| Joseph Sidney Howe - Methuen (Mass.) - 1876 - 52 pages
...town voted to pay State Aid to the families of volunters according to law. In July, 1862, the town voted to pay a bounty of one hundred dollars to each volunteer when mustered into the United States service. At that time forty-seven men were called for ; on the... | |
| Worcester County (Mass.) - 1879 - 812 pages
...thanks to the Slater Guarde for their bravery at the battle of Ball's Bluff."" 1862, July 10th. It was voted to pay a bounty of one hundred dollars to each volunteer who shall enlist for three years and be credited to the quota of tho town. 18G3, December 8th. Six... | |
| Francis Henry Buffum - United States - 1882 - 538 pages
...each of its men who enlisted for the Fourteenth. The towns of Lempster, Washington, and Charlestown voted to pay a bounty of one hundred dollars to each volunteer. The little town of Unity was reported to be somewhat imbued with a non-aggressive spirit in regard... | |
| Duane Hamilton Hurd - Norfolk County (Mass.) - 1884 - 602 pages
...on under the direction of the selectmen thenceforward during the war. On the 21st of July the town voted to pay a bounty of one hundred dollars to each volunteer, with aid to families, and appropriated six thousand nine hundred dollars for the bounties. A large... | |
| Josiah Howard Temple - Brookfield (Mass. : Town) - 1887 - 870 pages
...pay State Aid to families of volunteers to the amount that " the State promises to refund." July 3, Voted, to pay a bounty of one hundred dollars to each volunteer who shall enlist for three years and be credited to the quota of the town "before the ist of August... | |
| George Augustus Wheeler - Brunswick (Me.) - 1878 - 1018 pages
...selectmen if the doings of the town were not legalized. At a meeting of the town held August 29 it was voted to pay a bounty of one hundred dollars to each volunteer who would enlist in the service of the United States, under a call from the President for 300,000 men... | |
| |