β [553] than two hundred dollars be paid to or for any one person in addition to the State aid.β 1864. April 11th, The selectmen were authorized to have brought home and properly buried the body of any Hingham soldier who has died or may die in the war. The treasurer was authorized to borrow money to pay bounties, not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five dollars to each volunteer for three years service who shall enlist to the credit of the town before March 1st, 1865. Hingham furnished about five hundred men for the war, and had a surplus of twenty-seven over and above all demands. Thirteen were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town on account of the war, exclusive of State aid, was fifty-five thousand nine hundred and fifty-three dollars and fifty-six cents ($55,953.56). The amount of money raised and expended by the town during the war for State aid to soldiers' families, and repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $591.18; in 1862, $8,403.63; in 1863, $7,851.91; in 1864, $8,813.74; in 1865, $4,900.00. Total amount, $30,560.46.
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β [553] than two hundred dollars be paid to or for any one person in addition to the State aid.β 1864. April 11th, The selectmen were authorized to have brought home and properly buried the body of any Hingham soldier who has died or may die in the war. The treasurer was authorized to borrow money to pay bounties, not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five dollars to each volunteer for three years service who shall enlist to the credit of the town before March 1st, 1865. Hingham furnished about five hundred men for the war, and had a surplus of twenty-seven over and above all demands. Thirteen were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town on account of the war, exclusive of State aid, was fifty-five thousand nine hundred and fifty-three dollars and fifty-six cents ($55,953.56). The amount of money raised and expended by the town during the war for State aid to soldiers' families, and repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $591.18; in 1862, $8,403.63; in 1863, $7,851.91; in 1864, $8,813.74; in 1865, $4,900.00. Total amount, $30,560.46.
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