[186] his legal representative, who had enlisted for three years, and after nine months service been honorably discharged, who had not already received said bounty. It was also voted to pay the same bounty to men who may be drafted. September 17th, The same bounty was authorized to be paid ‘to each resident of Danvers enlisting in Captain Allen's Company,’ when mustered in and credited to the town. At this meeting the following resolution was adopted:—
Resolved, That had there been no slavery, there would have been no rebellion; and as the Rebellion will continue as long as slavery exists, we, the citiz ns of Danvers, ask that the war forced upon us by the rebels, in defence of slavery, shall be so prosecuted as to leave no vestige of that accursed institution.1863. March 2d, Twenty thousand dollars were appropriated for State aid to soldiers' families. March 16th, The selectmen ‘were authorized to purchase a lot in Walnut-Grove Cemetery for the burial of deceased soldiers.’ August 8th, Voted, to appropriate not exceeding fifty thousand dollars ‘to meet the expenditure contemplated by the votes of the town passed on the 11th of September, 1862.’1 1864. March 7th, Fifteen thousand dollars were appropriated for State aid to soldiers' families. March 24th, The citizens' committee made a report in regard to the war, the concluding paragraph of which was as follows: ‘If the heads of departments, and other politicians at the capital, interest themselves as heartily in crushing the Rebellion as in making a new President, our honored flag will soon wave in triumph over a regenerated Union, inhabited only by freemen.’ July 28th, Eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars were appropriated to furnish the quota of the town under the recent call of the President for more men. Six thousand three hundred and forty-two dollars were added to this appropriation by private subscriptions. 1865. Fifteen thousand dollars were appropriated for State aid to soldiers' families. Danvers furnished seven hundred and ninety-two men for the
