued with us in that
capacity, with a surgeon and the necessary clerical force.

17 Doc. No. 12.

We also propose to reopen the volunteer rooms on the
Battery, and would be pleased if yon would designate a
mustering officer for duty there, with a Surgeon and the
necessary clerical force.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

(Signed) O. BLUNT,

C It ain nan Co. Com. on Vol.

In accordance with the suggestions contained in this
letter, General Hays issued an order confining the Pro-
vost-Marshals to mustering in men for their own districts.
He also continued Lieutenant (now Captain) It. C. Parker,
Twelfth United States Infantry, on duty at our office in
the Park, and detailed Lieutenant Pyne for duty at the
Battery office.

The number of recruits offering still continued small.
Although the bounty of one hundred and seventy dollars
($170) for one (1) year was nearly double, in proportion
to the bounty offered for two (2) and three (3) years men,
it was found that of what men did offer a large propor-
tion preferred the longer term of enlistment. In view of
this fact, and as it was also understood that credits would
be allowed on any future call for extra years of service,
your committee concluded that it would be to the best
interests of the County to discontinue the payment of one
hundred and seventy dollars ($170) for one (1) year men,

and to resume the old bounty of one hundred dollars
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Doc. No. 12. 18

($100), thus placing the two (2) and three (3) years men
on an equal footing with the one (1) year men. It was
also thought proper to change the amount of premium
paid from one hundred dollars ($100) for one (1) year,
and twenty dollars ($20) for two (2) and three (3) years
men, to twenty dollars ($20) for one (1) year, thirty dol-
lars ($30) for two (2) years, and fifty dollars ($50) for three
(3) years recruits. This change in the bounty was made
on the 24th of October.

No further change was made in the bounties paid prior
to the issuing of the call of the President, dated Decem-
ber 19, 1S64, for three hundred thousand (300,000) men.
That call was officially communicated to your honorable
body in report of this committee, dated December 31,
186-1, in which report your committee stated the num-
ber of men demanded of the County of New York (in
addition to men previously furnished) to fill the quota
under that call. The additional number demanded, it
appeared by the circular of the Provost-Marshal General
(embraced in said report), was four thousand four hun-
dred and thirty-three (4,433) men.

It was also stated in that report that the fund previous-
ly created for raising volunteers was then almost ex-
hausted. A further appropriation of two million dol-
lars ($2,000,000) was recommended, and an ordinance
therefor submitted, which was adopted. Thin ordinance,
in consequence of technical errors, was repealed by your

19 Doc. No. 12.

honorable body, January 10, 1865, and a new ordinance
adopted appropriating the same amount. (See Appendix
"A," annexed hereto.)

This ordinance was without legislative sanction, and in
consequence, it was found very difficult to obtain sub-
scriptions to the loan authorized by it. Although a de-
termined effort was at once made to raise the four thou-
sand four hundred and thirty-three (4,433) men demand-
ed of us, the meagre subscriptions to the loan greatly
retarded operations. Because of want of funds to pay
bounties, more than because of the lack of men willing
to take it, the enlistments at this time were fewer than
ever. But it was confidently believed that, as soon as the
Legislature should legalize this loan, money w ould at
once be obtained thereon, and we should speedily be en-
abled to raise the four thousand four hundred and thirty-
three (4,433) men demanded. While laboring to achieve
this end, and on the 24th of January, your committee
were advised that the Provost-Marshal General had re-
vised the quota of the County of New York, and that,
instead of the four thousand four hundred and thirty-
three (4,433) men heretofore called for to fill our quota,
we were now to be compelled to raise twenty thousand
(20,000) men. This startling fact was at once communi-
cated to your honorable body in a brief report, dated
January 24, 1865.

' At the meeting of your honorable body at which that

Doc. No. 12. 20

report was presented, your committee was directed by
resolution (see Appendix "A") to proceed to Washington,
to endeavor to obtain some explanation in regard to the
change in the quota.

This duty your committee at once proceeded to dis-
charge, and on the 28th of January they laid before
your honorable body (see report of this committee of
that date) the new order of the Provost-Marshal General,
demanding of New York twenty-one thousand and nine-
teen (21,019) men, instead of four thousand four hundred
and thirty-three (4,433). Accompanying this was an ex-
planation of the causes of this change in the quota, as
near as could then be ascertained, and it was also stated
that any abatement in the claim for twenty-one thousand
and nineteen (21,019) men was likely to be refused.

This increase in the demand of the Government upon
this County of course created great consternation among
the people of this County. Its injustice was demonstrated
by your committee, in report made to your honorable
body at that time, and your committee's views were full}'
sustained, alike by the press and the public. But as there
seemed to be no appeal from the demand, however un-
fair, there remained but the alternative for your honor-
able body and this committee to devise ways and means
to raise the men. It was apparent that the two million
dollars ($2,000,000) appropriated by the ordinance of
January 10, to raise four thousand four hundred arid

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thirty-throe (4,433) men, would fall fur short of the sum
which would be required now to raise twenty-one thou-
sand and nineteen (21,019) men ; and, as whatever sum
might be appropriated would require legislative sanction,
it was important that the necessary further appropriation
should be made at once. Therefore, on the 1st of Feb-
ruary, your honorable body adopted an ordinance ap-
propriating the further sum of three million dollars
($3,000,000) for the payment of bounties. (See Appendix
"A.") This made a total of five million dollars ($5,000,000)
now appropriated to raise the quota of twenty-one thou-
sand and nineteen (21,019) men demanded under the
President's call dated December 19, 1864, for three hun-
dred thousand (300,000) men.

The next step was to secure legislative sanction for the
two ordinances of January 10 and February 1.

Efforts were at once made to obtain such legalization,
and on the 10th of February the Legislature passed an
act (being chapter 29 of the Laws of 1865), which legal-
ized the loans authorized by the ordinances of the Super-
visors of January 10 and February 1, and in all the sub-
sequent acts passed by the Legislature of 1865 this legis-
lation was continued. (See Appendix "B" for all acts of
the Legislature of 1865 relating to bounties, &c.)

The number of recruits offering up to this time, at the
bounties of one hundred dollars ($100), two hundred dol-

Doc. No. 12. 22

lars ($200), and three hundred dollars ($300), for one (1),
two (2), and three (3) years men, respectively, had been so
small as to be absolutely discouraging. Other locali-
ties, whose agents swarmed around our doors, were then
offering as high as one thousand dollars ($1,000) for one
(1) year men, being ten times the amount offered and
paid by the County of New York. Public opinion now
seemed to be unanimously in favor of an increase of
bounty in New York. Chapter 29 of the Laws of 1865,
already referred to, provided for a State bounty in place
of local bounties, the amount fixed being three hundred
dollars ($300), four hundred dollars ($400), and six hun-
dred dollars ($600), for one (1), two (2) and three (3) years
men, respectively. On the same day this law passed,
your committee resolved to increase the bounty paid by
them to correspond with the amounts fixed by the State
law. The new bounties for two (2) and three (3) years
men were j ust [double what had hitherto been paid, while
for one (1) year men the amount was trebled. The increase
was from one hundred dollars ($100), two hundred dollars
($200), and three hundred dollars ($300), for one (1), two
(2), and three (3) years men, respectively, to three hundred
dollars ($300), four hundred dollars ($400), and six hun-
dred dollars ($600), for the corresponding terms of ser-
vice. The hand-money was also increased from twenty
dollars ($20), thirty dollars ($30), and fifty dollars ($50),
for one (1), two (2), and three (3) years men, respectively,
to fifty dollars ($50), seventy-five dollars ($75), and one

23 Doc. No. 12.

hundred dollars ($100). The following was the resolu-
tion adopted by your Committee :

the County of New York pay for a one
(1) year recruit three hundred dollars ($300) bounty, and
fifty dollars ($50) hand-money ;

"'For a two (2) years recruit, four hundred dollars ($400)
bounty, and seventy-five dollars ($75) hand-money ;

"For a three (3) years recruit, six hundred dollars ($600)
bounty, and one hundred dollars ($100) hand-money.

"The bounty to be paid to the recruit, in his own hand,
as provided in the State law relating to bounties (viz. :
Assembly bill No. 115 of 1865), and the hand-money to
the person who may present the recruit."

The increase in bounty and hand-money immediately
gave a great impetus to recruiting. The number of men
obtained at once rose from one (1) and two (2) per day
to fifty (50) and seventy-five (75), and steadily increased.
So great w r as the increase that additional mustering offi-
cers, &c., became absolutely necessary. They Avere at
once requested in the following letter :

Doc. No. 12. 24

COUNTY COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTEERING, )
New York, February 15, 1865. f

BKIG.-GEN. E. "W. HINKS, %

Acting Assistant Provost- Marshal General,

Southern Division of Neiv York :
Sm

The Committee on Volunteering of New York County
has increased its bounty to recruits to three hundred dol-
lars ($300) for one year, with fifty dollars ($50) premium ;
four hundred ($400) dollars for two years, with seventy-
five dollars ($75) premium, and six hundred dollars
($600) for three years, and one hundred dollars ($100) pre-
mium.

The increased bounty has greatly stimulated recruiting
in this County. On Monday, we enlisted about fifty (50)
men at the volunteer rooms, and yesterday nearly one
hundred (100), besides almost seventy-five (75) men re-
jected each day, and we bid fair in the future to exceed
these numbers. I am instructed by the County Commit-
tee on Volunteering to request that, in order to facilitate
the work of recruiting at the volunteer rooms, you will
detail another mustering officer to do duty there, with the
necessary clerks, &c.

If you should not be authorized to employ the clerical
aid, the County will provide for that at its own expense.
If possible, it would be well also to detail at our office an

25 Doc. No. 12.

additional Surgeon, as we are unable to examine all who
apply, with the force at our command.

Trusting that it may seem judicious to you to prompt-
ly comply with these suggestions,

I am, sir, very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) O. BLUNT,

Chairman Neio York Co. Com. on Vol.

This request of your committee was promptly com-
plied with, and thus every facility given for mustering
in the large number of men offering.

Of the men enlisting at this time, a majority still pre-
ferred the longer terms of service, and as each three (3)
years man enlisted required an expenditure of seven hun-
dred dollars ($700), it will be perceived what a heavy
drain an average enlistment of one hundred (100) men
per day made upon the volunteer fund.

The increased number raised gave hopes that, notwith-
standing the large quota demanded of us, we might
yet be enabled to fill it without resort to a draft. But
in the meantime, while every effort was put forth to raise
men, no means were left untried to secure that all due
representations of the injustice believed to have been done
this County by the change in the quota should be laid
before the authorities at Washington. On the 31st of

Doc. No. 12. 20

January, your honorable body had fully considered the
subject of the increased demand upon us, and had
adopted sundry resolutions in regard thereto (see Appen-
dix "A"), among others, one appointing a special com-
mittee to visit the national capitol, to urge our grievance
in the matter of the revised quota, and to make a last
appeal there for redress. How well that committee dis-
charged the duty assigned them, and how utterly futile
their efforts were, is fully detailed in the elaborate report
submitted to your honorable body by them on the 28th
of February. The result of that committee's labors was
only to give assurance that the increased demand upon
us would be insisted on to the last man. In proof that
the premises taken by that committee and the conclu-
sions arrived at were entirely correct, reference is made
to the papers hereto annexed (Appendix "C") relating to
the matters treated of in their report, and not embraced
therein.

Now came the greatest trouble with which your com-
mittee had to contend. Men were still offering at the
rate of one hundred (100) per day, when the funds en-
tirely gave out. Although the appropriation was far
from being exhausted, and the ordinances of your honor-
able body had the fullest legislative sanction, yet it was
found utterly impossible to raise the necessary means.
Comptroller Erennan, with the energy which has ever
distinguished that officer, made urgent and repeated ap-

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peals to capitalists and moneyed institutions to aid us, and
your committee individually and collectively gave their
assistance, a few public spirited citizens aiding the work,
yet the amounts obtained were so inconsiderable as con-
stantly to leave your committee in great embarrassment.
The lack of funds now frequently compelled a discon-
tinuance of the payment of bounties, and consequently
there was a decrease in the number of men obtained.
Of course it was impossible to hide the fact that we
were greatly embarrassed for the want of funds. It
became known to the government officials ; and to add
to our discomfort at this crisis, we were warned that, un-
less there was an increase in the number of enlist-
ments, the draft would be enforced. On the 2d of
March, the chairman of your committee laid before it
the following letter, which had been received by him :

OFFICE A. A. PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL, AND ]
SUPERINTENDENT VOLUNTEER RECRUITING SERVICE, I
SOUTHERN DIVISION OF NEW YORK,

Neiv York, March 1, 1864. J
ORISON I'LUNT,

Chairman County Committee on Volunteering :
SIR

It appears by the records of this ofh'ee, that but nine
hundred and thirty-seven (937) men were enlisted in the
City and County of New York for the army and navy
during the eight (8) days ending February 8, 1865.

In order to prevent any misapprehension, I deem it

Doc. No. 12. 28

proper to state that the present rate of enlistment will
not fill the quota of the City districts within the time re-
quired ; and unless recruiting increases, and the men are
put in the service more rapidly, the draft will be com-
menced.

I am, sir,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) II. F. BROWNSON,

Asst. Adjt.-Gen. & Asst. to A. A. P. M. Gen.

The chairman proposed to send the following reply
thereto, to which the committee agreed :

COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTEERING, )
New York, March 2, 1865. j"
II. F. BROWNSON,

Asst. Adjt. Gen. and Asst. to A. A. P. M. Gen. :
SIR

Your note of yesterday's date, in relation to the pro-
gress of recruiting in this County, was received last even-
ing. In reply, I have the honor to state, that I very
much regret that, in your judgment, " the present rate
of enlistments will not fill the quota of the City districits
within the time required ; and unless recruiting increases,
and men are put in the service more rapidly, the draft
will be commenced."

We commenced paying the increased bounty of six
hundred dollars ($600) for three (3) years men, four him-

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dred dollars ($400) for two (2) 'years men, and three hun-
dred dollars ($300) for one year men, on the 18t.li day of
February, immediately upon being authorized by the
Legislature to raise the means necessary to pay large
numbers of men. From that date up to and including
the 28th, being fourteen (14) days (exclusive of Sunday),
we have paid bounties to the very large number of one
thousand four hundred and fifty-nine (1,459) men, or an
average of over one hundred and four (104) men per day,
as follows :

ARMY
HECK HITS.

NAVAL

UKCKU1TH.

SUHSTF-
TIJTKS IN
ANTICIPATES
OK 1IKAKT.

TOTAL.

February 13

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71

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7
6

122

20 ...

79
122

94
148

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93
94

27
7

130
108

100

110

137

27
28

97
90

125
110

Total, 14 days

1,197

175

1,459

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The number raised the first seven (7) days was six
hundred and seventy-four (674), being an average of
about ninety-six (96) per day. The number raised the
second seven days was seven hundred and eighty-five
(785), being an average of about one hundred and
twelve (112) per day an increase in the average of the
last seven days of sixteen (16) per day. This statement
does not include substitutes in anticipation of the draft
enlisted elsewhere than at our office in the Park, in re-
rard to whom we are not advised, but of which there

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must have been quite a number.

This average is the largest we have ever reached since
we commenced the business of raising volunteers in
November, 1863.

From the 20th of November, 1863, to the 17th of
March, 1864, inclusive, under the call for five hundred
thousand (500,000) men, the whole number of newly
enlisted men paid bounty was seven thousand nine hun-
dred and ninety-five (7,995), being an average of a little
over eighty-one (81) men per day. From the 18th of
March to the olst of May, 1864, under the call for two
hundred thousand (200,000) men, the whole number of
newly enlisted men paid bounty was five thousand four
hundred and twenty-six (5,426) in sixty-four (64) days,
being an average of a little less than eighty-five (85) men
per day. Of these enlistments nearly one-half were for
the navy, in which enlistments are now very much re-

81 Doc. No. 12.

stricted. The number for the army was an average of
less than fifty (50) men per day.

From the 7th of July to the 30th of September, 1864,
under the call for five hundred thousand (500,000) men,
the whole number of newly enlisted men paid bounty
was seven hundred and fifty-nine (759) in sixty-eight (68)
days, being an average of a little over eleven (11) per day.
From the 20th of November, 1863, to the 30th of Sep-
tember, 1864, we paid bounty on two hundred and thirty
(230) days ; and during that whole period there were only
twenty -seven (27) days on which the gross number
of newly enlisted men paid bounty reached one hundred
(100), while the average for the whole two hundred and
thirty (230) days was but a little over sixty-oue (61) men
per day.

It will be found, on investigation, that the average en-
listments for the army under the existing call has been
nearly double that of the most favorable period of enlist-
ments during the past two (2) years ; and considering the
adverse circumstances under which we have labored up
to this time, we are certain you must credit us with hav-
ing used all due diligence in the matter.

We would also beg to call your attention to the fact
that nearly all the men enlisted by us now arc for three
(3) years service, that the whole number of fourteen hun-
dred and fifty-nine (1,459) men enlisted from the 13th to

Doc. Is 0.12. 32

the 28th of February represent about three thousand six
hundred and forty-seven (3,647) years of service. The in-
crease in the number of men raised during the last seven
of the fourteen days preceding the 28th of February, as
compared with the seven days preceding those, leads us to
believe that there will be a corresponding increase in the
future, more especially as we understood yesterday that
the United States authorities have directed that all the re-
cruits for the regular army enlisted here should be cred-
ited to this County.

In conclusion, permit me to suggest that if there is any
means not adopted by us, by which in your judgment the
number of men raised can be increased, we will gladly
adopt it, upon its being made known to us.

Respectfully asking your consideration of these facts,

I have the honor to be, sir,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) O. BLUNT,

Chairman N. Y. Co. Com, on Vol.

To this communication the following reply was re-
ceived :

33 Doc. No. 12.

OFFICE A. A. PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL AND

SUPERINTENDENT VOLUNTEER RECRUITING SERVICE,

SOUTHERN DIVISION OF NEW YORK,

New York, March 3, 1865.

ORISON BLUNT, Esq.,

Chairman Committee on Volunteering :
DEAR SIR

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your
communication of the 2d instant, in reply to a note of
Captain Brownson, A. A. G., written by my direction, in
relation to the progress of recruiting in this County, and
have perused with interest the elaborate array of statis-
tics which it contains, exhibiting the comparative pro-
gress of recruiting in the City and County of New York,
under the present and previous calls for troops ; but its
examination has not changed or modified my convictions
that " the present rate of recruiting will not fill the
quotas of the City districts within the time required."

It will be borne in mind that very great deficien-
cies, as compared with other districts in this division,
exist in all the City districts, and that these deficiencies
exist entirely for the reason that New York has been less
actively or less successfully engaged in actual recruiting
than the suburban districts. The draft has already com-
menced in all districts surrounding the City, and to fur-
ther postpone its operations here, unless there is a
prospect of the quotas being immediately filled by vol-
untary enlistments, would be an obvious injustice to those

Doc. No. 12. 34

districts in which the application of the provisions of the
law is now being made.

Furthermore, it will be remembered that the previous
quotas of the City districts have been filled to a very
great extent with credits resulting from enlistments in
the navy not made since the assignment of quotas under
the enrolment law, and not contained in your exhibit of
the progress of recruiting under those calls. Hence, the
comparison made in your communication has no applica-
tion to the results in filling the quotas, which now must
be done by actual enlistment.

It was hoped that the postponement of the draft in
this City would produce, on the part of the citizens, some
effort commensurate with the amount of labor to be done
to secure the filling of the quotas by volunteer enlist-
ments, thereby speedily reinforcing our active victorious
armies with some sixteen thousand volunteers, and thus
removing the necessity for a recourse to the operations of
a draft on the part of the Government.

To secure this result, every means of co-operation and
assistance consistent with the interests of the service has,
whenever suggested, been willingly adopted by the Pro-
vost-Marshal General, and by this office ; but after trial, it
seems that these hopes are not well grounded, for while
yourself and a few persons have labored faithfully and
efficiently to produce the desired result, the expectation

35 Doc. No. 12.

of a general interest being aroused, and an active effort
being made on the part of the whole community, has not
been realized ; and instead of any indication being appa-
rent that the quotas will be speedily filled, there is pre-
sented the conclusive evidence of your own figures that,
at the present rate of recruiting, the quota will not be
filled until the 1st of August next.

I know of no means by which the number of men
raised can be increased, except the people, who have the
greatest interest at issue, shall, by their efforts, give re-
cruiting such an impetus as they only can create. Every
consideration of patriotism and interest appeals to them
to put their hands to the work. The beneficient and lib-
eral provisions of the State law, by which every person
who secures a substitute before the draft will receive six
hundred ($600), four hundred ($00), or three hundred
($300) dollars bounty, for three (8), two (2) or one (1)
years service of such substitute, respectively, while a
drafted man can receive but two hundred and fifty
($250) dollars either for himself or his substitute, ought
of itself make every able-bodied person, Avho is liable
to draft, an active recruiting agent, while the large
bounty paid by the State, in addition to the Government
bounty j ought to induce all those who are not liable to
the draft to enter or re-enter the service, and assist in the
grand concluding campaigns of the war.

In reply, however, to your concluding remarks, I would

Doc. No. 12. 36

suggest that means be adopted to give the greatest pos-
sible publicity to the necessity of immediately raising
men more rapidly, and to the liberal provisions of the
State Government made for volunteers and substitutes ;
and that the people of the City be appealed to through
the public press, and, if practicable, through public
meetings, to devote one week to their country and their
own personal interests, in labor to secure the filling the
quotas of their own districts, and thereby relieve them-
selves from the evils of a draft. To this end, every
facility will be extended from this department. Muster-
ing officers and surgeons shall be provided in abundance,
and that a fair test may be made, I think I may promise
that no draft shall take place during the next ten days.

I am, sir,

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) EDW. W. HINKS,

Brigadier- General, A. A. Provost-Marshal General-,

Superintendent Volunteer Recruiting Service,

On the Cth of March, at the meeting of your honor-
able body, the position of the County in regard to its
quota, the financial difficulties your committee labored
under, and the near prospect of the draft was fully ex-
plained. Resolutions were adopted (see Appendix "A")
urging the people to aid in avoiding the conscription,

37 Doc. No. 12.

and directing your committee to issue an appeal to the
people on this subject. In accordance with the instruc-
tions of your honorable body, your committee at once
prepared and prominently advertised in all the public
prints the following :

A DRAFT THREATENED!

Will tliG Citizens of New York aid in Arresting such
a Calamity ?

THE ASSISTANT PKOVOST-MAUSIIAL GENERAL CALLS UPON THEM.

THE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTEERING APPEALS
TO THEM.

TEN DAYS ALLOWED TO INCKEASE KECIiUITING.

Over Thirteen Thousand Men yet to be liaised.
The Countv Committee on Volunteering call the atten-

/ o

tion of every citizen to. the letter appended hereto, from
Brigadier-General Ilinks, A. A. P. M. General and Su-
perintendent of Recruiting Service, relative to the num-
ber of recruits now being raised in this County, and the
prospect of a draft.

The committee have exhausted all means at their com-
mand for raising men. They have paid the largest
bounty permitted by the laws of the State, or paid in
any portion of the State. They have succeeded in re-

Doc. No. 12. 38

cruiting over one hundred (100) men per day ; within
the last seven (7) days they have averaged about one
hundred and thirty (130) men per day, and within seven-
teen (17) days they have reduced the number of men to
be raised nearly two thousand (2,000).

But there are yet more than thirteen thousand (13,000)
men to be raised to fill the quota of this County, and to
raise this number within a reasonable time requires not
one hundred (100) men, but two hundred (200) men per
day, at least.

While the committee and the Board of Supervisors,
from which they derive their power, have individually
and collectively given their whole time and attention to
this work, it is to be regretted that the people of the
County, who will suffer by the draft, have been luke^
warm, and have rendered the committee no considerable
assistance.

Even capitalists, who have most to fear from a draft,
have been unwilling to aid to the extent of furnishing
the necessary means to pay the men raised. The fund
for paying volunteers is now nearly exhausted, and even
one hundred (100) men per day can no longer be paid
unless moneyed men and institutions subscribe the neces-
sary funds.

The committee, in justice to themselves and the pub-
lic, now make this statement, and appeal to the people to

39 Doc. No. 12.

so increase the number of recruits during the ten days
grace allowed us that it will be reduced to a certainty
that the quota can be filled within a reasonable time.

To avoid a draft two things arc necessary :

First That the bonds of the Connty for the purpose of
paying volunteers be taken immediately ; and,

Second That the people at once lend their aid to the
work of raising volunteers.

Especially, let every citizen, who has the means, pro-
vide himself with a substitute. He will thus exempt
himself from draft, and help to fill the quota of the Coun-
ty. Substitutes can now be obtained at comparatively
small cost, the State undertaking to reimburse all those
who pay money for this purpose, to the extent of six
hundred dollars ($600) for a three years substitute ; four
hundred dollars ($400) for a two years substitute, and
three hundred dollars ($300) for a one year substitute.

Those who subscribe to the volunteer loan fund have
not only the pledge of the faith and property of the
County, but the additional security that the State will
reimburse to the County the money thus expended.

It now remains with the people to avert the threaten-
ed calamity of a draft. Let them take the matter in
hand. Let them assemble together in public council,
awl, after determining the best means to be pursued, put

Doc. No. 12. 40

those means into immediate execution. With the co-
operation of the press and the active aid of the people,
the committee hope, within the prescribed ten days, to
give satisfactory evidence that more men will be pro-
cured by volunteering than can possibly be obtained by
draft.

NEW YORK, March 6, 1865.

(Signed) C. GODFREY GUNTHER,

Mayor,

. MATTHEW T. BRENNAN,

Comptroller,
ORISON BLUNT.

Supervisor,

WILLIAM M. TWEED,

Supervisor,

ELIJAH F. PURDY,

Supervisor,

WILLIAM R. STEWART,

Supervisor,

County Committee on Volunteering.

ORISON BLUNT,

Chairman.

CORNELIUS CORSON, Clerk.

Following was the letter of General Hinks, referred
to in the foregoing.

41 Doc. No. 12.

But all the efforts put forth by the County authorities
did not keep your committee in funds, and it was found
impossible even to raise money sufficient to pay the num-
ber of men who offered, and, of course, any increased
number could not have been paid. In view of this fact,
and of General Hink's letter of the 3d, your committee
were not surprised to receive the following on the 8th :

OFFICE A. A. P. M. GENERAL AND
SUPERINTENDENT VOLUNTEER RECRUITING SERVICE,
SOUTHERN DIVISION OF NEW YORK,

New YorJc : March 8, 1865.

ORISON BLUNT, E({.,

Chairman County Com. on Volunteering,

New York:
SIR

I have the honor to inform you that instructions have
been received from the Provost-Marshal General to com-
mence the draft in all the City districts on the 15th inst.

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) II. F. BROWNSON,

Assist. Adjt.-Gen., A. A. P. M. Gen.

This was made public, and seemed to somewhat
awaken the people to the true condition of affairs. Pub-
lic meetings were at once called in most of the wards,
with the view of facilitating the work in hand, by the
formation of ward associations ; and ward subscription

Poc. No. 12, 42

lists were opened for the purpose of inducing enlistments,
by the payment of extra hand-money, on account of the
ward. But the subscription to the public funds, where
the money was most needed,was not largely increased by
this means.

This awakening of public feeling, however, helped
to temporarily delay any positive proceedings in the
actual enforcement of the draft, although it was well
understood that the various Provost-Marshals had every-
thing in readiness to begin the turning of the wheel at a
moment's notice.

We had thus far exhausted every means which had been
devised, both to secure the number of men demanded
and to raise the means to pay them. In vain we ap-
pealed to the Government to take the corrected enrolment
and revise the lists of men held to be liable to conscrip-
tion in the hands of the Provost-Marshals, giving us credit
for the large decrease in number which the new enrol-
ment had positively determined to be due on the old en-
rolment, and thus secure us a corresponding reduction of
the quota.

When the correction of the Fourth District enrolment
was entirely completed, we had offered to turn it over,
provided the Goverment officials, in accordance with pre-
vious understanding and agreement, would make the cor-
rection which it was clear should be made, and allow us

.43 Doc. No. 12.

a corresponding reduction in the quota. But they would
give us no such guarantee. As it was thus certainly de-
termined that nothing would be allowed to intervene to
prevent the Government obtaining the full number of
men demanded of us in January, and therefore it was
evident that just at this juncture further effort in this
direction would be but an expenditure of money which
could bo better applied in paying volunteers, it was
deemed expedient to discontinue that work.

On the 23d of March, at a meeting of the Common
Council, his honor the Mayor sent in the following com-
munication, covering a letter of Major Dodge (who
had relieved General Ilinks as A. A. P. M. General of
this District), urging more active co-operation on the
part of citizens in the work of filling the quota :

MAYOR'S OFFICE, )
New York, March 23, 1865. j

To the Honorable the Common Council:

GENTLEMEN

I herewith transmit a copy of a letter addressed to me
by Major R. I. Dodge, Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal
General, wherein the belief is expressed that by the
prompt action of our citizens, holding meetings in each
ward, appointing recruiting committees, raising funds,
&c., " the quota of the whole City can be filled without
further draft, and without calling upon those already

Doc. No. 12. 44

drafted." I feel that it is unnecessary for me to attempt
the portrayal of the distress which would pervade many
a happy home-circle in our City if the severe require-
ments of the draft should be rigorously enforced. Major
Dodge proposes measures which he believes will avert
the necessity of such action. It is certainly to be hoped
that his suggestions may realize the fact to our citizens ;
and to this end, as I am of opinion any such action should
receive the co-operation and assistance of the municipal
authorities, I have deemed it advisable to transmit to
your honorable body a copy of his communication, and
would recommend, in order to perfect an efficient organi-
zation, that meetings be called in the several wards for
the purpose indicated, under the sanction of the members
of both Boards of the Common Council, in their respec-
tive wards, and that the Common Council shall adopt
such other measures as they may deem best calculated
to advance the object sought the relief of our citizens
from the hardships of the draft.

(Signed) C. GODFREY GUNTIIER,

Mayor,

45 Doc. No. 12.

[Copy.]

OFFICE A 1 A. PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL AND
SUPERINTENDENT VOLUNTEER RECRUITING SERVICE,
SOUTHERN DIVISION OF NEW YORK,

New York, March 17, 1865.

Hon. C. G. GUNTHER,

Mayor of New York City :
SIR

I most urgently solicit the co-operation of the citizens
of New York in the effort I am now making to fill the
quotas.

No postponement or suspension of the draft will be
made by the Provost-Marshal General, but he has placed
it in the power of the citizens themselves to do this, by
simply complying with his one condition: Keep the
Board of Enrolment fully occupied in enlisting men, and
they cannot, under their orders, make the draft. The
neglect of this condition has resulted in a draft in a con-
siderable portion of the City.

1 believe the quota of the whole City can be filled
without further draft, and without calling upon those
already drafted ; but the citizens must act promptly and
vigorously. There has heretofore been but little interest
manifested by the citizens at large in recruiting. They
must now take hold.

Doc. No. 12. 40

I respectfully request that the citizens of each ward
hold immediate meetings, appoint recruiting committees,
raise funds, and take such other steps as shall seem to
them most conducive to the great end of filling the ward
quotas.

Eecruits brought to the mustering officer by a ward
committee shall be credited directly to that ward, when-
ever it can be done under section thirteen of the act ap-
proved March 3, 1865.

Ward committees will take their recruits for muster to
the Provost-Marshals of the districts to which they be-
long. This, by keeping the Provost-Marshals fully em-
ployed, will have the effect of stopping the draft by de-
ferring it from day to day.

If the wards already drafted will keep the District Pro-
vost-Marshals occupied in enlisting recruits to go towards
their quotas, the drafted men need have no fears of being
called upon.

The Provost-Marshal General has placed the question
of draft in the hands of the people themselves.

If they will give the six District Provost-Marshals full
employment in recruiting, no draft will ensue, nor will the
men already drafted be called upon to report ; but when-
ever it shall appear that a Provost-Marshal is not fully

47 Doc. No. 11

occupied in this way, the draft, under the orders, must in-
evitably take place. The ward quotas can he obtained
by applying to District Provost-Marshals.

I am, Sir,

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) KICHARD I. DODGE,

Major Tioelftli U, S. Infantry, A. A. P. M. Gen.

As stated by Major Dodge, the wheel had already re-
volved in some of the wards, and the conscripted stood
in fear of being carried off. Of course, the poorer class
only would suffer, the well-to-do being able to release
themselves by furnishing substitutes. For those who
could not pay for substitutes themselves there seemed no
relief. As it was found impossible to raise money sufficient
to pay volunteers, of course it was not to be expected that
money could be raised to pay for substitutes from the
public funds.

On the 25th of March, the following letter was received
by your committee from Major Dodge :

Doc. No. 12. 48

OFFICE A. A. PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL, ]
SUPERINTENDENT VOLUNTEER RECRUITING SERVICE, I
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK,

New York, March 25, 1865. j

MR. O. BLUNT,

Chairman Supervisor's Committee,

Neio York:
SIR

I have the honor to request that you will inform me,
positively and immediately, what prospect there is of
your obtaining and keeping on hand sufficient funds to
pay bounty to two hundred volunteers daily. The ar--
rangements for recruiting in the several wards had just
been completed, and recruits were beginning to come in,
when the whole thing is brought to a dead stop by the
failure in the supply of funds.

However perfect the other arrangements for recruiting,
men will not volunteer unless they receive the bounties.
If, therefore, you cannot obtain the money to pay these
bounties, it is useless to defer the draft longer. The Gov-
ernment does not desire to enforce the draft anywhere.
It prefers that recruits come in voluntarily. But the men
must be had immediately.

For myself, I have been exceedingly anxious to see this
war ended without the necessity of another resort to the
wheel in New York City. I have done all in my power.

49 Doc. No. 12.

The alternative is before the people of the City the quo-
tas must be filled immediately ; if not with volunteers,
then with drafted men. I must and will have the men.

I am, Sir, very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) KICHAKD I. DODGE,

Major Twelfth U. S. Infantry,
A. A. Provost-Marshal General, &c.

We were now entirely at fault, out of funds, and threat-
ened with an immediate enforcement of the conscription.
Finding it useless to apply to capitalists, who, having
already mostly supplied themselves with substitutes, had
nothing personally to fear, and seemed to care but little
for the poor man, who would be compelled to go if drafted,
there seemed now to be but one way to obtain relief.
That way was to obtain aid from the State. The law
passed February 10 provided for the reimbursement of
Counties by the State for its expenditures in raising men
under this call. New York County was entitled, under
that law, to be reimbursed to the extent of over two million
dollars ($2,000,000), which had already been expended in
bounties.

An appeal was at once made to the State Paymaster-
General for even a small portion of the amount due us
under this law from the State. But it appeared that the
State was little better oft' than we were ; for, although the

Doc. No. 12. 50

State law passed February 10, it was not until the 28tli
of March that we received any encouragement from tho
State authorities. On that date we received a dispatch
from the State Paymaster-General, stating that further
bounty laws had been passed by the Legislature chapter
4:1 and 56, Laws of 1865 (see Appendix "B") and that ho
hoped to be enabled to aid us soon. It afterward ap-
peared that the law of February 10 was not deemed suf-
ficient by capitalists to warrant any loan to the State, and
hence the additional laws referred to had to be enacted,
before any money could be raised on State bonds.

This was but a crumb of comfort, but such as it was,
it was all the reply we could give Major Dodge to his let-
ter of the 25th of March, which we had delayed answer-
ing, hoping to be able to assure him that we should at
once receive money from the State. The following wus,
sent to Major Dodge :

COUNTY VOLUNTEER COMMITTEE, )
New York, March 29, 1865. f

Major RICIIAKD I. DODGE,

A. A Provost-Marshal General:

SlK

I have delayed answering yours of the 25th until I
should be able to give you a definite reply. 1 have the
honor to state that, although the County is not now in
funds to pay bounties, we hourly expect to be able to
resume payment.

51 Doc. No. 12.

The following dispatch from the State Paymaster, in
reference to the bounty fund due the County, was re-
ceived yesterday, and is appended for your informa-
tion :

"ALBANY, March 28.
" lion. O. BLUNT,

''Bounty Committee :

" Bounty bill has passed. Hope to be able to aid you
soon. " S. E. MARVIN,

"P. M. Gen."
I am, Sir,

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) O. BLUNT,

Chairman.

This did not appear to be sufficiently assuring to Major
Dodge, as orders for the completion of the draft, of which
the following is a specimen, were at once issued :

OFFICE OF THE A. A. PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL, )
New York, March 30, 1805. f

Captain F. C. WAGNER,

Pro vost- Marshal,

/Seventh District, Neio York:
CAPTAIN

On Saturday, April 1, you will procee'd to complete the
draft in the Eleventh Ward. Drafted men will be noti-

Doc. No. 12. 52

fied as follows : The one hundred and twenty-five first
on the list will report on Thursday, the 6th day of April ;
the one hundred and twenty -five next on the list on Fri-
day, the 7th, and so on one hundred and twenty-five
each day, until the whole ward is completed.

Drafted men accepted into 'service by the Board will be
held, and no farther extension of time will be allowed.
Substitutes for men so held can be obtained up to the
time of their leaving the draft rendezvous at Hart's Island
for the front.

The examination and acceptance of volunteers and sub-
stitutes will be always the first duty of the Board of
Enrolment.

The drafting and acceptance of men ordered to report
will be second in importance to the acceptance of recruits
(volunteers and substitutes) ; but the moment the latter
business slackens, the former will be continued as ordered.

The order of the Provost-Marshal General to be kept
fully occupied, will be strictly and literally enforced.

In your daily reports you will give the details of your '

work.

I am, Captain,

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) E, I. DODGE,

Major Twelfth Infantry, A, A. P. M, Gen.

53- Doc. No. 12.

On the orders, of which the foregoing is a specimen,
the draft was actually commenced.

The effect produced on the public mind, in. view of the
prospective immediate enforcement of the conscription,
can be best judged of by the following communication,
which, on the publication of the above orders, was at
once sent to the Common Council by his Honor the

Mayor :

MAYOR'S OFFICE, |
Neio York, March 31, 1865. \

To tie Honorable the Common Council:
GENTLEMEN

In view of the rigorous conscription" now in process of
enforcement, and the evils which may ensue therefrom, I
consider it my duty to recommend your honorable body
to apply to the Legislature for authority to issue bonds,
based on the credit of the corporation, to the amount of
twenty millions of dollars, for the purpose of raising
means to secure volunteers, and thus alleviate the burden
of military service now so unequally imposed, and pre-
vent the distress and horror that must follow the execu-
tion of a measure that seems otherwise inevitable. I am
in the hourly receipt of communications from poor
mechanics and laboring men, who have been drafted,
lamenting the fate which will compel them to leave
behind destitute and suffering families.

(Signed) C. GODFREY GUNTHEB,

Mayor.

Doc. 1 No. 12. .54

Tliis communication was presented to the Board of
Councilmen on the day of its date, and was by them refer-
red to a special committee, who, on the 3d of April, made
the following report, which was adopted by the Board :

" The undersigned, a special committee of the Board of
Conncilmen, to whom was referred the annexed message
from his Honor the Mayor, recommending the Common
Council ' to apply to the Legislature for authority to issue
bonds based on the credit of the corporation, to the
amount of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000), for the
purpose of raising means to secure volunteers, and thus
alleviate the burden of military service now so unequally
imposed, and prevent the distress and horrors that must
follow the execution of a measure that seems inevitable,'
would respectfully report

" That they have carefully considered the proposition
contained in this message, and are pleased to find the
chief magistrate so solicitous upon a subject which at
this time demands the attention of every official and
every citizen. Conscious of the suffering which must be
entailed upon the poorer classes of the community by the
full execution of the conscription now in progress, your
committee would willingly approve this or any other
measure which could be devised reasonably calculated
to avert the threatened calamity.

" But to this proposition of his Honor the Mayor there

55 Boc. No. 12.

are several objections, which seem to your committee in-
surmountable.

11 First There remain but a few days of the present
legislative session, as the hundred days will expire on the
llth instant, and to introduce any new bill at this late
day would require unanimous consent.

"Second Such unanimous consent cannot be expected,
inasmuch as the Legislature has spent much of the pres-
ent session in perfecting a law covering the whole subject
of bounties to volunteers and relief to drafted men in this
State, and the proposition of his honor the Mayor would
be in apparent conflict with that law.

"Third The County has authority and has adopted the
usual measures to raise the necessary means to relieve
this City from the draft ; but although the Board of Su-
pervisors, the County Committee on Volunteering, tluj
Comptroller, and the Common Council itself, have
urgently appealed to capitalists to take the loan for this
purpose, the amount subscribed has been entirely inade-
quate' to accomplish the object in view. While there is
believed to be a sufficiency of men ready to volunteer to
supply the requirements of the Government, the execu-
tion of the draft can only be ascribed to the lukewarm-
ness of capitalists in furnishing means for this patriotic
purpose. If the State, as is understood, cannot raise the
thirty millions of dollars ($30,000,000) bounty fund an-

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thorized by the new law, nor the County the compara-
tively insignificant amount of two millions of dollars
($2,000,000), it is not probable that the City could raise
the twenty millions of dollars ($20,000,000) proposed,
even if they were to receive the necessary legislative
authority.

"Fourth For two years the County authorities have
had in charge the business of raising the quotas of this
County, and are now at work endeavoring to avert the
draft. It is doubtful whether at this time the action pro-
posed by his Honor the Mayor could be productive of
substantial good.

" If the Common Council were at this late day to take
the matter in hand, it might have a tendency to compli-
cate the business, and rather impede than assist the ac-
complishment of the desired end.

,. " In view of these facts, your committee offer for adop-
tion the following resolution :

"Resolved, That the special committee be discharged
from the further consideration of the communication
of his Honor the Mayor, and that the same be ordered
on file.

"All of which is respectfully submitted.

" ABRAHAM LENT, ) . 7

" JOHN HEALY, \ r bpecuu ^

"JAMES G. BRINKMAN, i (

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There was as yet no prospect of funds from the State.
It was now generally understood that the State authori-
ties found it quite as difficult to realize money on the bonds
of the State as it had been found by the County au-
thorities to realize on the bonds of the County. It was
thought, however, that if the County could obtain some
of the State bonds, wo might be able to sell them, and
thus replenish our exhausted funds.

On the 1st of April, your honorable body adopted a
resolution (see Appendix "A"), calling on the Governor
to transfer to the credit of this County two million dol-
lars ($2,000,000) of the State bonds authorized to be is-
sued under the State bounty laws of 1865, and the fol-
lowing dispatch was sent to his Excellency :

HEADQUARTERS Co. COM. ON VOLUNTEERING, )
New York, April 1, 1865. J

His Excellency, REUBEN E. FENTON,

Governor State of New York,

Albany. New York:

The draft in this County is in progress, and it is
threatened to carry the men away. We think we could
readily raise all the men required if we had the money,
We are entirely without means.

There is due this County now about three million
dollars ($3,000,000) under the State bounty law. You
informed me yesterday that you had not money sufficient

Doc. No. 12. 58

to reimburse this County the amount due in cash. Will
you reimburse the County for the moneys thus far ex-
pended in State bonds ? If so, under instructions of the
Board of Supervisors, I would respectfully request that
you will at once cause to be issued to the credit of this
County the sum of two million dollars ($2,000,000) on
account of the amount due us, or so much thereof as you
may deem consistent, and the Comptroller will give his
receipt for the same. Please answer immediately.

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) OKISON BLUNT,

Chair.man Nciv York Co. Com. on Vol.

The following dispatch was received in reply :

ALBANY, April ], 1865.
ORISON BLUNT,

Chairman N. Y. Volunteer Committee :

Answer to your despatch of this date, I understand
from Comptroller that bonds are ready. My Paymaster-
General will pay bonds to City and County of New York,
upon proof being furnished, as required in his circular of
March 30.

(Signed) E. E. FENTON.

Shortly after, we received instructions as to the proofs
required to obtain reimbursement for our claim against

59 Doc, No. 12.

the State. (These instructions will be found appended,
marked " I).") Within twenty-four hours from the time
the blanks were received, we had prepared and presented
our first claim for reimbursement. This was at once hon-
ored, but instead of receiving all money, as we had hoped,
we obtained but fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) in cash,
the balance being in bonds. This fifty thousand dollars
($50,000) was all the money which we obtained from the
State by way of reimbursement, from first to last ; it did
not last one day, and, as the State bonds at that time were
found to be no more saleable than County securities, our
last resource failed us.

Previous to this time, a large proportion of the recruits
enlisted in this County had been mustered in at the
rooms of your committee, mainly because they refused to
go elsewhere ; and of one hundred (100) men a day enlist-
ed, at least eighty (SO) were mustered at our office, while
but about twenty (20) would be enlisted at the offices of
the six Provost-Marshals. Of course this left the Provost-
Marshals with little or nothing to do. On the seventh of
April, your committee received the following communi-
cation on this subject :

NEW YORK, April 6, 18G5
To Hon. WM. M. TWEED,

President of the Board of Supervisors :
DEAR SIR

The undersigned, representing the drafted men and
citizens of their several districts, desire in the most re-

.Doc. No. 12. GO

spectful manner, to urge upon you, and through you the 1
members of your honorable body, the necessity of taking
some action to assist in relieving them from the clutches
of the Provost-Marshals. ^We have been authoritatively
informed that Major Dodge, the Provost-Marshal Gener-
al of this district, has positively stated, that if his assistants
are kept " reasonably busy " mustering recruits, the draft
will not be enforced ; that that is the important and only
one condition upon which a practical postponement of the
draft can be effected. To reach this result, it is very
generally believed, if the efforts to obtain recruits that
are now being made through the County Volunteering
Committee in the Park, at the Battery, and other places,
were discontinued, or even modi/ted, in such a way as to
enable such recruits received at those places to be exam-
ined, mustered in, and paid at the District Provost-Mar-
shals' offices, that the result so earnestly desired would be
most certainly accomplished.

We are also authoritatively informed that the capaci-
ties of the several Provost-Marshal's offices in this City,
for mustering men. are twenty-five (25) per day.

We arc further informed that twenty (20) men fur-
nished per day at each of the district offices will cer-
tainly keep the Marshals reasonably employed. There
being six (f>) of such offices, it will be seen at once that
the average recruits, substitutes, and volunteers have
heretofore exceeded the aggregate required, viz. : one

61 Doc. No. 12.

hundred and twenty men per day. In calling your at-
tention thus earnestly to the subject, we desire to dis-
claim all intentions of questioning the purity of purpose
and integrity of action that have marked the efforts of
your honorable body, thus far, in providing for the emer-
gencies of the draft ; but we would be false to our con-
victions of duty, to our families, and those dependent
upon us, if we did not firmly present our claims to your
attention, and request an earnest consideration of the
subject at the very earliest practicable moment.

(Signed)

NELSON TAYLOR, Chairman,

Executive Com. Tenth Ward.
IGNATIUS FLYNN, Alderman,

Fifth District.
TERENCE FARLEY,

Nineteenth Ward.
J. C. PARK, Chairman,

Special Com. Sixteenth Ward.
PETER MASTERSON,

Twenty-second Ward.
JOHN KELLY, Shcri/.
WAI. L. ELY, Representative,

Seventh Ward Executive Com.
JAMES L. MILLER,

Seventeenth Ward.
EDMUND STEPHENSON, Chairman,
Twenty-first Ward Com,

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MICHAEL NORTON, Chairman,

Eighth Ward Com.
JOHN BRICE, Chairman,

Executive Com. Twentieth Ward.
JOHN HEALY, Chairman,

Executive Com. Fourth Ward.
JOHN POX, Supervisor.
JOHN MOORE, Alderman,

First District.
EDWARD HOGAN, Judge,

First Police District.
Hon. JOHN CALLAHAN,

First Ward.
C. H. MARSHALL, Chairman,

Fifteenth Ward Meeting for Recruiting.
A. VRIEDENBURGH, Secretary,

Fifteenth Ward Com.
J. B. TAYLOR,

10 Hubert street.
JOSEPH SHANNON, Alderman,

Sixth District.
LEWIS R. RYERS, Alderman,

Ninth District.
BERNARD KELLY, Alderman,

Twelfth District.
WM. C. GOVER, Coroner,

Tenth Ward/

63 Doc. No. 12.

Anxious to avert the calamity threatening under the
progressing draft, of the taking of unwilling men from
their homes for the army, and determined to try any ex-
periment likely to aid in the end to be achieved, your
committee at once adopted the following preamble and
resolutions :

" W/iereas, It is stated that the Government authorities
express a willingness to forego the enforcement of the
draft in this County, so long as the various Provost-Mar-
shals shall be kept "reasonably busy " mustering in re-
cruits ; and

" Whereas, Urgent appeals have been made to this com-
mittee, to the end that all the labor of examining and
mustering recruits shall be thrown upon the various Pro-
vost-Marshals, with the view of keeping them " reason-
ably busy," and thus leaving them no time to proceed
with the draft ; and

" Whereas, This committee is now, as it always has
been, ready to adopt any measure which may be deemed
judicious and calculated to achieve the end in view, of
preventing our citizens from being conscripted ; and

" Whereas, This committee has always kept the Provost-
Marshals supplied with the necessary means to pay all
the men ottering at their several offices, when there were
funds sufficient for that purpose, and the present proposi-
tion but requires an extension of that system, and that

Doc. No. 12. 64

the Provost-Marshals shall be required to examine and
muster in all the volunteers offering for their respective
districts ; therefore, be it

" Resolved, That all recruits hereafter applying at the
offices of this committee, in the Park and at the Battery,
for enlistment, shall be examined and mustered at the
offices of the various Provost-Marshals of the districts to
which such recruits are entitled to be credited, the same
as substitutes now applying at these offices are examined
and mustered ; this arrangement to take effect on and
after Monday next, and to continue as long as it shall
appear that it tends to keep the Provost-Marshals " rea-
sonably employed," and that the whole number of recruits
is not diminished thereby.

''Resolved) That the Provost-Marshals of the various
districts be requested to muster all recruits for the regu-
lar army and navy, as well as volunteers, and in case
they have not the power to so muster, this committee will,
as heretofore, provide that they be mustered in by the
proper officer."

But this expedient was of little avail. The Provost-
Marshals could not be supplied with funds sufficient to
pay all the men offering. But even of the number to
pay whom funds could be raised, it was with difficulty
they could be induced to enlist anywhere but at the
committee's rooms, so great was the confidence of those
enlisting that with us they were sure to be justly dealt by.

65 Doc. No. 12.

The draft was now in progress all over the City, the
wheel had turned in nearly all the sub-districts, and
the conscripted were in constant fear that they might be
called on and taken away.

A cloud seemed to rest upon our threatened people.
There was just one gleam of light in the continued suc-
cess of the Union armies, and hope was entertained that
our triumph would speedily become so thorough, that in-
stead of the demand for men bein enforced it would be

found that no more men would be needed.

This hope was universal. It was seized upon by the
local associations as a cause which should operate to re-
lieve us from the draft, and the Chief of the Advisory
Board of the Twenty-second AVard Association applied
to Major Dodge to know whether our own recent victo-
ries might not relieve us from the conscription. But,
although that impression was not confirmed by the reply
of Major Dodge, the hope of relief from this cause did
not die out, The following was Major Dodge's reply :

OFFICE OF A. A. PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL,
SUPERINTENDENT VOLUNTEER RECRUITING SERVICE,
SOUTHERN DIVISION OF NEW YORK,

New York, April 8.
Col. R. D. GOODWIN,

Chief of the Advisory Board, &c. :
SIR

Yours of the Cth instant is received. I regret that the
people of the Twenty-second Ward have formed so erro-

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neons an impression of the results (to them, as connected
with the draft) of our recent victories.

I have no reason to think that New York City will not
l>e required to fill her quota under the last call. On the
contrary, I believe the men to be necessary, and that the
Government will exact them.

Orders have been given, and arrangements made in
every district, that the moment the Provost-Marshal finds
himself not fully occupied enlisting volunteers and sub-
stitutes, he proceed with the duties connected with the
draft.

Unless ordered to the contrary by the War Depart-
ment, I shall exact of New York City every man of her
quota, and the sooner the people make up their minds
that the men must be furnished, the better it will be for
all concerned.

I am, Sir, very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) EICHAKD I. DODGE,

St. Lt.-Col U. S. A., A. A. P. M. G.

Truly, this was the darkest hour just before the dawn.
Even the last hope that the success of the Union arms
might save us was dying out, when suddenly the great
weight of anxiety, which had fallen like a pall upon

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the people in view of the draft, was removed. An order
Avas issued to discontinue nil recruiting for the army
and navy. This was the brief announcement :

[Circular No. 47.]

Nicw YOKK, April 14, 1865.

In compliance with instructions received from the bu-
reau of the Provost-Marshal General of the United States,
the business of 'recruiting and drafting will be discon-
tinued in this district until further orders.

By order of

(Signed) PJCIIAED I. DODGE,

Brevet Lieutenant- Colonel.

Probably nothing could have added to the intense
satisfaction of our people, in view of the acknowledged
virtual suppression of the rebellion, as did this order,
which relieved them from all fear of the conscription. It
was indeed an occasion of universal joy to the citizens of
the County of New York.

In view of this order, your committee at once held a
meeting, and adopted the following resolution :

Resolved, That all business in the way of recruiting be
suspended from and after this date.

This resolution was adopted on the 14th of April, and
on that day the last volunteer for the County of New

Doc. No. 12. 68

York was paid his bounty, and the account with the
Government, under the President's call of December 19,
1864, for three hundred thousand (300,000) men, closed.

Your committee, in this as in former reports, have en-
deavored to confine themselves to simple facts, desiring
to make only a complete record of the business intrusted
to their care.

Following, under proper headings, will be found such
statements in relation to the raising of the quota under
the call of December 19, 1864, as were inappropriate
for the brief historical sketch preceding this. The sub-
jects treated of are as follows :

I. The Army Enlistments.
II. The Naval Enlistments.

III. The First Corps (Major-General Hancock).

IV. The Veteran Reserve Corps.

V. Substitutes in anticipation of the Draft, '
VI. 'Recruiting for other localities.
VII. Services of the State Militia.
VIII. Credits under the last call.
IX. Men furnished during the Rebellion.
X. Construction of the State Bounty Laws of 1865.

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XL The Revision of the Quota.

t
XII. The Bureau of Military Statistics.

XIII. Accommodations for Volunteering Purposes.

XIV. Finances.

XV. Total expenditures for War Purposes during the
Rebellion.

XVI. Suits against the Committee.

XVII. Reimbursements for Bounties paid under the
Call of December 19, 1864,

XVIII. Further Reimbursement.

XIX. Claims made for Bounties after payment thereof
was discontinued.

XX. Appeal of the Volunteer and Substitute Agents.
XXL The Naval Credits of 1864.
XXII. Men Re-enlisted in the Field.

XXIII. The Examining Department.

XXIV. The Enrolment Bureau.
XXV. Appendices.

Doc. No. 12. 70

I. The Army Enlistments.

The enlistment of recruits for the array at the rooms
of your committee, under the last call, was in charge of
Captain Kichard C. Parker, 12th U. S. Infantry, who had
been in service at the committee's headquarters since
January, 1864. Towards the close of recruiting, when
the number of men offering became largely increased,
Captain Parker was assisted by Lieutenant G. Van
Schaick Aiken, 8th U. S. Infantry, Major August Thie-
man, 12th U. S. Infantry, Lieutenant Robert J. Ward,
1st U. S. Cavalry, Lieutenant C. M. Pyne, Gth U. S. In-
fantry, and Lieutenant Hanson E. Weaver, 8th U. S. In-
fantry ; Lieutenant Pyne being principally employed at
the branch office at the Battery.

All these mustering officers very faithfully discharged
their duties, but especially is the County indebted to
Captain Parker for his long and valuable services.
Though an anxious applicant for more active duty,
your committee found his assistance so indispensable that
they prevailed on the Government authorities to con-
tinue him with us.

The medical examinations for the army were in charge
of Dr. William F. Browne, who was in service at the
committee's rooms from May, 1864, He was assisted dm 1 -

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ing the time when the largest number was enlisting, by
Dr. James McNulty ; Dr. Moses was in attendance at the
Battery. Something of the magnitude of the labor de-
volving upon these gentlemen may be imagined from the
fact that the number enlisted represented only about one-
third of the number rejected. To demonstrate how well
these gentlemen discharged their duty needs only the state-
ment that, of the many thousand men enlisted by your
committee, not over half a dozen of the whole number
were discharged for disability at the time of their passing
medical examination, and of these few, nearly all were
for causes which might easily escape the most careful
examination.

The number of volunteers enlisted for the army under
the last call was five thousand four hundred and twenty-
four (5,424) ; of re-enlisted men, one hundred and thirty
(130), making a total of five thousand five hundred and
fifty-four (5,554). There was paid in bounties and hand-
money to volunteers two million six hundred and one
thousand one hundred and fifty-five dollars ($2,601,155) ;
to re-enlisted men thirty-nine thousand two hundred and
forty dollars ($39,240), making a total of two million six
hundred and forty thousand three hundred and ninety -five
dollars ($2,640,395). There were also enlisted through our
office for the army five hundred and fifty-four (554) sub-
stitutes, making the total enlistments for the army six
thousand one hundred and eight (6,108) men.

Doc. No. 12. 72

II. The Naval Enlistments.

Up to the middle of October, the regulations in regard
to enlistments in the navy had been such that your com-
mittee had been unable to devise any means by which
the bounty could be paid with facility to men enlisting
in this branch of the service. The regulations which re-

quired that men should undergo their final examination
on board the receiving ship, of course necessitated the
withholding of the bounty until they had actually
passed their examination on board of the vessel. This
system had given so much trouble and dissatisfaction in
raising recruits under the preceding call, that your com-
mittee were loth to again commence paying bounties to
naval men under such disadvantageous circumstances.
But as many men were offering for the navy, it was en-
deavored to procure the re-establishment of the rendez-
vous for final examination at our own office, instead of on
board ship. A telegram was first addressed to the Navy
Department, with a view to ascertaining whether men
were needed for that branch of the service, as follows :

COUNTY COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTEERING, )
New York, November 22, 1864. )
Mr. Fox,

Assistant Secretary of Navy :
SIB

Does the Navy Department require men for the service ?
We are having a great many applications to ship sea-

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men, ordinary seamen, and first and second-class iiremen.
This County is now the only one paying bounties; and
hence all who desire to enlist are applying to us. The
bounties paid by the County arc liberal, viz. : Three hun-
dred dollars ($300) for three (3) years ; two hundred dol-
lars ($200) for two (2) years, and one hundred dollars
($100) for one (1) year.

We have no doubt that we could make such arrange-
ments for these shipments as would prove entirely satis-
factory both to the department and to the County. Please
answer immediately.

(Signed) O. BLUNT,

Chairman N. Y. County Com. on Vol.

The following reply was received :

NAVY DEPARTMENT, )

BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING, V

Washington, Nov. 22, 1864. j

SIB

Your telegram of this date, to the Secretary of the
Navy, has been referred to this Bureau.

The department will co-operate with you in any ar-
rangement by which seamen, ordinary seamen, and fire-
men may be enlisted in the navy.

Doc. No. 12. 74

As many of the above rates as offer will be accepted.
Government bounty is still paid to naval recruits.

Respectfully,

Tour obedient servant,

(Signed) A. K SMITH,

Chief of Bureau.
lion. ORISON BLUNT,

Chairman Com. on Vol., N. Y.

A proposition was then made to Mr. Smith to re-
establish the rendezvous for final examination at our
office, as follows :

COUNTY COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTEERING, )
New York, Nov. 23, 1864. f

A. N". SMITH,

Chief of Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting:
SIR

Yours of the 22d, in reply to my telegram, is received.
We propose to enlist seamen, ordinary seamen and fire-
men, for one (1), two (2) and three (3) years service, in the
same manner they were formerly enlisted by us, viz. :

Men will be shipped at the various naval rendezvous,
and undergo their first examination there ; the final ex-
amination to be undergone at this office, where all neces'
sary accommodations will be afforded.

75 Doc. No. 12.

That the final examination shall bo at this office, and
not aboard ship, is absolutely necessary, to secure justice
alike to the men, the County and the Government, in the
payment of bounties.

, It was the plan proceeded upon originally, when we
enlisted so many men, from whom there was never any
dissatisfaction or complaint of fraud. Of course, we can
pay bounty to no man until finally passed and accepted,
but to do this aboard ship we have found utterly impos-
sible. We will, therefore, immediately recommence ship-
ping men for the navy, if you will issue an order creating
this office a rendezvous for final examination, and detail-
ing an officer to take charge of the same, w r ith surgeons 3

&c.

Yours, very respectfully,

(Signed) O. BLUNT,

Chairman County Committee on Volunteering.

The following reply was received :

NAVY DEPARTMENT, )

BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND KECRUITINO, >

Washington, November 25, 1864. )

SIR

The Bureau has directed the rendezvous at Jersey City
to be closed, and removed to the City Hall Park.

Will you be good enough to confer with Admiral
rankling, who will be requested by the Bureau to afford

Doc. No. 12. 76

you every facility possible ? There is a great scarcity of
seamen, &c., in our squadrons, and I hope the result will
equal your anticipation concerning enlistments.

Respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) A. 1ST. SMITH, :

Chief of Bureau.
Hon. O. BLUNT,

New York.

Subsequently, it appeared that Admiral Paulding, in
charge of the Brooklyn Navy-yard, had also applied to the
Navy Department, to have our ofh'ce made the rendez-
vous for final examinations, and had received the follow-
ing letter from A. N. Smith, Chief of the Bureau of
Equipments, &c. :

NAVY DEPARTMENT,

BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING
Washington, December 4, 186-4

NG, V

SIR

Your letter of the second instant is received. Your
suggestion relative to enlisting seamen, ordinary seamen,
and firemen, for the station under your command, through
the Park Barracks, making it the final place of examina-
tion, is approved.

77 Doc, No. 12.

It is presumed that a guard will bo detailed to escort
the recruits to the receiving-ship, as was formerly done.

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) A. K SMITH,

Chief of Bureau.
Rear Admiral HIRAM PAUfJHNG,

Commandant Navy-yard, Brooklyn.

It was not, however, until the 12th of December that
an officer was detailed to open the naval rendezvous at
our office. The committee then addressed the following
letter to each of the officers in charge of the naval rendez-
vous in this City :

HEADQUARTERS COUNTY COMMITTEE ON VOL., '(
New York, December 12, 18C4. J

The County of New York is now paying bounty to
men shipped in the navy and credited to the County.

The Department has made this ollice the final examin-
ing office, the same as it was in April. The bounty now
paid to volunteers is as follows :

For a recruit for three years, three hundred dollars $300
Hand-money paid to person bringing him, fifty dol-
lars 50

For a recruit for two years, two hundred dollars.. . 200

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Hand-money paid to person bringing him, thirty

dollars $30

For a recruit for one year, one hundred dollars. . . . 100
Hand-money paid to person bringing him, twenty
dollars 20

The bounty paid to substitutes is as follows :

For a recruit for three years, six hundred dollars . . COO
Hand-money paid to person bringing him, fifty dol-
lars 50

For a recruit for two years, four hundred dollars . . 400
Hand-money paid to person bringing him, thirty

dollars 30

For a recruit for one year, two hundred dollars .... 200
Hand-money paid to person bringing him, twenty

dollars 20

We will send you all the necessary blanks we require.
The rolls will have to be returned, as before, in order that
the proper credits may be made.

A guard will be detailed from the Navy-yard to take
the men from this place to the receiving-ship.

I remain

Yours, respectfully,

(Signed) O. BLUNT,

Cl i air man.

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On the 15th of December, the enlistment of naval re-
cruits commenced again at our office ; and from that time
until the close of recruiting, in April, 1865, there were
enlisted in all four hundred and thirty-four (434) naval
volunteers; the total expenditure under this head for
bounties and premiums summing up three hundred and
eight thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars
($308,830). There were also enlisted at our office for the
navy seventy-three (73) substitutes, at an expense of sixty-
two thousand six hundred dollars ($62,600), making the
total enlistments for the navy five hundred and seven
(507) men.

The naval rendezvous w r as in charge of Acting-Master
John Baker, who, from the commencement of our opera-
tions in enlisting men for the navy, had been in charge of
that business at our office. Dr. Richard C. Dean was the
medical officer of the rendezvous. Both of these gentle-
men were of very great service in their positions, and
discharged their duties faithfully and efficiently.

Doc. No. 12. 80

III. The First Corps (Maj. -General
Hancock.)

Early in December, your committee were advised that
Major-General Hancock had been authorized to raise a
corps of veterans for special service ; that extra induce-
ments were to be held out by the Government for such
enlistments, and the County bounty was claimed for such
men as should enlist from the County of New York.

On the 10th of December, documents were received,
detailing the plans for organizing this corps (see Ap-
pendix "E").

From these papers it seemed impossible to pay these
bounties, because there appeared to be no guarantee that
credits might not be changed. Besides, all enlistments
were to be consummated in Washington, which would
render it necessary to send a paymaster to Washington to
pay these bounties, or to pay here through a power of
attorney. Neither of these plans had ever been pur-
sued by your committee, and either was so very objec-
tionable that it appeared to estop any attempt to pay the
local bounty of the County of New York to the First
Army Corps.

On the 12th of December, the following letter, relative
to bounty to these men, was received :

81 Doc. No. 12.

HEADQUARTERS FIRST CORPS, )
Washington, D. C., December 10, 1864. j"

SIR-

Yeteran soldiers from New York City, calling at the
rendezvous in Washington to enlist in the First Corps,-
state that the authorities of New York City offer one
hundred dollars ($100) local bounty to recruits, and the
veterans wish to receive it.

The Major-General commanding desires me to inquire
if one hundred dollars ($100) bounty is offered by the
corporate authorities of your City, and if so, in what
manner soldiers who come here to enlist may be enabled
to receive such local bounty if credited to New York.

I have the honor to remain,

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

(Signed) FINLEY ANDERSON,

Assistant Adjutant- General.
To ORISON BLUNT,

Ntw York City.

Your committee replied, detailing the difficulties in the
way of paying the local bounty to the First Corps, and
suggesting a remedy, as follows :

Doc. No. 12. 82

COUNTY COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTEERING, f
New York, December 14, 1864. [
FIN LEY ANDERSON,

Assistant- Adjutant General, .First Corps,

Washmgton, I). C. :
SIR

In reply to your favor of 10th instant, I liavc the honor
to state : The County of New York is now paying boun-
ties of one hundred dollars ($100), two hundred dollars
($200), and three hundred dollars ($300), respectively, for
one (1), two (2), and three (3) years men. These bounties
are paid into the hands of recruits on the spot, and at
the time of enlistment, and are never paid by us in any
other way. In reply, therefore, to your inquiry as to
" how soldiers who come here to enlist may be enabled
to receive such local bounties if credited to New York,"
I have to say that they can only be paid in the manner
above indicated, viz., at the time of enlistment, and in
the recruit's own hand.

Taking much interest in the project of raising a corps
for General Hancock, I have read circular No. 2, trans-
mitted to me, with care. You will allow me, in view of
my long experience in raising and paying volunteers, to
suggest that I think if the regulations detailed in that

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circular could be slightly amended, the result achieved
would be more satisfactory, the corps would be filled up
more rapidly, and the men enlisted be much better satis-
fied with the manner of the payment of the money. The
following are the amendments I would suggest :

83 Doc. No. 12.

Amend the first paragraph, as to enlisted men, by strik-
ing out the words "in the City," and adding after the
word " made the words "by the Provost-Marshal of the
district in which the enlisted man may reside."

Amend the third paragraph by inserting after the
words " mustered in " the words following, viz., " through

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the hands of a paymaster detailed for that purpose at the
office of the A. A. P. M. General of the district. "

Amend the fourth paragraph by adding after the
word "bounties" the words following, viz., "and after
the payment of the local bounty no change of credit shall
be allowed."

The effect of these amendments, you will perceive,
would be to allow the recruit to be mustered in by the
Provost-Marshal of the district where lie is to be cred-
ited, and there receive his bounty, &c.. which would
enable him to dispose of it on the spot for the benefit
of his family, if he has any.

I should be pleased to receive from yon any sugges-
tions as to the payment of the local bounty.

I am, Sir,

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) O. BLUNT,

Chairman Co. Com. on Vol.

Doc. No. 12. 84

In reply to this, a letter was received from General
Hancock, which seemed to render it impossible to pay
the local bounty to the men enlisting in his corps, in-
asmuch as, if there were no other difficulty, the right
was still claimed to change the credits, under certain cir-
cumstances, after the bounty was paid. In such cases,
your committee were told, the men whose credits were
changed would be proceeded against to recover the
bounty. It was not deemed judicious to take that risk.
The following was General Hancock's letter :

HEADQUARTERS FIRST CORPS, }
Washington,, D. C\, December 17, 1864. j

SIR

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your
communication of the 14th inst., stating the bounties
paid recruits by the County of New York, and the
mode of paying them, and suggesting amendments to
circular No. 2, December 3, from these Headquarters.

I have the honor to say that that circular was based
upon a similar circular (No. 8G) from the War Depart-
ment, and the original order (No. 287) providing for
the raising and organizing of this new army corps, both
of which were transmitted to you.

In reply to your proposed amendments J would say
that the first amendment could not be entertained by
me, because, to say that all enlistments and musters-in

85 Doc, No. 12.

should be made by the Provost-Marshal of the district
in which the enlisted man may reside, would be a di-
rect disobedience of instructions from the War Depart-
ment, which distinctly states that they will be made
at the rendezvous near Washington ; and that was the
reason I asked you if arrangements could not be made
whereby the bounty given recruits by the County of
New York could be paid into the hands of veterans
enlisting here.

The second amendment, providing that the special
bounty of three hundred dollars ($300) should be paid
through the hands of a paymaster detailed for that pur-
pose, at the office of the A. A. P. M. General of the dis-
trict, could not be made for the same reason, namely :
That according to the instructions from the War De-
partment, all enlistments and musters-in must be made in
this City. With reference to the third amendment, that
after the payment of the local bounty no change of credit
shall be made, I would respectfully call your attention to
the section of the circular from the War Department on the
subject. The intention is to give the credit to the locality
which is legally entitled to it, and in order to render jus-
tice in cases where wrong might be committed, the cir-
cular provides that, if after a recruit has sworn to his
place of residence, it should subsequently be ascertained
that it was not correctly given, the credit will be taken
from the place to which it was erroneously assigned and
transferred to the proper place of domicil of the recruit.

Doc. No. 12. 86

When recruits are being mustered- in here, every pre-
caution is taken in order that there shall be no injustice
done in giving credit to localities. If desired, any local
agents paying bounties here will be furnished certificates
showing that veterans have been duly credited to such
localities; and if any case should occur wherein credit
shall be incorrectly given, the recruit will be proceeded
against, with a view of making him refund any money
which he may have fraudulently obtained.

The advantage to the veterans of having the local
bounty paid at home is counterbalanced here by the fact
that an agent of Adams' Express Company is sent to the
rendezvous twice a week, or oftener, to receive and for-
ward any money which veterans may wish to send their
families or friends. One of the principal features of this
corps is the fact that it is to be a purely federal force ;
the appointments to be made and the commissions to be
given by the President of the United States, and conse-
quently the provision that all enlistments and musters-in
shall be made in this City is designed to prevent any in-
terference with Governors of States in reference to the
appointment of officers.

By paragraph five, circular 86, from the War Depart-
ment, it is supposed that if the Governors of States apply
to have the officers of this organization sent into their
States to recruit, the Secretary of War will accede to such

87 Doc. No. 12.

an arrangement in the States, and in that case your views
will be practically met, as far as that subject is concerned.

I have the honor to remain,

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

(Signed) WINFIELD S. HANCOCK.

To OKISON BLUNT,

Chairman N. Y. Co. Com. on Volunteering.

These difficulties in the payment of the local bounty
were not overcome until some time after this. In the
meantime there were many men enlisted in New York
for the Second Hancock Corps, but they were all paid
bounty by private enterprise, nearly all as substitutes for
men in anticipation of draft.

Finding that the objections urged by the committee to
the payment of the local bounty materially interfered
with enlistments for the First Corps, General Hancock sub-
sequently gave the matter his personal attention, and made
such regulations as enabled your committee to pay the
local bounty to the men here. Under these circumstan-
ces, there was a considerable number of men enlisted for
the First Corps.

Doc. No. 12. 88

IV. The Veteran Reserve Corps,

After the establishment of the Veteran Reserve Corps,
and prior to October, 1864, many men were enlisted for
that corps, and credited. Of course their credit secured
them the County bounty. Your committee, from the first,
entertained doubts as to the propriety of crediting these
men, inasmuch as they were mostly disabled for active
service. Payment in some instances was refused, when
your committee were shown orders of credit on the quota
which secured the pay. On the 13th of September, a tele-
gram from the War Department announced that such
credits would no longer be allowed. Subsequently, how-
ever, this was countermanded by the following order; but,
notwithstanding, your committee determined not to pay
any further bounty to this class of men :

WAR DEPARTMENT, J

PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, D, C., September 15, 1861. j

Brig.-Gen. WILLIAM HAYS,

A. A. P. H. General,

New York City :
GENERAL

A telegram was sent to you from this office, on the 13th
inst, directing that hereafter men of the Veteran Reserve
Corps who re-enlist will not be credited on. any quota.

89 Doc. No. 12.

In order that there may be no misunderstanding in re-
gard to the above, the Provost-Marshal directs me to say
that men in the corps, if they are able to do duty in the
First Battalion, may still re-enlist under the provisions of
General Order No. 235, A. O. G., current series, if they
come within its provisions, and desire to do so; but they
will not be entitled to bounty, nor to be credited to the
quota of any district

Men who enlist in the Veteran Reserve Corps, First
Battalion, under existing orders, will still be credited to
the quota the same as other troops.

I am, General,

Very respect fully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) M. N. WISEWAL,

Col. and Ass 7 1 to Provost- Marshal General.

Official copy respectfully furnished for the information
of Orison Blunt, Esq., Chairman County Committee on
Volunteering.

(Signed) II. F. BROWNSON,

Assistant Adjutant- General,

Doc. No. 12. 90

V. Substitutes in Anticipation of
the Draft.

In raising the quota under the call of the President
dated July 18, 1864, for five hundred thousand (500,000)
men, your committee saved to the County seventy-three
thousand eight hundred and five dollars ($73,805) in
amounts paid by individuals for substitutes in anticipa-
tion of the draft, each of whom counted on the quota of
the County without cost to the public funds.

It occurred to your committee that a much larger sav-
ing might be made to the County, under the call of De-
cember 19, 1864, by continuing the business of furnishing
substitutes for private citizens at their own expense. For
the purpose of starting fairly in this matter, the following
letter was addressed to General Hays :

COUNTY COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTEERING, )
New York, October 29, 1864. f

Brig.-General WM. HAYS,

A. A. P. M. General:
SIR

With a view to affording facilities to those who desire
to have enlisted for them substitutes in anticipation of
the draft, or representative recruits, the Committee on

91 Doc. No. 12.

Volunteering propose, in addition to its volunteering
business, to re-open books for deposit for that purpose,
and to enlist men for such as deposit with them. That
we may proceed understandingly, will you please answer
the following queries :

First Are we correct in supposing the distinction be-
tween a " representative recruit " and a " substitute in
anticipation of the draft " to be that a " representative
recruit " is one who represents some person who is not
and under existing laws cannot be held liable to draft,
and that a " substitute in anticipation of the draft " is one
who represents some person who is, under existing laws,
liable to draft ?

Second All quotas being filled, and there being no
call pending, cannot persons liable to draft, as well as
those not liable, have a representative recruit enlisted for
them, or must it be a substitute where a person is liable
to be drafted in the event of a further call ?

Third All quotas demanded of this County being
filled, and there being no immediate prospect of any fur-
ther call, cannot any person eligible as a volunteer be
enlisted as a representative recruit, or as a substitute in
anticipation of the draft ?

Fourth If any person eligible as a volunteer cannot
be enlisted as a representative recruit, or as a substitute.

Doc. No. 12. 92

in anticipation of the draft, what particular class of per-
sons can be enlisted as representative recruits, and what
class as substitutes in anticipation of the draft ?

Fifth Are the representative recruits and substitutes
in anticipation of the draft, or either of them, entitled to
any Government bounty ; and, if they are, what amount,
and how paid ?

/Sixth Will all representative recruits and substitutes
in anticipation of the draft be counted upon the quota in
anticipation of any future call for men ?

I am, Sir,

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) O. BLUNT,

Chairman Co. Com. on Vol.

To which the following reply was received :

OFFICE A. A. P. M. GENERAL, j

SOUTHERN DIVISION,
New York, November 3, 1864. I

Respectfully returned to Orison Blunt, Esq., Chairman
County Committee on Volunteering, with the following
reply to his questions :

J?ir$t Yes,

93 Doc. No. 12.

Second Persons liable to draft cannot have represen-
tative recruits, but may have substitutes.

Third Any person eligible as a volunteer can be en-
listed as a representative recruit ; but if taken as a sub-
stitute iu anticipation of the draft, the principal is only
exempted until substitute is liable. (Sec section 4, act of
July 4, 1864.)

Fourth Any person who passes the surgeon and mus-
tering officer, is eligible as a representative recruit, but
substitutes in anticipation of the draft only exempt prin-
cipals until the substitutes themselves are liable.

Fifth Representative recruits get bounties as follows :
one hundred dollars ($100) for one year, two hundred
dollars ($200) for two years, three hundred dollars ($300)
for three years ; payable one-third on enlistment, one-
third at the expiration of one-half the period of service,
find one-third at the expiration of term of service. Sub-
stitutes are not entitled to any United States bounty in
any case.

Sixth Yes.

I3y command of Brig. -Gen. Hays.

(Signed) II. F. BROWNSON,

Assistant Adjutant- General.

Doe. No. 12.

Understanding from this that all " representative re-
cruits " and "substitutes in anticipation of tlie draft"
would count on the quota as if they were volunteers, and
thus every dollar paid by individuals for substitutes
would be so much saved to the County, your committee
at once opened books of deposit for this purpose, and on
the 31st of October the first subscription was received.

On opening the books of subscription for deposits for
substitutes, the following amounts were required, being
sufficient to cover the Government and the County boun-
ties then paid :

BOUNTY.

PREMIUM.

TOTAL.

For one-year substitutes. . .

$200

$20

$220

For two-years substitutes. ..

400

430

For throe-years substitutes.

GOO

050

These amounts were unchanged until the increase in
the County bounty rendered it necessary to require an
increase in the amount deposited, in order to equal the
Government and the County bounties then paid. There-
fore, on the 14th of February, your committee adopted
the following; resolution :

" Resolved, That the amount to be deposited for substi-

Doc. No. 11

tutes be increased, to conform to the new bounties, and
to cover the amount of the United States bounty, as fol-
lows :

BOUNTY.

IMIKMIITM

TOTAL.

Deposit for one-year substitutes. . .

$400

$50

$450

Deposit lor two-years substitutes..

(100

G75

Deposit for three-years substitutes.

900

100

1 ,000

and that all persons who have deposited an amount
less than the above, be notified that the additional amount
will be needed to obtain a substitute.' 7

The business of enlisting substitutes was rendered
much more difficult under the call of December than
under the call of July, by reason of regulations estab-
lished by the Government officials.

These regulations were rendered necessary because of
frauds which had been perpetrated by bounty brokers in
the sale of blank credits for alleged substitutes enlisted.

Formerly, substitutes were enlisted at the rooms of
your committee for credit to any district in the County,
the same as volunteers were enlisted, but now every sub-
stitute was required to be enlisted by the Provost-Mar-
shal of the district where the principal claimed his resi-
dence.

Doc. No. 12. 96

Especially was this system disadvantageous as regards
the enlistment of substitutes for the navy. The following
will show the circumlocutory process through which
naval substitutes were compelled to pass :

OFFICE OF THE A. A. PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL, }

AND SUPERINTENDENT VOL. RECRUITING SERVICE, >

SOUTHERN DIVISION OF NEW YORK. )

(Circular No. 106.)

The A. A. Provost-Marshal General calls the attention
of Provost-Marshals to the following communication from
the Bureau of Equipment, Navy Department :

iTMENT, |

>MENT, &C., >

cember 13. )

" NAVY DEPARTMENT,
"BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT,
" Washington, December

"To Captain GAMBLE,

"Naval Recruiting Officer,

" 189 York */., Brooklyn, N. Y. :
" SIR

" Hereafter you will not enlist any person as a substi-
tute for a drafted man, or one liable to be drafted, except
there shall be presented or received a certificate from a
Provost-Marshal, stating that such substitute is entitled
to be enlisted in the navy, and is to be credited to the
district named in the certificate.

" The names of substitute and principal are always to be
noted in the Provost-Marshal's certificate, and when
either of these are wanted, the man is not to be shipped,

97 Doc. No. 12.

Every Saturday you will send the certificate of enlist-
ment to the Provost-Marshal, and copies of the same to
this Bureau.

" Respectfully,

"A. K SMITH,

" Chief of Bureau."

Provost-Marshals, in compliance with this order, will
examine men desirous of enlisting in the navy as substi-
tutes, and having first ascertained that the principal, by
his written request, desires a substitute, will issue the
necessary certificate.

The same affidavit as to non-liability to draft will be
required as in the case of an enlistment for the army.

Volunteers in the navy need not necessarily be enrolled
and liable to draft in order to be credited to the place
where they enlist, section 9 of the act to amend an act
entitled "An act for enrolling and calling out the na-
tional forces, and for other purposes," approved March 3,
1803, having been suspended by section three of the act
entitled " An act to provide for the efficiency of the navy,"
approved July 4, 1864.

(Signed) H. F. BKOWNS02s T .

Asst. Adjutant- General.
To ORISON BLUNT, Esq.

The result of this system was that very many men be-
came tired of the process before they were finally passed,

Doc. No. 1-2. 98

and after going partly through, eventually refused to be
enlisted. At least one-third of those offering to enlist as
substitutes in the navy were thus lost.

There was deposited in the substitute fund, in all, by
seven hundred and eighty three (783) persons, six hun-
dred and four thousand nine hundred and ten dollars
($604,910). Your committee furnished in all six hundred
and twenty-seven (627) substitutes, to whom was paid,
in bounties and premiums, the sum of four hundred and
ninety thousand six hundred and five dollars ($490,605).

There was withdrawn, by one hundred and fifty-six
(156) depositors, the sum of one hundred and fourteen
thousand three hundred and five dollars ($114,305),
which, added to the four hundred and ninety thousand
six hundred and five dollars ($490,605) paid for boun-
ties and premiums, equals the amount deposited, viz.,
six hundred and four thousand nine hundred and ten
dollars ($604,910). Thus, a fraction less than five hun-
dred thousand dollars ($500,000) was saved to the
County by this means.]

In the receipt and disbursement of this fund, it may
be proper to state, there was no loss whatever, either to
depositors or to the County.

In regard to the substitutes furnished, the only case in
which any question was raised was that which led to the

99 Doc. No. 12.

following correspondence. The substitute in this case
was passed by the examining surgeon and by the muster-
ing officer without suspicion as to his age, and, of course,
your committee had no other guide, and could not be
held responsible for the action of these officers, who were
undoubtedly actuated by the best of motives :

50 WEST THIRTY-SIXTH STREET,

New York, November 9, 1864.

SIR

Last summer, Westbrook L. Osborn, acting by my
direction and in my behalf, brought to your headquarters
a man, John Prendeville, to serve as my substitute in the
navy of the United States. He was examined, approved,
and accepted.

While Mr. Osborn went out to draw the money pledged
to him ($335), the man was assigned to another person.
On Mr. Osborn 's return he had gone. You said it was of
no consequence ; that men were coming every day, and
that the next good man that came should be assigned to
me. You took the money from Mr. Osborn, for the pur-
pose of procuring such a man as my substitute. Did you
keep your word ? No. You procured a boy, a minor,
not liable to service, swore him in, got him accepted, and
sent on board a vessel. Of course application was made
for him, and he was discharged, on condition of refunding
the money he had received. This was done by your own
confession, in a note to me.

Doc, No. 12. 100

You have the money in your hands money which be-
longs to me which was put into your hands by my
lawyer, for a definite purpose ; money for which I have
no equivalent, for a paper exempting me from the draft
is not an equivalent. I wanted a man ; I paid for a man ;
and it was your duty to supply men for the service, not
to supply gentlemen with exemption papers at the ex-
pense of the service. I now demand one of two things :
either a return of the three hundred and thirty-five dol-
lars ($335). which is mine, not yours, or the furnishing of
an able-bodied man for the army or navy. If one or
the other of these two things is not done immediately, I
shall make an affidavit of the facts in the case, and send
it to my friend, Mr. Charles A. Dana, Assistant Secre-
tary of War, for his action.

The exemption paper I consider to be fairly mine ; at
any rate, that is half of my purchase, and I paid hand-
somely for it. The other half, namely, the man, I also
paid for, and have not received. The paper tells a false-
hood, arid it is such a paper that you, an agent of the
Government, advised me to be satisfied with. I cannot
in honor use it, but I am not bound to give it up.

Please tell me what I am to expect soon, for I am im-
patient of longer delay.

Yours truly,

(Signed) 0. B. FKOTHINGHAM.

To ORISON BLUNT, Esq.

101 Doc. No. 12.

[Reply.]

COUNTY COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTEERING, )
New York, November 11, 1864. )

O. B. FROTHINGHA.M :
Sra

Yours of the 9th is received. In reply, I have to say
that you deposited three hundred and thirty-five dollars
with this committee, to procure you a substitute, of which
an exemption paper was to be the evidence.

This Committee furnished you a substitute in good
faith, and the exemption was issued to you by the Pro-
vost-Marshal in good faith.

Since the issuing, of that paper, the substitute enlisted
for you has been discharged, and the bounty paid been
returned to me, and we are advised also that your exemp-
tion paper is of no value because of such discharge. As
you deposited three hundred and thirty-five dollars with
this committee to obtain a substitute, and through no fault
of ours you are without such substitute, and as the ex-
emption paper is valueless, and can be of no good service
in your hands, therefore in accordance with the rule of
the committee, 1 will refund you your deposit on your
returning to me all evidence of your deposit, which in
this case is the exemption paper.

Doc. No. 12. 102

In no other way can the money be obtained by you.
It is proper to say that the exemption paper is desired
only as a voucher for the return of the money.

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) O. BLUNT,

Chairman.

Among other efforts to secure men and to obtain ex-
emption, a proposition was started, when the draft was
threatened, to form draft associations. Inquiry as to the
particulars of such scheme was made at the Provost-Mar-
shal General's office, and led to the following circular :

WAR DEPARTMENT, )

PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL'S OFFICE, V

Washington, D. ., March 27, 1865. )

The twenty-third section of the act approved March 3,
1865, provides as follows :

" SECTION 23. And be it further enacted, that any person
or persons enrolled in any sub-district may, after notice of
a draft, and before the same shall have taken place, cause
to be mustered into the service of the United States such
number of recruits, not subject to draft, as they may deem
expedient, which recruits shall stand to the credit of. the
persons thus causing them to be mustered in, and shall be
taken as substitutes for such persons or so many of them
as may be drafted, to the extent of the number of such

103 Doc. No. 12.

recruits, and in the order designated by the principals, at
the time such recruits are thus as aforesaid mustered in."

I. In order to avail themselves of the provisions of this
law, the attention of all persons desiring to form associa-
tions for recruiting, with a view to exemption from draft,
is invited to the following suggestions, to wit :

First In order that credit may be given to the sub-
district for the recruits furnished, at the time they are
mustered in, and the draft made only for the deficiency
remaining after crediting these and other recruits, it is
necessary that all the members of the association shall be-
long to the same sub-district.

Second Previous to the commencement of the draft,
the association will furnish the Provost -Marshal of the
district a list of the names of its members, designating
their order, and numbering them accordingly, which list
will not be altered or increased after the drawing shall
have commenced.

II. A list of the recruits furnished by such association
shall be kept by the Provost-Marshal, to be mustered in
the order in which they are enlisted. When the draft
has been made, the recruit standing at the head of the list
will be taken as the substitute of the first man drafted,
who belongs to the association ; the recruit standing
second on the lit;, will be taken as the substitute of the

Doc. No. 12. 104

second man drafted, and so on until the list of recruits
is exhausted by drafted men who belong to the associa-
tion, or until all the members of the association who have
been drafted are exempted, in case a sufficient number of
recruits have been furnished by the association to exempt
that number. Where the number of recruits furnished
by an association exceeds the number of men drafted from
such association, the excess, though credited to the sub-
district, will create no claim for the exemption of any
persons.whomsoever. Members of associations who secure
exemption under the twenty-third section aforesaid are
exempt from that draft, but are liable to be drafted on
future calls.

Recruits furnished by associations, and taken as substi-
tutes for drafted men who are members of the association,
will be credited, at the time of muster-in, to the sub-dis-
trict to which the association belongs.

(Signed) JAMES B. FRY,

Provost-Marshal General .

In pursuance of this circular, there were numerous as-
sociations started, but your committee believe that the
number of men raised through this medium was very
small.

Appendices annexed hereto show the whole business of
your committee, in connection with the furnishing of
substitutes in anticipation of the draft under the last call.

105 Doc. No. 12.

Appendix " F" sjiows the particulars of deposits, pay-
ments of substitutes, and withdrawals of deposits.

Appendix " G " is a complete list of depositors.

Appendix "H" is a complete list of substitutes fur-
nished through the County.

In addition to the six hundred and twenty-seven (627)
substitutes furnished by your committee, there were en-
listed by private individuals at the offices of the various
Provost-Marshals, five hundred and seventy-eight (578)
men, making a total of substitutes enlisted for credit to
this County, under the last call, of one thousand two hun-

dred and five (1,205) men.

Appendix " I " is a complete list of all substitutes en-
listed in this County, and not paid through the County,
and of course excluding those embraced in Appendix

In closing their report of operations in filling the quota
under the call of the President, dated July 18, 1864, your
committee represented the substitute fund under that
call as not entirely closed. The account was subsequently
closed, for statement of which see Appendix " J."

Doc. No. 12. 106

VI. Recruiting for other Localities.

Your committee have hitherto reported to your honor-
able body the difficulties with which they had to contend
by reason of the enlisting of men in this County for
other localities. Although in September your committee
had appealed to the Common Council for the passage of
an ordinance on the subject, and one branch of that body
had promptly responded to that appeal, yet up to Jan-
uary the matter was still unacted on by the other Board.
The County was suffering more than ever on this account,
from the fact that the Common Council were constantly
granting permits for recruiting tents and booths to be
erected in public places, under the misrepresentation
that they would be used only for the enlistment of men
for the County of New York. As the Board of Council-
men had passed our ordinance, and it lay unacted on in
the Board of Aldermen, it was determined to appeal to
that body to assist us in the matter, and accordingly the
following communication was sent to them :

HEADQUARTERS COUNTY COMMITTEE ON VOL., i
New York, January 9, 1865. \

To the Honorable the Board cf Aldermen :

GENTLEMEX

On the 1st of September last we had the honor to trans-
mit to your honorable body a communication (copy of which.

107 Doc. No. 12

is appended hereto, marked " A") relative to the system
which had then obtained, whereby ISTew York City was
being robbed of recruits who should be counted on the

quota of this City and County, and inviting the co-opera-
tion of your honorable body in checking that system, by
the passage of an ordinance, entitled " An ordinance for
the protection of the citizens of New York, and to facili-
tate the raising of the quota under the President's
call," &c.

This ordinance passed the Board of Councilmen, but
failed to receive the sanction of your honorable body.

We beg now, respectfully, to again urge upon your
honorable body the propriety of giving your sanction to
this ordinance.

The system of robbery which this ordinance is designed
to check greatly impeded our operations in filling the
quota under the call for five hundred thousand (500,000)
men ; and the evil, because unchecked, has now grown to
be tenfold more than then.

Under the call for three hundred thousand (300,000)
men, the County of New York has yet to raise three
thousand five hundred (3,500) men to fill its quota.

To raise this number in the time given us, we will re-
quire to enlist an average of one hundred (100) men per
day. We think that, could the business of running men

Doc. No. 12. 108

out of the City and County be stopped, we should be en-
abled to reach the number required, for we have reason
to know that there are about two hundred (200) men
enlisted and stolen from this City every day and credited
to other places.

Before the present call for three hundred thousand
(300,000) men was issued, we were enlisting thirty and
forty men a day. Since the call, adjoining districts hav-
ing found it necessary to raise more men, they have again
taken them from us, and now we are recruiting a much
less number than formerly. Not that there are fewer
offering, but bounty-thieves entice the men from us,
because other places permit the agents to steal all the
bounty.

"We would also again respectfully call your attention to
the fact that the practice of granting privileges to certain
parties to erect recruiting booths in the Park, and other
public squares and streets, is of great detriment to the in-
terests of this City and County in filling its quota.

Although these booths are maintained ostensibly for the
benefit of our own City, we seldom or never receive a
man from them. All the men obtained by them are run
off and credited to other places, and oftentimes men de-
siring to enlist with us are enticed away from our very
doors by the keepers of these booths, who are always on
the look out for victims.

109 Doc. No. 12.

We are aware that these privileges are granted upon
representations that the parties obtaining them are desir-
ous of filling the quota of this City and County, but we
can assure your honorable body that in no instance does
the City and County derive any benefit from them, but
on the contrary, they prove a constant source of annoy-
ance and detriment to us.

The County volunteer buildings in the Park were erected
expressly with the view of doing away with those booths.,
and for a time they effectually accomplished that pur-
pose ; but we regret to see that they are now again spring-
ing into existence in our parks, squares and streets, just
at a time when their t establishment works the greatest
harm to us.

Satisfied that your honorable body have the interests
of the City at heart, and need only to have these facts laid
before you to secure prompt attention, we beg leave to
ask your adoption of the ordinance annexed.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

On behalf of the New York County Committee on
Volunteering.

(Signed) O. BLUNT,

Chairman.

Doc. No. 12. 110

This appeal had the desired effect, and soon after the
Common Council passed the ordinance referred to. Al-
though no proceedings were ever taken under it, your
committee believe that it had a very salutary eifect.

Of course, this ordinance could have no influence with
army officers who chose to violate it, and that it was vio-
lated every day by the officers in charge of recruiting for
the regular army we had the amplest evidence. Deter-
mined to check this also, if possible, on the 15th of Feb-
ruary the following letter was sent to General Hinks :

COUNTY COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTEERING, [
New York, February 15, 1865. j"

Brigadier-Gen. E. W. HINKS,

A. A. P. M. General,

Southern Division of New York :
SIR

The practice of recruiting in this County for other lo-
calities has long been a very great detriment to us, in
raising men to fill our own quotas.

By legislative enactment (chapter 2, Laws of 1864),
copy of which is appended (marked "A"), it is made an
offense to enlist a man in this State for the benefit of any
other State ; and by ordinance of the Common Council,
recently approved by his Honor the Mayor (appended,

Ill Doc. No. 12.

marked " B"), it is made an offense for any one to enlist
a man in this County for the benefit of any other locality,
in or out of the State.

The new State law relative to bounties (chapter 29,
Laws of 1865), copy of which is appended, (marked "C,")
has placed all the Counties of this State on an equal foot-
ing in respect to bounties ; and, together with the State
laws of last year, and the new local ordinance (if respect-
ed,) will assist us, we think, in very speedily filling our
quota.

The business of running off men from this County, and
of enlisting men here to be credited to other localities, has
already been almost entirely checked, except at the re-
cruiting offices for the regular army. I was informed some
time since by Brigadier-Gen. Hays, that this too would be
stopped, when a prohibitory ordinance should be adopted
by the Common Council.

Now that such ordinance is adopted, I appeal to you
to do New York County the justice of prohibiting the
United States mustering officers in this County from en-
listing men here for the regular army, to be credited to
other localities.

Should it not be in your power to issue such an order,

Doc. No 12. 112

I then respectfully request that this application may be
promptly referred to such officer as may be authorized to
issue such order of prohibition.

I am, Sir,

Very respectfully,

Tour obedient servant,

(Signed) O. BLUNT,

Chairman N. Y. County Com. on Vol.

Appendix "A."

CHAPTER II.

AN ACT

TO ATvIEND SECTION THREE OF CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND
EIGHTY-FOUR OF THE LAWS OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIX-
TY-THREE, ENTITLED U AN ACT TO PROMOTE THE RE-ENLIST-
MENT OF VOLUNTEERS NOW IN THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED
STATES, AND THE ENLISTMENT OF PERSONS INTO REGIMENTS
AND CORPS NOW IN SAID SERVICE, AND HEREAFTER TO BE
ORGANIZED," PASSED APRIL SEVENTEENTH, EIGHTEEN HUN-
DRED AND SIXTY-THREE.

Passed January 29, 1864 ; three-fifths being present.

The People of tJie Stale of New York, represented in Senate
and Assembly, do enact asfolloivs :

SECTION 1. Section three of chapter one hundred and
eighty-four, of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-
three, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

113 Doc. No. 12.

" 3. It shall not be lawful for any person, in any
manner, to persuade or induce, or to attempt to persuade
or induce any resident of this State to enter into the mili-
tary or naval forces raised or to be raised in any other
State, for the military or naval service of the United
States, or for the military or naval service of any other
State. It shall not be lawful for any person to induce or
persuade, or attempt to persuade or induce, any resident
of this State to depart from this State, for the purpose of
entering into the military or naval forces raised or to be
raised in any other State, for the military or naval service
of the United States, or for the military or naval service
of any other State. Whoever shall offend against the
provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not
exceeding one thousand dollars ; one-half of said fine to
be paid upon conviction of the offender to the -party on
whose information the arrest and conviction was made ;
or imprisonment, or by both such fine and imprisonment."

SEC. 2. The said section three, except as above amended,
is hereby repealed.

SRC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Doc. No. 12. 114

Appendix " B.

AN ORDINANCE

FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE CITIZENS OF NEW YORK, AND TO
FACILITATE THE RAISING OF THE QUOTA UNDER THE PRESI-
DENT'S CALL FOR THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND (300,000) MEN.

The Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of
New York, in Common Council convened, do ordain <?
folloivs :

SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful for any person to
open any office in the City of New York for the purpose
of obtaining recruits, either for the army or navy, for
any locality other than the City and County of New
York, nor to obtain substitutes either for the army or
navy for persons other than residents of the City and
County of New York ; nor shall it be lawful for any per-
son, whether a resident of the City and County of New
York or not, to either induce, or endeavor to induce, any
person in said City and County to leave the same for the
purpose of enlisting as a volunteer or substitute for any
other locality in or out of the State, or to induce, or
endeavor to induce, any person to enlist within the City
and County of New York as a substitute for any person
other than a resident of the City and County of New
York. .

SEC. 2. Any person infringing upon the provisions of
the foregoing section, in either of its particulars, shall,

115 Doc. No. .12.

upon conviction before any Police Justice or Magistrate
of the City of New York, be subject to a fine not
less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) and not more than
five thousand dollars ($5,000), in the discretion of the
Court.

SEC. 3. In all cases where fines are imposed for the in-
fringement of the first section of this ordinance, one-half
the amount shall be paid to the party making the com-
plaint in the case.

Appendix " C " was a copy of chapter 29, Laws of
1865, for which see acts of the Legislature relating to
bounties (Appendix " B " of this report).

The following letter on the same subject was also trans-
mitted to Brigadier-General P. St. George Cook, in charge
of recruiting for the regular army at this station :

COUNTY COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTEERING, )
Neio York, February 16, 1865. J

Brig.-General P. ST. GEORGE COOK,

In charge of Recruiting for the Regular Army :
SIR

I have the honor to transmit you herewith copy of let-
ter to Brigadier-General E."W. Hinks, A. A. P. M. Gene-
ral, Southern District of Kew York, with accompanying

Doc. .No. 12. 116

documents relative to recruiting here for the regular
army for the benefit of localities other than this County.

I would respectfully invite your attention to the same.

I am, Sir,

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) O. BLUNT,

Chairman New York Co. Com. on Vol.

To which the following reply was received :

HEADQUARTERS GENERAL RECRUITING SERVICE, )
New YorJc, February 17, 1865. j

ORISON BLUNT, Esq.,

Chairman JV. Y. Co. Com. on Volunteering :
SIR

I have just received your communication of 16th inst.,
inclosing copies of a letter to Brig.-Gen. E. W. Hinks,
A. A. P. M. General, and of an ordinance of the Com-
mon Council.

The recruiting officers for the regular army in this
City and elsewhere in the State, credit the men enlisted
by them to any locality within the State that pays the
bounty. This is done under the authority and orders of
the War Department. I do not consider a municipal
ordinance as repealing this authority, or as having any
bearing on officers acting under it.

117 Doc. No. 12.

Substitutes are not enlisted for the regular army. I
shall submit the subject to the War Department.

Very respectfully,

(Signed) P. ST. GEORGE COOK,

Brig. -Gen. TJ. S A., Sup't Ge.nl Recruiting Service.

It subsequently appeared, however, that the ordinance
of the Common Council did command the respect of the
Government officials, as the following letter will demon-
strate :

HEADQUARTERS GENERAL RECRUITING SERVICE,

FOURTH STREET,
February 23, 1865

No. 21 EAST FOURTH STREET,

0. BLUNT, Esq.,

Supervisor City and County of New York:
Sijj

I am directed by Brigadier-General P. St. George
Cook, U. S. A., General Superintendent Recruiting Ser-
vice, to inform you that he has instructed all officers of
the regular army, recruiting in this City, to credit all men
enlisted by them to the County of New York, until fur-
ther orders.

1 am, very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) EUGENE CARTER,

First Lt. and A. A. B.C.

Doc. No. 12. 118

Thus your committee had thrown every possible obsta-
cle in the way of recruiting in this County for the bene-
fit of other localities.

It seemed, however, that the ordinance of the Com-
mon Council was not wholly effectual, and a last effort
was made to stop the business through his Honor the
Mayor, and the officers of the Street Department, through
whom finally the recruiting booths established through-
out the City were placed under such restrictions that it
was believed that few, if any, men were carried away
through them.

VII. Services of the State Militia.

In addition to the services of the State Militia of the
County of New York, in 1861, 1862 and 1863, they were
again called on in 1864. In report of operations in filling
the quota under call of July 18, the particulars of this
service, except for 1864, was stated. The following shows
the service done by this branch of the service in the latter

year

HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, )
NEW YORK STATE NATIONAL GUARD, >
New York, Dec. 27, 1864. )
Hon. ORISON BLUNT :

SIR-

I have the honor .to inform you that by the returns from
Capt. Ellis, U. S. Mustering Officer, there have been in
the service, since May 1, 1864, from this Division :

119 Doc. No. 12.

Thirty-seventh Regiment, thirty days, 377 men.

Sixty-ninth Regiment, one hundred days. . . . 512 "

Eighty-fourth " " 674 "

Ninety-third " " .... 404 "

Seventy-seventh " " 223 "

Ninety-ninth .... 315
One Hundred and Second Regiment, one hun-
dred days 344 u

For one hundred days 2,472

I am, very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) ALEXANDER HAMILTON,

Col. and Div. Inspector.

Appended to this report (marked "K") will be found a
full statement of all the services rendered by each regi-
ment of the State Militia of this County during the war.
The number of men furnished in all foots up twenty-
three thousand six hundred and thirteen (23,613), and
reducing the amount of their service to years, it reaches
the sum of 4,552 years 8 months and 29 J days.

Doc. No. 12. 120

VIII. Credits Under the Last Call.

The number of men to whom the County bounty
was paid under the last call was five thousand
nine hundred and eighty-eight 5,988

The number paid bounty through, but not by
the County (being substitutes in anticipation
of the draft), was six hundred and twenty-
seven 627

The number paid bounty, neither through nor
by the County (being also substitutes in an-
ticipation of the draft), was five hundred and

seventy-eight 578

1.205

Making a total of seven thousand one hundred and

ninety-three 7,193

Reducing these men to years of service, it appears that
the whole number of years of service furnished under the
last call was sixteen thousand four hundred and ninety-
nine (16,499).

Appendix " L," annexed hereto, shows in detail credits
for volunteers paid bounty under the last call.

Appendix " M " shows the particulars of the number
of substitutes raised in anticipation of the draft.

121 Doc. No. 12.

Appendix u N " is a recapitulation of all credits on the
quota under the last call, as shown in Appendices " L "
and M."

Appendix " O " is a statement of all credits on the last
call reduced to years of service.

Your committee have received from the United States
authorities the following statements of the exact position
of the quota of this County, according to their computa-
tion, at various periods.

The first statement shows the position of the Southern
Division on the 31st of December, 1864, in relation to
the quota under call of July 18, as follows :

SUPERINTENDENT VOLUNTEER RECRUITING SERVICE, I
SOUTHERN DIVISION OF NEW YORK,

OFFICE A. A. PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL AND
VOLUNTEER RECRUITING SERVICE
DIVISION OF NEW YORK,
New York, September 19, 1865.

Hon. ORISON BLUNT,

Chairman County Volunteer Committee,

City and County of New York :
SIR

I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of my
report to Washington of the number of men to be fur-
nished by the Southern Division on August 1, 1864, under
call of July 18, 1864, and the number actually furnished
up to December 31, 1864, on that basis.

Doc. No. 12. 122

I will furnish you, in a few days, with a statement of the
number of men furnished by the City and County of New
York from that date up to the close of recruiting.

I am, Sir

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) BICHAKD I. DODGE,

Brevet Lt.-Col U. S. A., A. A. P. M. Gen.

and Sup't Vol. Recruiting Service,

123

Doc. No. 12.

(Copy.)

STATEMENT of the actual number of Men to be furnished by
the Southern Division, State of New York, on August 1,
1864, under call of July 18, 1864, and the number actually

furnished up to December 31, 1861, on that basis / also
the number sent to rendezvous, direct to the field, or other-

' ivise actually put into service :

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2,201

2,204

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2,154

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4,125

922

3,530

922

327

Third . . .

2,838

895

2,517

895

574

Fourth

3,793

470

3,596

470

273

Fifth

3,645

427

3,484

454

266

Sixth

3.186

684

2,H80

684

378

Seventh.. .

3,950

484

3,747

484

281

Eighth. . . .

3,802

895

3,353

894

446

Ninth ....

2,834

520

2,550

520

236

Tenth ....

2,407

2,413

148

2,417

154

Totals...

32,781

9,914

25,930

9,894

3,063

(Signed) RICHARD I. DODGE,

Brevet Lieut. -Col. U. S. A.,

A. A. P. M. Gen.

NEW YORK, July 21, 1865.

Doc. No. 12.

124

As the County of New York embraced only the Fourth
to Ninth Districts, inclusive, the subjoined table is made
up to show more clearly the position of this County :

DISTRICTS.

Actual number of
men to be fur-
nished Aug. 1.
1864, under call
July 18, 1864.

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Naval enlistments
prior to Marcli
25, 1864.

Number sent to
rendezvous, di-
rect to field, or
otherwise put
into service.

SURPLUS.

Fourth. . . .
Fifth ....
Sixth

3.793
3,645
3,186

470
427

684

3,596
3,484

2,880

470
454

684

273
266

378

Seventh. .
Eighth....
Ninth

3,950
3;802

2,834

484
895
520

3,747
3,353
2,550

484
894
520

281
446
236

Totals...

21,210

3,480

19,f>10

3,506

1,880

The second statement shows the number of men fur-
nished from January 1 to March 13, 1865, in the County
of New York exclusively, as follows :

125 Doc. No. 12.

OFFICE A. A. PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL, 1
SUPERINTENDENT VOLUNTEER RECRUITING SERVICE, 1
SOUTHERN DIVISION OF NEW YORK,

New York, September 20, 1865. J

Hon. ORISON BLUNT,

Chairman N. Y. Co. Vol. Committee :
SIR

I have the honor to transmit herewith a statement of
the whole number of drafted men, substitutes for enrolled
men, substitutes for drafted men, and volunteers, which
have been held to service, or mustered in the City and
County of New York, from January 1 to March 13, 1865,
inclusive.

I have the honor to be, Sir,
Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) RICHARD I. DODGE,

Brevet Lieut. -Col. U. S. A.,

A. A. P. M. Gen.

Doc. No. 12.

126

STATEMENT of the whole number of Drafted Men, Substi-
tutes/or Enrolled Men, Substitutes for Drafted Men and
Volunteers, ivhich have been Jield to service or mustered in
the City and County of Neiv York, from January 1 to
March 13, 1865, inclusive.

DISTRICTS

AXD MUSTERIXG

OFFICERS.

SUBSTITUTES SUBSTITUTES
DRAFTED FOR FOR YOLUX-

MEX. 1 EXROLLED DRAFTED j TEERS.
MEX. MEN.

TOTAL
FROM ALL

SOURCES.

Fourth. .

136

142

Fifth

182

185

Sixth

182

197

Seventh .

135

137

Eighth

131

Ninth

Maj. Tieman .

141

162

Ccipt. Parker

105

666

771

Lt. Pyne .

189

206

Lt. Ward.

Totals

258

1,786

2,044

(Signed)

KICHAED I. DODGE,
St. Lt.-Col. U. S. A., A. A. P. M. Gen.,

and, Sup't Vol. Recruiting Service.

NEW YORK, September 20, 1865.

Thus it appears that on March 13, 1865, according to
Government account, the quota of this County stood as
follows :

127 Doc. No. 12.

Surplus, December 31, 1864, one thousand eight

hundred and eighty 1,880

Men raised from January 1 to March 13, 1865,

two thousand and forty-four 2,044:

Total, three thousand nine hundred and twenty-
four 3,924

Quota, deducting twenty-five (25) per cent., fif-
teen thousand seven hundred and sixty-three.. 15,763

Apparent indebtedness of the County, March
13, 1865, eleven thousand eight hundred and
thirty-nine 11,839

The third statement brings the account down to the

24th of September, 1865, when credits were discontinued,
and shows that on that date the Government claimed as
due from this County nine thousand two hundred and
ninety-eight (9,298) men. Of course, the number claimed
to be due on the 14th of April, when recruiting was
discontinued, must have been much larger than this,
as many credits were allowed this County of recruits in
the regular army after that date, and up to the 24th of
September. Indeed, it is safe to say that on the 14th of
April the claim against this County was fully equal to ten
thousand five hundred (10,500) men, and that but for the
happy circumstance of the discontinuance of recruiting at
that very time that number of men would have been
drafted from among us.

The following is the third statement :

Doc. No. 12.

128

STATEMSNT furnished ORISON BLVNT, Esq., Chairman of Volunteer Recruiting Committee or the City and County of
New York, of the number of men which have been, held to service or mustered into the credit of the City and
County of New York, from January 1, 1865, to September 25, 1865.

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The following is a recapitulation of the foregoing state-
ment :

Surplus, December 31, 1864, one thousand eight

hundred and eighty 1,880

Quota on 1st of January, 1865, under call of De-
cember 19, 1864, after deducting above sur-
plus, twenty-one thousand and nineteen 21,019

Less twenty-five per cent, set aside under order of
the President of February 1, 1865, five thou-
sand two hundred and fifty-seven 5,257

Leaving seventy-five per cent, of January quota
under call of December 19, 1864, fifteen thou-
sand seven hundred and sixty-two ... 15,762

Number of men actually furnished and credited
from January 1 to September 24, 1865 :

ARMY.

Volunteers, three thousand six hundred

and seventeen 3,617

Regulars, one thousand five hundred and

CD *

sixty-four 1,564

Total army, five thousand one hundred

and eighty-one 5,181

Carried forward 5,181 15,762

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Brought forward 5,181 15,762

NAVY.

Seamen, four hundred and eighty-
seven 487

Marines, one 1

Total navy, four hundred and eighty-
eight 488

Substitutes for army and navy, seven hun-
dred and ninety-five 795

Grand total, six thousand four hundred and

sixty-four C,4G4

Which, deducted from the number claimed Janu-
ary 1, 18G5, leaves a deficiency September 24,
18C5, on seventy-five per cent, of January
quota under call of December 19, 1864, of nine
thousand two hundred and ninety-eight 9,298

Of the six thousand four hundred arid sixty-four
(6,464) men furnished, the following shows the number
of men enlisted for each term of years, and the years of
service represented by each class :

MEN.

Enlisted for one year, two thousand and eighty-
four 2,084

Enlisted for two years, one hundred and eighty-
three . 183

Carried forward 2,187

131 Doc. No. 12.

Brought forward 2,187

Enlisted for three years, four thousand one hun-
dred and ninety-four 4,194

Enlisted for four years, three 3

Total, six thousand four hundred arid sixty-four. 6,464
Seventy-live per cent, of quota under call of De-
cember 19, 1864, fifteen thousand seven hun-
dred and sixty-two 15,702

Deficiency in men, September 24, 1SG5, nine thou-
sand two hundred and ninety-eight 9,298

YEARS OF SERVICE.

One-year men, two thousand and eighty-four .... 2,084

Two-years men, three hundred and sixty-six 306

Three-years men, twelve thousand five hundred

and eighty-two 12,582

Four-years men, twelve 12

Total, fifteen thousand and forty-four 15,044

Seventy-five per cent, of January quota, under
call of December 19, 1804, fifteen thousand
seven hundred and sixty-two 15,702

Deficiency in years of service September 24, 1 864,

seven hundred and eighteen 71 8

Therefore, although this County was deficient nine
thousand two hundred and ninety-eight (9,298) men on

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the 24th of September, had each year of service been
counted as a man, the deficiency would have been but
seven hundred and eighteen (718). And inasmuch as
the call of December 19, 1864, was for one (1) year men
only, it would not have been unreasonable to have made
such allowance.

Or had the December quota remained unchanged, we
should have had a surplus of three thousand seven hun-
dred and eighty-eight (3,788) men, and of twelve thou-
sand and sixty-six (12,066) years of service.

IX. Men Furnished during the Re-
bellion.

The whole number of men furnished by the City and
County of New York during the rebellion was one hun-
dred and forty-eight thousand six hundred and seventy-
six (148,676). Of these forty-one thousand six hundred and
one (41,601) received local bounty ; thirty-seven thousand
seven hundred and fifty-nine (37,759) from the City and
County, and three thousand eight hundred and forty-two
(3,842) from individuals. The balance of one hundred
and seven thousand and seventy-five (107,075) received
no direct local bounty.

The whole term of service represented by these one
hundred and forty-eight thousand six hundred and seven-

133 Doc. No. 12.

ty-six (148,676) men is two hundred and eighty-six thou-
sand nine hundred and sixty-six (286,966) years five (5)
months and twenty-nine and one-sixth (29 1-6) days.

Of these one hundred and forty-eight thousand six
hundred and seventy-six (148,676) men, the number
credited was comparatively small, as the system of cred-
its was not put in force until after the first year of the
war, previous to which all New York had apparently
taken up arms, and the number of men furnished had
been very large.

It is doubtful whether any other locality has done
better for the army and navy than the City and County
of New York, even taking into consideration our large
population ; and every citizen may well point with pride
to the large figure representing the number sent by this
City and County to the war.

Appendix "P," annexed, gives the particulars of all
men furnished by the City and County of New York during
the war, with their terms of service. This appendix also
embraces a statement, understood to be official, showing
the number of men furnished by each State since April
], 1861, in the different calls for men who were required
for three (3) months or more. It also shows the number
of men credited to each State, upon the basis of three
(3) years as a standard of computation.

The actual number of men furnished was two million

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six hundred and eighty-eight thousand five hundred and
twenty-three (2,688,523). Reducing this aggregate to a
three-years standard, the whole number for three years
was two million one hundred and fifty-four thousand
three hundred and eleven (2,154 311).

The State of New York furnished the greatest number
of men, and also the largest number, reducing all the men
to a three-years standard.

The whole number from the State of New York was
four hundred and sixty-four thousand one hundred and
fifty-six (464,156). Of these, the City and County of
New York furnished one hundred and forty-eight thou-
sand six hundred and seventy -six (148,676), leaving for
the remainder of the State three hundred and fifteen thou-
sand four hundred and eighty (315,480).

Thus the City and County of New York furnished
within six thousand and forty-three (6,043) of one-third
(1-3) of the whole number of men furnished by the State
of New York.

Reducing: the a^OTe^ate number of men furnished to a

o oo o

three-years standard, the whole number furnished by
the State of New York was three hundred and eighty-
one thousand six hundred and ninety-six (381,696). The
number furnished from the City and County of New
York, (reducing the aggregate to a three-years stand-
ard,) was ninety-five thousand six hundred and fifty-five

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(95,655), leaving for the remainder of the State two hun-
dred and eighty-six thousand and forty-one (286,041).

Thus the City and County of New York furnished two
hundred and thirty-one (231) more than one-quarter (|) of
the whole number of years of service represented by the
men furnished in the whole State reduced to a three-years
standard.

Comparing the actual number of men furnished with
the number of men reduced to a three-years standard,
considerable changes occur in the relative positions of
States. Thus, while Wisconsin stands eight (8) in the
number of men 'furnished, she stands nine (9) when the
aggregate of men is reduced to a three-years standard ;
while Michigan, which stands nine (9) in the number of
men, is eight (8) when the men are reduced to a three-
years standard. So with many of the other States ; but
New York, which is first in the aggregate of men fur-
nished, mantains her pre-eminence in a still greater degree
when the aggregate of men is reduced to a three-years
standard.

It may not be out of place to observe that the number
of men furnished by the City and County of New York
alone is only exceeded by five (5) States, viz., Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Massachusetts.

The tables from which these deductions are drawn
(Appendix " P,") will repay careful perusal.

Doc. No. 12. 136

X. Construction of the State Bounty
Laws of 1865.

The somewhat ambiguous language of the State bounty
laws, passed by the Legislature of 1865, led to grave
doubts as to the right of the County authorities to pay
any further bounties without the concurrence of the
Common Council.

To determine the matter, the Comptroller was re-
quested by the committee to obtain the" opinion of the
Corporation Counsel on this point. The following opin-
ion seemed to settle the point in favor of the full power
of the County authorities :

LAW DEPARTMENT, i

OFFICE OF THE COUNSEL TO THE CORPORATION, >

March 10, 1865. )
Hon. M. T. BRENNAN,

Comptroller :
DEAR SIR

In regard to the question as to the necessity of the
approval by the Common Council of the ordinance of the
Board of Supervisors of 10th January, 1865, authorizing
the borrowing of money and issuing of bonds by the
Comptroller, under section 7 of chapter 29 of Laws of
1SC5, I have the honor to say that such approval is not

137 Doc. No. 12.

necessary, either to the validity of the bonds or for the
imposition of the tax to discharge the principal and
the interest of them as they respectively fall due.

The aforesaid section 7 leaves it optional with the
Board of Supervisors to raise the authorized amount
upon the credit either of the County or of the City. If
the Board had adopted the latter course, and caused the
amount to be raised on the credit of the City, and the
bonds of the City to be issued for it, then undoubtedly,
under that section, the assent of a majority of the mem-
bers elected to the Common Council would have been
required, before any sum could be raised by tax, to dis-
charge the obligation created by them.

The Board of Supervisors, however, by their resolution
of 10th January, 1865, did not adopt this course, but
ordained that the required and authorized amount should
be raised on the credit "of the County of New York,
pledged the faith of the County for the payment of the
principal and interest, and directs the bonds of the County
to be issued to secure the loan.

The supplementary act of February 24, 1865, does not
aft'ect this question, inasmuch as by its own provisions it
does not take effect before the next general election, in
November of this year, nor does the further supplemen-
tary act of 27th February, 1865, in any way touch the
point

Doc. No. 12. 138

The latter act merely provides for the imposition of a
tax by which to reimburse the counties and cities the
amounts they may advance for bounties, and thus secure
the party making a loan to the State.

Truly yours,

(Signed) JOHN E. DEVELIN,

Counsel to the Corporation.

Subsequently, it was deemed advisable to obtain fur-
ther advice on the point as to the legality of the County
bonds under the State laws, and the matter was submit-
ted to Daniel Lord, Esq., w r ho gave the following opinion,
fully concurring in the views of the Counsel to the Cor-
poration :

NEW YOKK, April 6, 1865.

For the County Committee on Volunteering

of the Board of Supervisors of Neiv York :

OPINION.

The act of the Legislature, chapter 29, passed February
10, 18G5, in section seventh, expressly affirmed the ordi-
nance of the Board of Supervisors of January 10, 1865,
with two other ordinances, to provide for the procure-
ment of volunteers, &c., &c.

No condition is imposed of submitting any question to
the ipeople, which is effectually dispensed with by the
passage of this act.

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There is no doubt of the validity of the act under the
Constitution, the power of taxing not being restricted.

(Brewster vs. City of Buffalo, 19 K Y. Rep., 116.)

The County bonds issued under this ordinance are
therefore valid obligations on the County for the prin-
cipal and interest ; and when issued in due form, are
negotiable and binding in favor of takers in good faith.

(Gilpeke vs. City of Dubuque, 1 Wallace Ecp., S. C.

K S., 220.)

APRIL 6, 1865.

(Signed) DANIEL LOED.

XI. The Revision of the Quota.

In reports, heretore submitted to your honorable body,
your committee have very fully detailed the circum-
stances under which the quota of this County under the
last call was so materially increased. One of the prin-
cipal causes of this increase was the fact that credits al-
lowed us in December, for excess of years on naval credits
counted for one year on the July call, were taken from
us in January and allowed elsewhere. There were
rumors that such a change was contemplated before the
actual announcement was made. It was understood
that, as soon as the December assignment of quotas was

Doc. No. 12. 140

announced, great pressure was brought on the Govern-
ment, especially by districts which had participated in
the unjust apportionment of naval credits due this County
under the July call, to induce a redistribution of the
credits for excess in years allowed us.

Desirous of being armed at all points, a letter, of which
the following is a copy, was sent to each Member of Con-
gress for this County :

COUNTY COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTEERING, }
New York, January 11, 1865. j

Hon. JAMES BROOKS,

Representative in Congress:
SIR

I have the honor to transmit you, by express, a copy of
the last report of the New York County Committee on
Volunteering.

I would respectfully request your particular attention
to the statements contained in said report in regard to
the naval credits under the last call, which will be found
on pages 231 to 282, inclusive, and also the last para-
graph on page 309.

Your attention is called to the subject, for the reason
that efforts may possibly be made in Congress to take
from the County of New York some of her credits which
are her just due, by reason of her large naval enlist-
ments, and in such case you may desire to be informed
on the matter.

141 Doc. No. 12.

Should you deem it necessary, or desire it, if you will
inform me, I will transmit you any further information
on the subject in my possession and not contained in the
report transmitted to you.

I have the honor to be,

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) OKISON BLUNT,

Chairman N. Y. Co. Com. on Vol.

This secured to us the assistance of one or two of the
members, while your Committee were in Washington
endeavoring to secure justice to this. County ; but even
they were powerless to obtain justice for us.

The reassignment of quotas not only created great dis-
satisfaction here, but everywhere complaints were made
of its injustice. These complaints were finally pressed
with so much vigor, that the President was compelled to
place upon record a defense of the plan upon which the
January quotas were assigned, in a letter to the Governor
of Vermont.

The general complaint, however, seemed directed more
against the manner in which the system of assignment
was carried out, than against the principle of the assign-
ment itself. Finally, the President appointed a Commis-
sion, to examine into the method on which the quota of

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January had been assigned. Their report, although bear-
ing out the views expressed by this committee in previous
reports, as to the method of assignment adopted, proved
to be but a defense of that method and the action of the
Provost-Marshal General in making the assignment of
quotas.

Besides the investigations attempted by your committee
into the causes of the change in the quota from December
to January, the authorities of other States and localities
appointed commissions to examine into the subject, and
in no one instance was there a report which did not con-
demn both the method on which the January quotas
were assigned and the manner in which the assignment
was made.

Among others, the Governor of Rhode Island dis-
patched his private secretary to Washington, "for the
purpose of bringing to the notice of the War Department
the injustice of the quota assigned to Rhode Island."

In a report subsequently made to the Governor, and
by him transmitted to the Rhode Island Legislature, the
commission states the method on which the January
quotas were assigned substantially as stated by your com-
mittee, and therein communicates that " the injustice of
this system is thus made apparent, as well as the fact
that the call falls most heavily upon such States as have
anticipated the necessities of the Government, and used

143 Doc. No. 12.

every effort to place men in the service in advance of
tlie requisitions of the President."

Appendix " C," annexed, contains all the papers re-
lating to this subject, which serve to throw light on it,
and not embraced in former reports. These documents
fully sustain the views of your committee, as expressed
in this and reports heretofore submitted.

XII. The Bureau of Military Sta-
tistics.

By resolution adopted by your honorable body June
28, 18G4 (see report of October 1, 1864, pp. 337 to 341),
your committee were authorized to organize a Bureau of
Military Statistics, for the purpose of preparing a per-
manent record of the services rendered by citizens of the
County of New York, individually and collectively, in
the war for the suppression of the rebellion.

On the 24th of October, 1S64, your committee, after
giving the subject full consideration, took the initiatory
step toward organizing such a bureau, by the adoption
of the following preamble and resolutions :

" IV/tercas, By resolution adopted by the Board of Su-
pervisors June 28, and approved by the Mayor June 29,
the County Committee on Volunteering were authorized

Doc. No. 12. 144

and directed, in accordance with the authority contained
in chapter 51 of the Laws of 1864, to organize and estab-
lish, in connection with and as part and parcel of the
business at present intrusted to their care, a bureau, to
be known as the ' New York County Bureau of Military
Statistics,' under such arrangements and regulations as
shall seem to said committee wise and judicious; there-
fore, be it

"Ilcsolvecl, That under the authority and direction con-
tained in the aforesaid resolution, that the New York
County Bureau of Military Statistics be and it is hereby
established under the following present provisions, and
subject to such additions and emendations as the commit-
tee shall from time to time deem it wise and judicious to
make, viz. :

"First The bureau shall be known and designated as
1 The New York County Bureau of Military Statistics.'

"Second The business of said bureau shall be conducted
under the direction of the Committee on Volunteering.

" Third The chief officer of said bureau shall be known
as the Superintendent of the County Bureau of Military
Statistics, who shall be designated by the Committee on
Volunteering, and who shall have entire control of the
affairs of said bureau under the direction of the Commit-
tee on Volunteering.

145 Doc. No. 12.

"Fourth The subordinate officers of said bureau shall
be known as clerks, and shall be appointed by the Com-
mittee on Volunteering, and shall be in number such as
the exigencies of the duties of the bureau may require,
and as shall seem wise and judicious to the Committee
on Volunteering.

"Fifth The business of the bureau shall, so long as the
volunteer rooms are kept open, be conducted at said
rooms in connection with the business of volunteering.

"Sixth A separate and distinct account of all expendi-
tures for books, labor, &c., in the business of collecting
and collating the statistics contemplated, shall be kept in
connection w r ith the Volunteer Fund.

"Seventh It shall be the duty of said bureau to pro-
ceed with all dispatch consistent with accuracy to col-
lect, collate and put in the shape of a permanent record
the following special statistics, together with such other
information as may be gathered, viz. :

a. The name, description and particulars of enlist-
ment of every person who has volunteered and
been mustered, or who may in future volunteer
and be mustered in the County of New York
into the service of the General Government,
whether in the army or navy, since April 15,
1861, including the militia from the City of

New York, and the men re-enlisted in the field.
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Doe. No. 12. 146

I). The personal history of every such person, so far
as the same can be ascertained, including a list
of battles participated in ; if wounded or killed,
when and where ; if discharged, when, where,
and for what reason ; particulars of re-enlist-
ments, promotions, &c., and payment of boun-
ties, and of relief for families.

c. A record of the services of the several regiments,

including an account of their organization and
subsequent histor} T ; moneys paid to it by the
City and County of New York ; if disbanded or
consolidated, when, and for what reason ; num-
ber, and what battles participated in ; number
of killed and wounded in the several battles,
&c.

d. All particulars as to quotas demanded of the City

and County ; of men furnished ; of moneys
raised by taxes, loans, and otherwise on the
property of the City and County of New York,
and for what special purposes ; and, so far as
can be ascertained, all particulars as to indi-
vidual aid, associated efforts, aid by churches,
schools, academies, societies ; names of con-
tributors, whether of money or articles, &c.

"Eighth The provisions of this resolution shall take
efiect'irnmediatelv."

147 Doc, No. 12.

After adopting this resolution, the committee delegated
the power of appointing the superintendent of such
bureau to its chairman, and he subsequently designated
Cornelius Corson, the clerk of this committee, as such
superintendent, who proceeded to lay out the plan of the
work. Subsequently, the following comprehensive pro-
gramme was submitted to and indorsed by your com-
mittee :

New York County Bureau of Military Statistics.

G B N E R A L PROGRAMME.

FIRST DIVISION.
PART I. first Militia Campaign, 1861.

1. A sketch of the history of the militia of New York
County.

^. A sketch of the history of each regiment engaged.

3. An account of the campaign generally.

4. An account of each regiment during the campaign.

o. An account of each officer before and during the
campaign.

0. An account of each soldier before and during the
campaign.

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7. An account of each citizen who aided in fitting out

and keeping up the efficiency of each regiment.

8. Rosters, rolls and orders.

0. Maps showing the position of each regiment during
each day of service.

PART II. Second Militia Campaign, 1862.

J. A sketch of the history of the militia of New York
County.

2. A sketch of the history of each regiment engaged.

3. An account of the campaign generally.

4. An account of each regiment during the campaign.

5. An account of each officer before and during the cam-

paign.

6. An account of each soldier before and during the

campaign.

7. An account of each citizen who aided in n' ttiug out

and keeping up the efficiency of each regiment.

8. Rosters, rolls and orders.

9. Maps showing the position of each regiment during

each day of service.

149 Bbc, No, 12,

PART III. TJiird Militia. Campaign, 1863.

1. A sketch of the history of the militia of New York

County.

2. A sketcli of the history of each regiment engaged.

3. An account of the campaign generally.

4. An account of each regiment during the campaign.

5. An account of each officer before and during the cam-

paign.

C. An account of each soldier before and during the
campaign.

7. An account of each citizen who aided in fitting out

and keeping up the efficiency of each regiment.

8. Rosters, rolls and orders.

9. Maps showing the position of each regiment during

each day of service.

PART IY. Fourth Militia Campaign, 1864.

1. A sketch of the history of the militia of New York

County.

2. A sketch of the history of each regiment engaged.

3. An account of the campaign generally.

4. An account of each regiment during the campaign.

Doc. No. 12. 150

5. An account of each officer before and during the cam-

paign.

6. An account of each soldier before and during the

campaign.

7. An account of each citizen who aided in fitting out

and keeping up the efficiency of each regiment.

8. Kosters, rolls and orders.

9. Maps showing the position of each regiment during

each day of service.

SECOND DIVISION.

PART I. Volunteers (nine months.)

1. An account of the formation of each regiment.

2. An account of each regiment during the war.

3. An account of each officer before and during the war.

4. An account of each soldier before and during the

war.

5. An account of each citizen who aided in the forma-

tion and maintenance of the regiment.

6. Rosters, rolls and orders.

7. Maps showing the position of each regiment during

each day of service.

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PART II. Volunteers (two years).
\. An account of the formation of each regiment.
'J. An account of each regiment during the war.
;i. An account of each officer before and during the war.

4. An account of each soldier before and during the

war.

5. An account of each citizen who aided in the forma-

tion and maintenance of the regiment.

0. Rosters, rolls and orders.

7. Maps showing the position of each regiment during
each day of service.

PART III. Volunteers (three years).

1. An account of the formation of each regiment.

2. An account of each regiment during the war.

3. An account of each officer before and during the war.

4. An account of each soldier before and during the

war.

5. An account of each citizen who aided in the forma-

tion and maintenance of the regiment.

G. Rosters, rolls and orders.

7. Maps showing the position of each regiment during
each day of service.

Doc. No. 12. 152

THIRD DIVISION.
Navy.

1. An account of each war vessel on which were New

York sailors or marines.

2. An account of each New York officer on such vessel.

3. An account of each New York sailor or marine on

such vessel.

4. List of sailors shipped in or for the County of New

York.

FOURTH DIVISION.

PAKT I. Medical.

1. Proportions accepted and rejected of volunteers.
Proportions accepted and rejected of substitutes.
Proportions accepted and rejected of drafted men.

2. Proportions effective at various periods, absolute,

and compared with other troops of the State, other
States, the regular army, and armies of other
countries.

3. Means employed to protect and restore health.

4. Sickness and mortality from wounds and disease, ab-

solute, and compared with other Counties, States
and countries.

5. Sanitarv commission.

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PAKT II. Religious.

1. Religious exercises in the army and navy.

2. Bibles, tracts and books distributed.

3. Conversions, and interesting incidents.

4. Christian commission.

FIFTH DIVISION.
PAKT I. Co-operation.

1. An account of the action of fire companies.

2. An account of the action of moneyed corporations.

3. An account of the action of churches.

4. An account of the action of colleges and academies.

5. An account of the action of societies of all kinds.

6. An account of the action of prominent individuals.

7. An account of the action of the Union Defense Com-

mittee.

8. An account of the action of mass meetings.

9. An account of the action of the press.

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PART II Belief.

1. Names of all who received Relief from city.

2. Names of all who received Relief from individuals

and corporations.

3. Amounts received.

4. Name of soldier on whose account it was received.

SIXTH DIVISION.
PART I. City.

1. History of action of, in organization.

2. History of action of, in relief.

3. History of action of, in receptions of returned regi-

ments.

4. History of action of, in obsequies.

PART II. County.

1. History of action of, through Volunteer Committee.

2. History of action of, through Bureau of Military

Statistics.

SEVENTH DIVISION.
PART I. Financial.

\. List of individual donations, presentations, and con-
tributions of labor and material.

155 Doc. No. 12,

2. Sums expended by City in relief presentations, and

for fitting out and raising regiments.

3. Expenditures by County in raising troops.

4. Expenditures of State in bounties to New York

County troops, and proportion of total State ex-
penditures received from New York County.

5. Contributions of New York County to United States

Treasury.

(1.) United States bonds taken in New York.
(2.) Temporary loans made the Government.
(3.) Duties paid.
(4.) Internal Revenue.

PART II. Industrial.

1. Vessels furnished or built.

2. Arms furnished.

3. Munitions furnished.

4. Uniforms furnished.

5. Equipments furnished.

EIGHTH DIVISION.

Social.

1. Influence of the war upon population.

2. Influence of the war upon crime.

3. Influence of the war upon pauperism.

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4. Influence of the war upon labor.

5. Influence of the war upon amusement?.

6. Influence of the war upon immigration.

7. Influence of the war upon consumption of food.

8. Influence of the war upon the press.

9. Influence of the war upon dress.

10. Influence of the war upon benevolent societies.

11. Influence of the war upon savings banks.

12. Influence of the war upon health.

13. Influence of the war upon morals.

14. Influence of the war upon religion.

Collections.

Division.

1. All printed books containing anything in regard to

our soldiers.

2. Files of City and illustrated papers Herald, Tribune,

Times, World, Sun, Daily News, Journal of Com-
merce, Transcript, Express, Post, Commercial,
Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's Illustrated, Illus-
trated London News, Illustrated Times, &c.

3. Posters and hand-bills.

157 Doc. No. 12.

4. Engravings, biographical and historical, of every

place and act at which New York soldiers have
been, or in which they have shared ; also, comi-
calities and caricatures.

5. Photographs of prisons, camps, battle-fields, vessels.

Where originals of banners, arms, and equipments,
models, drawings, plans, maps, hand-bills, &c., can-
not be obtained, the bureau will make photo-
graphs of them. Of bulky articles photographs
will be preferable.

6. Manuscripts, sermons.

7. Patriotic music.

8. Addresses before meetings of all kinds.

9. Arguments and opinions of Courts on matters grow-

ing out of the war.

10. Financial, reviews, action, discussions and results,

showing how New York has furnished the sinews
of war.

11. Maps and plans.

12. Relics of the war ; as flags, guidons, arms, equip-

ments of all kinds, samples of guns and projec-
tiles, drawings and models of places of offense and
defense, harbor, and other.

CORNELIUS CORSON,

Superintendent of Bureau.

Doc. No. 12. 158

This programme embraces, it is believed, every feature

which properly pertains to the object of such bureau as
contemplated. The propriety of such a record cannot be
q uestioned.

But before the bureau could be put in active opera-
tion, it was determined on the revision of the enrolment ;
and, as the latter work was the most pressingly important,
further proceedings in relation to the Bureau of Military
Statistics were at that time discontinued.

Before the work on the enrolment was suspended, how-
ever, the Legislature (of 1865) passed a further law relat-
ing to the general subject of military statistics through-
out the State, which seemed to render it impossible to
take further proceedings in regard to the contemplated
bureau for this County until additional legislation should
place the Supervisors in full and unquestioned power to
do this work. (For act of Legislature of 1865, relating
to military statistics, see. Appendix " Q.")

Beyond the action above referred to, therefore, nothing
has been done by your committee, directly, in the way of
completing the work properly pertaining to the Bureau of
Military Statistics ; but indirectly much has been accom-
plished, the voluminous records in possession of your com-
mittee relating to volunteering in this City and County from
August, 1863, when your committee was organized, to
April, 1865, when recruiting closed, and the subsequent

159 Doc. No. 12.

records relating to the reimbursement for bounties paid,
all being valuable data for the work of this bureau.

While it is unquestioned that this important matter
should be taken in hand at the earliest day, its propriety
being recognized by action taken by local authorities all
over the State, and by legislative enactments on the sub-
ject, it should be remembered that this work, as relates to
the County of New York, is by no means easily accom-
plished.

The number of men furnished by the City and County
of New York was about one hundred and fifty thousand
(150,000). To simply prepare accurate lists of the names of
such a number of men would be a work of some magnitude ;
but adding to it the particulars as to the services and fate of
each man, payments of bounty, and to families for relief
on behalf of each, besides the many other items of inter-
est contemplated by the laws of the State, and embraced
in the programme adopted by your committee, would
necessarily require an expenditure of money so large that,
however proper the motive, it would hardly be justifiable
without the amplest authority of law.

Hence, until further and more definite authority is
given by the Legislature, your committee believe it
proper' to take no further proceedings in relation to the
Bureau of Military Statistics ; in the meantime, however,
your committee have commenced the preparation of the

Doc. No. 12. 160

information required by your honorable body, in resolu-
tion adopted November 16, 1865, as follows :

" Whereas, The amount of taxes levied by this Board for
the present and future years will be largely increased, in
consequence of the expenditures of the City and County
growing out of the war, which amounted (as appears from
the report of the Special Committe on Volunteering, sub-
mitted June 30, 1865) to seventeen million five hundred
and twelve thousand six hundred and seventy-three dollars
and nineteen cents ($17,512,673 19), exclusive of the
sums paid for interest, and for the reception of regi-
ments, presentation of flags, &c. ; and

" Whereas, The items of this expenditure have never
been reported to this Board in detail ; and

" Whereas, It is proper that such report should be made,
in order that not only the magnitude of the contributions
of this City and County for the maintenance of the Union,
which are without parallel in history, but also the justice
and economy with which they have been applied, should
be placed upon record; therefore

"Resolved, That the Special Committee on Volunteering
be directed to prepare and submit to this Board, at its
earliest convenience, a detailed statement of all expendi-
tures by the City and County, either directly or indirectly,
on account of the war ; and the Comptroller is hereby
requested to furnish said committee with any information

161 Doc. No. 12.

on this subject, not in their possession, which may be at
his command, such statement to be made up to and in-
cluding the 31st day of December, 1865, and to embrace
the particulars named in the schedule annexed hereto.

SCHEDULE.

I. The Union Defense Fund.

1. Authority for raising, with ordinances, resolutions,

&c.

2. Amount, and how raised, with names of sub-

scribers, dates, and amount of subscriptions, &c.

3. Disbursements. Dates and items of payment,

specific purpose, &c.

4. Reimbursement Dates, items, and on what ac-

count moneys received, through whom, &c.

5. Particulars of interest paid.

6. Redemption of loan. Detailed statement, with

names and dates of payments.

7. Present condition of fund. If closed, particulars

thereof.

8. Summary statement of all receipts and expen-

ditures on this account.

II. Reception of regiments.

1, Full items and dates of payments, and what ap-
propriation paid from,

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2. Authority for payment, with resolutions, &c.

3. Particulars of unpaid bills, if any.

4. Summary statement of all expenditures on this

account

III. Funerals of soldiers.

1. Full items and dates of payments, and what ap-

propriation paid from.

2. Authority for payment, with resolutions, <fcc.

3. Particulars of unpaid bills, if any.

4. Summary statement of all expenditures on this

account.

IV. Presentation of flags, swords, medals, resolutions,
&c., to regiments and soldiers, both at home and in
the field.

1. Full items and dates of payments, and what ap-

propriation paid from.

2. Authority for payment, with resolutions, c.

3. Particulars of unpaid bills, if any.

4. Summary statement of all expenditures on this

account.

V. Expenditures by and for committees.

1. Full items and dates of payments, and what ap-

propriation paid from.

2. Authority for payment, with resolutions, <fec,

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3. Particulars of unpaid bills, if any.

4. Summary statement of all expenditures on this

account.

VI. Volunteer Soldiers' Family Aid Fund. Statement
of the following particulars as to each fund :

1. Authority for raising.

2. Amount and how raised, with names of sub-

scribers, dates, and amounts of subscriptions, ifec.

3. Disbursements. Statement ' by wards and dis-

tricts, specifying the name, age, color, condition
and sex of each recipient of relief; name, rela-
tionship, regiment and company of volunteer on
whose account the payments to each recipient
was made ; the sum per week or month paid
to each person ; the number of payments to
each ; total amount paid each ; and the dates
between which payments were made to each,
with items of expenditure in disbursing the
said funds.

4. Redemption of loans. Detailed statement, with

names and dates of payments.

5. Interest on loans. Detailed statement, with names

and dates of payment.

(!. Present condition of fund.

7. Summary statement of all receipts anil expendi-
tures on account of each fund.

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YII. Riot Damages Indemnity Fund.

1. Authority for raising.

2. Amount and how raised, with names of subscri-

bers, dates and amounts of subscriptions, &c.

3. Disbursements. Statement of amount paid to

each person, with date, name, location of
property destroyed, and character of claim
showing amount claimed, amount audited by
Supervisors, and amount allowed by the Comp.
troller ; also, disbursements to police and militia
for services, with names, precinct, regiment and
company ; particular service ; and all other pay-
ments on this account, with items of expendi-
ture in disbursing said fund.

4. List of all claims disallowed by Board of Super-

visors, with particulars of claim and ground of
rejection.

5. Reimbursement by sale of property, if any, or

otherwise.

6. Redemption of loans. Detailed statement, with

names and dates of payments.

7. Interest on loans.- -Detailed statement, with names

and dates of pajanents.

8. Present condition of fund.

9. Summary statement of all receipts and

op aecpunt of fund,

165 Doc, No, 12,

"VIII. Substitute and Relief Fund.

1. Authority for raising.

2. Amount and how raised, with names of : subscri-

bers, dates and amounts of subscriptions, <fec.

0. Disbursements. Statement of amount paid to

each substitute, and for commutation, and to
families of drafted men electing to go to the
war, with date of payment, age, condition, ward
and district of person relieved ; name of sub-
stitute, by whom mustered, etc., with items of
expenditure in disbursing the said fund.

4. Redemption of loan. Detailed statement, with

names and dates of payments.

5. Interest on loan. Detailed statement, with names

arid dates of payments.

(>. Present condition of funds.

7. Summary statement of all receipts and expendi-
tures on account of this fund.

IX. Volunteer Bounty Funds. Statement of the fol-
lowing particulars as to each fund:

1. Authority for raising.

2. Amount, and how raised, with names of subscri-

bers, dates, and amounts of subscriptions, <fec.

3. Disbursements. Statement of amount paid to

each volunteer, with name, age, color, name

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of mustering officer, and date of payment to
each ; na^nes of recipients of hand-money, and
persons for whose enlistment hand-money was
paid, with date, amount, and name of officer on
whose certificate payment was made ; with
items of expenditure in disbursing each fund.

4. Reimbursements. Dates, items, and on what ac-

count moneys received, through whom, <fec.

5. Redemption of loans. Detailed statement, with

names and dates of payments, <fec.

6. Interest on loans. Detailed statement, with names

and dates of payment, &c.

7. Present condition of funds.

8. Summary statement of all receipts and expendi-

tures on account of each fund.

X. General recapitulation.

1. Summary of all receipts and expenditures on
all accounts, including loans, interest, redemp-
tion, reimbursements, payments, &c."

The facts and figures contemplated by the foregoing
schedule will prove of very great value in the work of
the Bureau of Military Statistics, and will supply a much
needed want of some complete record of the items of
expenditure by the City and County of New York on
account of the war.

167 Doc. No. 12.

XIII. Accommodations for Volun-
teering Purposes.

The temporary buildings erected in the Park and on
the Battery for volunteering purposes furnished ample
accommodations for the business of recruiting, until the
number of recruits swelled to nearly one hundred (100;
daily. It was then found that further accommodations
must be supplied.

When the work on the enrolment was discontinued,
it was determined to use for recruiting purposes the build-
ings erected in the Park for the work of the enrolment.
Possession was taken of these buildings for recruiting early
in March, and the facilities afforded by them were fully
equal to the enlistment of one thousand (1,000) men per
day, if necessary.

Immediately on the announcement that recruiting was
to be discontinued, your committee, by resolution, author-
ized the Comptroller to take possession of the temporary
buildings in the Park, and the property therein belong-
ing to the County. Subsequently, the Comptroller dis-
posed of the whole of the property, including the build-
ings, at auction, and the amount realized was placed to
the credit of the volunteer fund.

Doc, No, 12, 168

The temporary quarters on the Battery were not dls-:
posed of at that time. Before the close of recruiting, the
American Union Commission applied for the use of these
buildings, as a temporarary shelter for the white refu-
gees, who were constantly arriving here in destitute cir-
cumstances. The following letters explain the objects of
the association :

AMERICAN UNION COMMISSION,)
No. 14 BIBLE HOUSE,

New York, April 7, 1865. )
Elon. ORISON BLUNT,

Chairman Co. Com. on Volunteering :
DEAR SIR

The American Union Commission for Relievino; Desti-

tute refugees are in need of temporary quarters in which
to keep refugees through the day, while in transit to
their homes, or awaiting transportation to the country.

Learning that the buildings formerly occupied by your
committee for County volunteering in the Park are
vacant, we would respectfully ask permission to use them
for the above-named purpose. We do not design to use
them for lodging or living purposes, but simply for the
transaction of official business.

Very respectfully, yours,
(Signed) JOS. P. THOMPSON,

President.
IT. M. PIERCE,

Recording Secretary.

169 Doc. No. 12,

NEW YORK, April 14, 1865.
Mr. ORISON BLUNT,

Chairman Com. on Vol., <fr. :
DEAR SIR

The undersigned, on behalf of the American Union
Commission, respectfully request the use of the building
on the Battery, recently occupied for the recruiting ser-
vice, for the purpose of affording temporary shelter to
white refugees as they arrive, until they can be sent to
the interior among their friends, or where they can ob-
tain employment, the undersigned pledging themselves
that no sick persons shall be sent to the said building,
and if any fall sick while there, they shall immediately
be sent to the hospital at Bellevue.

Very respectfully, yours, &c.,

(Signed) C. R. ROBERTS, )

WM. A. BOOTH, V Committee.
GEO. W. LANE, )

These applications were favorably considered by your
committee, and the use of the rooms on the Battery were
granted to the Commission for the purposes stated.

The Commission continued in possession of these quar-
ters until the 19th of July, when they were again deliv-
ered up to us, with the following letter :

Doc. No. 12. 170

AMERICAN UNION COMMISSION, }
No. 14 BIBLE HOUSE, >
New York, July 19, 1865. )
O. BLUNT, Esq.

DEAR SIR

I hereby return to you the keys of our refugee barracks.
Although there are still occasionally a few refugees land-
ed here, as Government has ceased to send them north
in any great , numbers, and as our greater work in the
Southern States is opening before us, we have decided not
to keep open our home and barracks any longer.

In returning to you the keys of this building, allow me
to express to you, not only in the name of the Commis-
sion, but in that of the homeless, who have here found a
temporary home, our sincere thanks to you for the inter-
est you have taken in this work of humanity, and the
facilities which you have extended to us for its prosecu-
tion, without which it could not have been carried on.

I inclose a copy of Mr G. H. Allan's report, in order
that you may know the amount of assistance which has
been rendered at that point to those suffering people. If
you will lay this report, together with this expression of
the thanks of the Commission, before the appropriate
County authorities, by whose allowance we have been
permitted to use these barracks, you will add another ob-

171 Doc. No. 12.

ligation to those which your courtesy and kindness have
already laid upon us.

Yours, respectfully,

(Signed) LYMAN ABBOTT,

General Secretary.

Your committee having no further use for the building,
it was turned over to the -Comptroller, and, with the fur-
niture, sold by him at auction for the benefit of the Volun-
teer Fund.

In the meantime all the books and papers in the hands
of your committee, relating to the work of volunteering,
were transferred to Nos. 71 and 73 Duane street, and
there the work of completing the records is now being
conducted.

Doc, No, 12, 172

XIV. Finances.

In the introduction to this report, your committee have
detailed the financial difficulties under which they labored
in raising the quota under the call of December 19, 1864.

The total expenditures in raising the quota under, the
last call was three million five hundred and thirty-three
thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and thirty-
one cents ($3,533,234 31). Of this sum there was ex-
pended in bounties :

To army volunteers, two million two hun-
dred and thirty-three thousand seven hun-
dred and twenty dollars $2,233,720 00

To re-enlisted men, thirty-nine thousand two

hundred and forty dollars 39,240 00

Total army bounties, two million two
hundred and seventy -two thousand

nine hundred and sixty dollars $2,272,960 00

To naval volunteers, two hundred and twen
ty-three thousand five hundred and ten
dollars 223,510 00

Carried forward $2.496,470 00

173 Doc. No. 12.

Drought forward $2,496,470 00

Total bounties, two million four hun-
dred and ninet} T -six thousand four
hundred and seventy dollars 2,496,470 00

For hand-money to army and navy, four
hundred and fifty-two thousand seven
hundred and fifty-five dollars.. 452,755 00

Total bounties and premiums, two mil-
lion nine hundred and forty-nine
thousand two hundred arid twenty-
five dollars $2,949,225 00

Other Expenditures.

For correcting the enrolment, three hun-
dred and eighty-seven thousand and
eighty-six dollars and eighty-seven cents $387,086 87

For all other expenses, advertising, furni-
ture, pay-rolls, &c., one hundred and
ninety-six thousand nine hundred and
twenty-two dollars and forty-four cents. . 196,922 44

Total expenditures in raising quota
under call of Pecember 19, 1864, three
million five hundred and thirty-three
thousand two hundred and. thirty*
four dollars and thirty-one cents $3,533,234 3}

Doc. No. 12. 174

Tin's sum was greatly swelled by the very large bounty
paid for most of the men raised to fill this call.

And, inasmuch as the sum of seven hundred dollars
($700) per man was insufficient to raise all the men re-
quired, it is evident that, had we been compelled to
raise the deficiency of about ten thousand (10,000) men,
which existed when recruiting was discontinued, it could
not have been done short of one thousand dollars ($1,000)
per man, which would have caused an additional ex-
penditure of ten million dollars ($10,000,000).

Appendix " R," hereto annexed, is a detailed statement
of all items of expenditures in raising the quota under
the call of December 19, 1864,

175 Doc. No. 12.

XV. Total Expenditures for War
Purposes during the Rebellion.

On the 30th of June, 1865, your committee laid before
your honorable body a copy of letter sent to the A. A. P.
M. General of this district, in answer to inquiries from the
War Department at "Washington, relative to the total ex-
penditures of the City and County of New York, during
the rebellion, for war purposes. The total then stated was
seventeen million five hundred and twelve thousand six
hundred and seventy-three dollars and nineteen cents
($17,512,673 19).

Since then, and on the 27th of February, the County
Treasurer submitted to your honorable body a report on
the same subject, which he had prepared for the use of
the Bureau of Military Statistics at Albany. This state-
ment was obtained by a much closer examination of all
classes of expenditures growing out of the war, and by
superior facilities for comparison, which were not at the
command of your committee. It has since been still
further revised and verified by your committee, and such
revision gives the total expenditures of the City and
County of ]STew York, from the public funds, for war pur-
poses, from the 15th of April, 1861, to the 30th of De-

Doc, No. 12. 176

cember, 1865, at the aggregate of twenty million six hun-
dred and thirty- two thousand two hundred and sixty -five
dollars and forty-one cents ($20,632,265 41), made up as
follows :

Paid for bounties, nine million three hun-
dred and seventeen thousand six hun-
dred and twelve dollars $9,317,612 00

Paid for recruiting fees and hand-money,
five hundred and fifty-two thousand sev-
en hundred and fifteen dollars 552,715 00

Paid for all other expenses connected with
bounties, four hundred' and forty-five
thousand four hundred and seventy-one
dollars and forty-six cents 445,471 46

Paid for fitting out regiments in 1861, six
hundred and sixty-seven thousand two
hundred and eighty-three dollars 667,283 00

Paid for support of families of soldiers, five
million nine hundred and sixty-five thou-
sand seven hundred and eleven dollars
and seventy-three cents 5,965,711 73

Paid for interest on City and County loans,
one million five hundred and fifty-six
thousand four hundred arid fifty-six dol-
lars and twenty-six cents, 1,556,456 26

Carried forward $18,505,249 01}

177 Doc. No. 12.

Brought forward $18,505,249 45

Paid for burial of soldiers, reception of re-
giments, &c., two hundred and twenty-
three thousand and forty-seven dollars
and fifty-eight cents 223,047 58

Paid for damages by rioters in 1863, one
million five hundred and sixteen thou-
sand eight hundred and eighty-one dol-
lars and fifty-one cents 1,510,881 51

Paid for enrolment of 1864-'65, three hun-
dred and eighty-seven thousand and
eighty-six dollars and eighty-seven cents 387,086 87

Total, twenty million six hundred and
thirty-two thousand two hundred
and sixty-five dollars and forty-one
cents $20,632,265 41

Recapitulation.

Bounties and premiums, nine million eight

hundred and seventy thousand three

hundred and twenty-seven dollars $9,870,327 00

Expenditures connected with bounties,

four hundred and forty-five thousand

four hundred and seventy-one dollars and

forty-six cents 445,471 46

Carried forward $10,315,798 46

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Brought forward $10,315,798 46

Expenditures not connected with bounties,
ten million three hundred and sixteen
thousand four hundred and sixty-eight
dollars and ninety-five cents 10,316,466 95

Total, twenty million six hundred and
thirty-two thousand two hundred
and sixty-five dollars and forty-one
cents $20,632,265 41

Appended (marked " S'") will be found a statement
showing how this expenditure was divided under each
call of the President for men.

It has been authoritatively stated that the whole amount
expended by all the municipal corporations and States
for war purposes reaches the sum of four hundred and
sixty-seven million nine hundred and fifty-four thousand
three hundred and sixty-four dollars ($467,954,364). Of
this amount one hundred and eleven million five thou-
sand nine hundred and fifty-three dollars ($111,005,953)
is put down for the State of New York.

The quotas of the -City and County of New York
under the several calls were about one-third (^) of the
whole quota of the State, yet our total expenditure in
raising that one-third (^) is less than one-fifth (1-5) that
of the remainder of the State in raising its two-thirds (f ).

179 Doc. No. 12.

XVI. Suits against the Committee.

All payments, either on the part of the County or on
behalf of individuals, made by your committee, were
under strict rule and regulation, which in no instance was
departed from. One of these rules was, that every re-
cruit should receive his money in his own hand. This
led to much complaint, especially on the part of brokers,
who were exceedingly anxious to take care of the funds
belonging to recruits. But the rule was inflexibly ad-
hered to, and its justice generally admitted by an acqui-
escence therein on the part of those doing business with
your committee.

In only one case was suit commenced against your
committee by a party claiming the right to collect boun-
ty for another. In this case, John McHugh, who claimed
to be a re-enlisted man and credited to this County, exe-
cuted a power of attorney to his wife to collect his boun-
ty. Payment 'was refused until the man himself should
appear with the papers necessary to prove the fact of his
discharge, re-enlistment and credit. Suit was commenced
in the Kings County Circuit of the Supreme Court, on
behalf of said McIIugh ; but on presentation of the fact,
principally, that the committee's regulations required that

Doc. No. 12. 180

re-enlisted men, should appear in person, and that said
McHugh never had appeared, the plaintiff was beaten.

In the payment of substitutes, the amount to be de-
posited by principals and paid to substitutes was fixed by
resolution of your committee, and also strictly adhered
to. No one was required nor allowed to pay more than
the exact amount which was to be paid to the substitute,
arid whenever a substitute was presented the whole
amount of the deposit was paid. Nor was any substitute
allowed to be enlisted until it was expressly stated to him
that he was to go as such substitute, and his consent ob-
tained, which consent was in every case attested by his
signature to the necessary papers.

James Morgan enlisted in the navy as a substitute, in
August, 1864, and received two hundred and seventy
dollars ($270) for one-years service, which amount had
been deposited with your committee for this purpose by
Mr. Frederick B. Elliott.

Subsequently, suit was commenced on behalf of Mr.
Morgan, alleging

First That he did not enlist as a substitute, but as a
volunteer, and that lie was fraudulently made to appear
in the papers as a substitute ; and

Second That the chairman of your committee sold the
papers for seven hundred dollars ($700) to Mr. Elliott,

181 Doc. No. 12.

defrauding Morgan out of the difference of four hundred
and thirty dollars ($430) between said seven hundred dol-
lars ($700) and the two hundred and seventy dollars
($270) he actually received.

Of course, the fact that Morgan himself signed papers
consenting to go as a substitute was a full answer to the
first allegation, and Mr. Elliott's testimony, that he de-
posited with your committee only the two hundred and
seventy dollars ($270) paid, was a complete answer to the
second allegation. The case, however, went by default
against the plaintiff, who failed to appear.

The disputes arising from the payment of hand-money
were frequent, and the robberies attempted by brokers
through this means were numerous and very often suc-
cessful, until your committee were compelled to make a
regulation that the recruit who presented himself might
receive his own hand-money, and that whenever the mat-
ter was disputed the recruit should decide who was en-
titled to the premium.

In February, 1805, John Shea and P. W. Stapleton
were enlisted, and the right to the hand-money of one
hundred dollars ($100) for each recruit was disputed, the
recruits claiming that they presented themselves, without
any interference from any other party, and John Z. Hartt
claiming that he presented them and was entitled to the
premiums. After a thorough investigation, your com-

Doc. No. 12. 182

mittee were satisfied that the representations of the two
recruits were correct, and the hand-money was paid to
them.

Mr. Hartt sued for the two hundred dollars ($200), but
on the trial he was non-suited, it appearing that he had
no claim to the money at all ; he being, at the time these
men were enlisted, only a clerk for another party, to
whom he acknowledged on the stand the claim belonged.

The complaints and answers in these three cases will
be found appended, marked "T."

183 Doc. No. 12.

XVII. Reimbursement for Bounties
Paid under the Call of December
19, 1864.

In the introduction to this report reference is made to
the legislative enactments of 1865, relating to the reim-
bursement of towns and Counties for bounties paid in
raising the quota under the call of the President dated
December 19, 1864, for three hundred thousand (300,000)
men. As previously stated, before the work of recruit-
ing was discontinued the preparation of the evidence nec-
essary to secure from the State reimbursement for the
bounties paid on behalf of the County of New York was
commenced.

As soon as recruiting was discontinued this work was
vigorously pushed forward, and your committee have the
satisfaction to announce that the claim of this County for
reimbursement of the public funds has been closed.

In Appendix " D " of this report will be found the in-
structions of the State authorities, in conformity with
which the evidence on these claims was prepared.

Appendix " C " gives the laws authorizing the reim-
bursement.

Doc. No 12.

184

In making up our claim for the men enlisted after the
quota of July 18, 1864, was filled, there was no question
whatever. The evidence consisted, first, of the certificate
of the Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General of this
district, as to the number of men credited; second, a
muster and descriptive roll of every man enlisted, certi-
fied by the mustering officer ; and third, a list of such
men, made out in the following form :

FOKM "C."

ROLL OF RECRUITS mustered into the service of the United
States, under the call of December 19, 1864, by

, and credited to the City of New York,

County of New 'York, and State of New York, and
to whom bounty has been paid by Orison Blunt, as
Chairman of the Committee on Volunteering of the
County of New York, on behalf of the said County
of New York.

NAMES.

PERIOD
FOR WHICH
ENLISTED.

AMOUNT
OP BOUNTY PAID.

REMARKS.
[In case of substitutes,
enter under this head
the name of the prin-
cipal.]

Received, New York, , 1865, of S. E. Marvin,

Paymaster-General, S. N. Y., dollars, being in

185 Doc. No. 12,

full for bounties to the above-named recruits, credited to
the State of New York, on the call of December 19, 1864,
as provided in chapter 29, Laws of 1 865.

: U. 8. Kev. :
:2 Cts. Stamn. :

Chairman N. Y. Co. Com. on Vol.

Indorsed.

Form C. Koll of recruits, City of New York, County
of New York.

To which was appended the following form of assign-
ment:

I, ORISON BLUNT, do hereby assign to the Paymaster-
General of the State of New York all my right and
claim in the bounties of the men whose names are em-
braced in this roll of recruits, amounting in the ag-
gregate to dollars, the same having been assigned

to me by said men, in pursuance to their muster into
the service of the United States, for the terms of years
recited on this roll ; I having received from the Pay-
master-General, on behalf of the County of New York,
a reimbursement for said bounties paid by me on behalf
of the County of New York, in pursuance of chapter
29, Laws of 1865.

Chairman N. Y. Co. Com. on Vol.

In addition to the foregoing, the following affidavit of
the chairman of your committee was required as to the
amount of bounty paid at various times :

Doc. No. 12. 186

STATE OP NEW YORK, )
County of Neio York, \ ss '

Orison Blunt, of the City of New York, being duly
sworn, deposes and says that he is and has been since the
7th day of November, 1863, the Chairman of the Commit-
tee on Yolunteering for the County of New York, and as
such has had charge of the payment of local bounties on
behalf of said County ; that, from the 28th day of Septem-
ber, 1864, to the llth day of February, 1865, the bounties
so paid were as follows : To each one-year man, from Sep-
tember 28 to October 26, 1864, one hundred and seventy
($170) dollars; from October 26, 1864, to February 11,
1865, one hundred ($100) dollars ; to each two-years man,
for the whole time, two hundred ($200) dollars ; and to
each three-years man, for the whole time, three hundred
($300) dollars, except on the 14th of January, 1865, when
the amount of six hundred ($600) dollars was paid in cer-
tain special cases. And in addition there was paid to the
person procuring and furnishing a recruit hand-money as
follows : For each one-year man, from September 28 to
October 26, 1864, one hundred ($100) dollars ; and from
October 26, 1864, to February 11, 1865, twenty ($20) dol-
lars ; for each two-years man, from September 28 to October
26, 1864, twenty ($20) dollars ; from October 26, 1864,
to February 11, 1865, thirty ($30) dollars ; and for each
three-years man, from September 28 to October 26, 1864,
twenty ($20) dollars ; from October 26, 1864, to Febru-

187 Doc. No. 12

ary 11, 1865, fifty ($50) dollars. And furthermore, that
in case the volunteer recruit presented himself for enlist-
ment, and not through the agency of any other person or
persons, there was paid to such volunteer, in addition to
the above-named bounties according to the term of service,
a further amount of bounty, equal in amount to the hand-
money paid as above-mentioned, and that such additional
bounty was paid directly to the recruit; and deponent
further says, that such additional bounty has been included
in the returns made by him to the Paymaster-General of
the State of New York, in accordance with the provi-
sions of chapter 29, Laws of 1865 ; and such returns do
not include any hand-money whatever, but only such
amounts as were paid directly to the recruit, in considera-
tion of his enlistment into the service of the United States
and credit to the County of New York.

(Signed) ORISON BLUNT.

The following statement, on which the foregoing affi-
davit and all our claims for reimbursement was based,
was also submitted :

Doc. No. 12.

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Having closed so much of the account as related to the
men, in regard to our right to be reimbursed for whose
bounty no question could arise, your committee then took
up what was termed the " excess of years " allowed and
credited on the call of December 19, 1864. These were
the men who enlisted under previous calls for a period
longer than one year, of which one year only was cred-
ited on the call of July 18, 1864, the balance of years
being credited on the call of December 19, 1864. In re-
gard to this claim, the State authorities furnished the fol-
lowing instructions in addition to those contained in Ap-
pendix " D" :

STATE or NEW YORK, ]

INSPECTOR-GENERAL'S OFFICE, I

No. 544 Broadway, f

Neiv York, August 23, 1865. J

ORISON BLUNT, Esq.,

Chairman Committee on Volunteering :
SIR

Inclosed please find the regulations in regard to claim
for " excess of years," as established by the Paymaster-
General.

I am. Sir,

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) SILAS W. BURT,

Assistant Inspector- General.

191 Doc. No. 12.

REGULATIONS.

The certificate for the " excess of years " must show
that the credit for the same operated to relieve the County
from furnishing men under call of December 19, 1864.
A form used by the "Western Division of the State is
herewith inclosed.

The certificate for the excess will show a much larger
number of years than the State, under its rules for pay-
ment, will allow.

No " years in excess " will be paid for the men in ex-
cess of March, 1864, call, or prior calls. The call of July 18,
1864, was for one-year men, and any men in surplus of
prior calls are simply allowed as for one year; but men
mustered after July call for two or three years will be
taken into consideration in payment for excess. The
above ruling excludes payment for excess of years on the
re-enlisted veterans of 1863 and 1864.

No excess will be allowed for old naval credits credited
on call of July 18, 1864.

A certificate should be obtained from Provost-Marshal,
showing when quota under call of July 18, 1864, was full;
and if men, after the date of filling the quota, were credited
on account " excess of years " on call of December 19, 1864,

Doc. No. 12. 192

for the full term of enlistments, the same to be certified ;
and that they reduced the quota to extent credited ; this to
embrace men mustered from date quota was full to
December 19, 1864 (to show that one year of service was
not credited on July call).

The certificate for excess will include the extra years of
service of substitutes furnished by principals on call of
July 18 to December 31, 1864; arrangements had better
be made for City to collect the full amount and make the
settlements.

An affidavit to be furnished, showing amount paid for
men making excess of years.

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Claims were submitted under this head for all volun-
teers enlisted under the call of July 18, 1864, for more
than one year, the evidence being precisely similar to
that in the case of enlistments under the call of Decem-
ber 19, 1864, except that the following form of voucher
took the place of Form " C " :

Excess of Years.

FORM "E."

ROLL SUPPLEMENTAL to muster and descriptive roll of
recruits mustered into the service of the United
States prior to the call of the President dated De-
cember 19, 1864, and credited for certain terms of
service under said call of December 19, 1864, to the

town of , County of , as an excess of

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195 Doc. No. 12.

Keceived, New York, - , 1866, of S. E. Marvin,

Paymaster-General, S. 1ST. Y., dollars, being in

full for bounties to the above-named recruits credited to
the State of New York on the call of December 19, 1864,
as provided in chapter 29, Laws. of 1865.

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:2Cts. Stamp.:

Chairman N. Y. County Com. on Vol.

Indorsed.

Form E. Roll of men credited to , of ,

County of , on account of excess of years on call of

July 18, 1864.

To which was attached the following form of assign-
ment:

I, OKISON BLUNT, do hereby assign to the Paymas-
ter-General of the State of New York all my right
and claim in the bounties of the men whose names are
embraced in this roll of recruits, amounting in the
aggregate to dollars, the same having been assign-
ed to me by said men, in pursuance to their muster into
the service of the United States, for the terms of years
recited on this roll ; I having received from the Pay-
master-General, on behalf of the County of New York,
a reimbursement for said bounties paid by me on behalf
of the County of New York, in pursuance of chapter 29,
Laws of 1865.

Chairman N. Y. Co. Com. on Vol.

Doc. No. 12. 196

Having closed this branch of our claim, we next sub-
mitted, in the same form as tor the " excess of years," a
claim for reimbursement for men enlisted prior to the call
of July 18, 1864, who were in excess under the preceding
call, and one year of whose service was counted on the
call of July 18, 1864, and the balance of their term of
service on the call of December 19, 1864. Of these men
there were eleven hundred and thirty-seven (1,137), all
enlisted for three years. Being in excess of demands on
calls prior to July 18, 1864, they of course counted on
that call for one year, that being the term of service for
which that call was made. The balance of two years of
service on each man was credited on the call of Decem-
ber 19, 1864. Our claim was, therefore, for two years of
service on each man, or two-thirds () of their time,
amounting to two hundred dollars ($200) per man, the
whole bounty paid for the three years being three hun-
dred dollars ($300) per man. This claim amounted to
two hundred and twenty-seven thousand four hundred
dollars ($227,400).

In proof that these men were not counted on calls prior
to that of July 18, 1864, the following certificate of the
then Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General of this
district, General William Hays, was filed with the papers :

19? Doc. No. 12,

Certificate.

Report of men raised in tJie Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh,
Eighth and Ninth Congressional Districts in the Southern
Division, State of New York, under the calls of the Presi-
dent for five hundred thousand and two hundred thousand
volunteers, from July, 1863, to May, 1.864.

Town New York.

County New York.

Draft 3,059

Number of regulars, volunteers 13,262

Number of veterans 6,455

Number for navy, credited as 1,564

Number of marines, credited as 167

Total raised 24,570

Quota 23,370

Deficiency

Excess 1,137

Remarks.

In these districts the troops were raised by the County,
and proportioned among the districts.

(Signed) WILLIAM HAYS,

Brigadier- General Volunteers.

This claim was rejected by the State authorities, for
the reason stated in the following communication:

Doc. No. 12. 198

STATE OF NEW YORK, )

PAYMASTER-GENERAL'S OFFICE, >

Albany, March 27, 1866. )

Respectfully returned.

Payment for excess of years is made upon the following
basis: From the quota under call of July 18, as assigned,
should be deducted any excess on calls prior to said call,
and the balance regarded as the quota proper for call of
July 18, 1864, and all persons credited on said quota for a
term of years greater than one year (the basis of said call),
the excess on which operated to relieve the locality from
raising men under call of December 19, 1864, by being
credited thereon, payment is made. All surplus on calls
prior to July 18, 1864, should be deducted prior to as-
signment of quota. The within claim for eleven hun-
dred and thirty-seven (1,137) years is hereby returned ; no
payment will be made for said credit on account of above
ruling.

(Signed) S. E. MARVIN,

Paymaster- General, S. N. Y.

It is difficult to understand the reasons assigned for the
rejection of this claim, but it appears to be based entirely
upon the supposition that the excess of years due from
these eleven hundred and thirty-seven (1,137) men was
taken into consideration in assigning the quota under the
call of July 18, 1864. This your committee knew not to
have been the case. Proper representation of this fact

199 Doc. No. 12.

Was made to the State authorities, but without any differ-
ent result from that already noted.

From the additional instructions contained in the
memorandum of the Assistant Inspector-General, dated
August 3, 1865, it will be perceived that all claims
for reimbursement for bounties paid to re-enlisted men
were rejected in advance. We could not well see
how any man credited under the call of December 19,
1864, could be excluded, under the law, whether a
volunteer or re-enlisted man, since he counted on the
quota, and the law was evidently intended to cover all
proper credits ; it was therefore deemed proper to make
the claim in due form, and to require a formal rejection.

In raising the quota under the call of December 19,
1864, there were paid one hundred and twenty-five (125)
men re-enlisted in the field, and who counted on that
quota thirty-eight thousand three hundred and forty
"dollars ($38,340). On the call of July 18, 1864, there
were paid two hundred and twelve (212) men re-enlisted in
the field (one year of whose service counted on that quota
and the other two years on the call of December 19,
1864), sixty three thousand six hundred dollars ($63,600)?
of which we claimed to be reimbursed for two years
credited on call of December 19, 1864, two-thirds (f) of
the bounty paid them, amounting to forty -two thousand
four hundred dollars ($42,400).

Doc. No, 12. 200

The total amount claimed on account of re-enlisted
men was

For 125 men, credited on call of December 19,

1864 $38,340

For 212 men, credited one year on call of July
18, and two years on call of December 19,
1864 42,400

Total $80,740

This claim was formally rejected in the following letter,

viz. :

STATE OP NEW YOEK, }
PAYMASTER-GENERAL'S OFFICE, V
Albany, January 2, 1866. )
Hon. O. BLUNT,

Chairman New York County Bounty Committee :
DEAR SIR

The basis adopted in the reimbursement of localities
for any excess on call of July 18, 1864, credited on call of
December 19, 1864, precludes the State from any pay-
ment to the County of New York for veterans re-enlist-
ing under General Orders No. 191, A. G. O. 1863, who,
being in excess of calls prior to July 18, 1S64, were car-
ried forward to that call and applied on the quota. The
call of July 18, 1864, was for one-year men ; from the
quota, as assigned under said call, should be deducted
any surplus on prior calls, and the balance established as
the quota under said call ; and for any men mustered to

201 Doc. No. 12,

fill said quota for a greater period than demanded by said
call, the locality should receive the benefit contemplated
in the law. Under this rule, the claims for the re-enlisted
veterans are herewith returned.

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) S. E. MARVIN,

Paymaster- General.

Appended (marked " W ") is a complete statement of
the amounts reimbursed the County of New York by the
State for bounties :

The amount returned to the County Trea-
sury was two million five hundred and
sixty-five thousand one hundred and
fifty dollars $2,565,150 00

The amount rejected was three hundred
and eight thousand one hundred and
forty dollars , 308,140 00

The total amount claimed was therefore
two million eight hundred and seventy-
three thousand two hundred and ninety
dollars $2,373,290 00

The matter of reimbursement for substitutes enlisted
in this City and County was a much more complicated

Doc. No. 12. 202

arrangement than the reimbursement for volunteers. Of
course, where substitutes had been enlisted by the Com-
mittee on Volunteering for those who had deposited
money with them for that purpose, no one but the chair-
man of your committee, under whose auspices the substi-
tutes were paid, could produce the necessary evidence on
which the State would pay. It therefore became the
duty of your committee to attend to the reimbursement
of those individuals who had deposited money with them
for such purpose, and whose deposits at the time were
really so much money saved to the public funds of the
County.

At first it was determined that in all cases where the
substitute was not enlisted through the County, but by in-
dividuals themselves, that the State Paymaster, through
his agents, should settle their claims directly, and that
your committee would confine themselves to the claims
of those who had enlisted substitutes through the means
provided by the committee.

The State authorities soon found, however, that this
could not be done, and at their solicitation it was event-
ually determined that all claims for reimbursement on
account of substitutes enlisted in the City and County of
New York should be settled through your committee.
This duty was undertaken by your committee with great
reluctance, but as it seemed to be the only way in which
the State authorities would consent to reimburse pay-

203 Doc. No. 12.

ments for substitutes at all, it was deemed proper to un-
dertake the work.

In order to present the proper evidence on these claims,
every person who had provided a substitute to be en-
listed for him was required to submit their exemption
paper, and to execute the following power of attorney to
the chairman of your committee :

I, , do hereby nominate, constitute and appoint

Orison Blunt, of the City of New York, my true and
lawful attorney, for me and in my name, place and stead,
to collect and receive from Selden E. Marvin, Paymas-
ter-General, any sum or sums of money due or owing to
me from the State of New York, under chapter 29, Laws
of 1865, and amendments thereto, for reimbursement of
amount paid by me to - , my legal substitute in the

service of the United States, mustered in for years,

on - day , 1864, to whom I paid $ .

Dated NEW YORK, , 1864.

Witness,

Indorsed.

No. . , principal. , substitute for

years. Date, - , 1864. Amount paid, $ .

When the substitute was enlisted by your committee,
no evidence of the amount paid was necessary, but in all

Doc. No. 11 204

other cases the following form of affidavit was required
in addition :

STATE OF NEW YORK, [
County of Neiv York, \ SS '

On this day of , 1866, before the under-
signed, a notary public, duly authorized by law to ad-
minister oaths within and for said County, personally

appeared , who, being duly sworn, deposes and

says, that he paid , as consideration for his enlist-
ment as a substitute, and credit to the City of 'New York,
County of New York, upon the quota thereof, under the

call of December 19, 1864, the sum of dollars, and

that I have not received from any town, City or County,
or from any person or persons acting in behalf thereof,
any sum whatever as reimbursement for the amount by
me paid to the said .

Subscribed and sworn to before ) -.

me, this day of , 1866. )

Notary Public, City of Neiv York.

^Indorsed.
Form D. Principals furnishing substitutes, affidavit of.

Date of enlistment of substitute, , 1864. Amount

paid substitute, $ .

These papers, with a full muster and descriptive roll of
each substitute, were then filed with the Paymaster-Gen-
eral, together with the following summary or sub-roll :

205

Doc. No. 12.

ROLL OF SUBSTITUTES mustered into the service of the
United States, under the call of December J9, 1864,
and credited to the County of New York, and to
whom bounty has been paid by Orison Blunt, chair-
man of the Committee on Volunteering of said
County.

NAMES

OF SUBSTITUTES.

PERIOD
FOR WHICH
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DATE OF

ENLISTMENT

AMOUNT
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BOUNTY
PAID.

NAMES
OF PRINCIPALS.

Received, , 1865, of S. E. Marvin, Paymaster-
General, S. N. Y., - dollars, being in full for boun-
ties to the above-named substitutes, credited to the State
of New York, on the call of December 19, 1864, as pro-
vided in chapter 29, Laws of 1865.

Chairman Com. on Vol., Co. of N. Y.

The following form of assignment was attached thereto :

I, OKISON BLUNT, do hereby assign to the Paymaster-
General of the State of New York, all my right and
claim in the bounties of the men whose names are em-
braced in this roll of substitutes, amounting in the aggre-
gate to dollars, the same having been assigned to

Doc. No. 12. 206

me by the principals of said substitutes, borne on this
roll, and in the amounts set opposite their respective
names, in pursuance of the muster of said substitutes into
the service of the United States for the terms of years
recited on this roll ; I having received from the Paymaster-
General, on behalf of the County of New York, a re-
imbursement for said bounties paid by me on behalf of the
County of New York and on behalf of the said principals,
in pursuance of chapter 29, Laws of 1865, and acts sup-
plementary thereto.

NEW YOKK, , 1866. .

Chairman N. Y. County Com. on Vol.

Indorsed.
Form C. Roll of substitutes credited to the County

of New York.

I 3-years .

No. of men. 4 2 "
1 "

Total

These papers being passed upon, and bonds for the
amount handed over to the chairman of your committee,
the sums allowed were paid to the claimants, and the fol-
lowing receipt taken :

NEW YORK. - , I860.

Keceived from OKISON BLUNT, - - dollars, in full
for State bounty due to me, under chapter 29, Laws of

'207 Doc. No. 12.

1865, and amendments thereto, for having furnished a sub-
stitute for years, credited to the quota of the County

of New York, on the call of December 19, 1864, the same
having been collected for me from the Paymaster-Gene-
ral of the State by the said ORISON BLUNT, my certificate
of exemption having been surrendered to the Paymaster-
General.

Witness,

Indorsed.

No. . Receipt of . For State bounty

for substitute furnished. $ : .

These were all the papers used in obtaining reimburse-
ment for substitutes enlisted under the call of December
19, 1864.

In claims for substitutes a portion only of whose term
of service counted on the call of December 19, 1864, the
following form of summary or sub-roll was submitted :

Doc. No. 12.

208

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The following form of assignment was attached thereto :

I, OJRISON BLUNT, do hereby assign to the Paymas-
ter-General of the State of New York all my right and
claim in the bounties of the men whose names are em-
braced in this roll of substitutes, amounting in the ag-
gregate to - - dollars, the same having been assigned
to me by the principals of said substitutes, born^ 011 this
roll, and in the amounts set opposite their respective
names, in pursuance of the muster of said substitutes into
the service of the United States, for the terms of years
recited on this roll ; I having received from the Paymaster-
General, on behalf of the County of New York, for the
principals aforesaid, a reimbursement for said bounties,
in pursuance of chapter 29, Laws of 1865, and acts sup-
plementary thereto.

NEW YORK, , 1866.

Chairman N. Y. County Com. on Vol.

Indorsed.

Excess of years. Form E. Roll of substitutes credited
to the County of New "York, on account of excess of
years, on call of Jnly 18, 1864.

( Three-years

No. of men. < Two-years

( One-year

Total

Doc. No. 12. 210

These claims were accompanied by the folio wing "affi-
davit :

STATE OF NEW YORK, )

>" ^^ *

City and County of New York, j

On this 28th day of June, 1866, before me, a Notary
Public, personally appeared Orison Blunt, who being duly
sworn, doth depose and say : That he was Chairman of the
Committee on Volunteering of the County of New York,
aforesaid, for the years 1864 and 1865, and had charge of
the payment, on behalf of the Comptroller of said City
and County, of local bounties for said County on the calls
of July 18 and December 19, 1864 ; and that while hav-
ing said charge he also paid a large number of the per-
sons named as enlisted substitutes in the accompanying
rolls, and that in every case where such payment was not
made directly by him, he has required of the persons
claiming to have made such payment an affidavit thereof;
that said payments were to persons representing six thou-
sand eight hundred and ninety-one (6,891) years of excess
on the call of July 18, 1864, for which reimbursements
have been made by the Paymaster-General of the State,
and who severally received sums as bounty equal to nine
hundred and seventy-one thousand three hundred and
fifty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents ($971,357 25), or
at the rate of one hundred and forty-one dollars ($141)
per year for each year of said service credited on the
call of December 19, 1864, which excess operated to re-

211 Doc. No. 12.

lieve the County of New York from raising men under
the call of December 19, 1864, to the extent of said credit.

(Signed) ORISON BLUNT.

Sworn to before me, this )
28th day of June, 1866,)

GEORGE "W. WINGATE,

Notary Public,
New York City.

In these cases, the following form of receipt was taken
by your committee for all payments to principals :

NEW YORK, - , 18G6.

Received from - , dollars, in full for State

bounty due to me, under chapter 29, Laws of 1805, and
the amendments thereto, for having furnished a substi-
tute for three years, credited to the quota of the County
of New York for two years, on the call of December 19,
1864, as excess of years on a prior quota, the same having
been collected from the Paymaster-General of the State
, my certificate of exemption having been surren-
dered to the Paymaster-General.

Witness,

Indorsed.

No. . Receipt of . For State bounty

for substitute furnished. '$ .

Doc. No. 12. 212

The business of reimbursement for substitutes was ren-
dered more difficult by the fact that nearly all the pay-
ments by the State were in bonds of one thousand dollars
($1,000), or more. At first your committee pursued the
plan of obtaining authority from the parties making
claims to sell the bonds in the market, the claimants sub-
mitting to the discounts.

But, eventually, the plan was adopted of paying the
claimants, who were willing to take them, one thousand
dollar ($1,000) bonds, receiving the difference between
the claim and the bond in money ; and the funds thus re-
ceived were applied to reimbursing those claimants who
presented evidence that they were unable to pay the dif-
ference between the amount of their claim and the bond.

It is proper to remark that your committee found this
business of reimbursing individual claimants a thankless
task. Though nothing was charged for the labor involved
in preparing the necessary papers to perfect these claims,
in too many instances claimants who had paid a less
amount than that allowed by the State were dissatisfied
that they were not paid more money than they had actu-
ally expended.

The total amount claimed for substitutes, except those
claimed as "surplus of years," was two hundred and thir-
ty-two thousand seven hundred and eighty-four dollars
($232, 784), of which the whole amount was reimbursed,

213 Doc. No. 12.

and paid over to the parties on whose behalf substitutes
were enlisted.

Appendix "X," annexed, is a complete statement of
the amount received from the State in reimbursement of
sums paid for the enlistment of substitutes, except for the
"surplus of years."

The following statement shows the whole amount re-
imbursed this County by the State, including the pay-
ments to the County and to individuals (except for "sur-
plus of yeans " due for substitutes) :

Total reimbursed the County, two million
five hundred and sixty-five thousand one
hundred and fifty dollars $2,565,150 00

Total reimbursed individuals, two hundred
and thirty-two thousand seven hundred
and eighty-four dollars 232,784 00

Total $2,797,934 00

At the date of this report, the work of reimbursing
claimants for amounts paid substitutes counting as " sur-
plus of years " is in progress, and full report thereon will
be made as soon as the business is completed.

Doc. No. 12. 214

XVIII. Further Reimbursement.

It is quite probable that the County may be further re-
imbursed for its expenditures on account of the war by
the General Government.

In December, 1865, Mr. Elaine (of Maine) introduced
into the House of Representatives a bill " to reimburse
the loyal States] for advances made and debts contracted
in support of the war for the preservation of thft Union,"
which was referred to a select committee. The commit-
tee advised with the State authorities, and found that
the amount raised by loans alone by the various States
and municipal corporations for the war reached the
enormous aggregate of about five hundred million dollars
($500,000,000).

Subsequently, the Committee reported a bill providing
for the reimbursement to the various loyal States the sum
of fifty-five dollars ($55) for each man enlisted in the
States, which would amount to one hundred and eighteen
million four hundred and eighty-seven thousand one hun-
dred and five dollars ($118,487,105), or little more than
one-fifth (1-5) of the total. This sum it is proposed to
pay the States in twenty (20) year five (5) per cent, bonds.

(This report, which is of much interest in connection

215 Doc. No. 12.

with the number of men furnished and expenditures by the
States for the war, will be found appended, marked "IT.")

Should this law pass, which seems quite probable at
Boine future time, the State of New York would receive
about twenty million dollars ($20,000,000). It is more
than likely that some provision would be made by the
State, on the receipt of this amount, for its pro rata di-
vision among the municipal corporations, in which case it
is estimated the County of New York would be entitled
to about one-third (|) of the amount or seven million dol-
lars ($7,000,000), having furnished about one-third Q) of
all the men called for from the whole State.

The distribution under this arrangement, being govern-
ed by the number of men raised, would realize to the City
and County of New York a much larger sum out of twen-
ty million dollars ($20,000,000) than was realized from the
State distribution of thirty million dollars ($30,000,000),
the division of which was governed by the amount actual-
ly paid in bounties. The fact that New York raised
about one-third (^) of the men furnished by the State, and
only expended about one-fifth (1-5) of the amount ex-
pended by the rest of the State in raising the other two-
thirds (!) of the men, has operated to our injury in the
State distribution, but the proposed United States distri-
bution being based only on the number of men raised, we
should be largely the gainers by that system of division.

Doc. No. 12. 216

XIX. Claims made for Bounties af-
ter Payment thereof was discon-
tinued.

No bounty has been paid since the passage of the reso-
lution by your committee on the 14th of April, 1865, dis-
continuing the same. It appeared, subsequently, how-
ever, that on the day, in April, this resolution was adopt-
ed several persons had volunteered in expectation of the
bounty. But, as there was no need of further credits,
your committee did not deem it advisable to open the
door in any case. Had they done so, there is no know-
ing when payments would have stopped, for it was well
understood that several thousand men, re-enlisted in the
field, had been actually credited who had not yet ap-
peared to claim their bounty, in accordance with our rule,
when payment w r as stopped. Of course, if any one claim
had been admitted all would have had to be ; hence, as
late as the date of this report, claims are being made for
bounty for re-enlisted men. Immediately after payment
was stopped the claims made were very numerous, and
were in many cases backed by legal opinions, such as the
following :

217 Doc No. 12.

LAW DEPARTMENT, )

OFFICE OF COUNSEL TO THE CORPORATION, >

May 2, 1865. )
My DEAR SIR

William Jamieson, of Fiftieth New York Volunteers,
and William Homan, of Sixth Regulars, induced by the
advertisements of this County, as they inform me, enlisted
in the field, the former in December, 1863, and the latter
in February, 1864, for the benefit of this County, and
were mustered in and allowed to it. Owing to the fact
that the muster-rolls of the Fiftieth Regiment were not
here when Jamieson was here on furlough, and that
Homan has not been in this City since his re-enlist-
ment, neither have received their local bounty. Jamie-
son's name appears in your report at page 678, but I do
not find that of Homan, although William Holman's
name appears at page 662 of report.

At any rate, if they furnish the evidence that they en-
listed, were mustered in and credited to this County by
reason of the advertisement of its officers, they ought to
be paid, and have, I think, a valid claim against the
County for the amount of their bounty.

Yours truly,
(Signed) JOHN E. DEVELIN.

To. Mr. BLUNT,

Ohairmctn, dec,

Doc, No. 12. 218

The reply to this was the reply made to all, and we
think your committee were fully justified in the course
they pursued, saving to the County by their caution sev-
eral million dollars :

NEW YORK, May 15, 1865.

Respectfully returned.

The County of New York never advertised nor held
out any inducement for re-enlisted men to be credited
to the County of New York, nor had they ever paid
bounty to any re-enlisted man, except on strict compli-
ance with the requirements set forth on the printed slip
annexed, which embrace the rules adopted by the com-
mittee.

As the State assumed the payment of bounties by the
laws of February, 1865, it is possible that these re-
enlisted men may make a good claim against the State ;
but as the payment of County bounty has entirely ceased,
I do not see how any man, no matter what the circum-
stances of his enlistment, can now obtain bounty from the
County.

I shall be happy to see you and fully explain this sub-
ject, as a great many claims of this character are likely to

arise.

I am, Sir, very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,
(Signed) O. BLUNT,

Chairman.

219 Doc. No. 12.

XX. Appeal of the Volunteer and
Substitute Agents.

Your committee believe that, from the commencement
of their labors, they have been enabled to entirely save
the County from being victimized by agents in the volun-
teer and substitute business, although many attempts
were made upon us. While, for some time before the
close of recruiting, paper credits were the order of the
day, your committee never purchased a paper credit, and
believe that every man credited to the County was actu-
ally put into the service. But the system of paper credits
in use in other localities became so shameful a fraud that
at last the Navy Department was compelled to make most
stringent regulations to secure that credits should represent
men, not paper merely. Men would be enlisted in this
County, and papers issued in triplicate, and then would be
improperly used by the agents holding them sometimes
two or three times for the benefit of different country
towns. The Navy Department regulations designed to
stop this fraud created great excitement among the agents
here engaged in procuring credits, and although your
committee had nothing to do with it, they were unspar-
ingly denounced for it.

Doc. No. 12. 220

Secret meetings were held by these gentlemen, and
the order of the department held up as an attempt to se-
cure all the naval credits to the County of New York,
and representations of all kinds were made to WaShing-
ton, designed to secure the countermanding of the order
issued, but happily without avail.

How the matter was received by those interested can
best be seen by the following petition, which was ex-
tensively signed, not only by the agents, but by Super-
visors of adjacent towns, who were relying on New
York to fill their quotas.

To the Hon. GIDEON WELLES,

Secretary of tJie Navy :

The petition of the undersigned, Supervisors and others
of the States of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut,
respectfully represent :

That we are deeply interested in filling our respective
quotas of men, in anticipation of a draft, and desirous of
rendering the Government all the aid 'in our power towards
the final overthrow of armed rebellion to the national
authority.

That for some time past enlistments in the navy have
been seriously impeded and partially suspended, in conse-
quence of certain rules and orders purporting to have.

221 Doc. No. 12.

emanated from the Naval Bureau at Washington, of
which the following are the most prominent and preju-
dicial, viz.:

First " That all recruits must be credited within one
week of the time of their enlistment. "

Second "That substitutes must furnish the names of
their principals and places of credit when enlisted. "

Third "That aliens arid others not liable to draft, must
obtain a sealed request from the Provost-Marshals of the
district of credit, directed to the commanders of the naval
rendezvous where they may enlist, requesting such credit
to be given or said recruits will not be received as sub-
stitutes. "

Fourth " That volunteers must receive and be paid on
board the receiving-ship three hundred dollars (&300),
and substitutes six hundred dollars ($600), for three years,
and in proportion for a shorter period, or they will be re-
jected; that being the amount paid in the City of New
York, and not in other parts of the State."

Fifth " That parties having procured a substitute, must
appear with him before the Provost-Marshal of the dis-.
trict of credit, and obtain his direction to the commander
of the rendezvous, where he may seek to be enlisted, re-
questing such credit to be given or he will not be re-

Doc. No. li

ceived, (and by a more recent interpretation of the bu-
reau) that though volunteers need no such request of
the Provost-Marshal, substitutes cannot be credited with-
out. "

Your petitioners further show, that the foregoing regu-
lations are burdensome and unjust. That, in their esti-
mation, the Government who demand recruits by draff,
should facilitate enlistments by every means in their
power, and under no circumstances should they discour-
age the efforts of the principals to raise and pay the
entire bounties, without assistance from the General Gov-
ernment.

That the foregoing rules and regulations seem to have
as their object, and really have in their operation, the
effect of centralizing in and for the City and County of
New York all naval credits of men shipping at that port,
almost to the exclusion of the balance of the State, to-
gether with the neighboring States of New Jersey and
Connecticut, all of whom are compelled to bring their
recruits to the naval rendezvous of New York and Brook -
lyn for enlistment.

Your petitioners further show, that the City of New
York is rich, populous, and powerful, and that they can
and do pay larger bounties than the surrounding districts.
That the naval rendezvous being located in their midst,
they are not put to the expense of "traveling long dis-

223 Doc. No. 12.

tances with recruits, nor of paying agents to superintend
their enlistment and credit.

That your petitioners consider it unjust to compel them
(in view of all these disadvantages) to pay as high bounties
as the City of New York, or lose the recruit, credit, and
time and money expended in his transit, the effect simply
being to pass him over to the credit of said City. That
it is indeed a violation of the obligation of contracts,
solemnly guaranteed to us by tfce Constitution, to compel us
to pay a higher price to the recruit than he has con-
tracted and is willing to go for. That it is equally unjust
to compel principals in adjacent States and counties to
take the recruit or substitute before a Provost-Marshal of
his district, and obtain his direction to commanders of
rendezvous, in order to secure a credit. For the City of
New York, with the recruit and Provost-Marshal on
hand, it is comparatively an easy matter, but oppressive
and unjust to us, who have to travel long distances for
its accomplishment. Equally onerous and unfair is it to
compel substitutes to furnish the names of their principals
at the time of enlistment. Our men frequently come in
from long voyages, and wish to enlist at once, and be
credited as substitutes to the place they claim domicile.

If our agents have no principals on hand, we lose the
credit before they can get one, and the recruit is readily
absorbed by the City of New York. That, through the

Doc. No. 12. 224

instrumentality of these and similar specious orders, al-
most all of the naval recruits enlisted go to the same
credit, and the surrounding districts are defrauded out of
their just rights.

Your petitioners further show, that said City has natu-
ral advantages, in her maritime position and naval ren-

. dezvous, sufficient to insure her the lion's share of recruits,
without invoking to her aid rules and orders from the

; Navy Department, the intent, object, and effect of which

. are to drive aliens and Citizens fairly belonging to sur-
rounding districts into her net, for her exclusive benefit.
That the large naval credit she effected through the efforts
of her Supervisors on the last draft was (in the enlight-
ened opinion of your petitioners) mainly derived from the
absorption of recruits and credits that really belonged to
other districts, and should have been equitably distributed
among them. That in this manner the City of New
York has been almost wholly exonerated from a draft,

; while the Government was defrauded out of the just com-
plement of men she should have furnished, and the rural
districts were compelled to shoulder the additional bur-
den.

Without intending to seem invidious, we hazard the
suggestion, that the difficulties the Government have en-
countered in said City, by the resistance made to the
Iraft from a portion at least of her misguided population,
is no adequate reason why she should be ingeniously pro-

225 Doc. No. 12.

tected from its operations, and the burden placed on the
shoulders of her neighbors.

That your petitioners simply claim fair and equal
rights ; that aliens and others not liable to draft, and not
residents of New York City, but who claim domicile in
other places, shall have the privilege, on making affidavit
of the facts, of being credited as they desire, without the
intervention of Provost-Marshals, and without the neces-
sity of being paid a larger amount than the price agreed
on ; and that the City of New York no longer compel us
to come up to their standard of prices, with the privi-
lege and ability of increasing as we approximate toward
their standard.

That all of said grievances have produced already
much dissatisfaction. That hundreds of recruits have
been altogether lost to the Government thereby. That
enlistments have been greatly impeded, and will in time
be entirely suspended unless the evils complained of be
reasonably modified or abated.

And your petitioners ever pray, &c.

NAMES.

RESIDENCES.

As it Was insisted, Hot only by these gentlemen but by

a portion of the public press at that time, that your corn-
is

Doc. No. 12. 226

mittee had instigated the order of the Navy Department
which was complained of, it is deemed proper here to dis-
avow any such interference. Although regarding the order
as a very proper one, your committee had nothing to. do
with it, and, in fact, knew nothing of it until the order
was actually issued. Its provisions operated to check the
business of your committee as well as all others ; but as
its design was to secure that the Government should
actually receive all the men credited, and that such men
should receive their bounty, it was to that extent in con-
formity with the wishes and efforts of your committee.

While upon the subject of fraudulent credits, we would
call attention to a circumstance which completely vindi-
cates the authorities of the County of Ne\v York from
any suspicion that there were fraudulent enlistments
through their instrumentality. In report dated February
28, 1865 (pages 102-5), attention is called to a letter of
Provost-Marshal General James W. Fry to Acting As-
sistant Provost-Marshal General E. "W. Hinks, relative to
fraudulent enlistments, in which occurs the following
passage :

" Of the five thousand four hundred and sixty-two
(5,462) stated above as enlisted to the credit of New York
City, since July last, many were fraudulently enlisted
and counted several times over, and some of them are
still in the City of New York, repeating their enlistments
to fill the present quota. The conduct of the parties impli-
dated in these frauds is now undergoing official scrutiny,"

Doc. No. 12.

This statement was denied and fully disproved in our
report of February 28, but we have now the amplest
testimony that, at the very time this statement was made,
General Fry, and those acting under his orders in ferret-
ing out fraudulent enlistments, were satisfied that the
authorities of the County -of New York were not only in-
nocent of participating in these frauds, but that attempts
at such frauds here would be unsuccessful. It will be
recollected that General Fry, through Colonel Baker and
others, arranged a plan by which, through a special office
opened at Hoboken, they expected to capture many
bounty-jumpers. This matter was in part investigated
before a committee of the last Congress, appointed
to investigate statements and charges made by Hon.
Roscoe Conkling against Provost-Marshal General Fry
and his bureau, and among other witnesses was Theodore
Allen, who was engaged by General Fry and Colonel
Baker to assist in trapping bounty-jumpers. At page
161 of the printed testimony (House Document, Report
No. 93), after testifying o having had an interview with
General Fry on the subject of capturing these bounty-
jumpers, the following occurred:

" QuestionNow, tell the committee in your own lan-
guage all that passed between you and General Fry all
that was said upon that occasion. Tell just what you
recollect took place there*

said he had been informed of the plans

Doc. No. 11 228

that had been made between Colonel Baker and myself
for the capture of bounty-jumpers, with the view of break-
ing up bounty -jumping. \^.

" Question Well, what further ?

" Answer And he wanted to know if he had understood
the plan rightly, and what it was. I told him I had seen
Baker and talked with him on this matter, and that we
had a plan arranged, and had hired an office in Hobokeu ;
because they ivould go to Hoboken to enlist and desert before
they would to New York, because at New York they would
be known. They would not have the opportunity of enlist-
ing in New York that they would if they came to Ho-
boken, it being out of the State."

' At page 175, being still upon the matter of his inter-
view with General Fry, Mr. Allen says :

"I went over the ground, and told him that I thought
it best to open a recruiting office at Hoboken, and that
we had hired such an office in Hoboken, and that it waa
our object to have a mustering officer appointed there;
that I thought Colonel Ilges was the best man, as he had
been in our office in Chambers street, and that we should
have a mustering officer appointed in Hoboken to muster
these men in, because it was a better place than New York,
as the men were afraid to enlist in New York ; and that our
object was to enlist four or five of the most noted bounty-
jumpers every day, and let them get their bounty, and that
when the grand haul was to be made that that would be

229 Doc. No. 12.

an inducement for all the bounty-jumpers to come there
that day and enlist."

Comment we think unnecessary.

XXI. The Naval Credits of 1864.

In our report on filling the quota of this County under
the call of July 18, 1864, for five hundred thousand
(500,000) men (pages 231-282), your committee treat very
fully of the manner in which a large portion of the
credits due us were taken from us and given to Brooklyn
and other localities by the commission appointed to deter-
mine the question as to the naval credits due New York.

We then stated that Colonel Frederick Townsend,
A. A. P. M. General, Northern Division of New York,
and one of the commission, had, as soon as our claim
was submitted, instructed all the rest of the State to lay
claim to the credits claimed by us.

We are now enabled to add to the record made in our
former report some documents which will show how great
was the desire to reduce the number of men claimed by
us. We filed our claim for credit, and evidence in 'sub-
stantiation, on the 23d of August, 1864. On the 27lh of
August, Colonel Townsend communicated to General Fry
the following :

Doc. No. 12. 230

STATE OF NEW YORK, NORTHERN DIVISION, "]
OFFICE OF THE A. A. PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL, I
AND SUPERINTENDENT OF VOL. RECRUITING,

Albany, August 27, 1864. J
Brig.-Gen. JAMES B. PRY,

Provost- Marshal Gen., Washington,!). G.:
GENERAL

Colonel Stonehouse, on behalf of the Governor, visits
"Washington in reference to the commission for the deter-
mination of the places of credit of certain enlistments made
in the navy from April 15, 1861, to February 24, 1864.

He proposes to exhibit samples of the evidence which,
after much effort on his part, he has been able to secure
for the examination of the commission.

It will be observed that this evidence comprises rolls
which are said to be counterparts of the rolls of the vari-
ous naval rendezvous in and about the City of New York,
but are not official, as they need the certificate of the
officers in charge of the respective rendezvous, and upon
which a claim is based for twenty-five thousand (25,000)
of such enlistments for credit to the City and County
of New York.

In my judgment all this is just no evidence at all ; and
as one of the commissioners, I am unwilling to base any
report upon it under present instructions.

The Supervisors of towns have been notified of this
claim of the City of New York, and we are now receiving

231 Doc, No. 12.

notices from various sources in the interior of the State
that evidence will be produced before the commission
establishing the places of residence of many of these en-
listments elsewhere than in the City and County of New
York. If these naval enlistments are to be assigned
prior to the 5th of September next, owing to the short-
ness of the period, I would recommend that the whole
number due the State of New York be divided between
the three divisions in the same proportion that their re-
spective enrolments bear to the enrolment of the whole
State.

I am, General,

Very respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

(Signed) FREDERICK TOWNSEND,

Lt.-Col. Ninth U. S. Infantry,
A. A. P. M. General.

The modest proposition to divide the twenty-seven
thousand (27,000) credits claimed by us among the three
divisions of the State, which would have left New York
County, when the whole division was complete, probably
about seven thousand (7,000) credits, was so palpably un-
just that it resulted only in Brooklyn obtaining about six
thousand (6,000) and other localities about two thousand
(2,000). We have never been able until now to obtain
'an exact exhibit of the division of the credits of w r hich we
were then deprived, and we are gratified to place upon

Doc. No. 12. 232

record the first official report of the commission making
the assignment of this State. It is as follows :

ALBANY, September 3, 1864.
Brig.-Gen'l JAMES B. FRY,

Provost-Marshal General, Washington, D. (7,;

GENERAL

The commission appointed July 22, 1864, by the
Secretary of War, to ascertain what credits the State of
New York and the different subdivisions of the State
are entitled to under section 8 of the act, approved July
4, 1864, " further to regulate and provide for the enroll-
ing and calling out the national forces, and for other
purposes," have the honor to report that the Secretary of
the Navy has furnished the commission with a statement
that there have been enlisted in the navy, from the State
of New York, from April 15, 1861, to February 24,
1864, twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and forty-six
(27,746) men. The commission accept this as the evi-
dence of the whole number of enlistments in the navy,
credit for which is due the State of New York during
such period.

In apportioning these credits among the several sub-
divisions of the State, the commission would have met
with much embarrassment were it not for a statement
contained in the letter of the Provost Marshal General of
July 22, addressed to the members of the commission,
which is as follows :

Doc. No. 12,

" In determining this question, the Secretary thinks it
will be fair to presume that the State in which naval en-
listments have been made is entitled to the credit for
those enlistments, unless it shall appear by more direct
evidence that the credits belong elsewhere."

In the evidence of naval enlistments submitted to the
commission, it appears that there is no place of residence
of the enlisted man specified other than the place of the
naval rendezvous where enlisted ; and as for the period cov-
ered by the investigation of the commission there were na-
val rendezvous only in the cities of New York and Buf-
falo ; these enlistments, in the absence of " more direct
evidence that the credits belong elsewhere," should be ap-
portioned to the Congressional districts comprising those
cities ; but the commission, up to the present date, has
received direct evidence that at least three hundred and
seven (307) of these enlistments are of men whose resi-
dences are in certain interior places of the State other
than the Cities of New York and Buffalo, and have con-
sequently apportioned a credit for the same to the towns
and Congressional districts entitled to them, and have de-
ducted this number from the total number of naval
enlistments certified by the Secretary of the Navy as due
the State of New York for the period mentioned. But
as the time for. procuring evidence as to the residence of
men who have thus enlisted in the navy has been so lim-
ited, and as the commission is persuaded that, had more
time been allowed, at least fifteen hundred (1,500) more

Doc. No. 12. 234

enlistments would have been found to be due to the inte-
rior towns of the State, they have reserved such number,
and apportioned the same temporarily to the credit of
the State at large, to be more specifically apportioned
hereafter. They have also deducted from the total num-
ber due the State, as certified by the Secretary of the
Navy, one hundred and seventeen (117) enlistments,
which appear, by a communication to the commission
from the Provost-Marshal General's bureau, to have-
already been borne on the enrolment lists, and conse-
quently hitherto credited by that bureau to the places
where they belonged.

With these deductions, and after deducting the enlist-
ments found to be due the City of Buffalo, namely,
thirteen hundred and twenty-eight (1,328), there remain
twenty-four thousand four hundred and ninety-four (24,494)
enlistments which are claimed to be due to the City of
New York; but for the reason that New York and
Brooklyn are so intimately connected, both commercially
and geographically, it has been thought just, for the pur-
poses of this commission, that they shall be considered
a unit, and the residue of credits has therefore been ap-
portioned between these cities in proportion to their re-
spective populations, as follows :

Brooklyn 6,046

New York ' 18,448

In recapitulation, the apportionment by the commission
of the credits is as follows ;

235

Doc. No. 12.

RECAPITULATION.

CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICTS.

TOWN.

COUXTY.

XO. OF.
HEX.

TOTAL.

First

Jamaica.

Queens

Flushing

North Hempstead. . . .

Oyster Bay

Second and Third. .

Brooklyn City

Kings

6 046

Fourth to Ninth, in-
clusive

New York City

New York

18 448

Eleventh

Bethel .. . .

Sullivan.

Twelfth

East Fishkill....

Dul chess

Pawlings

Thirteenth

Athens

Green

Fourteenth

Schoharie . . ...

Schoharie

Fifteenth

Kingsbury
Fort Edward

Washington. . .

Whitehall

White Creek

Lansingburgh

Renssclaer. . .

Brunswick

Schaghticoke

North Greenbush

Troy City

Sixteenth

Ticondero^a

Essex

Horicon

Warren

]

Chazv

Clinton

Seventeenth

Potsdam

St. Lawrence

Eighteenth . .

Waterford

Saratoga.

Northampton

Fulton

Stillwater

Saratoga ....

Duanesburgh

Schenectady

SchenecUidy City. 5th
Ward ....

Schenectadv City, 2d
Ward . .".

Nineteenth
Carried forward. .

Oxford

Chcnango

18
10

24,713

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236

CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICTS.

TOWN.

COUNTY.

NO. OF
MEN.

TOTAL.

Brought forward .
Twentieth

24,713

bSUiiJJ

3
1

18
5

6
1,328

Urownville

Jefferson

* '-*
i

Twenty-first........

axi? ?j.'?' iy /;:-(:. .
Twenty-second .....
Twenty-third

Rodman
Newport

Herkimer .....
Oneida

German Flats ..

Paris
Ara

3
1
1

3
8

21
1

Augusta

UticaCity, 1st Ward..
Whitestown

Marshall

Oswego City

Oswego ....

Lennox

Madison
Cortlandt

Tmxtou

2
1

9
9

Twenty-fifth

Cortlandtville

Livingston
Broome

Geneseo

Twenty-sixth

Binghampton

Twenty-seventh . . .
Twentv-ninth

Ithaca

Tompkins
Steuben

Bath
Bradford

4
1

2
1
3

Pavilion

Genesee

Thirtieth

Byron

Newfane

Niagara

Buffalo City
Olean
Total . . .

Erie
Cataraugus

1,328
6

Thirty-first

Enlistments already
shal General's bur
Credits reserved to
hereafter apportio

Total of er

26,129

117
1,500
27,746

26,129

117
1,500
27,746

credited, as reported by Provost-Mar-
eau

the State at large, which are to be
ned

ilistments due the Stat

All of which is respectfully submitted.
(Signed) FKEDERICK TOWNSEKD,

Lieut.- Col. Ninth U. S. Infantry.
(Signed) J. B. STOREHOUSE,

Col. and Assist. Ad.- Gen. S. N. Y.

237 Doc. No. 12.

This completes the record the subsequent report of
the commission being merely assignments of the fifteen
hundred (1,500) reserved enlistments.

No better evidence could be furnished, we think, of the
injustice done New York in taking away from us the six
thousand (6,000) credits given to Brooklyn than is con-
tained in the commission's report, for it is there acknowl-
edged that the only claim presented by Brooklyn was the
fact of her intimate connection with New York, both geo-
graphically and commercially.

Doc. No. 12. 238

XXII. Men Re-enlisted in the Field.

The whole number of men re-enlisted in the field, for
whom credit was claimed and received by your commitee,
was six thousand and seventy-five (6,075).

By Appendix " V," it will be perceived that the whole
number of re-enlisted men credited to the County, of
which record was kept at the Adjutant-General's office
at Albany, and of which report was made to Washington,
was six thousand nine hundred and thirty-one (6,931). So
that the County had credit at Washington for eight hun-
dred and fifty-six (856) men more than she actually
claimed, or than she was credited with by the Provost-
Marshal of this district.

239 Doc. No. 12.

XXIII. The Examining Department.

Appendix " Y, " annexed to this report, is a very full
report made to your committee by Dr. William F.
Browne, detailing the result of his experience as ex-
amining officer at the rooms of the committee. This
report gives a variety of facts of great value in con-
nection with the subject of recruiting. It also gives
an insight into some of the many difficulties under which
your committee have labored in enlisting men.

Dr. Browne was in service with your committee, as ex-
amining surgeon, for about a year, and in that capacity
rendered efficient service.

Doc. No. 12. 240

XXIV. The Enrolment Bureau.

A complete history of the work in correcting the en-
rolment of the County of New York will be found in
the report of the chief of that bureau. (Appendix, marked
" Z.")

When the immense amount of labor performed is con-
sidered, it will be conceded that the expenditure for that
work was quite moderate ; and though its good results
were not directly perceptible, yet there can be no doubf
that to this, more than any other one thing, was due the
escape of the County of New York from a draft. The
delays made in the prosecution of the draft were princi-
pally due to the work on the enrolment ; and that the
work did not become useful was due only to the fact tha t
the Government officials desired to take to themselves all
the benefit to be derived from it, without giving to the
County the benefit due it in return,

In connection with the report on this subject, is given
a statement showing the men who were drafted in the
First Ward, with the evidence collected by the Enrol-
ment Bureau as to the liability of those men.

It will be at once perceived how utterly unreliable
the Government enrolment was, and how few men the
draft, predicated upon that enrolment, would have se-
cured to the Government.

241 Doc. No. 12.

XXV. Appendices.

In connection with this report, your Committee submit
very full appendices, showing in detail their operations
in filling the quota under the last call of December 19,
1864, and also subsequent proceedings in reimbursing
the County for volunteers, and individuals for substitutes
paid bounties by reason of their counting on the quota,
either in whole or in part, on said call. These appendices
are entitled as follows :

APPENDIX A. Ordinances, resolutions, <&c., of the Board
of Supervisors in relation to the quota, bounties, and
recruiting, under the call of the President dated
December 19, 1864, for three hundred thousand
(300,000) men.

APPENDIX B. Acts of the Legislature of 1865 relating
to bounties, &c.

APPENDIX C. The change in quotas Letter of Presi-
dent Lincoln Government commission on the
Quota Eeport of the Rhode Island commission on
Quota The new Enrolment jLaw of Congress.

Doc. No. 12. 242

APPENDIX D. Orders of State officers in regard to the
assumption of the payment of bounties by the State.

APPENDIX E, Papers relating to the First Army Corps.

APPENDIX F. Statement showing the number of de-
posits for substitutes, withdrawals of deposits, and
number of substitutes furnished by the Committee
on Volunteering for citizens in anticipation of the
draft, while filling the quota of the County of New
York, under the President's call dated December
19, -1864, for three hundred thousand (300,000) men.

Statement showing the receipts and expenditures
of the Committee on Volunteering, in connection
with the furnishing of substitutes for citizens in an-
ticipation of the draft, while filling the quota of the
County of New York, under the President's call
dated December 19, 1864, for three hundred thousand
(300,000) men.

Statement showing in detail the daily operations
of the Committee on Volunteering in supplying sub-
stitutes for citizens in anticipation of the draft, while
filling the quota, under the President's call dated
December 19, 1864, for three hundred thousand
(300,000) men.

APPENDIX G. Complete list of persons who deposited
money with the Committee on Volunteering, for the

, 243 Doc, No. 12.

purpose of procuring substitutes in anticipation of
the draft, under the President's call of December 19,
1864, for three hundred thousand (300,000) men, from
the 28th of September, 1864, to the close of recruit-
ing on the 14th of April, 1865, showing the regis-
tered number, date of deposit, name, residence, ward
and district of depositor, years of service depos-
ited for, amount deposited, disposition of deposit
(whether paid to substitute or refunded to depos-
itor), with date of payment,

APPENDIX H. Complete list of substitutes furnished by
the Committee on Volunteering in anticipation of
the draft, and counting upon the quota of the
County of New York, under the President's call
dated December 19, 1864. for three hundred thou-
sand (300,000) men, from the 28th day of September,

1864, to the close of recruiting on the 14th of April,

1865, giving registered number, date of payment,
name of substitute, whether enlisted for the army
or navy, term enlisted for, name of person for whom
substitute was furnished, with ward and district,
and amount of bounty paid.

Complete list of persons to whom premiums were
paid for the enlistment of substitutes in anticipation
of the draft, and counting upon the quota of the
County of New York, under the President's call
-dated December 19, 1864, for three hundred thou-

Doc. No. 12. 244

sand (300,000) men, from the 28th day of September,

1864, to the close of recruiting, on the 14th of April,

1865, giving registered number, date of payment,
name of person to whom such hand-money was paid,
name of substitute for whose enlistment, such hand-
money was paid, and amount paid.

I.- Complete list of all substitutes in anticipa-
tion of the draft not paid bounty through the Com-
mittee on Volunteering, enlisted in the County of
New York, and counting upon the quota, under the
call of the President dated December 19, 1864, for
three hundred thousand (300,000) men, giving the
registered number, name of substitute, number of
years enlisted for, name, ward, district and residence
of person for whom substitute was enlisted, and arm
of service,

APPENDIX J.Statement, being conclusion of account
of operations in connection with the substitute fund
raised for the purpose of supplying substitutes un-
der the call of the President dated July 18, 1864,
[see Appendix " I " to report of Committee on Vol-
unteering on filling the quota under the call of July
18, 1864, for five hundred thousand (500,000) men].

APPENDIX K. Statement showing the services of tl^e
State Militia of the County of New York during the
war.

245 Doc. No. 12.

APPENDIX L. Statement showing the number of men to
whom bounties were paid by the County of New
York, in consideration of their being credited upon
the quota of said County, under the President's call
dated December 19, 1864, for three hundred thou-
sand (300,000) men.

APPENDIX M. Statement showing the whole number of
substitutes in anticipation of the draft raised in and
credited to the quota of the County of New York,
under the President's call dated December 19. 1864,
for three hundred thousand (300,000) men, who were
furnished by the Committee on Volunteering, and
who received their bounty from the persons repre-
sented by them through the committee.

Statement showing the whole number of substi-
tutes in anticipation of the draft raised in and cred-
ited to the quota of the County of New York, under
the President's call dated December 19, 1864, for
three hundred thousand (300,000) men, who were
not furnished by the Committee on Volunteering,
and who received their bounty directly from the per-
sons represented by them.

APPENDIX N. Statement embracing a recapitulation of
all credits allowed upon the quota of the County of
New York (as shown in preceding appendices),
under the President's call dated December 19, 1864,
for three hundred thousand (300,000) men.

Doc. No. 12. 246

APPENDIX 0. Statement showing all credits allowed
upon the quota of the County of New York, reduced
to years of service, under the President's call dated
December 19, 1864, for three hundred thousand
(300,000) men.

APPENDIX P. Statement showing the whole number of
men raised in the City and County of New York for
the armies of the. Union, under the various calls of
the President for men, from the commencement of
the rebellion (April, 18(51) to the close of recruiting
on the 14th of April, 1865 (embracing an enlarged
and corrected exhibit of the figures presented in
the appendix to the report of this committee dated
June 30, 1865).

Statement showing the whole number of men paid
City or County bounty ; paid individual bounty,
and not paid bounty, with years of service repre-
sented.

Statement showing the whole number of men
furnished by each State since April 1, 1861, on the
different calls for men who were required for periods
of three months or more ; also showing the number
of men credited to each State upon the basis of three
(3) years, as a standard of computation.

Statement showing the relative position of each
State, comparing the aggregate number of men fur-

247 Doc. No. 12.

nished under all calls, and the aggregate of men fur-
nished under all calls reduced to a three (3) years
standard.

APPENDIX Q. Act of the Legislature of 1865 relating ta
the Bureau of Military Statistics.

APPENDIX R. Statement showing the expenditures in
bounly and hand-money in raising the quota of the
County of New York, under the President's call
dated December 19, 1864, for three hundred thou-
sand (300,000) men.

Statement, being a recapitulation of expenditures
on all accounts in raising the quota of the County of
New York under the President's call dated Decem-
ber 19, 1864, for three hundred thousand (300,000)
men.

Complete list of army volunteers counting upon
the quota of the County of New York, under the
President's call dated December 19, 1864, for three
hundred thousand (300,000) men, enlisted from the
28th of September, 1864, up to the close of recruit-
ing, on the 14th of April, 1865, and who received the
County bounty, giving registered number, date of
payment, name of volunteer, name of mustering
officer, term enlisted for, and amount of bounty paid.

:'Doc, No. 12. 248

Complete list of veteran army volunteers re-en-
listed in the field, and counting upon the quota of the
County of New York, under the President's call
dated December 19, 1864, for three hundred thou-
sand (300,000) men, and to whom the County bounty
was paid, from the 28th of September, 1864, to the
close of recruiting, on the 14th day of April, 1865,
embracing registered number, date of payment, name
of veteran, residence, regiment to which attached,
place where re-enlisted, name of mustering officer,
term enlisted for, and amount of bounty paid.

Complete list of naval volunteers counting upon
the quota of the County of New York, under the
President's call dated December 19, 1864, for three
hundred thousand (300,000) men, enlisted from the
28th of September, 1864, to the close of recruiting,
on the 14th of April, 1865, and who received the
County bounty, giving registered number, date of
payment, name of volunteer, name of mustering
officer, term enlisted for, and amount of bounty paid.

APPENDIX S. Showing the entire expenditure of the
City and County of New York from the public
funds for the purposes of the war, up to December
31, 1865, divided among the several calls of the
President for men, (being an enlarged and corrected
exhibit of the figures contained in report of June
30, 1865.)

249 Doc. No. 12.

APPENDIX T. Pleadings in suits brought against the
Committee on Volunteering.

APPENDIX U. Report of select committee of the House of
Representatives, relative to reimbursing the loyal
States for expenditures during the war.

APPENDIX Y. Statement showing the number of men
re-enlisted in the field, reported from the Adjutant-
General's office at Albany to the War Department,
credited to the County of New York, from April,
1864, to April, 1865; showing the regiments to which
the men belonged, and the number re-enlisting in
each regiment, and the districts to which they were
severally credited.

APPENDIX W. Complete statement of the amounts re-
imbursed the County of New York by the State for
bounties paid to volunteers counting on the quota
under call of December 19, 1864, for three hundred
thousand (300,000) men, giving name of volunteer,
period for which enlisted, and amount of bounty
paid to each, and the amount reimbursed by the
State on account of each.

APPENDIX X. Complete statement of amounts reim-
bursed to individuals for bounties paid to substitutes
counting on the quota under the call of December
10, 1864, for three hundred thousand (300,000) men,
giving names of principal and of substitute, term for

Doc. No. 12. 250

which substitute enlisted, bounty paid to each, and
the amount reimbursed by the State on account of
each (except for " surplus of years," which is not yet
complete).

APPENDIX Y. Report of the Surgeon in charge at the
volunteer rooms of operations of his department
during the raising of the quota of the County of
New York under the President's call dated Decem-
ber 19, 1864, for three hundred thousand (300,000)
men.

APPENDIX Z. Report of the Chief of the Enrolment
Bureau of operations in correcting the enrolment of
the County of New York.

All of which is respectfully submitted.
Dated NEW YORK, August 8, 1866.

0. BLUNT, ) Special Committee

WILL11M M. TWEED, V on

WM. R. STEWART, ) Volunteering.

CORNELIUS C ORSON,

Cleric.

APPENDIX A.

Ordinances, Besolutions, &c., of the Board of Supervisors in relation
to the Quota, Bounties and Becruiting, under the Call of the
President dated December 19, 1864, for Three Hundred Thousand
(300,000) Men,

Appropriations for Bounties.

IN BOARD OP SUPERVISORS, )
January 10, 1865. j

The following ordinance was adopted, repealing the
ordinance adopted December 31, and attached to the re-
port of the Committee on Volunteering of that date, as
Appendix "A" :

AN ORDINANCE

TO PROVIDE FUR THE PROCUREMENT OF VOLUNTEERS FOR THE
ARMIES OF THE UNION, AS PART AND PARCEL OF THE QUOTA
OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK, UNDER THE CALL
OF THE PRESIDENT DATED DECEMBER TWENTIETH, EIGHTEEN
HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR, FOR THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND
(300,000) MEN.

The Board of Supervisors of the County of New York
do ordain as follows :

SECTION 1. For the purpose of securing the additional
number of men which may be required of the County of
New York under the call of the President of the United
States dated December twenty, eighteen hundred and
sixty-four, for three hundred thousand (300,000) men, the
Comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to pay, as

Doc. No. 12. 258

hereinafter provided, such gum and sums of money as may
be necessary to obtain acceptable volunteers for the United
States service, either in the army or navy, in such amounts
as may be deemed advisable and expedient by the Spe-
cial Committee on Volunteering, and his Honor the May-
or and the Comptroller ; provided such volunteers shall be
credited and allowed on account of the quota of men re-
quired to be furnished by the County under such call of
the President.

SEC. 2, The money authorized by the preceding section
to be paid for volunteers shall be paid to such volunteers
respectively at the office of the Comptroller, or such other
place or places as said Comptroller may designate, imme-
diately on their furnishing satisfactory evidence of their
having enlisted and been duly accepted and mustered
into the military service of the United States for the term
of their enlistment.

SEC. 3. In order that the Comptroller may be enabled
to make the payments hereinbefore authorized, and meet
the expenses necessarily incurred in the execution of this
ordinance, he is hereby authorized to borrow, from time
to time, on the faith and credit of the County of New
York, a sum not exceeding an aggregate of two million
dollars ($2,000,000), in addition to all loans heretofore
authorized under authority of the Legislature or other-
wise for the purpose of volunteering, which amount is
hereby appropriated therefor.

259 Doc. No. 12.

SEC. 4. For the money so borrowed, the Comptroller is
hereby authorized to issue bonds of the County, which
shall be designated and known as the " Soldiers' Bounty
Fund Bonds, No. 3," and the same shall be transfer-
able at the pleasure of the holders thereof either in per-
son or by attorney, only upon the books of the County,
at the office of the Comptroller, and certificates of such
transfer shall be indorsed thereon by the Stock and
Bond Clerk.

SEC. 5. The said bonds shall be signed by the Cornp-
toller, countersigned by the Mayor, sealed with the
common seal of the Board, and attested by the Clerk of
the Board ; and they shall bear interest at a rate not ex-
ceeding seven per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually
on the first day of May and November in each year, and
the principal thereof shall be redeemable in successive
annual instalments of five hundred thousand dollars
($500,000) each, commencing on first day of November,
eighteen hundred and ninetv-five.

O *'

SEC. 6. For the payment of the principal of said bonds,
and the interest to accrue thereon, the faith of the County
of New York and the Board of Supervisors of said Coun-
ty is hereby solemnly pledged, and the Comptroller is
hereby authorized and required to redeem and cancel the
same, from time to time, at or before their maturity.

SEC. 7. The Mayor and Comptroller of the City of New

Doc. No. 12. 260

York, and the following-named members of this Board,
that is to say, Elijah F. Purdy, Orison Blunt, William
M. Tweed, and William R. Stewart, are hereby designated
and appointed a committee to procure the enlistment of
the volunteers authorized by this ordinance, and to secure
the counting of the volunteers raised under this ordinance
upon the quota of this County.

SEC. 8. The Comptroller is hereby requested to apply
to the Legislature now in session forthe passage of an act
to confirm this ordinance ; and no action shall be taken
thereon until the same has received the requisite legisla-
tive authority.

SEC. 9. The ordinance entitled " An ordinance to pro-
vide for the procurement of volunteers for the armies of
the Union, as part and parcel of the quota of the City
and County of New York, under the call of the President
dated December twenty, eighteen hundred and sixty-four,
for three hundred thousand (300,000) men," adopted by
this Board on the thirty-first day of December, eighteen
hundred and sixty-four, and approved by the Mayor on
the same day, is hereby rescinded and repealed.

261 Doc. No. 12.

Committee to visit Washington in regard to the

Quota.

IN BOARD OP SUPERVISORS, )
January 25, 1865. )

The report of the Committee on Volunteering of this
date having been accepted

Supervisor Roche presented the following resolution :

Resolved, That the Committee on Volunteering be and
it is hereby directed to proceed to Washington imme-
diately, to ascertain the cause of the sudden and alarming
increase in the number of men demanded from the Coun-
ty of New York under the last call of the President, and
that they take with them the evidence of the enormous
excess of the enrolment upon which the quota is assigned.

Which was adopted.

Appeal to the City Authorities.

Supervisor Blunt presented the following :

Whereas, There are of the quota of the County of New
York, under the President's last call for three hundred
thousand (300,000) men, as such quota is now announced,
about twenty thousand (20,000) men to be raised ; and

Doc. No. 12. 262

Whereas, Notwithstanding the liberal bounties still
paid by the County, the number of men enlisted by the
Volunteer Committee and credited to this County is very
small; and

Whereas, It is a well-known fact that there are now
being enlisted in this City and County for the volunteer
force, the regular army and the navy, from two to three
hundred men per day, all of whom are credited to locali-
ties other than this County, and very many to places in
adjoining States, notwithstanding that it is in direct vio-
lation of law to take any man out of this County for enlist-
ment in any other State ; and

Whereas, One great and growing source of difficulty in
filling our quota is the large and continually increasing
number of recruiting booths established and being estab-
lished in all the public places in this County, ostensibly
for the purpose of enlisting men for this County, but
which are really used to entice men away from us ; and

Whereas, The County Committee on Volunteering have
frequently appealed to the Common Council and endea-
vored to procure the passage of an ordinance calculated
to check the business of recruiting in this County for other
localities, and also to secure the discontinuance of the
practice of granting privileges to erect booths for recruit-
ing purposes in our public parks and squares ; but such
appeals have as yet met with no response, while, at every
meeting of the Common Council, the number of recruit-

263 Doc. No. 12.

ing booths is largely increased, although we have repeat-
edly stated that such action is only a hindrance to the
raising of our own quotas, and but additional facilities
for those who would rob the County of her men ; there-
fore, be it

Resolved., That the Common Council of the City of
New York be and it is hereby respectfully invited to aid
the County Committee on Yolunteering in the work of
saving the County of New York from the calamity of a
draft, by adopting the ordinance hitherto recommended,
for the purpose of punishing those who may be engaged
in the business of procuring men, enlisting in and for New
York County, to be credited to any locality other than
New York, And be it farther

ftesolved t That the Common Council of the City of New
York be respectfully and earnestly urged to refuse any
further permits for the erecting of recruiting booths in
our public streets, parks and squares ; and also solicited to
pass a general resolution revoking all such privileges
heretofore granted, assuring them that in no other way
can they so effectually contribute to save the City from
the calamity of a draft. And be it further

Resolved, That a copy of this preamble and resolutions,
duly attested by the Clerk of this Board, be transmitted
to his Honor the Mayor, and the Honorable the Common
Council of the City of New York.

Which were adopted*

Doc. No. 12. 264

Hand-Money.

IN BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, )
January 27, 1865: f

The following resolution in regard , to hand-money, or
premiums for the enlistment of volunteers, was adopted :

Resolved, That the Special Committee on Volunteering
be and they are hereby authorized and directed to pay
such sums for hand-money as they may in their judg-
ment deem advisable, in order to fill the quota of this
County with the least possible delay, to the extent of the
appropriation made by the ordinance of June 14, 1864.

Appeal to the Legislature.

IN BOAKD OF SUPERVISORS,
January 31, 1865.

Supervisor Blunt offered for adoption the following
resolutions :

PWtereas, On the 14th day of June, 1864, the Board of
Supervisors passed an ordinance appropriating' two mil-
lion dollars ($2,000,000) to raise recruits, in anticipation

265 Doc. No. 12.

of the call which was then expected, and which call was
issued on the 18th day of July, 1864, for five hundred
thousand (500,000) men ; and

Whereas, There was under such call demanded of this
County twenty-three thousand (23,000) men, which de-
mand was filled by the County Volunteer Committee at
an expense of less than five hundred thousand dollars
($500,000), the small expenditure being due to the fact
that there were obtained on such quota credits for about
twenty-one thousand (21,000) men who had previously
enlisted in the army and navy, and never been credited ;
and

After that enormous quota had been filled at
so little expense, the County Volunteer Committee, under
authority of the Board of Supervisors, deemed it proper
to continue to enlist men in the army and navy, in an-
ticipation of a still further call for men ; and

Whereas, Such further call was issued December 23,
1864, being for three hundred thousand (300,000) men,
under which there was first demanded a quota from this
County of four thousand four hundred and thirty-three
(4j433), after allowing credits claimed, which quota has
now been reconsidered, and a demand made for twenty-
one thousand and nineteen (21,019) men ; and

Whereas, When the first quota of four thousand four
hundred and thirty-three (4,433) was announced, the en-

Doc. No. 12. 266

listments were so small that an increased County bounty
was thought necessary ; and with a yiew to such increase,
an ordinance was adopted by the Board of Supervisors
on the 10th of January, appropriating the further sum of
two million dollars ($2,000,000), the bonds for which were
not to be advertised until the loan was properly legalized
by the Legislature ; and

Whereas, The money authorized to be raised by the
ordinance of June was put before the people without
legislative sanction, and about one-half subscribed for, of
which a part was used to fill the quota under the call for
five hundred thousand (500,000) men ; and

Whereas, A bill legalizing the ordinance of June 14
was sent to the Legislature at the opening of its present
session, which, bill speedily passed the Senate, but now
lays in the House reported upon favorably ; and

Whereas^ There now exists no legislative authority for
raising money to fill the present quota, and unless the
Legislature at once passes the bill legalizing said ordi-
nance of June 14, there will be no way to raise the means
to fill the very heavy quota of twenty-one thousand
(21,000) men now demanded of us under the President's
last call for three hundred thousand (300,000) men ; there-
fore, be it

Resolved, That the Legislature of this State be and it is
hereby earnestly requested to aid us in filling the enor-

267 Doc, No. .1.2.

inous quota now demanded of us, by speedily passing the
bill now before the Assembly, legalizing the ordinance of
June 14, appropriating two million dollars ($2,000,000),
a portion of the money authorized by which has already
been expended in raising the quota under the call of July
18, 1864, for five hundred thousand (500,000) men.

Itesolvcd, That until the Board of Supervisors is au-
thorized to raise the necessary means, it is impossible to
increase the bounty, or even much longer to continue to
pay the small bounty now being paid.

Resolved, That the honorable the Legislature be and it
is hereby earnestly requested to pass a bill giving to the
County of !S"ew York power to raise such sums as may be
necessary for the future to fill its quotas, in accordance
with the provisions of a bill which is herewith submitted.

Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing preamble and
resolutions, duly attested, be at once transmitted to each
member of the Legislature.

Resolved, That the Special Committee on Volunteering
be and it is hereby authorized and directed to proceed to
Albany, and urge upon the members of the Legislature
the necessity of at once passing the bill legalizing the
bounty ordinance of June last, and also the act herewith
submitted :

Doc. No. 12. 268

AN ACT

TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OP THE COUNTY OP
NEW YORK TO RAISE MONEYS TO ENCOURAGE ENLISTMENTS,
AND TO PAY BOUNTIES TO VOLUNTEERS.

The People, of Hue State of New York, represented, in Senate,
and AssemUy, do enact asfoUows:

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the County of
New York are hereby authorized and empowered, at any
meeting thereof, to issue or authorize the issuing of bonds
upon the credit of said County, in such amounts and de-
nominations as the Board of Supervisors may, from time
to time, direct, for the purpose of raising sufficient money
to pay such bounty as they may deem proper to each
volunteer under the call of the President of the United
States dated December nineteen, one thousand eight hun-
dred and sixty-four, or under any future call or calls for
volunteers or men ; such bounty to be paid whenever such
Volunteer shall have been mustered into the United States
service, and credited to said County under the said call,
Of under any future call of the President for volunteers
or men as aforesaid,

SEC. 2. The said Board of Supervisors are hereby
authorized and empowered to levy and collect, according
to law, by tax upon the estates, both real and personal,
liable to taxation, in the City and County of Xew York,

269 Doc. No. 12.

such sums as may bo necessary to carry into effect the
provisions of the first section of this act, and to pay the
principal and interest on the bonds therein referred to.

SEC. 3. All acts, so far as the same are inconsistent
herewith, are hereby repealed.

SEC, 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT OF THE CHAIRMAN OP THE COM3JITTEE ON VOL-
UNTEERING JN REGARD TO THE QUOTA.

In offering the preamble and resolutions just read, I
deem it my duty, and I suppose it will be expected of me
as Chairman of the County Committee on Volunteering,
to submit a few facts and figures in relation to what has
been done by this County in furnishing men to suppress
the rebellion, and also to give my personal views in re-
gard to the present position of this County, in view of the
heavy demand just made upon her for men.

The first call for men upon which the Supervisors took
any action was the 'call of May, 1863, for three hundred
thousand (300,000) men, our quota being twelve thou-
sand (12,000).

Under that call the draft of July was ordered, and the
riots followed.

Doc. No. 12. 270

On the 28th of August, an ordinance was .adopted by
this Board, being the first ordinance adopted by us in re-
lation to the raising of men. This was the ordinance for
the relief of drafted citizens.

Under this ordinance what is now known as the County
Committee on Volunteering was created.

This ordinance appropriated two million of dollars
($2,000,000). It was without legislative sanction, and
under it nine hundred and forty-six thousand six hundred
dollars ($946,600) was raised by subscription. It was
afterwards legalized, but no more money was raised un-
der it.

The total number of persons relieved under this ordi-
nance was one thousand nine hundred and ninety (1,990),
at a cost of six hundred and ten thousand three hundred
and eighty-five dollars and fifty-five cents ($610,385 55).

On the Stfth of October, 1863, the second ordinance
was adopted by the Board of Supervisors. This ordinance
provided for the enlistment of men in anticipation of
a new call. It also appropriated two million dollars
($2,000,000), and was without legislative sanction. The
whole amount appropriated by it, however, was raised.

A few days after this ordinance was adopted, a call was
issued for three hundred thousand (300,000) men, and in
December a further call was made for two hundred thou-
sand (200,000) men.

271 Doc, No. 12.

In January, the Legislature legalized the ordinances of
August and October, and gave us authority to raise four
million dollars ($4,000,000) additional, for the purpose
of obtaining volunteers ; and on the 9th of February a
further ordinance was adopted appropriating two million
dollars ($2,000,000) of the additional amount authorized
by the Legislature in the law of January.

The quota of this County under the two calls for three
hundred thousand (300,000) and two hundred (200,000)
men, embracing five hundred thousand (500,000) men in
all, was announced on the 1st of March as fifteen thou-
sand nine hundred and seventy-nine (15,979) men.

On the 18th of March this quota was filled ; the
amount expended therefor being three million eight hun-
dred and two thousand and fifty-nine dollars ($3,802,059).

On the 15th of March, 1864, before the last call had
been filled, a new call was made for two hundred thou-
sand (200,000) men, and our quota therefor was fixed at
seven thousand three hundred and eighty-nine (7,389)
men.

On the 18th of March, when the previous quota was
announced as having been filled, a new ordinance ap-
propriating the further sum of two million dollars
($2,000,000) was passed, to raise the quota under the new
call.

Doc. No. 12. 272

This appropriation exhausted the legislative authority
for raising money.

The quota under this call of March 15 was tilled on
the 31st of May, 1864, at a cost to the County of one
million eight hundred and sixty-five thousand and seven-
ty-one dollars and twenty-nine cents ($1,865,071 29).

And General Hays, by letter dated June 2, acknowl.
edged that on the 31st of May we were in excess of all
men demanded of us up to that date sixty-six (66) men.

On the 14th of June, 1864, a new ordinance was
adopted, appropriating the sum of two million dollars
($2,000,000) to obtain men in anticipation of a future
call.

This loan was without authority of law, and has not
yet been legalized.

The amount of this loan paid in and subscribed was
eight hundred and fourteen thousand eight hundred dol-
lars ($814,800).

On the 18th of July, a call was issued for five hundred
thousand (500,000) men, and under that call the quota of
this County was fixed at twenty-three thousand one hun-
dred and forty (23,140) men.

This quota was filled on the 28th of September, at a
cost of four hundred and fifty-five thousand one hundred
and seventeen dollars and fifty-four cents ($455,117 54),

273 Doc. No. 12.

and a certificate was received from General Hays, of date
September 28, to the effect that all demands upon us up
to that time had been filled.

Up to this period, from the call in May, under which
the Supervisors first took action, there had been called
for in all one million five hundred thousand (1,500,000)
men. There had been demanded of Kew York County,
as its proportion, fifty-eight thousand five hundred and
eight (58,508) men, and there had been expended by your
committee in filling these quotas the sum of six million
seven hundred and thirty-two thousand six hundred and
thirty-three dollars and thirty-eight cents ($6,732,633 38),
as the following statement will show :

Under tlie call of May, 1863, for.. 300,000 men our quota was 15,000, In filling which there

Under the call of was xpeuded $610,385 65

October, 1863, for...300,000 men

And the call of De-
cember, 1863, for...200,000 men 'our quota wan. ..16,979, In filling which there

was expended. 3,802,059 00

Afterwards e o m-
blned as one call
for ,...580,000 men 1

Under the call of March, 186-1,
for 200,000 men our quota was... 7,389, In filling which there

Under the call of July 1. 1864, was expended 1,865,071 29

for 500,000 men our quota was. . .23,140, in filling which there

was expended 455.117 64

Making a total called for from
May, 1863, to August, 1H64,

of 1,600,000 men our qut being . . 58,508, In filling which there

was expended ,7M,C43 II

Dividing this amount of six million seven hundred and
thirty-two thousand six hundred and thirty-three dollars
and thirty-eight cents ($6,732,633 38) by the number of
fifty-eight thousand five hundred and eight (58,508)
men, raised by us within the space of about fifteen

Doc. No. 12. 274

months, dating from August, 18C3, when the County
Committee on Volunteering was created, it will be found
that the total cost to the County per man raised had
been a little over one hundred dollars ($100).

This cost included all the expenses incurred by your
committee for clerk hire, accommodations, advertising,
supplies, &c., which expenses were necessarily very heavy.

Besides this, all the men demanded, except for the call
of July, 1864, were for three years, and although the call
of July, 1864, was for one-year men only, nearly all the
men furnished by us for that call were for three years.

On the 19th of December, 1864, a still further call was
issued for three hundred thousand (300,000) men.

This made a total of one million eight hundred thou-
sand (1,800,000) men called for from May, 1863, to Jan-
uary, 1865, a period of about nineteen months, being
nearly an average of one hundred thousand (100,000)
men per month.

As nearly all the twenty-three thousand (23,000) men
furnished by us under the previous call for one-year men,
were three-year men, there was a very large balance due
us of years of service when this call was made.

We had enlisted three-years men under the one-year
call, because of assurance received from. Provost-Marshal
General James 13. Fry, in letter of date the 29th of July,
1861, in which lie says," the longer the term for which

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your men are enlisted, the smaller will be the quota
called for on future drafts."

On the first of December there was due us, by our own
calculation, which was confirmed by the calculations of
General Hays, about thirty-six thousand (36,000) years of
service.

As the quota under the call for five hundred thousand
(500,000) men was fixed at a little over two thousand
three hundred (2,300) men, or about four thousand five
hundred (4,500) men for each one hundred thousand
(100,000) called for, and as the enrolment upon which
we were told quotas were based could not have been in-
creased, we figured that the new demand under the call
for three hundred thousand (300,000) men would be thir-
teen thousand five hundred (13,500), which we believed
our thirty-six thousand (36,000) years of service would
supply, and leave us a surplus of twenty-two thousand
five hundred (22,500) on a still further call.

On the 23d of December the quota of this County was
announced, or rather it was not announced as a quota,
but as a deficiency.

We were then told that, after deducting the years of
service due us up to the 1st of December, this County
was deficient four thousand four hundred and thirty-
three (4,433) men on the last call for three hundred
thousand (300,000) men.

Doc. No. 12. 276

"We immediately announced that fact, and in our re-
port stated that we could not account for even this much
deficiency, excepting the quotas had been made up on the
basis of a call for eight hundred thousand (800,000) years
of service.

We however expressed ourselves satisfied with the de-
ficiency, if that was the understanding.

Since that announcement, however, a reconstruction of
the quotas has been made, and instead of four thousand
four hundred and thirty-three (4,433) men deficiency,
we are now held accountable for a deficiency of twenty-
one thousand and nineteen (21,019) men.

Adding this alleged deficiency to the thirty-six thou-
sand (36,000) years of service due us on the 1st of Decem-
ber, and about three thousand (3,000) years of service
due for men raised from the 1st to the 31st of December,
it makes a quota demanded from this County of sixty
thousand (60,000) years of service under a call on the
whole United States for three hundred thousand (300,000)
one-year men.

It is to be regretted that the department at Washing-
ton has not pursued a different course, and announced
the actual quotas and allowances under this call for three
hundred thousand (300,000) men.

Under the system pursued in announcing deficiencies,
and not quotas, it does seem as if the department was

277 Doc. No. 12.

desirous of obtaining men without letting the people
know exactly on what basis the quota under this call for
three hundred thousand (300,000) men is made.

From the figures given us there is just one of two con-
clusions to be arrived at.

Either the department has made the quotas upon the
basis of a call for eight hundred thousand (800,000) instead
of three hundred thousand (300,000) men, or else, so far as
regards the County of New York, they have taken away
nearly every credit allowed us in raising the quota under
the call for five hundred thousand (500,000) men, and
held us to be deficient on that call, and disallowed even
many of the men who have been paid bounty since that
quota was filled, and prior to the present call.

If the second of these causes is the one to which the
present heavy demand is attributable, it is the greatest
injustice ever done any community, inasmuch as we have
the evidence to prove that every man, without exception,
ever credited upon our quota has been enlisted within
the borders of our own County.

The injustice of this is only increased by the fact that
after the deficiency of four thousand four hundred and
thirty-three (4,433) men was announced, positive asssur-
ances were given me that no material change would be
made in the demand ; and yet, notwithstanding this as-
surance, after a month's delay, and within twenty days

Doc. No. 12. 278

of the time announced for the draft, a further demand for
seventeen thousand (17,000) men is made upon us.

The twenty-one thousand and nineteen (21,019) men
which it is now claimed we are deficient must, under the
President's call, be furnished by the 15th of February.

Adding this number to the demand under previous
calls, it makes seventy-nine thousand five hundred and
twenty-seven (79,527) men called from this County in
about twenty (20) months, under calls from the whole
United States for one million eight hundred thousand
(1,800,000) men, being an average demand from this
County of about four thousand (4,000) men per month, or
about one hundred and thirty (130) men per day.

These are startling figures.

Neither the authorities nor the people of this County
have as yet comprehended the enormity of the demands
made upon them, nor the tremendous work hitherto
achieved in satisfying these demands.

But the recent action of the Government makes it neces-
sary now that we should look stern facts in the face. In
addition to the fifty-eight thousand five hundred and
eight (58,508) men hitherto credited, the County of New
York, previous to the time when credits were allowed,
furnished nearly sixty thousand (60,000) men (for which
assertion there are official data in the departments at
Washington and at Albany), besides about thirty thou-

Doc. No. 12.

sand (30,000) militia men, who have done over one hun-
dred (100) days' service each.

In summing up the gross total of years of service ren-
dered by New York County since the rebellion a period
of about three years and a half we find that it amounts
to about three hundred thousand (300,000) years of ser-
vice, to say nothing of probably twenty thousand (20,000)
men taken out of the City of New York for other locali-
ties, representing about forty thousand years of service.

But to come to present realities. The County of New
York stands to-day just in this position. To raise twenty-
one thousand (21,000) men within fifteen days now al-
lowed us which would be fourteen hundred (1,400) men
each day at any price, may be regarded simply as a
matter of impossibility, by any means short of a draft.

The men are not to be had, even if the money to pay
them bounties could be raised.

The amount remaining of the money raised under the
ordinance of the 18th of June, and balances of previous
funds which have been consolidated, is inconsiderable ;
and it is certain that no more money can be raised under
that ordinance or under the ordinance passed in January,
or under any other ordinance which could be passed, until
the Legislature shall grant us additional power.

However unjust the demands of the Government may

Doc. No. 12, 280

be, it is the duty of the County authorities to endeavor to
fulfil them, since there is no appeal.

This Board has already shown by its action a disposition
to increase the bounty, in order to obtain what men we
can towards the twenty- one thousand (21,000) demanded.

But it is useless to talk of increasing the bounty until
we can raise the money to pay it. Five hundred dollars
($500) per man for twenty -one thousand (21,000) men
would cost just ten million five hundred thousand
dollars ($10,500,000), not one dollar of which are we au-
thorized by law to raise, nor can we raise it without au-
thority of law.

And it is doubtful whether a sum much under one
thousand dollars ($1,000) per man for one-year men will
raise the immense number required, and that would cost
twenty-one million dollars ($21,000,000).

If anything is to be done towards filling this demand
for twenty-one thousand (21,000) men, we must wait at
least until the Legislature legalizes the ordinance of June
last. But that would give us only one million dollars
($1,000,000) a mere drop in the bucket.

A bill for this purpose, introduced in the Legislature
early in the present session, was promptly passed in the
Senate, but now lays in the House, although reported
upon favorably.

If we must furnish these twenty-one thousand (21,000)

281 Doc. No. 12.

men, what we need of the Legislature is a law giving the
County authorities full power to raise whatever funds
may be necessary to secure the men which may now or
hereafter be demanded of us. And the resolution which
I have submitted and the law attached thereto, is in-
tended to accomplish this object.

But even with all requisite legislative assistance to en-
able us to raise money even should the Common Coun-
cil lend us the aid so much needed and so often asked for,
to prevent the carrying oif of our men from our limits
even should we have all the assistance which the Police
Department can render us even should a portion of the
public press change its course and aid the cause and
add to this the most active exertions of our whole people,
we can expect to accomplish but little towards raising
the number of men required of us in the time given.

I am sure that the people of New York stand ready
now, as they ever have, to sacrifice their last man and
their last dollar to crush out this unholy rebellion ; and
it is much to be regretted that this disposition should
be met by so unexpected a demand as has been made
upon us.

The Board of Supervisors of this County, since they
first took in hand the business of filling quotas, in August,
1863, have labored assiduously, as one man, to obtain all
the men demanded of us. There has been no dissenting
voice among us ; and how well they have discharged

Doc. No 12. 282

their duty the facts and figures given by me will demon-
strate ; and to-day I am sure all my colleagues, with
me, stand as ready as ever to do all that lays in their
power to fill the present demand, futile as the effort
may seem, considering the time allowed.

But we will make the effort. If we fail, the fault will
not be ours ; and, having done all we could, we shall
stand vindicated before our constitueiits of this County,
and the people of the whole country.

And as the first step in the effort to fill the demand
made upon us, I move that the preamble and resolutions
offered by me be adopted.

The preamble and resolutions offered by Mr. Blunt
were adopted.

Committees to Visit Washington, Albany, &c.

The President (Supervisor Tweed) presented the follow-
ing resolutions :

Resolved, That Supervisors Blunt, Purdy, Shook, Ely,
Stewart, Willmann, and Fox be and hereby are appointed
a committee to proceed to Washington, and confer with
the Government authorities, War Department, &c., as to
the quota of twenty-one thousand and nineteen (21,019)
men called for by the Provost-Marshal General, under the

Doc. No. 12.

proclamation of the President of the United States of
December, 1864, for three hundred thousand (300,000)
men for the armies of the Union.

Resolved, That Supervisors Smith, Fox, Davis, and
Roche be and hereby are appointed a committee to pro-
ceed to Albany, and urge upon the honorable the Legisla-
ture of this State the imperative necessity for the passage
of the act to authorize the Board of Supervisors to issue
bonds and to raise money by tax on the real and personal
property of this County to pay bounties to volunteers,
&c., for the armies of the United States.

Resolved, That Supervisors Stewart, Blunt, Purely, and
Ely be and are hereby appointed a committee to invite
the citizens of this County, the banks and other moneyed
institutions to subscribe for such County bonds as may
be issued for loans authorized by law, to pay bounties to
volunteers to fill the quotas of the County, under calls of
the President of the United States for men for the armies
of the Union, with power to add as a committee of confer-
ence such citizens as in their judgment may be deemed
advisable, and that they be requested to take into prompt
consideration the matters herein referred to them.

Which were adopted.

Doc. No. 12. 284

Further Appropriation for Bounties.

IN BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, )
February 1, 1865. f

The following ordinance was this day adopted, appro-
priating thres million dollars ($3,000,000) in addition to
the appropriation of two million dollars ($2,000,000)
made January 10, for the purpose of filling the present
quota.

AN OKDINANCE

TO PEOVIDE FOE THE PROCUREMENT OF VOLUNTEERS FOR THE
ARMIES OF THE UNION, AS PART AND PARCEL OF THE
QUOTA OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK, UNDER
THE CALL OF THE PRESIDENT DATED DECEMBER TWENTY,
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR, FOR THREE HUN-
DRED THOUSAND (300,000) MEN.

The Board of Supervisors of the County of New York do
ordain as follows :

SECTION 1. For the purpose of securing the additional
number of men which may be required of the County of
New York under the call of the President of the United
States dated December twenty, eighteen hundred and
sixty-four, for three hundred thousand (300,000) men,
the Comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to pay,
as hereinafter provided, such sum and sums of money as
may be necessary to obtain acceptable volunteers for the

285 Doc. No. 12.

United States service, either in the army or navy, in such
amounts as may be deemed advisable and expedient by
the Special Committee on Volunteering, and his Honor
the Mayor and the Comptroller ; provided such volunteers
shall be credited and allowed on account of the quota of
men required to be furnished by the County under such
call of the President.

SEC. 2. The money authorized by the preceding section
to be paid for volunteers shall be paid to such volunteers
respectively at the office of the Comptroller, or such
other place or places as said Comptroller may designate,
immediately on their furnishing satisfactory evidence of
their having enlisted and been duly accepted and muster-
ed into the military service of the United States for the
term of their enlistment.

SEC. 3. In order that the Comptroller may be enabled
to make the payments hereinbefore authorized, and meet
the expenses necessarily incurred in the execution of this
ordinance, he is hereby authorized to borrow, from time
to time, on the faith and credit of the County of New
York, a sum not exceeding an aggregate of three million
dollars ($3,000,000) in addition to all loans heretofore
authorized under authority of the Legislature or otherwise
for the purpose of volunteering, which amount is hereby
appropriated therefor.

SEC. 4. For the money so borrowed the Comptroller is
hereby authorized to issue bonds of the County, which

Doc. No. 12. 286

shall be designated and known as the " Soldiers' Bounty
Fund Bonds, No. 4," and the same shall be transferable
at the pleasure of the holders thereof, either in person or
by attorney, only upon the books of the County at the
office of the Comptroller, and certificates of such transfers
shall be indorsed thereon by the Stock and Bond Clerk.

SEC. 5. The said bonds shall be signed by the Comp-
troller, countersigned by the Mayor, sealed with the com-
mon seal of the Board, and attested by the Clerk of the
Board, and they shall bear interest at a rate not exceed-
ing seven per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually, on
the first day of May and November in each year, and the
principal thereof shall be redeemable in successive annual
instalments of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000)
each, commencing on the first day of November, eighteen
hundred and ninety-five.

SEC 6. For the payment of the principal of said bonds,
and the interest to accrue thereon, the faith of the County
of New York and the Board of Supervisors of said County
is hereby solemnly pledged, and the Comptroller is here-
by authorized and required to redeem and cancel the
same from time to time, at or before their maturity.

SEC. 7. That the Mayor and Comptroller of the City of
New York, and the following-named members of this
Board, that is to say, Elijah F. Purdy, Orison Blunt,
William M. Tweed, and William E. Stewart, are hereby

287 Doc. No. 12.

designated and appointed a committee to procure the en-
listment of volunteers authorized by this ordinance, and
to secure the counting of the volunteers raised under this
ordinance upon the quota of this County.

SEC. 8. The Comptroller is hereby requested to apply
to the Legislature, now in session, for the passage of an
act to confirm this ordinance; and no action shall be
taken thereon until the same has received the requisite
legislative authoritv-

Ways and Means- Communications from the
Comptroller, &c.

IN BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, )
February 23, 1865. f

The Comptroller submitted the following communica-
tion to the Board of Supervisors :

CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, )
Comptroller's Office, February 23, 1865. ]

Gentlemen of the Board of Supervisors

of the County of New York :

Immediately upon official notice of the ratification by
the Legislature of the ordinance of your honorable body
of June 25, 1861, authorizing a loan of two million dollars
($2,000,000) for (he purpose of procuring volunteers for

Doc. No. 11

the armies of the Union, as part and parcel of the quota
of this Comity, the Comptroller, in order to obtain the
balance unissued ($986,500), addressed a communication,
of which a copy is herewith annexed, to the following
institutions :

American Exchange Bank.

Atlantic Bank.

Bank of America.

Bank of Commerce.

Bank of New York.

Bank of North America.

Bank of the Commonwealth.

Bank of the Republic.

Bank of the State of New York.

Broadway Bank.

Bull's Head Bank.

Butchers and Drovers' Bank.

Chathnm Bank.

Chemical Bank.

Citizens' Bank.

City Bank.

Continental Bank.

Corn Exchange Bank.

Dry Dock Bank.

East River Bank.

Fulton Bank.

Greenwich Bank.

Grocers' Bank.

289 Doe. No. 12,

Hanover Bank.
Importers arid Traders' Bank.
Irving Bank.

Leather Manufacturers' Bank.
Manhattan Bank.

Manufacturers and Merchants' Bank,
Marine Bank,
Market Bank,
Mechanics' Bank.
Mechanics' Banking Association.
Mechanics and Traders' Bank.
Mercantile Bank.
Merchants' Bank.
Merchants' Exchange Bank.
Metropolitan Bank.
Nassau Bank.
National Bank.
New York County Bank.
New York National Exchange Bank.
North River Bank.
Ocean Bank.
Oriental Bank.
Pacific Bank.
Park Bank.
Peoples' Bank.
Phoenix Bank.
St. Nicholas Bank,
Shoe and Leather Bank,
lit

Doc, No. 152. 290

Tradesmen's Bank,

Union Bank,

Atlantic Savings Bank.

Bank for Savings in City of New York.

Bowery Savings Institution.

Broadway Savings Institution.

Citizens' Savings Institution,

Dry Dock Savings Institution.

East River Savings Institution.

.Emigrant Industrial Savings Institution.

Franklin Savings Institution,

German Savings Institution.

Greenwich Savings Institution.

Harlem Savings Institution.

Institution for the Savings of Merchants' Clerks.

Irving Savings Institution.

Manhattan Savings Institution.

Mariners' Savings Institution.

Market Savings Institution.

Mechanics and Traders' Institution.

New York Savings Institution.

Seamen's Bank for Savings.

Sixpenny Savings Institution.

Third Avenue Savings Institution.

Union Dime Savings Institution.

The following banks have responded, to wit :

291 Doc. No. 12.

Manhattan Company $150,000

Irving Bank 20,000

Bank of New York 50,000

Dry Dock Savings Institution , 40,000

Bull's Head Bank ; 10,000

Bank of America 100,000

Mechanics and Traders' Bank 15,000

Broadway Bank 100,000

Merchants' Exchange Bank 25,000

American Exchange Bank 50,000

Tradesmen's Bank 15,000

In this connection, the Comptroller deems it proper to
state that the following banks subscribed to this loan
prior to its ratification by the Legislature, viz. :

Bowery Savings Bank.

Park Bank.

Metropolitan Bank.

American Exchange Bank.

Mechanics and Traders' Bank.

Tradesmen's Bank.

Bull's Head Bank.

Union Dime Savings Institution.

Franklin Savings Bank.

In order to respond to the requisitions made on this de-
partment by the chairman of your Committee on Volun-
teering for funds to pay the bounties for volunteers, it is

Doc, No, 12. 292

necessary that this balance should be secured without
delay. It is hoped that the institutions which have not
as yet responded will do so at once, thus enabling the
committee to secure the large number of men presenting
themselves as volunteers, in order to avoid, if possible,
the necessity of a draft.

Taking into consideration the number of men ottered
and accepted during the past week, this balance, if ob-
tained, will be expended in a few days.

In order to continue this patriotic work, it will be nec-
essary to provide means in addition to the balance refer-
red to above.

A loan of two million dollars ($2,000,000) is authorized
by an ordinance of your honorable body, passed Jan-
uary 10, 1865, and has received the sanction of the
Legislature by an act passed February 10, 1865 (see
chapter 29, Laws 1865).

The bonds to be issued by virtue of this ordinance arc
to be made payable in annual instalments of five hun-
dred thousand dollars ($500,000) each, commencing No-
vember 1, 1895, at a rate of interest not to exceed seven
per cent, per annum.

The loans of the County of 'New York have heretofore
been negotiated at six per cent, per annum. At the pres-
ent time, however, the General Government is offering
securities at seven and three- tenths per annum, and the

293 Doc. No. 12.

State Government is in the market with a loan at seven.
It therefore becomes necessary for the County to fix the
rate of interest on the aforesaid loan at seven per cent,
per annum, in order that it may be speedily negotiated, as
delay will defeat the purpose for which it is authorized.

As the bonds to be issued for said loan arc for a period
of thirty years, it is believed that by fixing the rate of
interest at seven per cent, they may readily be disposed
of by inviting sealed proposals for the same at a hand-
some premium on their par value.

I shall await your action before taking measures to
negotiate the aforesaid loan.

Respectfully submitted,

(Signed) MATTHEW T. BREKK AN,

Comptroller .

I Copy, j

CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, )
Comptroller's Office.. February 9, 1865. j

DEAR SIR

Your attention is respectfully invited to the inclosed
ordinance of the Board of Supervisors authorizing a loan
of two million dollars ($2,000,000), for the purpose of pro-
curing volunteers for the armies of the Union, &c., ap-
proved by the Mayor, Tune 25, 1864, and which has re-

. Doc. No. 12. 294

.ceived the sanction of the Legislature of the State by an
act legalizing the same (chapter 17), passed February 8,
1865.

There remains a balance of the amount authorized, as
above, of nine hundred and sixty- eight thousand five
hundred dollars ($968,500), for which bonds will be is-
sued, payable June 1. 1865, with interest at six per cent,
per annum.

In consequence of the late call of the President for
three hundred thousand (300,000) men, it becomes neces-
sary to raise the said balance without delay, or the work
of procuring volunteers by the County will necessarily be
suspended.

Please advise the Comptroller the amount of the afore-
said balance you will take, to enable the Committee on
Volunteering to carry out the patriotic purpose of the
Board of Supervisors, and thus avert or mitigate the im-
pending draff.

Yours, respectfully,

(Signed) MATTHEW T. BRENKAN,

Comptroller.

The foregoing communication having been received
and directed to be entered at length in the minutes

Supervisor Blunt presented for adoption the following
resolution :

295 Doc, No. 12.

L _ Resolved, That the Comptroller be and he is hereby
authorized and directed to advertise forthwith, in the
public newspapers, for five days, for proposals to " Sol-
dier's Bounty Fund Bonds, No. 3," to bear interest at the
rate of seven per cent, per annum, payable semi-annual-
ly, authorized by an ordinance of this Board passed Jan-
uary 10, 1865, and sanctioned by the Legislature Febru-
ary 10, 1865.

Which was adopted.

TN BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, )
March 23, 18G5. J

The Comptroller submitted to the Board of Supervisors
the following communication :

CTTY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, )
. Comptroller's Office, March 23, 1865. j

Gentlemen of the Board of Supervisors

of the County of New York :

In pursuance of the following resolution, adopted by
your honorable body February 23, 1865

" Eesolved, That the Comptroller be and he is hereby
authorized and directed to advertise forthwith, in the
public newspapers, for five days, for proposals to the
Soldiers' Bounty Fund Bonds, No. 3, to bear interest at
the rate of seven per cent, per annum, payable semi-an-

Doc. No. 12. 296

nually, authorized by an ordinance of the Board passed
January 10, 1865,"

the Comptroller caused an advertisement for sealed
proposals to said loan to be inserted in the public news-
papers, and also transmitted a circular (a copy of which
is hereto annexed) to the various banks, insurance com-
panies and moneyed institutions of our City.

Of the amount authorized ($2,000,000) the following
statement shows the sum subscribed :

1863.

Mar. 1. Jane Frost $400

John Emmons, Jr 3,000

D. H. Applegate 2,000

Eliza Green 1,000

Charles Hicks 1,000

Richard Lawrence 1,000

S. B. Helbert Judah 5,000

German Savings Bank 50,000

B. H. Field 10,000

Dominick Maguire 1,800

2. Tradesmen's Bank 25,000

Mariners' Savings Institution 10,000

William Miller . 3,000

Jane Dougherty 1,500

Ann Farrell 2,200

Daniel Low 4,000

Amount carried forward $120,900

297 Doc. No. 12.

Amount brought forward $120,900

Mar. 2. Henry W. Allen 5,000

H. P. Liscomb 8,000

W. H. Montanye 5,000

Joseph Lawrence, President 100.000

Harmony Fire and Marine Insurance

Company 10,000

J. H. Vanderbilt 50,000

3. Jane Dougherty 500

Thomas Boyne 3,000

C. H. Shipman 10,000

Owen W. Brennan 5,000

John Turner 1,000

4. Patrick Treacy 5,000

Atlantic Savings Bank 20,000

6. New York Savings Bank 25,000

7. Vermilye & Co 25,000

Emma L. Higgins 50.000

J. Frank Dillont 10,000

8. Michael McKenna 2,000

James McKenna 5,000

9. Henry E. Lawrence 1,000

Union Dime Savings Institution 70,000

John Cryder and S. C. Williams, Guar-
dians 30,000

Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company.. 100,000

Amount carried forward $661,400

Doc, No. 12.

Amount brought forward $661,400

Mar. 10. Mariners' Savings Institution 10,000

Continental Insurance Company 20,000

E. P. Davis, attorney for C. R. Thomas. 5,000
11. Francis & Loutrel 1,000

Lewis Francis 1 ,000

Cyrus H. Loutrel 1,000

Henry McGahey 1,200

M. A. Wheeler, Guardian 2,000

13. John Burke 5,000

J. H. Meyerink 2.500

John F. Barley 500

14. Atlantic Savings Bank 30,000

John N. Blasi 2,000

Alexander Mclntyre and R. Ely, Ad-
ministrators 2,000

Alexander Mclntyre 500

Joshua Brush 5,000

Joseph Park 1,000

Goorge C. Park 1,000

Hobart J. Park 1,000

15. Charles H. Redman 5,000

16. Estate of Ann Storm 10,000

John Calvin Smith 2,000

F. Haubner and M. F. Bosch, Ex'rs. . . 2,000

17. Jane Dougherty 1,000

Amount carried forward. . . $778,100

299 Doc. No. 1-2.

Amount brought forward $773.100

Mar. 18. Samuel B. Ladd 3,000

20. William Shipman 5,000

William Gilfillan 1,000

22. John Le Count 9,000

John Shea 2,000

Total $793,100

This sum has been disbursed, and no further payments
can be made to your Committee OH. Volunteering for the
purpose of paying bounties to volunteers without further
action.

In order to obtain funds from the State to reimburse
this County for payments made in pursuance of the act,
chapter 29, Laws of 1865, the undersigned applied to the
Governor in person during the past week, and yesterday
a telegram was sent to the Paymaster-General request-
ing a return of moneys so advanced. By information
received this morning from the Governor, through "Waldo
Hutchins, Esq., I lf>arn the State is not in funds at pres-
ent to respond.

The undersigned, accompanied by Mr. Hutching and the
chairman of your Committee on Volunteering, visited
this morning the various moneyed institutions, to obtain
further subscriptions to the County loan, but were unsuc-
cessful ; the various parties called upon stating that they
had subscribed to the loan of the State, and were await-

Doc. No. 12. 300

ing notification to pay the same, and regretted that in.
consequence of such action they were unable to aid the
County by subscribing to its loan.

I would recommend that the Committee on Volunteer-
ing be authorized to proceed to Albany, to confer with the
Governor in respect to this matter, in order to effect a
transfer of a portion of the subscriptions to the State
loan to the loan of this County, and to be used for the
purpose of securing our quota of men for the army under
the late call. Many df the subscribers to the State loan
have signified their willingness to make such transfer, if
authorized so to do by the State authorities.

I am happy to be able to state that funds sufficient to
meet the requirements for volunteering during the day
have been furnished by F. S. "Winston, Esq., President of
the Mutual Life Insurance Company, who has supplied
one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), which amount
has been Applied toward this object.

Respectfully submitted,

(Signed) MATTHEW T. BKENNAtt,

Comptroller.

Advertisement.

SEVEN PER CENT, COUNTY LOAN. Proposals for two
million dollars ($2,000,000) Soldiers' 1 Bounty Fund Bonds.
No. 3, of 'the County of New York. -Sealed proposals will

301 Doc. No. 12.

be received at the Comptroller's office until Tuesday,
February 28, at 2 o'clock P. M., when the same will be
publicly opened, for the purchase of the whole or any
part of the sum of two million dollars ($2,000,000), of the
" Soldiers Bounty Fund Bonds, No. 3," authorized by an
ordinance of the Board of Supervisors passed January
10, 1865, and legalized by an act of the Legislature of the
State of New York passed February 10, 1865, (vide chap.
29, 18G5).

The said bonds will bear interest at the rate of seven
per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually, on the first
day of May and November, in each year, and the princi-
pal will be redeemable in successive annual instalments
of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) each, com-
mencing on the first day of November, 1895.

Proposals will state tfye amount of bonds desired, and
the price per hundred dollars thereof ; and the persons
whose proposals arc accepted w r ill thereupon be required
to deposit with the County Treasurer the sums awarded
to them respectively.

On presenting to the Comptroller the receipts of the
County Treasurer for such deposits, the parties will be en-
titled to receive bonds for equal amounts of the par value
of the sums awarded to them, bearing interest from the
dates of payment.

Kach proposition should be sealed and indorsed " Pro-

Doc. No. 12. 302

posals for Soldiers Bounty Fund Bonds, No. 3," and in-
closed in a second envelope, addressed to the Comptroller.
The right is reserved to reject any or all of the bids, if
considered necessary to protect or promote the interests
of the County.

(Signed) MATTHEW T. BRENNAN,

Comptroller.

Circular.

Crr Y OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, )
Comptroller's Office, February 23, 1865. (

The Comptroller respectfully invites attention to the
above advertisement for proposals for a thirty-years loan
at seven per cent. It cannot be doubted that our fellow-
citizens generally desire that the quota for this County,
under the present call of the President for men for the
United States army, should be raised without resorting
to a draft for this purpose.

It is hoped, therefore, that capitalists and others in this
City having funds to invest, will, in view of the purpose
for which it is designed, give the above named loan the
preference; and that the whole amount will be taken
without delay, in order that our City may be saved from
the impending draft,

(Signed) MATTHEW T, BKENNAN,

Comptroller,

303 Doc. No. 12.

The foregoing communication having been received,
Supervisor Willmann offered the following resolution for
adoption :

Resolved, That the County Volunteer Committee be
and are hereby authorized and directed to proceed im-
mediately to Albany, and confer with his Excellency the
Governor, and request him to cause to be transferred to
this County the sum of five hfmdred thousand dollars
($500,000), or such other amount as he may deem proper,
of the subscription for the State loan, for the purpose of
procuring volunteers for the United States army and
navy, to be credited on the quota of the County of New
York.

Which was adopted.

IN BOARD OF SUPERVISORS,
March 30, 1865.

The Comptroller presented to the Board of Supervisors
the following communication:

CITY OF NEW YORK 'DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, }
Comptroller's Office, March 29, 1865. f

Gentlemen of the Board of Supervisors

of the County of New York:

The following amounts have been paid on account of
the Soldiers' Bounty Fund Bonds, No. 3, since my com-
munication of the 23d instant, viz, ;

Doc. No. 12. 304

S. C. Williams and others, Guardians $20,000

Miss Hannah J. Ruckle 1,000

Elijah F. Purdy, President Sixpenny Savings

Bank 5,000

James Lenox 6,000

Citizens' Fire Insurance Company 5,000

Third Avenue Savings Bank 10,000

Bank of the State of Nejv York 5,000

Brown Brothers & Co 5,000

Grinnell, Minturn & Co 3,000

Wellesly Whyte 1,000

William B. Astor 10,000

Tradesmen's Bank ' 10,000

Globe Mutual Life Insurance Company 10,000

Merchants' Exchange Bank 5,000

$96,000

Which, together with the amount heretofore reported,
makes a total of nine hundred and eighty-nine thousand
and one hundred dollars ($989,100).

The subscriptions at present being received are alto-
gether inadequate to supply the Committee on Volun-
teering with funds to secure the requisite number of
volunteers demanded by the authorities of the United
States, in time to be available on account of the present
draft. The Comptroller regrets to state that, notwith-
standing his most earnest appeals to the public for sub-

305 Doc. No. 12.

scriptions on account of this loan, he is unable to provide
sufficient means for the purposes of volunteering, and
therefore the labors of the Committee must cease, unless
those having the means subscribe, without delay, for the
balance of the loan authorized, and the State authorities
reimburse this County for the amounts heretofore ad-
vanced on its account.

.Respectfully submitted.

(Signed) MATTHEW T. BKENNAN,

Comptroller.

Supervisor Blunt stated that the Committee on Volun-
teering had authorized Wm. H. Anthon, Esq., to person-
ally visit capitalists, and endeavor to obtain subscriptions
to the County loan.

Mr. Anthon had received the following authority from
the committee :

HKADQUAKTEKS Co. COM. ON VOLUMTKEKIISG, ]

CITY HALL PAKE, BROADWAY, COK. CIIAMBEES ST., v

Neiv York, March 25, 1865. j

At a meeting of the JS T ew York County Committee on
Volunteering, held this day, it was unanimously

jtesolved, That Gen. William H. Anthon be and he is
hereby authorized and requested to wait on capitalists,
banking-houses, and moneyed institutions, for the purpose
of securing subscriptions to the seven per cent, volun-

Doc. No. 12. 306

teer loan, authorized by the Board of Supervisors of
New York County, January 10, 1865, and confirmed by
act of the Legislature, chapter 29, Laws of 1865.

(Signed) 0. GODFREY GUNTHER, Mayor,
ORISON BLUNT,
WILLIAM M. TWEED,
ELIJAH F. PUEDY,
MATTHEW T. BRENNAN, Comptroller,
Committee on Volunteering of N. Y. County.

A copy of the above, with the following circular, had
been addressed by Mr. Anthon to various capitalists and
moneyed institutions :

DEAR Sut : ,

Experience has shown conclusively that a compulsory
conscription or draft would be one of the greatest calami-
ties which could happen to the City of New York, while
it would, probably, like that which took place in the sum-
mer of 1863, prove an utter failure, so far as the great
object of filling the national armies is concerned.

A due regard, therefore, for the comfort of many fami-
lies which will be left destitute if their head is con-
scripted, for the peace of our City, which is in some dan-
ger of being again disturbed, and for the national cause,
which will be injured by the failure to supply men at
this crisis, should induce us to bend all our energies to the

307 Doc. No. 12.

only true and American mode of raising troops, namely,
by volunteering.

Thousands of men stand ready to volunteer at this mo-
ment, but the County Committee are destitute of funds,
while nearly a million of County volunteer loan seven
per cent, bonds, beyond all question the best investment
in the market, remain untaken.

I respectfully request you to lay this subject before
your Board of Directors, with a few remarks upon the
importance of the crisis, and to urge upon them the ne-
cessity of making as liberal a subscription as possible.

Please direct your answer to me as soon as possible, at

Box No, 2,408, New York Post-office.

Yours, respectfully,

(Signed) WM. HENRY ANTHON.

The following communication from Mr. Anthou would
seem to indicate that his efforts were at first somewhat
successful ;

NEW YOKK, March 29, 1865.
Hon. ORISON BLUNT:

I announce the following subscriptions to the County
loan, and will send others this afternoon, as the lists
come in :

Doc. No. 12.

Ketchum, Son & Co $5,000

Ward & Co 5,000

Merchants"' Bank . 5,000

Bank of America 5,000

Wm. Alex. Smith, of H. Meigs, Jr., & Smith J,000

$21,000
Respectfully yours,

(Signed) WM. HENRY ANTHON.

NEW YORK, March 29, 1865.
Hon. ORISON BLUNT,

Supervisor, &c. :
DEAR SIR

I announce the following additional subscriptions to.
the County loan. More to come :

Corn Exchange Bank $5.000

Phenix Bank 5,000

Yours, respectfully,
(Signed) WM. HERNY ANTHON.

On motion of the President (Supervisor Tweed), the
Board then adopted the following resolution :

Resolved, In the opinion of this Board, that the Comp-
troller should receive subscriptions for the Bounty loan
in amounts of fifty dollars ($50) and upwards.

309 Doc. No. 12.

Appeal to the People for Aid.

IN BOAED OF SUPEKVISOBS

March, 6, 1865

>BS,)

Supervisor Eoche offered the following preamble and
resolution :

Whereas, On the occasion of the national celebration
of Union victories this day, in the great City of New
York, when the people are rejoicing at the signal success
of our armies and navy in restoring peace and preserving
the Constitution and enforcing the laws of the United
States, it seems eminently proper that this Board should
place upon record its cordial and hearty co-operation and
sympathy with the general and heartfelt rejoicing ; and

Whereas, It is believed that the encouragement of en-
listments to fill the quota of this County for the armies
and navy of the Union is a most patriotic and praise-
worthy evidence of such co-operation and sympathy ;
therefore

^ That the members of the Board of Supervi-
sors of the County of New York hereby respectfully and
earnestly request the best efforts of all patriotic citizens,
among all classes of the people merchants, citizens and
tax-payers in procuring volunteers for the ai'mies of the

Doc. No. 12. 310

Union in filling the quota of the County of .New York
under the last call of the President of the United States.
Which was adopted.

Supervisor Blunt submitted the following :
Resolved, That the Committee on Volunteering be di-
rected to issue an appeal to the people to aid the Super-
visors in increasing volunteering to an extent sufficient
to avert the calamity of a draft.

Which was adopted.

Enrolment Ways and Means.

IN BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, )
April 1 , 1 865. f

The following resolutions were adopted :

Resolved, That the Committee on Volunteering be re-
quested to communicate with the War Department at
Washington, and urge the acceptance of the corrected en-
rolment of this City, in accordance with the understanding
had with the Department on the 3d day of February last.

Resolved. That the Governor of the State be requested
to transfer to this County two million dollars ($2.000,000)
of the seven per cent, war bonds on account of the propor-
tion due this County from the State, or so much thereof
as will not prove prejudicial to the interests of the State ;
and that the Special Committee on Volunteering confer
with the Governor and report to this Board.

APPENDIX B.

ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE OP 1865 RELATING TO
BOUNTIES, &c,

Laws of 1865.

The following bill, legalizing the bounty ordinance of
the Board of Supervisors of June 25, 1864, was passed by
the Legislature February 8, 1865 :

r M v PT K H 17.
AN ACT

TO CONFIRM AND MAKE VALID A CERTAIN ORDINANCE OP THE
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK,
PASSED JUNE TWENTY-FIVE, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-
FOUR, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE REDEMPTION OF THE BONDS
THEREIN SPECIFIED.

Passed February 8. 1865 : three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate
and Assembly, do enact as follows :

SECTION 1 . The ordinance of the Board of Supervisors
of the County of New York entitled " An ordinance to
provide for the procurement of volunteers for the armies
of the Union, as part and parcel of the quota of the City
and County of New York, under any future call of the
President for men," passed June twenty-five, eighteen
hundred and sixty -four, is hereby declared to be lawful
and of binding force.

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SEC. 2. It shall be lawful for the Board of Supervisors
of the County of New York to borrow, on or before
the first day of June next, upon the faith and credit of
said County, a sum not exceeding two million dollars
($2,000,000), and to issue therefor the bonds of said
County, in the usual form, which shall be designated
and known as the " Soldiers' Bounty Fund Redemption
Bonds, No. 2," of the said County, and to be made
payable in successive annual instalments of five hun-
dred thousand dollars ($500,000) each, commencing on
the first day of November, in the year eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-one, and bearing interest at a rate not
exceeding seven per cent, per annum, payable seini-
annually. on the first day of May and November in each
year. The moneys so borrowed shall be applied to the
payment and redemption of the " Soldiers' Bounty Fund
Bonds, No. 2," payable June first, eighteen hundred and
sixty-five, issued under the ordinances of said Board of
Sr.piwisors passed June twenty-five, eighteen hundred
and s: -*--'*-::, and to no >th.er object or purpose what-
ever.

SEC. 3. The said Board of Supervisors of the County of
JTew York are hereby authorized and required to order
and cause to be raised, in each year, by tax upon the
property by law subject to taxation within said County,
the sums of money necessary to meet the interest payable
on the several issues of bonds authorized by the second

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section of this act, also the interest on the bonds issued
under the ordinance mentioned in the first section of this
act ; provided, that the amount of any premiums received
upon the issue of said bonds, or any of them, shall be
applied to the payment of the interest on the same, and
shall be deducted from the amount which would other-
wise be required to be raised by tax, as herein provided.

SEC. 4. The said Board of Supervisors are hereby fur-
ther authorized and required to order and cause to be
raised, by tax upon the property by law subject to taxa-
tion within said County, in each year, as the said several
bonds hereinbefore authorized shall respectively become
due and payable, such sum of money as may be required
to pay and redeem the same at the maturity thereof.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATE OF NEW YOKK,
Offiw of flic Secretary of State.

I have compared the preceding with the original law
on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same
is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said
original law.

OHAUNCEY M. DEPEW,

Secretary of State,

The following bill in relation to bounties was passed by
the Legislature February 10, 1865. By it the ordinances

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of the Board of Supervisors of June 14, 1864, and Jan-
uary 10, and February 1, 1865, are confirmed and legal-
ized :

CHAPTER 29.

AN ACT

TO PROVIDE FOR FILLING THE QUOTA OF MEN REQUIRED FROM
THIS STATE, FOR THE ARMY AND NAVY OF THE UNITED
STATES, AND TO REPEAL SECTION TWENTY-TWO OF CHAPTER
EIGHT OF THE LAWS OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-
FOUR, AND TO PROHIBIT ANY LOCAL BOUNTIES TO VOLUN-
TEERS, DRAFTED MEN, OR SUBSTITUTES, AND TO RAISE MONEY
BY AN ISSUE OF THE BONDS OF THE STATE, AND TO PROVIDE
FOR SUBMITTING THE QUESTION THEREON TO THE PEOPLE.

Passed February 10, 1865 : three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate
and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. For the purpose of rilling the quota of men
required for the army and navy of the United States
from thi Str.to under the 1 ist call of the President, dated
December nineteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and
also under any future call or calls which may be made
during the present war, a State bounty shall be paid to
volunteers furnished from this State, as in this act is pro-
vided.

SEC. 2. Such bounty shall be paid to so many volun-
teers furnished from the several towns and cities of this

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State as shall be necessary to fill the quota of said towns
and cities, respectively, fixed by the authorities of the
Government of the United States, under said call or calls ;
provided, that no bounty sliall be paid to any volunteer
until he shall have enlisted and have been accepted and
credited upon the quota of the town or city from which
he shall enlist, by the authorities of the United States ;
and provided, also, that said bounty shall only be paid to
non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates enlist-
ing in the armies of the United States, and to persons
enlisting in the navy thereof, and who shall be credited
by the authorities of the United States upon the quotas
of the towns or cities in this State from which they shall
enlist under said call or calls ; and provided, also, that no
such bounty shall be paid to any volunteer, substitute,
or drafted man who shall volunteer, be substituted, or
be drafted to fill up any quota, or to fill up any defi-
ciency of any quota, of any city, county, or town, arising
upon any call for men made before the nineteenth" day
of December, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four. And
where, before the passage of this act, any town, city, or
county, by means of local bounties raised and paid under
chapter eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-
four, shall have filled its quota, or any part thereof, re-
quired by the call of December nineteen, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-four, or shall have furnished an excess of
men or of years of service, under the call of July eighteen,
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, by furnishing men for

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one or more years, who being or having been credited be-
fore or since said call of December nineteen, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-four, to said town, city or county, shall
have operated to relieve, in whole or in part, said town,
city, or county, from furnishing men under the call of
December nineteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-four,
the bounties so raised and paid, not exceeding the rates
and sums mentioned in this act, shall be refunded from the
moneys to be obtained, or by the bonds to be issued,
under the provisions of this act; or, in case the said
moneys and the said bonds shall be insufficient for the pur-
poses of this act, by the Comptroller giving credit there-
for to the several cities, counties, or towns by which the
said bounties have been so raised and paid. And where
there shall arise any difference or dispute as to the
amount of money that ought to be refunded or credited
to any county, city, or town, or as to any question in ref-
erence thereto, the same shall be finally adjusted and de-
termined by the Governor, Comptroller, and Attorney-
General, who shall be a Board for that purpose.

SEC. 3. There shall bu paid to such volunteer aforesaid
a sum not exceeding the sum of six hundred dollars
($600) if he enlists for three years, four hundred dollar*
($400) if lie enlists for two years, and three hundred dol-
lars ($300) if he enlists for one year. And there shall
also be paid to each drafted man who shall be actually
mustered into the military or naval service of the United

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States, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250).
And to enable the authorities of the State to pay the
same, the Comptroller is hereby authorized to borrow,
on the credit of the general fund, from any of the funds
in the treasury, sufficient moneys to carry out the pro-
visions of this act, or in any other manner to borrow the
same, and to repay the sum so borrowed from the money
to be raised under and in pursuance of the provisions of
this act,

SEC. -i. .No city, county, or town, shall hereafter bor-
row or raise by tax any money, or authorize the borrow-
ing or raising by tax of any money for the purpose of
paying bounties to volunteers, drafted men, or substi-
tutes, under the said call dated nineteenth December,
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, or any future call, other-
wise than as is provided in section seven of this act, and not
to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) for hand-money and
incidental expenses for procuring each volunteer ; nor
shall any city, county, or town, or any individual, or any
individuals, pay any money for such purpose or purposes,
otherwise than is herein provided (except that an individ-
ual may in any way hire a substitute to exempt himself
from draft) ; but nothing in this act shall be so construed
as to affect or invalidate any expenditures hitherto made,
or any obligations already incurred, or the levying of
any tax for the discharge of such expenditures or obliga-
tions; and every act, proceeding, or resolution of any

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Board of Supervisors, or of the Common Council of any
city, or of any board of town officers, or of any officer
of any county, city, or town, in contravention of the pro-
visions of this section, shall be void.

SEC. 5. The bounties provided in this act shall only be
paid to the volunteers in person, or in such manner and
at such time or times as shall be directed by the Gov-
ernor, as Commander-in- Chief, in general orders. Any
agreement by any volunteer or substitute with any
broker, or any middleman, or any agent acting between
him and the authorities of any city, county, or town,
for the payment of any part of the bounty to be paid to
him by the provisions of this act, to any other persons
whether executed or not, is hereby declared to be void ;
and such volunteer or substitute, his heirs, personal repre-
sentative, or assigns, may at any time within four years
recover any money paid or received in violation of this
act, with interest from the time of such payment or re-
ceipt, from the person or persons to or for whom such
money is paid or received. And in an action for the
recovery of money so paid or received, the defendant
may be arrested, as provided in sections one hundred
and seventy-nine and one hundred and eighty-one of
the Code of Procedure; and the judgment recovered in
any such action may be collected by execution against
the person of the defendant, as provided in section two
hundred and eighty-eight of the Code of Procedure,

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SEC. 6. A bounty, to the amount hereinbefore provi-
ded, shall be paid to any person who has furnished or
who shall furnish an acceptable substitute, to apply on
the quota under the call of December 19, A. D. eighteen
hundred and sixty-four, which substitute shall have been
accepted by the authorities of the United States, and
credited to the town, city, or county in which said per-
son shall be enrolled, and which substitute shall go to
reduce the quota in such town, city, or county, which
shall be paid under such regulations as shall be prescrib-
ed by the Governor, as Commander-in-chief, by general
orders. But if any such person has received any sum
from any city, county, or town, he shall receive, by virtue
hereof, no more than enough to make the amount to be
paid to him equal to the bounty hereby provided for.

SEC. 7. Section twenty-two, of chapter eight, of the
laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled " An
Act to authorize the levying of a tax upon the taxable
property of the different counties and towns in this
State, to repay moneys borrowed for or expended in the
payment of bounties to volunteers, or for the expenses of
their enlistment, or for aid to their families, or to pay
any liability incurred therefor, or that may hereafter be
incurred, and to amend section one of chapter five hun-
dred and fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and

sixty-three," is hereby amended so as to read as follows :
" 22. The Board of Supervisors of the several

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counties in this State are hereby authorized and em-
powered at any meeting of the said Board, duly called
and convened, to adopt resolutions to provide for raising
money upon the credit of their respective counties, for
the use of said county, or upon the credit of any city or
town thereof, for the sole use of said city or town, or to
levy and impose a tax upon the taxable property of
their respective counties, for the use of said county, or
upon any town or city thereof, for the sole use of said
town or city, for the purpose of paying bounties to vol-
unteers into the military or naval service of the United
States during the existence of the war now carried on,
and for the purpose of paying the incidental expenses of
such volunteering, and of raising such moneys and for
the purpose of furnishing temporary relief to the families
of such volunteers ; but no such money shall be raised
upon the credit of any town, nor shall any tax for money
to be raised upon the credit of any town be levied and
imposed upon the taxable property of such town, except
upon the vote of a majority of the electors of said town
present and voting at an annual town meeting, or at a
meeting called for that purpose, in accordance with the
provisions of the Revised Statutes for calling special
town meetings, and special town meetings may be called
for that purpose ; nor of any city, except upon a vote of
a majority of all the members elect to the Common
Council thereof, duly certified and transmitted to the
of Supervisors of the county, And any and all

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taxes imposed by vote of such electors upon the taxable
property of any town, for the raising of money for any of
the purposes mentioned in this section, shall be levied by
such Board of Supervisors upon the taxable property of
said town, and collected in the manner provided in the
eleventh section of this act, for the collection of taxes
therein mentioned ; provided, however, that no sum or
bounty shall be raised or paid or offered under the pro-
visions of this section to a greater amount than three
hundred dollars ($300) for a one-year volunteer or substi-
tute, four hundred dollars ($400) for a two-years volunteer
or substitute, and six hundred dollars ( $600) for a three-
years volunteer or substitute, and two hundred and fifty
dollars ($250) to a drafted man. And if this act shall be
ratified by the people, as is herein provided, then the sums
so raised and paid by the said cities, counties, and towns
to the amounts aforesaid, and no more, shall be refunded
or credited in the same manner as is provided in section
two of this act/-

The ordinances of the Board of Supervisors of the
County of New York, passed June fourteen, eighteen
hundred and sixty-four, January ten, eighteen hundred
and sixty-five, and February one, eighteen hundred and
sixty-five, to provide for the procurement of volunteers
for the armies of the United States, as part and parcel of
the quota of the City of Xew York, under the call of the
President for men, a;re hereby declared to be lawful

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of binding force so far as they are not inconsistent with
the provisions of this act.

SEC. S. To provide the means of paying the said boun-
ties under the provisions of this act, a debt of this State
is hereby authorized, which debt shall be for the single
object of raising the money to pay the bounties herein
named.

SEC. 9. The debt hereby created shall not exceed the
sum of thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) ; and there shall
be imposed, levied and assessed upon the taxable property
of this State a direct annual tax, to pay the interest on the
said debt as such interest falls due, which said direct an-
nual tax shall be sufficient to pay such interest as it falls
due ; and there shall also be imposed, levied, and assessed
upon the taxable property of this State a direct annual tax
to pay, and sufficient to pay, in the space of eighteen years
from the time of the passage of this act, the whole of the
debt created under and by the provisions of this act. Of
the debt to be created under and by virtue of the provi-
sions of this act, the principal of one-third part thereof shall
be paid in six years from the passage of this act ; the princi-
pal of one-third part thereof shall be paid in twelve years
from the passage of this act, and the principal of one-third
part thereof in eighteen years from the passage of this
act

SKC, 10. To obtain the money necessary for the pur-

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poses contemplated by this act, the Comptroller is author-
ized to issue the bonds of the State in such sums each as
shall seem meet to him, with coupons thereto attached,
for the payment of the interest on such bonds, at a rate
not exceeding seven per centum per annum, half-yearly,
on the first day of July and January in each year, until
the principal is payable, at such place in the City of New
York as shall seem meet to him. One-third part of such
bonds shall be payable in six years from the passage of
this act ; one-third part of such bonds shall be payable in
twelve years from the passage of this act ; one-third part
of such bonds shall be payable in eighteen yours from the
passage of this act ; and the whole principal shall be pay-
able in such place in New York City as the Comptroller
shall deem meet. The Comptroller shall, before disposing
of said bonds, or any of them, advertise for proposals for
the same, and shall open the proposals and award the
same to the highest bidder, at a rate not less than par,
which advertising and disposition shall be according to
the provisions of the law now existing.

SEC. 11. This act shall be submitted to the people at
the next general election to be held in this State. The
inspectors of election in the different election districts in
this State shall provide at each poll, on said election day,
a box, in the usual form, for the reception of the ballots
herein provided ; and each and every elector in this State
may present a ballot, which shall be a paper ticket, on

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which shall be printed or written, or partly written and
partly printed, one of the following forms, namely : " For
the Act to create a State Debt to pay Bounties," or
"Against the Act to create a State Debt to pay Bounties."
The said ballots shall be so folded as to conceal the con-
tents of the ballot, and shall be indorsed "Act in relation
to Bounties."

SEC. 12. After finally closing the polls of such election,
the inspectors thereof shall immediately, and without ad-
journment, proceed to count and canvass the ballots given
in relation to the proposed act, in the same manner as
they are by law required to canvass the ballots given for
Governor ; and thereupon shall set down in writing, and
in words at full length, the whole number of votes given
"For the Act to create a State Debt," and the whole
number of votes given "Against the Act to create a State
Debt," and certify and subscribe the same, and cause the
copies thereof to be made, certified, and delivered, as pre-
scribed by law in respect to the canvass of votes given
at an election for Governor. And all the provisions of
law in relation to elections, other than for military and
town officers, shall apply to the submission to the people
herein provided for.

SEC. 13. The Secretary of State shall, with all conven-
ient dispatch, after this act shall receive the approval of
the Governor, cause the same to be struck off and printed

327 Doc. No. 12.

upon slips, in such numbers as shall be sufficient to supply
the different officers of this State concerned in notifying
or in holding elections, or in canvassing the votes, and
shall transmit the same to such officers.

SEC. 14. Sections one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eleven, twelve, thirteen, and fourteen of this act shall
take effect immediately upon its passage ; but the eighth,
ninth, and tenth sections thereof shall not become a law
until it is ratified by the people, in pursuance of the Con-
stitution and the provisions thereof.

STATE OF NEW YOKK, )
Office of the Secretary of /State. )

I have compared the preceding with the original law on
file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a
correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said
original law.

Given under my hand and seal of office, at the City
of Albany, this eleventh day of February, in the
year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

OHAUNCEY M. DEPEW,

Secretary of Stale.

On the 24th of February, the Legislature passed the
following bill relative to bounties. It differs from the
preceding bill only as regards the State loan for bounties,
enacting that in case the people shall not authorize the

Doc. No. 12. 328

State loan to pay the debt, as provided for in the preced-
ing act, then said debt shall be paid by immediate taxa-
tion. This act also confirms and legalizes the ordinances
of the Board of Supervisors :

CHAPTER 41.

AN" ACT

TO PROVIDE FOB FILLING THE QUOTA OF MEN REQUIRED FROM
THIS STATE FOR THE ARMY AND NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES,
AND TO AMEND SECTION TWENTY-TWO OF CHAPTER, EIGHT OF
THE LAWS OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY- FOUR, AND TO
REGULATE LOCAL BOUNTIES TO VOLUNTEERS, DRAFTED MEN,
OR SUBSTITUTES.

Passed February 24, 1865 ; three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of Neio York, represented in Senate
and Assembly, do enact as follows :

SECTION 1. For the purpose of filling the quota of men
required for the army and navy of the United States from
this State, under the last call of the President, dated
December nineteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-four,
and also under any future call or calls which may be made
during the present war, a State bounty shall be paid to
volunteers furnished from this State, as in this act is pro-
vided.

SEC. 2. Such bounty shall be paid to so many volun-
teers furnished bv the several towns and cities of this

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State as shall be necessary to fill the quota of said towns
and cities respectively, fixed by the authorities of the
Government of the United States, under said call or calls ;
provided, that no bounty shall be paid to any volunteer
until he shall have enlisted and have been accepted and
credited upon the quota of the town or city from which
he shall enlist, by the authorities of the United States ;
and provided, also, that said bounty shall only be paid to
non commissioned officers, musicians, and privates enlist-
ing in the armies of the United States, and to persons en-
listing in' the navy thereof, and who shall be credited by
the authorities of the United States upon the quotas of
the towns or cities in this State from which they shall en-
list under said call or calls ; and provided, also, that no
such bounty shall be paid to any volunteer, substitute, or
drafted man who shall volunteer, be substituted, or be
drafted to fill up any quota, or to fill up any deficiency
of any quota of any city, county, or town, arising upon
any call for men made before the nineteenth day of De-
cember, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four. And
where, before the passage of this act, any town, city, or
county, by means of local bounties, raised and paid under
chapter eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-
four, shall have filled its quota, or any part thereof, re-
quired by the call of December nineteen, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-four, or shall have furnished an excess of
men or of years of service under the call of July eigh-
teen, eighteen hundred and sixty -four, by furnishing men

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for one or more years, who, being or having been credited,
before or since said call of December nineteen, eighteen
hundred and sixty -four, to said town, city, or county, shall
have operated to relieve, in whole or in part, said town,
city, or county from furnishing men under the call of
December nineteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the
bounties so raised and paid, not exceeding the rates and
sums mentioned in this act, shall be refunded from the
moneys to be obtained ; or, in case the said moneys shall
be insufficient for the purposes of this act, by the Comp-
troller giving credit therefor to the several cities, coun-
ties or towns, by which the said bounties have been so
raised and paid. And where there shall arise any dif-
ference or dispute as to the amount of money that ought
to be refunded or credited to any county, city, or town,
or as to any question in reference thereto, the same shall
be finally adjusted and determined by the Governor,
Comptroller, and Attorney-General, who shall be a board
for tl:at purpose.

SEC. 3. There shall be paid to each volunteer aforesaid
a sum not exceeding the sum of six hundred dollars
($600) if he enlists for three years ; four hundred dollars
($400) if he enlists for two years ; and three hundred dol-
lars ($300) if he enlists for one year. And there shall also
be paid to each drafted man who shall be actually mus-
tered into the military or naval service of the United
States the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250).

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SEC. 4. No city, county, or town shall hereafter bor-
row or raise by tax any money, or authorize the borrow-
ing or raising by tax of any money for the purpose of
paying bounties to volunteers, drafted men or substitutes,
under the said call dated nineteenth of December, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-four, or any future call, otherwise
than is provided in section seven hereof, and not to ex-
ceed one hundred dollars ($100) for hand-money and for
incidental expenses for procuring each volunteer ; nor shall
any city, county, or town, or any individual, or any indi-
viduals, pay any money for such purpose or purposes
otherwise than as is herein provided (except that an indi-
vidual may in any way hire a substitute to exempt him-
self from draft) ; but nothing in this act shall be so con-
strued as to effect or invalidate any expenditures hither-
to made, or any obligations already incurred, or the levy-
ing of any tax for the discharge of such expenditures or
obligations ; and every act, proceeding, or resolution of
any Board of Supervisors, or of the Common Council of
any city, or of any board of town officers, or of any
officer of any county, city, or town, in contravention of
the provisions of this act, shall be void.

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broker, or any middleman, or any agent acting between
such, volunteer or substitute and the authorities for the
payment of such bounty or bounties, or of any part
thereof, to any other person, whether executed or not, is
hereby declared void ; and such volunteer or substitute,
or his heirs or personal representative or assigns, may at
any time within four years after the money shall be paid
or received, recover any money paid or received in viola-
tion of this act, with interest from the time of such pay-
ment or receipt, from the person or persons to or for
whom such money is paid or received. And in an action
for the recovery of money so paid or received the de-
fendant may be arrested, as provided in sections one hun-
dred and seventy-nine and one hundred and eighty-one of
the Code of Procedure; and the judgment recovered in
any such action may be collected by execution against
the person of the defendant, as provided in section two
hundred and eighty-eight of the Code of Procedure.

SEC. 0. A bounty, to t':e amount hereinbefore pro-
vided, shall be paid to any person who has furnished or
who shall furnish an acceptable substitute to apply on
the quota under the call of December nineteen, eighteen
hundred and sixty-four, which substitute shall have been
accepted by the authorities of the United States and
credited to the town, city or county in which said person
shall be enrolled, and which substitute shall go to reduce
the quota in such town, city or county, which bounty

333 Doc. No. 12.

shall be paid under such regulations as shall be prescribed
by the Governor, as Commander-in-Chief, by general
orders. But if any such person has received any sum
from any city, county, or town, he shall receive, by virtue
hereof, no more than enough to render the amount to be
paid to him equal to the bounty hereby provided for.

SEC. 7. Section twenty-two of chapter eight of the
laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled "An
Act to authorize the levying of a tax upon the taxable
property of the different counties and towns in this State,
to repay moneys borrowed for or expended in the pay-
ment of bounties to volunteers, or for the expenses of
their enlistment, or for aid to their families, or to pay
any liability incurred therefor, or that may hereafter be
incurred therefor, and to amend section one of chapter
live hundred and fourteen of the laws of eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-three," is hereby amended so as to read as
follows :

u The Board of Supervisors of the several counties in this
State are hereby authorized and empowered, at any meet-
ing of the said Board duly called and convened, to adopt
resolutions to provide for raising money upon the credit
of their respective counties, for the use of said county,
or upon the credit of any city or town thereof, for the
sole use of said city or town, or to levy and impose
a tax upon the taxable property of their respect! re coun-

Doc, No. 12. 334

ties for the use of said county, or upon any town or city
thereof, for the sole use of said town or city, for the pur-
pose of paying bounties to volunteers into the military
or naval service of the United States, during the existence
of the war now carried on, and for the purpose of paying
the incidental expenses of such volunteering, and of rais-
ing such moneys, and for the purpose of furnishing tem-
porary relief to the families of such volunteers ; but no
such money shall be raised upon the credit of any town,
nor shall any tax for money to be raised upon the credit
of any town be levied and imposed upon the taxable prop-
erty of such town, except upon the vote of a majority of
the electors of said town, present and voting at an annual
town meeting, or at a meeting called for that purpose,
in accordance with the provisions of the Revised Stat-
utes for calling special town meetings, and special
town meetings may be called for that purpose ; nor
of any city, except upon a vote of a majority of all the
members elect to the Common Council thereof, duly cer-
tified and transmitted (except in the City and County of
NQW York) to the Board of Supervisors of the county.
And any and all taxes imposed by a vote of such electors
upon the taxable property of any town, for the raising of
money for any purposes mentioned in this section, shall
be levied by such Board of Supervisors upon the taxable
property of said town, and collected in the manner pro-
vided in the eleventh section of this act, for the collection
of taxes therein mentioned ; provided, however, that no

335 Doc, No. 12.

sum or bounty shall be raised, or paid, or offered, under the
provisions of this section, to a greater amount than three
hundred dollars ($300) for a one-year volunteer or substi-
tute, four hundred dollars ($400) dollars for a two-years
volunteer or substitute, and six hundred dollars ($600)
for a three-years volunteer or substitute, and two hun-
dred and fifty dollars ($250) for a drafted man. And the
sums so raised and paid by the said cities, counties and
towns to the amounts aforesaid, and no more, shall be re-
funded or credited in the same manner as is provided in
section two of this act. The ordinances of the Board of
Supervisors of the County of New York, passed June
fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, January ten,
eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and February one,
eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to provide for the pro-
curement of volunteers for the armies of the United
States, as part and parcel of the quota of the City of New
York under the call of the President for men, are hereby
declared to be lawful and of binding force, so far as they
are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

SEC. 8. The sum of thirty million dollars ($30,000,000),
or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose,
is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the
bounties provided for by this act,

SEC, 9, There shall be levied, imposed and assessed

Doc. No. 12. 336

upon the real and personal estate in the State liable to
taxation a tax not exceeding two per centum, the avails
of which shall be devoted to restoring to the treasury
the moneys drawn therefrom by the appropriations pro-
vided for in this act,

. 10. Until the said tax shall be paid into the trea-
sury, the Comptroller is authorized to borrow from any
of the funds in the treasury, upon the credit of the gene-
ral fund, and to charge to it, or in any other legal way to
borrow such sums as may be necessary for the carrying
out of the provisions of this act; which sums thus bor-
rowed shall, as soon as the avails of the said tax are re-
ceived into the treasury, be repaid by the general fund.

SEC. 11. This act is hereby declared to be a law from
the time of its passage ; but it shall not take effect until
after the canvass of the votes by the Board of State Can-
vassers after the next general election ; and if it shall then
appear at such canvass that a majority of the votes cast
at such election upon the question of creating a State
debt for the purpose of raising money to pay bounties for
the purpose of filling the quota of men called for from
this State under the said call of December nineteen,
eighteen hundred and sixty -four, passed February ten,
eighteen hundred and sixty-five, has been against creating
such debt, then the said Board of State Canvassers shall
at once, upon completing such canvass, certify that fact

337 Doc. No. 12.

in writing to the Governor, and the Governor shall at
once, upon being so certified, issue his proclamation
declaratory thereof ; and from the day of issuing of said
proclamation this act shall take effect. But if, in making
such canvass, it shall appear that a majority of the votes
cast upon the said question have been for creating the
said debt, then the said Board of State Canvassers shall
at once, in writing, certify that fact to the Governor ;
and the Governor shall at once, by proclamation, make
public such result ; and this act shall not then take effect
until after the adjournment of the next Legislature.

STATE OF NEW YOKK, )
Office of the Secretary of State, I

1 have compared the preceding with the original law
on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same
is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said
original law.

Given under my hand tind eai of office, at the City
of Albany, this twenty-fifth day of February, in
the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
five.

CHAUNOEY M. DEPEW.

Secretary of Stale.

..'On the 25th of February, the Legislature passed the
following law relative to interest on the New York
County bonds :

Doc. No. 12. 338

CHAPTER 42.

AN ACT

TO PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT OF INTEREST ON BONDS AUTHOR-
IZED TO BE ISSUED BY THE SUPERVISORS OF THE COUXTY OF
NEW YORK.

Passed February 25, 1805 ; three-tit't s is being preseut.

The People of the State of Neiv York, represented in Senate
and Assembly, do enact as follows :

SECTION 1. The Supervisors of the County of New York
are hereby authorized and directed to raise, from year to
year, by tax upon the taxable property within said
County, a sufficient amount to pay the interest on the
bonds issued under and pursuant to the ordinances of
said Supervisors, passed respectively on the fourteenth
day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the tenth
day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and the
first day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-five,
and confirmed by the act entitled "An act to provide for
filling the quota of men required from this State for the
army and navy of the United States, and to repeal sec-
tion twenty -two of chapter eight of the laws of eighteen

Doc. No. 12.

hundred and sixty-four, and to prohibit any local bounties
to volunteers, drafted men, or substitutes, and to raise
money by an issue of the bonds of the State, and to pro-
vide for submitting the question thereon to the people,"
passed February ten, in the year eighteen hundred and
sixty-five.

SEC. 2. This act shall take eifect immediately.

STATE OF .NEW YOKK, )
Office of the Secretary of State. }

I have compared the preceding with the original law
on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same
is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said
original law.

C-riven under my hand arid seal of office, at the City
of Albany, this twenty-sixth day of February,
in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five.

CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW,

Secretary of State >

On the 27th. of February, the following bill, being part
of the foregoing series of bounty enactments, was passed
by the. Legislature ;

Doc. No. 12. 340

CHAPTER 56.

AN ACT

TO PROVIDE MEANS FOR THE PAYMENT OF BOUNTIES DIRECTED
TO BE PAID BY THE ACT, CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE, OF THE
LAWS OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE.

Passed February 27. 1865; three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate
and Assembly, do enact as follows :

SECTION 1. There shall be imposed, levied and collected
for the fiscal year commencing on tha first day of Octo-
ber, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, a tax of two per
cent, upon the assessed value of the real and personal pro-
perty in the State of New York, or so much thereof as
may be necessary to provide for the payment of the boun-
ties directed to be paid by the act, chapter twenty-nine,
of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty -five, which tax
shall be levied, collected and paid into the State treasury
in the same manner that all other State taxes are required
to be levied, collected and paid.

SEC. 2. For the purpose of raising the money required
for said bounties, without delay, the Comptroller is au-
thorized to issue bonds in anticipation of the said tax, to
such an amount as may be necessary, and in such sumi*

-341 Doc. No. 12.

and forms as may be most convenient, at a rate of interest
not exceeding seven per cent, per annum.

SEC. 3. The sum of thirty million dollars ($30,000,000),
or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appro-
priated from any moneys in the treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the aforesaid
bounties, the principal and interest of the said bonds, and
the necessary expenses of carrying into effect this act,
and also the act, chapter twenty-nine, aforesaid, not in-
cluding, however, any expenses of the military authori-
ties.

SEC. 4. Any moneyed institution, incorporated under
the laws of this State, may invest the moneys held by it
in the said bonds or in the stock of this State to any ex-
tent which it may deem proper, without regard to the
amount to which it may have been limited in making
such investments by its charter.

SEC. 5. If the aforesaid act, chapter twenty-nine, of the
laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five, shall be ap-
proved by the people at the next general election, as
therein provided, then the tax imposed by the first section
of this act shall not be levied and collected, but the said
bonds to be issued by the Comptroller under this act
shall be paid from the proceeds of the stocks authorized
by said chapter twenty-nine, or shall, at the option of

Doc. No. 12. 342

the State, be converted into such stocks bearing the sam<}
rate of interest as the said bonds.

SEC. 6. If the debt proposed by chapter twenty-nine
of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five shall
be approved by the people at the next general election,
as therein provided, the Comptroller, so soon as such ap-
proval shall be known to his satisfaction from the official
returns received by him or by either of the State Can-
vassers, shall issue a circular directing the tax herein
provided for to be omitted, and shall direct a copy of
such circular to the Treasurer and another to the clerk
of the Board of Supervisors of each county.

SEC. 7. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATE OF NEW YOJRK,
Offi-w of the Secretary of State

I have compared the preceding with the original law
on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same
is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said
original law.

OHAUNOEY M. DEPEW,

Secretary of State.

The following act, amendatory of the previous bounty
laws of 1865, was passed by the Legislature March 29 :

343 Doc. No. 12.

H A P T E U 2 2 6.

AN ACT

TO AMEND CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE OF THE LAWS OF EIGHTEEN
HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE ; AND TO AMEND CHAPTER FORTY-
ONE OF THE LAWS OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE ;
AND TO AMEND CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX OF THE LAWS OF EIGH-
TEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE ; AND IN RELATION TO PRO-
VIDING THE MEANS FOR THE PAYMENT OF BOUNTIES AND
FOR REIMBURSING AND REFUNDING MUNICIPALITIES FOR
BOUNTIES PAID BY THEM.

Passed March 29, 1SG5 ; three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate
and Assembly, do enact, as follows :

SECTION 1. Section six of chapter twenty-nine of the
laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five, passed February^
ten, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, is hereby amended
so as to read as follows :

" 6. A bounty, to the amount heretofore provided,
shall be paid to any person, and to any drafted man, who
has furnished or who shall furnish an acceptable substi-
tute, or to any person who shall be drafted, to apply on
the quota under the call of December nineteen, A. D.
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, which substitute or
drafted man shall have been accepted by the authorities

Doc. No. 12. 344

of the United States and credited to the town, city, or
county in which said person or drafted man shall be en-
rolled, and which substitute or drafted man shall go to
reduce the quota in such town, city, or county ; which
bounty shall be paid under such regulations as shall be
prescribed by the Governor, as Commander-in-Chief, by
general orders. But if any such person or drafted man
has received any sum from any city, county, or town, he
shall receive by virtue hereof no more than enough to
make the amount to be paid to him equal to the bounty
hereby provided for."

SEC. 2. Section six of chapter forty-one of the laws of
eighteen hundred and sixty-five, passed February twenty-
four, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, is hereby amended
so as to read as follows :

" 6. A bounty, to the amount hereinbefore pro-
vided, shall be paid to any person or drafted man who
has furnished or who shall furnish an acceptable substi-
tute, or to any person who shall be drafted, to apply on
the quota under the call of December nineteen, A. i>.
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, which substitute or
drafted man shall have been accepted by the authorities
of the United States and credited to the town, city, or
county in which said person or drafted man shall be en-
rolled, and which substitute or drafted man shall go to
reduce the quota in such town, city, or county, which

345 Doc. No. 12.

county shall be paid under such regulations as shall be
prescribed by the Governor, as Commander-in-Chief, by
general orders. But if any such person or drafted man
has received any sum from any city, county, or town, he
shall receive, by virtue hereof, no more than enough to
make the amount to be paid to him equal to the bounty
hereby provided for,"

SEC. 3. Chapter fifty-six of the laws of eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-five is hereby amended so that the several
sections thereof, herein specified, shall read as follows :

" L There shall be imposed, levied and collected,
for the fiscal year commencing on the first day of Octo-
ber, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, a tax of two per
cent, upon the assessed value of the real and personal
property in the State of New York, or so much thereof
as may be necessary to provide for the payment and re-
imbursement or refunding or crediting of the bounties
directed to be paid, reimbursed, refunded, or credited by
the act, chapter twenty-nine, of the laws of eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-five, and by the act, chapter forty-one, of
the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five ; which tax
shall be levied, collected and paid into the State treasury
in the same manner that all other State taxes are required
to be levied, collected and paid.

" 2. For the purpose of raising the money required

Doc. No. 12. 346

therefor, without delay, the Comptroller is authorized
to issue bonds in anticipation of the said tax to such
an amount as may be necessary, and in such sums and
forms as may be most convenient, at a rate of interest not.
exceeding seven per cent, per annum.

" 3. The sum of thirty million dollars ($30,000,000),
or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appro-
priated from any moneys in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated, for the purpose of paying the aforesaid
bounties, the principal and interest of the said bonds,
and the necessary expenses of the Comptroller in carry-
ing into effect this act, and also the act, chapter twenty-
nine aforesaid, not including, however, any exp enses of
the military authorities.

"4. Any moneyed institution incorporated under the
law.- of this State may invest the moneys held by it in
the snr! bonds or in thc> stocks of this State, to any ex-
tent which it may deem proper, without regard to the
amount to which it may have been limited in making
such investments by its charter. And the Comptroller
may issue to cities, counties and towns, for the reimburs-
ing or refunding to the same of the bounties paid by
them, the reimbursing or refunding of which is authorized
by sections two and seven of chapter twenty-nine of the
laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five (notwithstanding
and without waiting the happening of the contingency in

347 Doc. No. 12.

said section seven contemplated), the bonds authorized by
this act, and he may deliver the same to such official per-
son of the said cities, counties, or towns, respectively, as
shall be authorized to receive the same by law, or by the
general orders of the Governor, as Commander-in-Chief,
and in the manner and at the times in sitch law or in
such general orders prescribed.

' 5. If a law in pursuance of section twelve, article
seven of the constitution of this State, for creating or
contracting a debt for the providing of means for the
payment of bounties, to be submitted to the people, shall
be approved by the people at the next general election, as
therein provided, then the tax imposed by the first section
of this act shall not be levied and collected, but the bonds
to be issued by the Comptroller under this act shall be
converted into the bonds authorized by the law so submit-
ted and approved, in the manner therein provided. And
the provisions of this act shall apply to any moneys al-
ready furnished to the Comptroller for the purposes afore-
said, and to any subscriptions or agreements already made
for the furnish I no 1 of money for such purpose.

" 6. If the law mentioned in section five hereof
shall be approved by the people at the next general elec-
tion, as therein provided, the Comptroller, so soon as such
approval shall be known to his satisfaction from the
official returns received by him or by either of the State

Doc. No. 12. 348

Canvassers, shall issue a circular directing the tax herein
provided for to be omitted, and shall direct a copy of
such circular to the Treasurer and another to the clerk of
the Board of Supervisors of each county.''

SEC. 4. So much of section three of chapter twenty-
nine aforesaid, and of section three of chapter forty-one
aforesaid, as reads as follows: "And there shall also be
paid to each drafted man who shall be actually mustered
into the military or naval service of the United States
the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars," is hereby re-
pealed.

SEC. r>. This amendatory act shall take effect immedi-
ately.

STATE OF NEW YOKK,
Office of the Secretary of State.

I have compared the preceding with the original law
on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same
is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said
original law.

OHAUNCEY M. DEPEW,

Secretary of State.

The following act relative to reimbursing counties and
individuals for bounties paid for men credited under the
call of December 19, 1864, was passed April 7 :

349 Doc. No. 12.

CHAPTERS 5.

AN ACT

TO PROVIDE THE MEiNS OF FAYING BOUNTIES AUTHORIZED BY
LAW, AND OF REIMBURSING MUNICIPALITIES FOR BOUNTIES
PAID BY THEM IN PURSUANCE OF LAW, BY CREATING A STATE
DEBT FOR THAT PURPOSE ; AND TO SUBMIT TO THE PEOPLE
THE QUESTION OF CREATING SUCH DEBT, AND TO REPEAL CER-
TAIN SECTIONS OF CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE OF THE LAWS OF
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE.

Passed April 7, 18(35 ; three-lifihs being present.

The People of the /State of New York, represented in /Senate
and Assembly, do enact as follows :

SECTION 1. To provide the means of paying all boun-
ties authorized by law to be paid by this State to volun-
teers, drafted men. or substitutes, and to provide the
means of reimbursing cities, counties, and towns for boun-
ties paid by .them to volunteers, drafted men, or substi-
tutes, so far as the bounties so paid by them are author-
ized by a law of this State, to be reimbursed or refunded
to them, a debt of this State is hereby created and author-
ized to be contracted, which debt shall be for the single

7 O

object of paying, reimbursing and refunding the. said
bounties.

SEC. 2. The debt hereby created and authorized to be

Doc. No. 12. 350

contracted shall not exceed the sum of thirty million
dollars ($30,000,000), and there shall be imposed, levied
and assessed upon the taxable property of this State a
direct annual tax, to pay the interest on the said debt,
as such interest falls due, which said direct annual' tax
shall be sufficient to pay such interest as it falls due.
And to create a sinking fund for the payment of said
debt, there shall also be imposed, levied and assessed
upon the taxable property of this State a direct annual
tax to pay, and sufficient to pay, in the space of twelve
years from the time of the passage of this act, the whole
of the debt created and contracted under and by the pro-
visions of this act.

SEC. 3. To obtain the money necessary for the purposes
contemplated by this act, the Comptroller is authorized to
issue the bonds of the State in such sums each as shall seem
meet to him, with coupons thereto attached for the pay-
ment of the interest on such bonds, at a rate not exceeding
seven per centum per annum, half-yearly on the first days
of July and January in each year, until the principal
thereof is payable, at such place in the City of New York
as shall seem meet to him, and the whole principal shall
be payable at such place in New York City as the Comp-
troller shall deem meet, in twelve years from the passage
of this act. The bonds to be issued by the Comptroller
under the provisions of this act shall be disposed of by
the Comptroller as follows: First He shall, as soon

351 Doc. No. 12.

as may be after the approval of this act by the people,
issue at par to the holders of any of the revenue bonds of
this State which, under the provisions of any law of this
State, shall have been theretofore issued by him to raise
moneys for the payment of the bounties specified in the
first section of this act, or to reimburse or refund to
cities, counties, or towns the bounties paid by them, as
specified in the first section of this act, so much of the
bonds authorized by this act as shall equal in amount the
revenue bonds of this State which shall have heretofore
been issued by him as aforesaid. Second He shall then,
as to the remainder of the bonds authorized to be issued by
this act, before disposing of them or any of them, adver-
tise for proposals for the same, and shall open the pro-
posals and award the same to the highest bidder, at a
rate not less than par, which advertising and disposi-
tion shall be according to the provisions of law now ex-
isting.

SEC. . This act shall be submitted to the people at the
next general election to be held in this State. The Inspec-
tors of Election in the different election districts in this
State shall provide at each poll, on said election day, a
box in the usual form, for the reception of the ballots
herein provided ; and each and every elector of this State
may present a ballot, which shall be a paper ticket, on
which shall be printed or written, or partly written and
partly printed, one of the following forms, namely ; "For

Doc, No. 12. 352 .

the act to create a State debt to pay bounties," or
"Against the act to create a State debt to pay bounties."
The said ballots shall be so folded as to conceal the con-
tents of the ballot, and shall be indorsed, "Act in rela-
tion to bounties,"

SEC. 5. After finally closing the polls of such election,
Inspectors thereof shall, immediately and without ad-
journment, proceed to count and canvass the ballots given
in relation to the proposed act, in the same manner as
they are by law required to canvass the ballots given for
Governor ; and thereupon shall set down in writing, and
in words at full length, the whole number of votes given
u For the act to create a State debt," and the w r hole num-
ber of votes given " Against the act to create a State
debt," and certify and subscribe the same, and cause the
copies thereof to be made, certified and delivered, as pre-
scribed by law in respect to the canvass of votes given
at an election for Governor. And all the provisions of
law in relation to elections, other than for military and
tow r n officers, shall apply to the submission to the people
herein provided for.

SEC. (3. The Secretary of State shall, with all convenient
dispatch, after this act shall receive the approval of the
Governor, cause the same to be struck off and printed
upon slips, in such numbers as shall be sufficient to sup-
ply the different officers of this State concerned in notify-

353 Doc. No. 12.

ing or in holding elections, or in canvassing the votes,
and shall transmit the same to such officers.

SEC. 7. This act shall become a law when it is rati-
fied by the people, in pursuance of the constitution and
the provisions thereof.

SEC. 8. Sections eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, and
thirteen of chapter twenty-nine of the laws of eighteen
hundred and sixty-five are hereby repealed,

STATE OF NEW YORK, )
Office of the Secretary of State. }

I have compared the preceding with the original law
on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same
is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said
original law.

CHAUNCET M. DEPEW,

Secretary of State.

The following bill relative to the bounty ordinances of
the Board of Supervisors \vas passed April 21 :

Doc. No. 12. 354

CHAPTER 515,

AN ACT

TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO LEGALIZE CEETAIN ORDI-
NANCES OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE COUNTY OF
NEW YORK, AND PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE BONDS
THEREIN SPECIFIED ; ALSO, TO AUTHORIZE THE BORROWING
OF AN ADDITIONAL AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR THE PAYMENT OF
RIOT DAMAGES AND MILITARY BOUNTIES," PASSED FEBRUARY
EIGHT, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR.

Passed April 21, 1865 ; three-fifths being present.

The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate
and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section five of the act entitled " An act to
legalize certain ordinances of the Board of Supervisors
of the County of New York, and provide for the pay-
ment of the bonds therein specified ; also, to authorize
the borrowing of an additional amount of money for the
payment of riot damages and military bounties," passed
February eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, is here-
by amended by striking out the words " six per cent."
and inserting in lieu thereof the words, " seven per cent,"

355 Doc. No. 12.

provided nothing herein contained shall apply to any
bonds already issued,

SEC, 2, Tins act shall take effect immediately.

STATE OF NEW YORK, )
Office of the Secretary of State, j

1 I have compared the preceding with the original law
on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same
is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said
original law.

CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW,

Secretary of State.

APPENDIX C.

The Change in Quotas Letter of President Lincoln Eeport of the
Government Oommission on the Quota Eeport of the Ehode
Island Oommission on the Quota The New Enrolment Law of

The President to the Governor of Vermont.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, )
Washington, February 8, 1865. j

His Excellency, Governor SMITH. Vermont :

Complaint is made to me by Vermont that the assign-
ment of the quota for the draft on the pending call is
intrinsically unjust, and also in bad faith of the Govern-
ment's promise to fairly allow credits for men previously
furnished. To illustrate, a supposed case is stated as fol-
lows:

Vermont and Kew Hampshire must, between them,
furnish six thousand men on the pending call, and being
equal, each must furnish as many as the other in the
long run. But the Government finds that, on former
calls, Vermont furnished a surplus of five hundred and
New Hampshire a surplus of one thousand five hundred ;
these two surpluses making two thousand, and added to
the six thousand, making eight thousand to be furnished
by the two States, or four thousand each, less by fair
credits, Then subtract Vermont surplus of five hundred
front her four thousand, leaves three thousand five hun-
dred as her quota on the pending call, and likewise sub-
tract Kew Hampshire surplus of one thousand five hun-

Doc. No. 12. 360

dred from her four thousand, leaves two thousand five hun-
dred as her quota on the pending call. Thus, three thou-
sand five hundred and two thousand five hundred makes
precisely the six thousand which the supposed case requires
from the two States ; and it is just equal for Vermont to fur^
nisli one thousand more now than New Hampshire, because
New Hampshire has furnished heretofore one thousand
more than Vermont, which equalizes the burdens of the
two in the long run ; and this result, so far from being
bad faith to Vermont, is indispensable to keeping good
faith with New Hampshire. By no other result can the
six thousand men be obtained from the two States, and
at the same time deal justly and keep faith with both,
and we do but confuse ourselves in questioning the pro-
cess by which the right result is reached. The supposed
case is perfect as an illustration.

The pending call is not for three hundred thousand
men subject to fair credits, but is for three hundred thou-
sand remaining after all fair credits have been deducted ;
and it is impossible to concede what Vermont asks, with-
out coming out short of the three hundred thousand men,
or making other localities pay for the partiality shown her.

This upon the case stated. If there be different reasons
for making an allowance to Vermont, let them be pre-
sented and considered.

Yours, truly,

A. LINCOLN.

361 Doc. No. 12.

Report of the Committee appointed to examine
into the January Assignment of Quotas.

WAR DEPARTMENT, }

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, >

Washington, February 17, 1865. j

[General Order No. 22.]

The following report of the Board appointed by the
President of the United States to examine and correct the
quotas of the several States and districts, under the call
for volunteers of December 19, 1864, is published for the
information of all concerned :

WASHINGTON, D. 0., February 16, 1865.

His Excellency, ABRAHAM LINCOLN,

President of the United States,

Washington, D. C. :

SIR

The Board convened by the following order:

EXECUTIVE MANSION, )

Washington City, February 6, 1865. j

Whereas, Complaints are made in some localities re-
specting the assignments of quotas and credits allowed
for the pending call of troops to fill up the armies. Now, in
order to determine all controversies in respect thereto, and
to avoid any delay in filling up the armies, it is ordered

Doc. No. 12. 362

First That the Attorney-General, Brig.-Gen. Kichard
Delafield, and Col. C. W. Foster be and they are here-
by constituted a board to examine into the proper quo-
tas and credits of the respective States and districts, under
the call of December 19, 1864, with directions that if any
errors be found therein to make such corrections as the
law and facts may require, and report their determination
to the Provost-Marshal General. The determination of
said board to be final and conclusive, and the draft to be
made in conformity therewith.

Second The Provost-Marshal General is ordered to
make the draft in the respective districts as speedily as
the same can be done after the 15th of this month.

(Signed) ABRAHAM LINCOLN,

-have respectfully to report as follows :

The call for three hundred thousani (300,000) men
made by the President December 19, 18(H, requires that
that number shall be raised.

But the law requires that the number of men previously
furnished by different localities and the period of their
service shall be considered, so as to equalize the draft.

The number of men liable to do military duty is to be
determined by the enrolment list,

363 Doc. No. 12.

The number of men which had been furnished by the
various localities, and their periods of service, were ascer-
tained, and previous accounts having been adjusted, the
excesses, where they existed, were carried forward under
the last draft.

The amount of service furnished is determined by inul-
tiplying the number of men raised by the number of
years for which they enlisted. Having thus ascertained
the number of men enrolled on the 31st of December,
1864, the number of men furnished up to that date> the
localities from which they came, and the period of their
service, it is proposed to distribute the call for three hun-
dred thousand (300,000) men among the several districts
and parts of districts according to the number enrolled
in each, and the number of men furnished, and the period
of service previously rendered by each-

The process by which this is accomplished is as follows :
Take the whole number of years of service furnished by
the districts of the United States from the commence-
ment of the rebellion to the 31st of December, 1864 ;
from that sum deduct the whole number of men fur-
nished from all the districts of the United States up to
that date. The remainder will be the excess of years of
service furnished by all the districts. Multiply the call
of December 19, 1864, by three, to have the number of
years of service upon that call, and to this add the ex-
cess as ascertained above* Then, as the number of men

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enrolled from the whole United States up to the 31st of
December, 1864, is to the period of service, as above
ascertained, so is the number of men enrolled in a given
district to the number of years of service it is required to
furnish, including its pro rata share of the excess. From
this deduct the actual excess the district has furnished ;
the remainder is the number of years of service which the
district is required to furnish under the call of December
19, 1864, which, divided by three, gives the number of
men required from the district.

As this call is for three hundred thousand (300,000)
men, that number cannot be reduced by men going in
for a period longer than one year. Inequalities pro-
duced by men going in under this call for longer periods
than one year must be equalized on future calls.

It will be perceived that, though the aggregate of the
excess furnished is added to the whole call, the excess of
each district is afterwards subtracted from its quota. Thus
the number of men called for is neither increased nor
diminished, but equally produced, considering the num-
ber of men and the period of their service. Localities
which have heretofore furnished a greater amount of
service have, in proportion to their enrolment, a less
amount to furnish under this, and e converse*.

Men having heretofore enlisted for one, two, and three
years, it is necessary to take one of those periods as the

365 Doc. No. 12.

basis of the calculation. As three years embraces both
the other periods, it makes the calculation more simple to
adopt that. The same result would be arrived at by
adopting either one or two years as the basis ; but the
process of calculation would be more complicated.

Such We find the rule adopted by the Provost-Marshal
General. The rule is in conformity with the require-
ments of the law of Congress, and is just and equitable.

We have carefully examined and proved the work done
under this rule by the Provost-Marshal General, and find
that it has been done with fairness.

We file in the Provost-Marshal General's office our cal-
culations of quota of each and every district indorsed by

us as correct.

JAMES SPEED,

Attorney General of the United States.

RICHARD DELAFIELD,

Brig.- Gen. and Chief Eng. United States.

C. W. FOSTER,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant- General,

Approved February IT, 1865,

A. LINCOLN.

By order of the Secretary of War,

E, D, TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant- General,

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Communication of the Governor of Rhode Island
to the Legislature of that State, touching its
Quota,

ENT, I
5. )

COMMUNICATION,

STATE OF EHODE ISLAND,

EXECUTIVE DEPABTMENT
Providence, February 13, 1865

Gentlemen of the Senate

and House of Representatives :

On the 6th instant, I despatched my private secretary,
Colonel Charles E. Bailey, to Washington, for the purpose
of bringing to the notice of the War Department the in-
justice of the quota assigned to Rhode Island, under the
last call of the President of the United States for three
hundred thousand (300,000) men, issued December 19,
1865.

I present herewith the report of that officer, for your
information.

JAMES Y. SMITH.

367 Doc, No. 12,

REPORT.

STATE OP RHODE ISLAND, )

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, j-

Providence, February 13, 1865. )

His Excellency, JAMES Y. SMITH,

Governor of Rhode Island, Providence, R. I. :

GOVERNOR

I have the honor to report that, in accordance with
your Excellency's instructions, I proceeded to "Washing-
ton on the evening of the 6th instant, for the purpose of
obtaining from the War Department a reduction of the
quota which was assigned to the State of Rhode Island
under the recent call of the President for three hundred
thousand (300,000) men, issued December 19, 1864, or
procuring an extension of the time allowed for filling the
same.

On my arrival at Washington, I called upon Provost-
Marshal General Fry, accompanied by Hon. Thomas A.
Jenckes, member of Congress from Rhode Island, who
extended every attention and assistance in forwarding the
wishes of your Excellency.

I stated to General Fry the points which you directed
me to bring to his attention, and he expressed an entire

Doc. No. 12. 368

willingness to have the time allowed the State to fill its
quota extended, and requested that your Excellency
make the application to the Secretary of War. On the
subject of the abatement of the quota of the State, I
was referred to Captain George E. Scott, of the Veteran
Reserve Corps, in charge of the Enrolment Bureau,
who afforded every facility for the examination of
the plan upon which the quota now required from the
State was obtained. I was informed by Captain Scott
that the system adopted by the Provost-Marshal Gen-
eral's Department in assigning quotas to the several
States and districts under the recent call of the President,
was as follows ;

The number of men called for by the President, three
hundred thousand (300,000), was multiplied by three, to
reduce it to a one-year basis, giving nine hundred thou-
sand (900,000) ; to this sum was added the total excess of
years of service in all the States, which was stated to be
nearly five hundred thousand (500,000), making an aggre-
gate of one million four hundred thousand (1,400,000).
On the basis of a call for this number of men, the quotas
were then assigned to the different States, in proportion
to their enrolments, giving what is termed the "gross
quota," which is to be reduced by deducting any excess
of years of service the State may have furnished over all
previous calls ; and the remainder is divided by three, to
give the actual number of men required under the call.

369 Doc. No. 12.

If there is no excess, the whole " gross quota" is to be
divided by three.

The following are the official figures of Rhode Island,
as given me by Captain Scott :

Enrolment, eighteen thousand four hundred and
nineteen 18,419

" Gross quota," eleven thousand two hundred
and seventy-five 11,275

Excess of years of service over all previous calls,

six. thousand eight hundred and ninety-six 6,896

I then stated the following facts, to sustain the claim of
Rhode Island for abatement of quota.

First It is a self-evident proposition, that if the total
excess in all the States is but five hundred thousand
(500,000), and Rhode Island's share of this excess is suffi-
cient to meet a call for eight hundred thousand (800,000),
which is the fact, this State should not be required to
furnish any additional men, until the other States have
furnished three hundred thousand (300,000), and thus
brought themselves to an equal footing with our State.

Second By the method adopted by the Provost-Marshal
General in computing quotas under the present call, no

Doc. No. 12. 370

State or district would be out of the draft unless it had
an excess equal to its quota on a call for one million four
hundred thousand (1,400,000) men.

Third A State or district which has furnished no ex-
cess on previous calls could avoid the present draft by fur-
nishing one-third the number of men or years of service
required of those States or districts which have furnished
their quotas in advance of the call.

To substantiate these facts, I presented the following
statement, which shows the great injustice and inequality
in the practical working of the system pursued in assign-
ing quotas. In this statement three districts are assumed
to have the same enrolment, but to have furnished their
quotas under previous calls, with a different excess in each
case of actual men or years of service.

The application of the system to the given districts
was admitted at the department to be correct, and in ac-
cordance with the plan adopted.

Statement.

DISTRICT "A."

Enrolment, eighteen thousand (18,000). "Gross

quota," ten thousand five hundred 10,500

371 Doc. No. 12.

This district has furnished, in excess over
all previous calls, three thousand five hun-
dred (3,500) three-years men, which, by for-
mula issued January 25, is to be multiplied
by three to give the number of years of ser-
vice, which is ten thousand five hundred 10,500

District "A" is therefore out of the draft,
but has no excess after satisfying this call.

DISTRICT "B."

Enrolment, eighteen thousand (18,000). " Gross

quota," ten thousand five hundred 10,500

This district has furnished, in excess over
all previous calls, ten thousand five hundred

actual men to serve for one year 10,500

District " B " is therefore out of the draft,
but has no excess after satisfying this call.

DISTRICT "C."

Enrolment, eighteen thousand (18,000). ' Gross

quota," ten thousand five hundred 10,500

This district has furnished no excess beyond
previous calls; this quota is, therefore, by
the formula to be divided by three, giving
as the actual number of men required three

thousand five hundred 3,500

"Which, if furnished, relieves District "C "
also from the draft.

Doc. No. 12, 372

The injustice of this system is thus made apparent, as
well as the fact that the call falls most heavily upon such
States as have anticipated the necessities of the Govern-
ment, and used every effort to place men in the service in
advance of the requisitions of the President. Another
marked peculiarity in the system is the fact, that if
Rhode Island had furnished the one thousand four hun-
dred and fifty-nine (1,459) men now assigned as our
quota, the State would still be deficient nine hundred
and seventy-three (973) men, as will be shown below.

The quota assigned is obtained as follows ;

11,275 gross quota.
6,896 excess deducted.

3 ) 4,379 quota to be divided by three.

1,459 actual number required.

Now, if these one thousand four hundred and fifty-nine
(1,459) men had been furnished in advance of the call,
the excess would be just so much larger, and the same
operation would then be performed.

11,275 gross quota.
8,355 new excess deducted.

3 ) 2,920 quota to be divided by three,
973 actual number still required.

373 Doc. No. 12.

I also suggested that if the call had been considered as
for eight hundred thousand (800,000) men, and the quotas
assigned as on all previous calls, in proportion to the en-
rolment, the three hundred thousand (300,000) men ac-
tually required would be obtained, as the total excess of
credits is but five hundred thousand (500,000) ; yet the
burden would fall upon the deficient districts, and the
excess of Rhode Island would be found sufficient to satisfy
the call, as our quota would be six thousand six hundred
and ninety-eight (6,698), while our admitted excess is six
thousand eight hundred and ninety-six (6,896).

The legality of making the call on this plan, and that
it would fulfil all the requirements of the President's pro-
clamation, was admitted at the Department ; but deeming
the system pursued to be equally j ust and legal, it was
adopted, though the incorrectness of such a conclusion, it
is thought, is shown in the two statements above given,
which were left in the department for the consideration
of a board which I was informed had been instituted for
the purpose of investigating the system adopted by the
Provost-Marshal General in assigning quotas under the
present call. The report of this board cannot, it is
thought, sustain the decision on which Rhode Island is
required to furnish more men on that call, and will, it is
hoped, result in the withdrawal of the quota assigned.

Upon other matters which you instructed me to bring

Doc. No. 12. 374

to the notice of the department, I respectfully report,
upon the requisite formalities being complied with, the
action requested by your Excellency will undoubtedly be
promptly taken.

With great respect, Governor,
I have the honor to be,

Your Excellency's obedient servant,

(Signed) CHAELES E. BAILEY,

Colonel and A. D. C.

The New Enrolment Law of Congress.

WAR DEPARTMENT, }

PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL'S OFFICE, >

Washington, D. C.. March 8, 1865. )

[Circular Xo. 5.]

The following act of Congress is published for the in-
formation and guidance of all concerned:

AN ACT

TO AMEND THE SEVERAL ACTS HERETOFORE PASSED TO PROVIDE
FOR THE ENROLLING AND CALLING OUT THE NATIONAL
FORCES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

*####>##.#,*!

" SECTION 13. And be it further enacted, That where any
revised enrolment in any Congressional or draft district
has been obtained or made prior to any actual drawing'

375 Doc. No. 12.

of names from the enrolment lists, the quota of such dis-
trict may be adjusted and apportioned to such revised en-
rolment, instead of being applied to or based upon the en-
rolment as it may have stood before the revision.

" SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That hereafter all
persons mustered into the military or naval service,
whether as volunteers, substitutes, representatives, or oth-
erwise, shall be credited to the State, and to the ward,
township, precinct, or other enrolment subdistrict where
such persons belong by actual residence (if such persons
have an actual residence within the United States), and
where such persons were or shall be enrolled (if liable to
enrolment); and it is hereby made the duty of the Provost-
Marshal General to make such rules and give such instruc-
tions to the several Provost-Marshals, boards of enrol-
ment, and mustering officers, as shall be necessary for
the faithful enforcement of the provisions of this section,
to the end that fair and just credit shall be given to every
section of the country : Provided, That in any call for
troops hereafter, no county, town, township, ward, pre-
cinct, or election district shall have credit except for men
actually furnished on said call, or the preceding call, by
said county, town, township, ward, precinct, or election
district, and mustered into the military or naval service
on the quota thereof.

" SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That in computing

Doc. No. 12. 376

quotas hereafter, credit shall be given to ^the several
States, districts, and subdistricts, for all men furnished
from them, respectively, and not heretofore credited dur-
ing the present rebellion, for any period of service of not
less than three months, calculating the number of days
for which such service was furnished, and reducing the
same to years : Provided, That such credits shall not be
applied to the call for additional troops made by the
President on the twenty-first day of December, eighteen
hundred and sixty-four.

" SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That persons who
have been or may hereafter be drafted, under the pro-
visions of the several acts to which this is an amendment,
for the term of one year, and who have actually furnished
or may actually furnish acceptable substitutes (not liable
to draft) for the term of three years, shall be exempt from
military duty during the time for which such substitutes
shall not be liable to draft, not exceeding the time for
which such substitutes shall have been mustered into the
service, anything in the act of February twenty-four,
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to the contrary notwith-
standing.

"SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That any recruiting
agent, substitute broker, or other person who, for pay or
profit, shall enlist or cause to be enlisted as a volunteer
or substitute any insane person or convict, or person

377 Doc. No. 12.

under indictment for a felony, or who is held to bail to
answer for a felony, or person in a condition of intoxi-
cation, or a deserter from the military or naval service, or
any minor between the ages of sixteen and eighteen
years, without the consent of his parents or guardian, or
any minor under the age of sixteen years, knowing hirn^
in either case before mentioned, to be such, or who shall
defraud or illegally deprive any volunteer or substitute of
any portion of the State, local, or United States bounty
to which he may be entitled, shall, upon conviction in
any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined not ex-
ceeding one thousand, dollars, nor less than two hundred
dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding two years and not
less than three months, or both, in the discretion of the
court aforesaid.

"Sue. 18. And be it further enacted, That any officer
who shall muster into the military or naval service of the
United States any deserter from said service, or insane
person, or person in a condition of intoxication, or any
minor between the ages of sixteen and eighteen years,
without the consent of his parents or guardian, or any mi-
nor under the age of sixteen years, knowing him to be
such, shall, upon conviction by any court-martial, be dis-
honorably dismissed the service of the United States.

" SEC. 19. And be it further enacted^ That in every case
where a substitute is furnished to take the place of an en-

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rolled or drafted man, and it is shown by evidence that
shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of War that such
substitute was, at the time of his enlistment, known by the
party furnishing him to be non-compos mentis, or in a con-
dition of intoxication, or under conviction or indictment
for any offense of the grade of felony at the common law ,
or to have been guilty of a previous act of desertion un-
satisfied by pardon or punishment, or by reason of any
existing infirmity or ailment, physically incapable of per-
forming the ordinary duties of a soldier in actual service
in the ranks, or minor between the ages of sixteen and
eighteen years, without the consent of his parent or guar-
dian, or a minor under the age of sixteen years, it shall be
the duty of the Provost-Marshal General, on advice of
the fact, to report the same to the Provost-Marshal of the
proper district ; and if such person so enlisted and inca-
pable shall have been, since the passage of this act, mus-
tered into the service as a substitute for a person liable to
draft, and not actually drafted, the name of the person so
liable who furnished such substitute shall be again placed
on the list, and he shall be subject to draft thereafter as
though no such substitute had been furnished by him;
and if such substitute so enlisted, and incapable as afore-
said, shall have been, since the passage of this act, mus-
tered into the service as a substitute for a person actually
drafted, then it shall be the duty of the Provost-Marshal
General to direct the Provost-Marshal of the district im-
mediately to notify the person who furnished such substi-

379 Doc. No. 12.

tute that he is held to service in the place of such substi-
tute, and he shall stand in the same relation and be
subject to the same liability as before the furnishing of
such substitute.

" SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That in case any
substitute shall desert from the army, and it shall appear,
by evidence satisfactory to the Secretary of War, that
the party furnishing such substitute shall have, in any
way, directly or indirectly, aided or abetted such deser-
tion, or to have been privy to any intention on the part
of such substitute to desert, then such person shall be
immediately placed in the army, and shall serve for the
period for which he was liable to draft, such service to
commence at the date of the desertion of the substitute.

" SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That, in addition
to the other lawful penalties of the crime of desertion
from the military or naval service, all persons who have
deserted the military or naval service of the United
States, who shall not return to said service or report
themselves to a Provost-Marshal within sixty days after
the proclamation hereinafter mentioned, shall be deemed
and taken to have voluntarily relinquished and forfeited
their rights of citizenship and their rights to become citi-
zens ; and such deserters shall be forever incapable of
holding any 'office of trust or profit under the United
States, or of exercising any rights of citizens thereof; and

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all persons who shall hereafter desert the military or
naval service, and all persons who, being duly enrolled,
shall depart the jurisdiction of the district in which he is
enrolled, or go beyond the limits of the United States
with intent to avoid any draft into the military or naval
service, duly ordered, shall be liable to the penalties of
this section. And the President is hereby authorized
and required forthwith on the passage of this act, to issue
his proclamation setting forth the provisions of this sec-
tion, in which proclamation the President is requested to
notify all deserters returning within sixty days, as afore-
said, that they shall be pardoned on condition of return-
ing to their regiments and companies, or to such other
organizations as they may be assigned to, until they shall
have served for a period of time equal to their original
term of enlistment.

il SEC. 22. And be it further enacted, That the third sec-
tion of the act entitled "An act (further) to regulate and
provide for the enrolling and calling out the national
forces, and for other purposes," approved July four, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-four, be and the same is hereby
repealed.

"SEC. 23. And be it further enacted, That any person or
persons enrolled in any subdistrict may, after notice of a
draft, and before the same shall have taken' place, cause
to be mustered into the service of the United States such

381 Doc. No. 12.

number of recruits, not subject to draft, as they may
deem expedient, which recruits shall stand to the credit
of the persons thus causing them to be mustered in, and
shall be taken as substitutes for such persons, or so many
of them as may be drafted, to the extent of the number
of such recruits, and in the order designated by the prin-
cipals at the time such recruits are thus as aforesaid
mustered in.

" SEC. 24. And be itfurt/ier enacted, That section fifteen
of the act approved February twenty-four, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-four, entitled " An act for enrolling and
calling out the national forces, and for other purposes,"
be and the same is hereby amended, by inserting after
the words " any civil magistrate " the words " or any
person authorized by law to administer oaths."

" SEC. 25. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary
of War is hereby authorized to detail one or more of the
employees of the War Department for the purpose of ad-
ministering the oaths required by law in the settlement
of officers' accounts for clothing, camp and garrison equip-
age, Quartermaster's stores, and ordnance, which oaths
shall be administered without expense to the parties
taking them, and shall be as binding upon the persons
taking the same, and if falsely taken shall subject them
to the same penalties, as if the same were administered
by a magistrate or justice of the peace.

Doc. No. 12. 382

" SEC. 26. And be it further enacted, That Acting As-
sistant Surgeons, Contract Surgeons, and Surgeons and
Commissioners on the Enrolling Boards, while in the
military service of the United States, shall hereafter be
exempt from all liability to be drafted under the provi-
sions of any act for enrolling and calling out the national
forces.

" SEC. 27. And be it further enacted, That this act shall
take effect from and after its passage : Provided, That
nothing hereia contained shall operate to postpone the
pending draft, or interfere with the quotas assigned there-
for.

" Approved March 3, 1865."

[Sections from one to twelve inclusive, do not relate to
this Bureau, and are omitted.]

JAMES B. FRY,

Provost-Marshal General.

Orders of State Officers in regard to the Assumption of the Payment
of Bounties by the State.

Order of the State Adjutant-General.

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS STATE OF NEW YORK, "

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, V

Albany, February 28, 1865. )

[General Orders No. 6.]

. ; In pursuance of the act entitled " An Act to provide
for filling the quota of men required from this State for
the army and navy of the United States, and to amend
section twenty-two of chapter eight of the laws of eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-four, and to regulate local boun-
ties to volunteers, drafted men or substitutes," the follow-
ing regulations for the payment of bounties to volunteers
and drafted men credited to the quotas of this State
under the present and all future calls are hereby estab-
lished :

I. To all volunteers and drafted men enlisted and
drafted into the service within this State for the volunteer
land forces, payment of bounties will be made :

First On the enlistment and certificate of mustering,
or muster and descriptive rolls, of the men, the rendez-
vous to which they shall be sent or quartered within this
State.

Second Or on the power of attorney of the volunteer
or drafted man, such power of attorney to be duly

Doc. No. 12. 386

acknowledged before some officer authorized to take
acknowledgments under the laws of this State, if the
same shall be executed within the State. If executed
out of the State, the execution shall be witnessed by a
commissioned officer in the service of the United States,
and shall be countersigned by the immediate command-
ing officer of such volunteer or drafted man.

Third All payments of bounty shall be entered or in-
dorsed on the voucher on which it shall be paid, and
shall be witnessed by a subscribing witness of such known
personal identity as will be satisfactory to the officer
making the payment.

II. To all volunteers enlisting in the regular army, and
in the marine and naval service, credited to and allowed
on the quotas of this State, payments of bounties will be
made on the reports of regular recruiting officers for the
regular army and navy, and will be entered or indorsed
and witnessed thereon, as provided in part one, subdivi-
sion three.

III. The foregoing provisions are made subject to the
following conditions :

First That every volunteer mustered and credited for
three-years service, shall be paid the sum of six hundred

dollars ($600).

Second Every volunteer .mustered and credited for

387 Doc. No. 12.

two-years service, shall be paid the sum of four hundred
dollars ($400).

Third Every volunteer mustered and credited for
one-year service, shall be paid the sum of three hundred
dollars ($300).

fourth Every drafted man credited for any term of
service shall be paid the sum of two hundred and fifty
dollars ($250).

IY. To any person who shall furnish an acceptable
substitute at any time before such person shall be drafted,
there shall be paid, according to the provisions of said
act:

First On account of an acceptable substitute mustered
and credited for three-years service, the sum of six hun-
dred dollars ($600).

Second On account of an acceptable substitute mus-
tered and credited for two-years service, the sum of four
hundred dollars ($400).

Third On account of an acceptable substitute mus-
tered and credited for one-year service, the sum of three
hundred dollars ($300).

Fourth To any person who shall be drafted, whether
he subsequently furnish a substitute or not, he shall be
paid only as a drafted man, the sum of two hundred and
fifty dollars ($250).

Doc. No. 12. 388

V. The Paymaster-General is charged with the execu-
tion of this order, and to make immediate necessary ar-
rangements for paying bounties, at the following rendez-
vous : Hart's Island (New York City) ; Albany Barracks,
Elmira, and Auburn. Supplemental orders will imme-
diately be issued to provide for reimbursement of cities,
towns, and counties who shall, under the provisions of
law, be so entitled ; as also for payment of bounties for
enlistments in insurrectionary States.

By order of the Coramander-in-Chief.

(Signed) WM. IKVINE,

Adjutant- General.

Circulars of the Paymaster-General.

STATE OP NEW YORK,
PAYMASTER-GENERAL'S OFFICE
Albany, March 1, 1865

[Circular No. 1.]

CE,V

In accordance with General Orders No. 6, Adjutant-
General's office, State of New York, dated February 28,
1865, reference to which is hereby made, the bounties pro-
vided by chapter 29, Laws of 1865, will be paid to volun-
teers for the army and navy, persons furnishing acceptable

389 Doc. No. 12.

substitutes, and to drafted men, subject to the following
rules and regulations :

First Paymasters will be stationed at tne following
places for the payment of such bounties : New York City,
Albany, Elmira, and Auburn, and who wlil forthwith enter
upon the discharge of such duty, and to whom reference
should be made for the payment of all bounties under the
above mentioned act, from this date.

Second Proper blanks and forms will be issued to and
furnished by the Provost-Marshals of the several districts,
and payments will be made only upon such forms as may
be approved by this department.

Third No bounty will be paid to any broker, middle-
man or agent, but only to the volunteer, principal, or draft-
ed man in person, or by draft payable to his order, or to
his attorney duly empowered, as provided by subdivision
2, section 1, of G. O. No. 6, or to parties duly authorized
to receive the same in reimbursement of bounties here-
tofore legally paid under the aforesaid act, and as here-
inafter provided.

Fourth No bounties under the act will be paid in any
case except upon the certificate of a Provost-Marshal, or
other duly authorized mustering officer of the United
States, that the party or parties have been actually muster-
ed into the service of the United States, to apply upon the

Doc. No. 12. 390

quota of this State under the call of December 19, 1864,
and in the case of persons mustered into the service of the
United States prior to the payment of bounties under the
said act, a further certificate from such Provost-Marshal
or mustering officer, that no bounty has been paid or cer-
tificate for bounty issued to or on behalf 'of such person
or persons so mustered.

Fifth In the case of an accepted substitute,^the* prin-
cipal must furnish, in addition to the certified muster and
descriptive roll, under the regulations above set forth,
a further certificate by the Provost-Marshal that such
substitute has been accepted on behalf of such prin-
cipal under the provisions of the several acts of Con-
gress.

Sixth For reimbursement of any town, city, or county
for bounties paid in accordance with the call of De-
cember 19, 1864, and prior to the operation of chapter
29, Laws of 1865, there will be required by the Pay-
master-General muster and descriptive lists of recruits,
for the payment of whom reimbursement may be demand-
ed by such town, city, or county, with the certificate of
the Provost-Marshal of the district that such recruits
were credited to such town, city, or county on the call
of December 19, 1864, and a further statement by the
treasurer or other accredited agent making such pay-
ments, giving the names of the several recruits and
the amount of bounty paid to each, such certificate

391 Doc. No. 12.

to be duly verified and authenticated ; and in the case
of reimbursement of any locality for excess of men or
of years of service, as provided in section 2 of chap-
ter 29, aforesaid, the same evidence will be required
as in the case of reimbursement for bounties to recruits
under the^ call of December 19, 1864, with the fur
ther certificate of the Provost-Marshal that such excess
has been credited upon such call to the locality re-
questing reimbursement ; and reimbursement for such
excess of men or years of service will be adjusted only
upon evidence certified by the Provost-Marshal's depart-
ment.

Seventh It is also provided, that for any reimburse-
ment made to any town, city or county, it shall be optional
with them whether they receive the amount in money
or in the bonds of the State for one year, subject to the
ratification by the people at the next general election ;
and when so ratified, exchangeable for the bonds of the
State, as provided in the act aforesaid, running six,
twelve, and eighteen years ; or in case of a non-compliance
by the people, to be redeemed out of the funds raised by
tax, as provided in a supplementary bill to this act.

Eighth Kecruits enlisting in the regular army and the
navy or marine service, and credited to this State on the
call of December 19, 1864, will be paid the bounties pro-
vided by chapter 29, aforesaid, upon muster and descrip-
tive rolls and certificates of the regular mustering officers

Doc. No. 11 392

of the several arms of the service, as herein provided, to
be furnished by Provost-Marshals in case of enlistments
in the volunteer service.

Ninth Hand-money or incidental expenses will not be
paid or reimbursed by the State.

Tenth Attention is called to section 4, chapter 29,
Laws of 1865, relative to the further payment of boun-
ties by cities, towns, and counties.

(Signed) SELDEN E. MARVIN,

Paymaster- General.

STATE OF NEW YORK, }

P A YMASTEE- GENERAL'S OFFICE, >

Albany, March 30, 1865. )

[Circular No. 2.]

The following additional regulations in regard to the
bounties provided by chapter 29, Laws 1865, and the acts
supplementary thereto, are hereby established.

Reference is made to the blank forms herein published.

I. DRAFTED MEN.

1. Drafted Men mustered into the Service, and. not furnish-
ing Substitutes.

To every drafted man will be paid the sum of three
hundred dollars ($300), upon the regular muster and de-

Doc. No. 12.

scriptive rolls furnished by the Provost-Marshal of the
district in which he was drafted, and upon his arrival at
the general rendezvous.

2. Drafted Men furnishing Substitutes.

To every drafted man furnishing a substitute on the
call of December 19, 1864, the following bounties will be
paid, in pursuance of chapter 29, Laws 1865, and the sup-
plementary acts.

Substitute mustered and credited for three years . . $600

" " two years 400

" " one year 300

The same evidence will be required as provided in para-
graph 2, section 2, for reimbursement to towns, cities, and
counties, and in section 3 for reimbursement to individuals.

II. REIMBURSEMENT OF TOWNS, CITIES, AND COUNTIES.

1. To obtain reimbursement under the act for boun-
ties paid by towns, cities, and counties, the following
evidence will be required. Muster and descriptive rolls
(see Form "A"), affidavit of disbursing agents and certi-
ficate of authority (see Form "B "), and roll of recruits
and substitutes, with receipt attached (see Form "C ").

2. Principals furnishing Substitutes, and reimbursed by
Towns, Cities, and Counties-.

The same evidence required as in case of recruits, andj

Doc. No. 12. 394

in addition, the receipts of the principals for the bounty
refunded them for which claim is made.

3. Recruits enlisted into Regular Army, Naval and Marine

Service.

Muster and descriptive roll (Form "A"), affidavit of
disbursing agents and certificates of authority (Form "B").
and roll of recruits and substitutes, with receipt attached
(Form C").

4. Excess over former Calls.

When reimbursement is claimed for bounties paid to
recruits enlisted prior to December 19, 1864, under the
call of July 18, 1864, and which enlistments shall, by
excess of men or years of service, be credited in whole
or part upon the quota of any locality under the call of
December 19, 1864, as provided by section 2, chapter 29,
Laws of 1865, there will be required muster and descrip-
tive rolls (Form "A" ), affidavit of disbursing agent and
certificate of authority (Form "B") tho said affidavit
being amended by interpolation between the words " re-
spective names as bounties," and " for which sums," of
the following sentence : " Under the provisions of chapter
8, Laws of 1864," and supplemental roll (Form "E").
Claims for such excess in years of service will be adjusted
upon the basis of three-years service.

In case the muster and descriptive roll cannot be ob-
tained, there will be required the certificate of the Pro-

395 Doc. No. 12.

vost-Marshal of the District, approved by the Acting
Assistant Provost-Marshal General of the Division, giv-
ing the number of credits for excess of years allowed
said town, city, or county on the quota, section 19, 1864 :
but it is necessary that the muster and descriptive roll be
procured, if possible.

5. Recruits enlisted by Agents outside of the State.

The same evidence required as recruits enlisted within
the State.

III. REIMBURSEMENT OF INDIVIDUALS.

1. Principals furnishing Substitutes and not reimbursed in

any part by any Toiun, City, or County.

Muster and descriptive roll (Form "A"), certificate of
mustering officer, affidavit of principal, certificate of local
authorities and receipt of principal (Form " D ").

2. Principals furnishing Substitutes and partially reim-

bursed by any Town, City, or County.

Same form as in case no portion has been reimbursed
with the amendment of the affidavit of the principal, and
certificate of the local authorities, to accord with the
facts of such partial reimbursement and the total amount
thereof.

Doc. No. 12. 396

3. Principals furnishing Substitutes under call of July 18,
1864, and credited in whole or part on call of Decem-
ber 19, 1864.

There will be required the same evidence as above,
with the further supplemental roll (Form "E").

4. Recruiting Agents of the State at large.

Muster and descriptive roll (Form "A"), affidavit of re-
cruiting agent, affidavit of disbursing agent, and receipt
of recruiting agent (Form "F").

5. Persons enlisting beyond the borders of this State.

Muster and descriptive roll (Form "A") to be transmitted
through the commanding officer of the regiment, battal-
ion or battery, with his certificate that the recruit is pres-
ent with his command; and, in addition, evidence from
the Provost-Marshal's department that such recruit has
been credited to the State of New York on the quota
under the call of December 19, 1864.

IV". GENERAL REGULATIONS,

1. In all cases where papers submitted in support of
claims for reimbursement shall not be deemed satisfactory
to this department, such additional evidence will be re-

397 Doc. No. 12.

quired as may be necessary to fully establish such claims
in accordance with the provisions of chapter 29, Laws of
1865, and acts supplementary thereto.

2. Attention is specially called to section 2, chapter 29,
aforesaid, whereby it is provided that such'reimbursement
of bounties to cities, counties, or towns, shall be made in
money or in bonds ; " or in case the said moneys and the
said bonds shall be insufficient for the purposes of this act,
by the Comptroller giving credit therefor to the several
cities, counties, or towns by which the said bounties have
been raised and paid."

3. Hand-money or incidental expenses will not be re-
funded by the State.

4. The consideration of claims for bounties paid recruits
in excess of quotas under call of December 19, 1864,
will be deferred until all claims under that call have been
adjusted.

5. All claims for reimbursement for bounties will be
finally adjusted by the Paymaster-General, at Albany, to
whom parties may make application by person or by let-
ter. For the convenience of localities, persons Mail be
stationed at New York City, Elmira, Syracuse, and Buffa-
lo, with whom claims may be filed for preliminary exami-
nation, and to whom personal reference may be made for
information, and for such blanks, &c., as may be prepared

Doc. No. 12. 398

by this department. As soon as the State is prepared to
make reimbursements for bounties, due notice will be
given, and parties will be stationed at the points above
mentioned.

6. No reimbursement will be made to any town, city,
or county, except through the authorized and accredited
agents of said town, city, and county, and by persons
specially appointed by this department. The transfer and
sale of claims to other parties will not be recognized.

7. The bonds of the State authorized to be issued under
this law by the Comptroller, for the reimbursing of towns,
cities, and counties for bounties paid by them to volun-
teers, drafted men, and substitutes, are by a supplementary
act permitted to be issued direct to said town, city, or
county, through the official representatives authorized by
law to receive the same ; and will so be issued upon the
application of the official representative of said town,
city, or county wishing the same for reimbursement,
upon the proper proofs being furnished as contained in
this circular.

8. Blanks are now ready, and will be furnished from
this office on personal application, by letter, or from the
depots hereinbefore mentioned.

(Signed) S. E. MARVIN",

Paymaster- General.

399 Doc. No. 12.

Forms /o>\ obtaining reimbursements for bounties paid

under chapter 29, Laws of 1865, and acts supplemental
thereto.

X. B. All affidavits should have attached thereto the
usual certificate of County Clerk, that the officer before
whom such affidavits were executed was at the time duly
authorized, under the laws of this State, to administer
oaths.

A statement of the quota of the town and city, as fixed
by the Provost-Marshal's Department, will accompany
every application for reimbursement.

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FORM " B/

STATE OF NEW YORK, ^ ss

County of

On this day of A. D.

one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, before the un-
dersigned, a duly authorized
by law to administer oaths within and for the County
aforesaid, personally appeared

who, being duly and severally sworn, depose and say : That
they are the representatives and accredited agents of the

County of

State of New York, and

have had sole charge of the payment of local bounties for
said on the call of December 19, 1864 ;

that the persons named in the annexed list were enlisted
and credited to the said and they have

paid to such recruits and substitutes* personally and
severally

the sums set opposite their respective names, as bounty ;
for which sums they do now claim, on behalf of the said
reimbursement from the State of New York,
under the provisions of chapter 29, Laws of 1865.

Subscribed and sworn before me,
. this day of 1865.

: u. S. :
: Revenue:
: stamp, :
: 5 cents. :

* To be changed if necessary to conform to mode of payment.
20

Doc. No. 12.

402

Also personally appeared who,

being duly sworn, deposes and says : That he is the (Clerk
of Board of Supervisors, or Town Clerk, &c.,) of the

County of and that the annexed

is a true copy of the (ordinance or resolution) passed at a
meeting of the (Board of Supervisors or qualified electors
of the town). [Here give copy of ordinance or resolu-
tion appointing and authorizing the above sworn parties
to pay bounties in behalf of the County, Town, or City.]

Subscribed and sworn before me,
this day of 1865.

U. s. :
Revenue:
stamp, :
5 c, nts. :

FORM "C."

ROLL OF RECRUITS AJSTD SUBSTITUTES mustered into the
service of the United States, under the call of De-
cember 19, 1864, by

and credited to the State

of New York, and to whom bounty has been paid

on behalf of the said

NAMES.

PERIOD
FOR WHICH
ENLISTED.

AMOUNT OF BOUNTY
PAID.

REMARKS,
[la case of Substi-
tutes, enter under
this head name of
principal.]

403 Doc. No. 12.

Received, 1865,

of S. E. Marvin, Paymaster-General, S. N. Y.,

dollars,

being in full for bounties to the above named recruits
credited to the State of New York on the call of Decem-
ber 19, 1864, as provided in chapter 29, Laws of 1865.

: u. s. :
: Revenue :
: stamp, :
: 2 cents. :

FOEM "D."

I hereby certify that has been

accepted by me into the service of the United States for

years, to the credit of

County of on the quota of
said town, on the call of December 19, 1864, as a substi-
tute for

Provost-Marshal.

STATE OF NEW YOKE, ) sg .
County of f

On this day of 1865,

before the undersigned, a duly authorized

by law to administer oaths within and for said County,
personally appeared who, being

duly sworn, deposes and says that he paid

as consideration for his enlistment as a

Doc. No. 12. 404

substitute, and credit to the town of

County of upon the quota thereof,

under the call of December 19, 1864, the sum of

dollars, and that* [I have not received from any
town, city, or county, or from any person or persons act-
ing in behalf thereof, any sum whatever as reimburse'
ment for the amount by me paid to the said ]

Subscribed and sworn to before me, {_
this day of 1865.

: U. S. :
: Revenue:
: stamp, :
: 2 cents. :

hereby certify that have not paid to
on behalf of the town County of

any sum or sums as reimbursement for amount paid by
him to his legally accepted substitute into the

service of the United States.

Keceived, 1865, of Selden E. Marvin, Pay-

master-General, dollars, in full of all claims

against the State of New York, under chapter 29, Laws
of 1865, for reimbursement of amount paid by me to
my legal substitute in the service of the
United States.

: u s. :
: Revenue :

* In case the principal has received partial reimbursement by any town,
city, or county, the affidavit will set forth the actual amount so paid and by
whom, and the same will be certified by the agent or agents.

N. B. In case of substitute in naval service, the certificate of mustering
officer must be countersigned by commandant of receiving-vessel, or his
receipt for such substitute attache^

405

Doc. No. 12.

FORM "E."

ROLL SUPPLEMENTAL to Muster and Descriptive Roll of
recruits mustered into the service of the United
States prior to the call of the President dated De-
cember 19, 1864, and credited for certain terms of
service under said call of December 19, 1864, to the
Town of

County of
as an excess of quotas under former calls.

TERM FOR

WHICH CRED-

ITED ON CALL

OF JULY 18,

OF DEC. 19,

No.

NAMES.

1864.

REMARKS,

Years.

I hereby certify that the above roll is correct, and that
I have credited to the

County of on

the call of the President dated December 19, 1864, the

Doc. No. 12. 406

terms of service set opposite the respective names of the
above recruits as being in excess of the call of July 18,
1864, and that such credits in excess have been confirmed
by A. A.

Provost-Marshal General

Division S. K Y.

Provost-Marshat .

FORM "F."

STATE OF NEW YORK, )
County of f Si

On this . . day of A. D.

one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, before the un-
dersigned, a duly authorized
by law to administer oaths within and for the County
aforesaid personally appeared

who, being duly sworn, deposes and says he
is a recruiting agent for the State of ]S"ew York, having
been duly appointed by the Governor thereof, copy of
whose authorization is herewith attached; that he recruited
for, and the State of New York has been credited with,
the following persons on the annexed list, to whom he
paid the sums set opposite their respective names, as
bounties for said recruits ; that said recruits were credited
to the State of Kew York, on the call

of December 19, 1864, and that he has never received

407 Doc. No. 12.

from any town, city, or county, any reimbursement for
said recruits.

Subscribed and sworn to before me, )
this day of 1865. }

: U 8. :
: Revenue:
: stamp, :
: 5 cents. :

STATE OF NEW YORK,
County of ] s '

On this day ot A. D.

one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, before the un-
dersigned, a duly authorized by
law to administer oaths within and for the County afore-
said, personally appeared

who, being severally duly sworn, depose and
say, they are the representatives and accredited agents of
the of County

of State of New York, and have had

charge of the payment of local bounties for said

on the call of December 19, 1864; that
they have not paid any bounties to the following persons
on the annexed list, recruited by a

recruiting agent for the State at large, and which person
or persons have been duly accepted and credited to the
of which men represent, as

a part of the quota of said on the

call of December 19, 1864 ; and that said

agent and recruiting officer is entitled to receive

Doc. No. 12. 408

the fall sum of bounties that he has paid, not to exceed
the sum as provided by chapter 29, Laws of 1865, from
the State of New York.

Subscribed and sworn to before me, )
this day of 1865. J

POEM G."

Know all men by these presents, that I

have made, constituted and appointed,
and by these presents do make, constitute and appoint

my true and lawful attorney,

for me and in my name, place and stead, to collect and
receive from the Paymaster-General of the State of New
York the amount of bounty, under the provisions of
chapter 29, Laws of 1865, to which I may be entitled by
virtue of my enlistment and muster into the service of
the United States for years on the day

of 186 , by mustering

officer at Under the call of the President

dated December 19, 1864, and credited upon the quota
of County of State of

New York, giving and granting unto my said attorney
full power and authority to do and perform all and every
act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be
done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents

409 Doc. No. 12.

and purposes as I might or could do if personally pre-
sent, with full power of revocation, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that my said attorney shall lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the day of

in] the year one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-five.

Sealed and delivered in
the presence of

: U. s. :
' Revenue:
: stamp, :
:2S cents.:

STATE OF NEW YORK, )
County of , j

Be it known, that on the day of

in the year one thousand eight hundred and
before me personally came

to me known to be the person

described in, and who executed the above instrument,
and acknowledged the above letter of attorney 'to be
his free act and deed.

SUPPLEMENTAL TO FOKM "A."

For army enlistments (volunteer or regular), muster
and descriptive rolls as furnished by the State Pay Depart-
ment; or if the regular muster and descriptive rolls be

Doc. No. 12. 410

used, the following certificate must be attached, in addi-
tion to regular certificate :

I further certify, on honor, that the men whose names
are borne on this roll have been mustered into the service
of the United States for the period set opposite their re-
spective names, to the credit of the town of

County of

on the quota of the State of New York, under the call of
December 19, 1864.

Mustering Officer.

For enlistments into the naval and marine service, the
above additional certificate will be attached to the regu-
lar muster rolls, which will also be countersigned by the
commandant of receiving vessel, or marine barracks, or
the receipt of such commandant for the recruit or substi-
tute attached to the roll.

APPENDJX E.

PAPEES EELATING- TO THE PIEST AEMY COEPS.

Communication, &c.

HEADQUARTERS, Fn
Washington, D. C., December 8

HEADQUARTERS, FIRST CORPS, [

, 1864. f

SIR

The Major -General commanding has directed me to
send you the inclosed order and circulars, which contain
all the information he possesses respecting the organiza-
tion of this corps.

I have the honor to remain,

Respectfully your obedient servant,

(Signed) FINLEY ANDERSON,

A.A.0.

To ORISON BLUNT, Esq.,

New York.

WAR DEPARTMENT ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, November 28, 1864.

[General Orders No. 287.]

Order for raising and organizing a new Volunteer Army

Corps.

First That an army corps, to consist of not less than
twenty thousand (20,000) infantry, and enlisted for not
less than one year, to be designated the First Corps, shall

Doc. No. 12. 414

be organized in the District of Columbia, commencing
the organization on the 1st day of December, 1864, and
continuing until the first day of January next. The pri-
vates to consist only of able-bodied men who have served
honorably not less than two years, and therefore not sub-
ject to draft ; the officers to be commissioned from such
as have honorably served not less than two years.

Second Recruits .will be furnished transportation to
Washington ; will be credited to the district in which they
or their families are domiciled ; and will be paid a special
bounty of three hundred dollars ($300) from the substi-
tute fund, upon being mustered into service. Each re^
cruit who preserves his arms to the end of his term, may
retain them as his own, upon being honorably discharged
from service.

Third Details of organization will be prescribed by
the Adjutant-General. The heads of bureaux will de*
tail competent officers for the prompt examination and
organization, arming, equipping, and supplying the Corps.

Fourth Major-General Hancock is assigned to the
command of this Corps, headquarters at Washington.

By order of the Secretary of War,

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant- Qeneral.
(Official.)

FINLEY ANDERSON,

Assistant Adjutant- General,

415 Doc. No. 12.

WAR DEPARTMENT ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, December 1, 1864.

[Circular No. 86.]
ENLISTMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS IN THE FIRST CORPS.

I. Persons desiring and qualified to enlist in the First
Army Corps, General Hancock commanding, under gen-
eral orders No. 287, current series, from this office, are
hereby authorized to present . themselves to any United
States District Provost-Marshal, who, if the applicant
appears to be qualified, will furnish a free transportation
pass to "Washington, D. C., where recruits will be duly
enlisted and mustered into the service of the United
States. The applicant must satisfy the Provost-Marshal
that he is an able-bodied man, fit for military service, and
that he has been honorably discharged after the expira-
tion of two years service, by exhibiting his discharge, or
in the necessary absence of that paper, by presenting such
other evidence as the Provost-Marshal may require.

No person will be forwarded until he has satisfied the
Provost-Marshal that he is acting in good faith, with a
view to enlistment. In case of doubt as to his physical fit-
ness, he will not be forwarded until he shall have been
certified to be fit by the surgeon of the Board of Enrol-
ment, which certificate shall be retained by the Provost-

Doc. No. 12, 416

Marshal and a copy forwarded to the Adjutant-General
by the Provost-Marshal.

Surgeons of the Board of Enrolment shall examine any
applicant sent to them by the Provost-Marshal, and give
a certificate as to his fitness for military service, and any
surgeon refusing or neglecting to make such examination
will be dismissed.

Provost-Marshals will be prepared to furnish qualified
applicants promptly with information and with transpor-
tation.

Any person falsely representing himself as a recruit, and
as designing to enlist in the First Army Corps, and failing
to offer himself as such recruit, or by any means fraudu-
lently procuring transportation, shall be deemed guilty of
defrauding the Government, and will be punished by
court martial or military commission.

ENLISTMENTS, MUSTEES, AND CREDITS.

7 O.W.hJ3Wn*7

II. All enlistments and musters will be made at the
rendezvous, near Washington, by the Corps Commissary
of Musters and his assistants, specially assigned to that
duty, and in accordance with the recruiting and muster-
ing regulations of the army.

Recruits will be credited to the district in which they

417 Doc. No. 12.

or their families are domiciled. As evidence of place of
domicile, the affidavit of the recruit will be required. If
it shall subsequently be ascertained that the place of
domicile has not been correctly given, the credit will be
taken from the place to which it was erroneously assigned
and transferred to the proper place of domicile of the
recruit.

Credits will be reported as for an army corps in the
field, and as directed in Circular No. 52, current series,
from this office.

ORGANIZATION.

III. The organization of the- corps will be by succes-
sive regiments; that is, one regiment must be fully re-
cruited before another one is commenced. Each regi-
ment will be recruited in like manner, by successive
companies. 1

The organization of regiments and companies must
conform to .that prescribed for the infantry arm, by para-
graph 82, Mustering Regulations.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS APPOINTMENTS AND MUSTERS.

IY. Applicants for appointments as officers will ad-
dress and forward their applications, in writing, to

Doc. No. 12. 418

the 'Adjutant General of the Army, Washington,
D. C."

At least two years service will be necessary, and the
applicant must give his military history in full, embracing
therein as follows :

First Date of original entry into service.

Second Regiment or organization in which services
have been rendered.

Third Rank at date of entry into service.

Fourth If out of service, date and cause of discharge,
rank at date thereof, and organization in which service
was last rendered.

Fifth The applicant's address must be clearly stated
in all cases.

Applicants must be able to pass examination before a
board of examiners.

Officers appointed will receive the necessary instruc-
tions.

The appointment will be subject to revocation in case
the requisite number of men is not enlisted to perfect
the organization, and will be subject to the approval
and confirmation of the Senate.

419 Doc. No. 12.

Y. On application by the Governor of any State, re-
cruiting officers will be designated for such State.

By order of the Secretary of War,

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant- General.
(Official.)

FINLEY ANDERSON,

Assistant Adjutant- General.

HEADQUARTERS FIRST ARMY CORPS, )
Washington, D. C., December 3, 1864. [

[Circular No. 2.]

In reply to the numerous letters of inquiry from per-
sons desiring to enter the First Corps, now being raised,
the following is communicated as embodying all the in-
formation vet obtained.

I. As TO ENLISTED MEN.

first All enlistments and musters-in are to be made
in this city.

Second Any veteran who has served two years, has
been honorably discharged, and is physically qualified,
may enlist in the Corps for one, two, or three years.

Third Those enlisting will receive from the Govern-

Doc. No. 12. 420

ment a bounty of three hundred dollars ($300) as soon as
they are mustered in, and, in addition, the regular instal-
ments from the Government, in proportion to the period of
enlistment, as follows : One hundred dollars ($100) for one
years service, one-third paid on enlistment ; two hundred
dollars ($200) for two years service, one-third on enlist-
ment ; three hundred dollars ($300) for three years ser-
vice, one-third on enlistment.

Fourth They will be credited to the quota of the district
in which they or their families may be domiciled, and
will, therefore, be entitled to local bounties.

Fifth Free transportation will be furnished them to
Washington by any Provost-Marshal. It is only necessary
that the applicant should satisfy the Provost-Marshal
that he comes under the provisions of paragraph 2, and
that the application is made in good faith."

Sixth On arriving in Washington and reporting at
the Soldiers' Rest, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad depot,
veterans will be cared for and enlisted and paid promptly.
They will be sent to the camp of organization, at Camp
Cliff burne, and will be formed into companies and regi-
ments as they arrive personal preferences being re-
garded when the good of the service will permit.

Seventh The best arms in the possession of the Gov-
ernment will be furnished these troops, and they will

421 Doc. No. 12.

be allowed to retain their arms when honorably dis-
charged.

II. As TO OFFICERS.

First Persons desiring commissions must make writ-
ten application to the Adjutant-General of the army, set-
ting forth their post-office address, the date of original en-
try into service, and with what rank, the organization in
which service was rendered, the date and cause of dis-
charge, and the rank at the time of discharge. Testi-
monials from commanders may accompany such applica-
tion.

, Second Should the papers be favorably considered, the
applicants will be severally notified, by mail or telegraph,
when to appear before the examining board established
by the War Department, and will receive appointments
to such grades as the War Department may deter-
mine.

Third As soon as the letters of appointment are given,
officers may be detailed to secure the enlistment of a cer-
tain number of veterans their commissions, with rank
and pay from date of acceptance of appointment, being
given when the men are secured. It should be under-
stood that the enlistments are to be consummated here,
and an officer can do no more than to use his influence
in persuading the men to come here and enlist.

Doc. No. 12. 422

Officers awaiting action on their papers can occupy
the time in this way, and collect parties and send them
on, securing a statement as to the number from the Pro-
vost-Marshal. The proper credit will in all cases be
given such officers.

The actual and necessary expenses of such officers will
be refunded to them.

By order of Major-General Hancock,

FINLEY ANDEKSON,

Assistant Adjutant- General.

APPENDIX F.

STATEMENT

Showing the Number of Deposits for Substitutes, Withdrawals of
Deposits, and Number of Substitutes Purnished by the Commit-
tee on Volunteering for Citizens in Anticipation of the Draft, while
Pilling the Quota of the County of New York, under the Presi-

L dent's Call dated December 19, 1864, for Three Hundred Thou-
sand (300,000) Men.

Statement.

Deposits for Substitutes.

For one year 84

For two years 51

For three years 648

Total deposits 783

Substitutes Paid.

For the Army

For one year 40

For two years 26

For three years 488

Total army 554

For the Navy

For one year 1

For two years 10

For three years 62

Total navy.., 73

Total substitutes paid 627

Carried forward.., . 627 783

Doc. No. 12. 426

Brought forward 627 783

Withdrawals of Deposits.

For one year . 43

For two years 15

For three years 98

Total withdrawals.. 156

Total substitutes paid and withdrawals. . 783

Recapitulation.

Total number of deposits .... 783

Total number of substitutes paid 627

Total number of deposits withdrawn 156

Total number of substitutes paid and deposits
withdrawn,., 783.

S T A T E M E N T

SHOWING THE RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES OP THE COMMITTEE
ON VOLUNTEERING IN CONNECTION WITH THE FURNISHING OF
SUBSTITUTES FOR CITIZENS IN T ANTICIPATION OF THE DRAFT,
WHILE FILLING THE QUOTA OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK
UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S CALL DATED DECEMBER 19, 1864, FOR
THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND (300,000) MEN.

Doc. No. 12.

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CITIZENS IN ANTICIPATION OF THE DRAFT, WHILE FILLING
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FOE THE NAVY.

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Doc. No. 12.

Recapitulation of Bounties Paid to
Substitutes.

DATE.

18G4.
October
November

December

ARMY.

NAVY.

TOTAL.

No.

Amount.

No.

Amount.

No.

Amount.

31
1 ....
3
4

1
2
5

5
9
6
6
8
4
12
2
8
5
3
3
6
5
7
6
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14
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10
6
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9
5
4
5
6
4
3
7
6
1
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600 00
1,200 00
3,000 00
3,000 00
5,400 00
3,600 00
3,600 00
4,800 00
2.400 00
6,800 00
1.200 00
4,800 00
3,000 00
1,800 00
1,200 00
3,200 00
3,000 00
4,000 00
3,000 00
600 00
6,000 00
7,400 00
3,200 00
5,400 00
3,400 00
5,000 00
4.800 00
3.000 00
2,400 00
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3,600 00
2,400 00
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3,600 00
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600 00

2
1
2
6
5
9
6
6
8
4
12
2
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5
3
3
6
5
7
6
1
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14
6
10
6
10
9
5
4
5
6
4
3
7
6
4
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600 00
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3,000 00
3,000 00
6,400 00
3,600 00
3,600 00
4,800 00
2,400 00
6,800 00
1,200 00
4,800 00
3,000 00
1,800 00
1,200 00
3,200 00
3,000 00
4,000 00
3,000 00
600 00
6,000 00
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3,200 00
5,400 00
3,400 00
6,000 00
4,800 00
3,000 00
2,400 00
3,000 00
3,600 00
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600 00

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10
11

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16
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18 .

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26
28
29
30
1
2
3
5
6
7
8
9
10
12
13
14
16
16.....
17

rward . .

$1,400 00

214

$121,400 00

$1,400 00

217

$122,800 00

Doc. No. 12. 444

RECAPITULATION OF BOUNTIES PAID TO SUBSTITUTES Continued.

DATE.

ARMY.

S'AVY.

TOTAL.

No.

Amount.'

No.

Amount.

No.

Amount.

Brought forward.
1864.
December 19

214
1

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400 00

$1,400 00

217
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400 00

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600 00

" 21

1,800 00

1 800 00

" 22

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1,800 00

2 800 00

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2 400 00

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1 800 00

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600 00

2 400 00

1,800 00

1,000 00

2 800 00

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1865.
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9 goo 00

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1,200 00

1 200 00

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400 00

2 800 00

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' 9

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1 800 00

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600 00

1 000 00

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600 00

1 800 00

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800 00

' 14

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2 600 00

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25 . .

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" 27

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" 28

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" 31

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8
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16 .

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6 300 00

17
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6
4

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7
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" 20

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600 00

6,900 00

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308

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$12,200 OOl

331 1

$194,800 00

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RECAPITULATION OF BOUNTIES PAID TO SUBSTITUTES Concluded.

DATE.

ARMY.

]

VAVY.

rOTAL.

No.

Amount.

No.

Amount.

No.

Amount.

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2,700 00

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900 00

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5,800 00

' 13

2,200 00

' 14

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15...

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1,800 00

7,200 00

' 16

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" 17

3 700 00

3,700 00

" 18

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12,300 00

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3

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2,700 00

' 24

600 00

6,300 00

6,900 00

" 27 ...

3
9

2,700 00
7,600 00

2
1

1,800 00
900 00

5
10

4,500 00
8,500 00

" 28

4 500 00

4,500 00

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900 00

30
' 31
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7
5
2
6
1C

6,300 00
4,500 00:
1,800 00 1
5,400 00
14 400 00

5
2
1

4,500 00
1,800 00
900 00
900 00

12
7
3
7
16

10,800 00
6,300 00
2,700 00
6,300 00
14,400 00

5
6

' 7

4
4
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3,100 00
3.100 00
900 00

6
3

5,400 00
2,700 00

10
7
1

8,500 00
6,800 00
900 00

" 8

1,300 00

5,100 00

> ] i

800 00

" 12

1 300 00

1,300 00

" 13

800 00

Total

654

$389,100 00

$56,000 00

627

$445,700 00

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446

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452

Recapitulation of Premiums Paid for Substi-
tutes.

DATE.

ARMY.

NAVY.

COTAL.

No.

Amount.

No.

Amount.

No.

Amount.

1864.
October .31.

$50

November 1 .

100

250

450

300

12.

400

200

570

16.

100

17.

400

250

150

21.

100

22.

270

250

25.

330

26.

240

28.

29.

500

30.

620

December 1

270

440

280

420

400

250

200

250

300

12.

200

13.

150

14.

290

15.

260

16.

100

Carried forward

214

$10,090

214

S10.090

453 Doc. No. 12.

RECAPITULATION OF PREMIUMS PAID FOR SUBSTITUTES Continued.

DATE.

ARMY.

NAVY.

TOTAL.

No. Amount.

N'o.

Amount.

No.

Amount.

Brought forw'rd
1864.
December 17

214 $10,090

214

3
1
1
3
6
4
3
1
2
4
5
1

5
2
5

1
3

2
5
2
1
1
1

1
1
1

3
2
2
1
1
1
1
4
1
1
1
2
7
6
5

$10,090

110
30
50
150
240
200
150
50
100
200
230
50

230
100
230
50
150
80
150
70
210
70
50
30
50
50
30
50
50
150
100
100
50
50
50
50
180
50
50
50
100
700
COO
475

$110

19..
--* 20..

" 21..
" 22..
23..
" 24..
" 26

1 30
1 50
3 150
3 : 90
2 100
3 150

3
2

150
100

1
1
1

50
50
50
80
50

" 27..
' 28..
" 29...
u 30

1 50
3 150
3 150

1865.
January. ... 4

5 : 230
2 100
4 200
1 50
3 150
1 30
2 100
2 70
5 210
1 50

5..
" 6..
' 7..
9..
10..
11 11..
13..
14..
17..
:t 18

50 !
50 i

;

20
50

" 19. .
23..
25..
" 26.

1 i 30
1 50

1 : 50

: i

27..
28..
30..
31..
February . . 1 . .
2..
3..
41 4..
7..
" 8..
' !)..
10..
13.
14..
16..
17..
18..

Carried forward

1 50
1 50
3 150
2 '. 100
2 100
1 50
1 50
1 50
1 50
3 150
1 50
1 50
1 50
2 100
7 700
6 i 6UO
4 400

301 $15,080

$975

323

$16,055

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RECAPITULATION OF PREMIUMS PAID FOR SUBSTITUTES Concluded.

AKMY.

S'AVY.

OTAL.

No.

Amount.

No.

Amount.

No.

Amount.

Brought fonv'rd
1865.
February 20. .
21..
" 22..

301

7
9
7

$15,080

700
900
700

1
1

$975

75
100

323

8
10

$16,055

775
1,000
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24.
25..
27..
28..
March . . .1.

9
2
3
10

7
3

900
200
300
950
675
300

1
2
3
1
3

100
200
275
100
300

10
4
6
11
10
3

1,000
400
575
1,050
975
300

2..
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3
3

300
300

100

4
3

400
300

;. i

1 350

8..
9..
10..
" 11..

7
6

7
7

700
600
700
650

1
1
2

100
100
200

8
7
9

'800
700
900
650

u 13..

250

l 14..
' 15

18
8

1,800
800

200

2,000
800

' 16

550

' 17

425

' 18

1.400

1 400

20..
1 21

6
1

550
100

100

7
1

650
100

22. .
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1
3

100
300

275

4
3

375
300

24..

25..

27..
' 28

1
3
9
5

75
300
850
500

7
2
1

700
2(JO
100

8
5
10
5

775
500
950
500

' 29

100

30.
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3..
4. .

7
5
2
6
16

700
500
200
600
1,600

5
2
1
1

500
200
100
100

7
3
7
16

1.200
700
300
700
1 600

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" 6..

" 7

4
4
1

350
350
100

6
3

600
300

10
7
1

950
650
100

" 8

150

" 10.

600

" 11..

100

12..

150

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100

Total

554

$38,905

$6.000

627

$44 905

455

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