β [576] whose terms of service have expired or are about to expire.β A committee of arrangements to carry the vote into effect was appointed. 1865. March 6th, The town-treasurer was authorized to borrow not exceeding eight thousand dollars for aid βto the dependants of volunteers.β October 31st, Voted, to refund the money contributed by individual citizens to encourage recruiting in the year 1864. Scituate furnished two hundred and sixty-four men for the war, which was a surplus of twenty-seven over and above all demands. Six were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town for war purposes, exclusive of State aid, was twenty thousand and ninety-three dollars and nine cents ($20,093.09). The amount of money paid by the town during the war for State aid to soldiers' families, and repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $440.94; in 1862, $2,593.18; in 1863, $5,111.47; in 1864, $5,816.11; in 1865, $3,913.73. Total amount, $17,875.43.
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β [576] whose terms of service have expired or are about to expire.β A committee of arrangements to carry the vote into effect was appointed. 1865. March 6th, The town-treasurer was authorized to borrow not exceeding eight thousand dollars for aid βto the dependants of volunteers.β October 31st, Voted, to refund the money contributed by individual citizens to encourage recruiting in the year 1864. Scituate furnished two hundred and sixty-four men for the war, which was a surplus of twenty-seven over and above all demands. Six were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town for war purposes, exclusive of State aid, was twenty thousand and ninety-three dollars and nine cents ($20,093.09). The amount of money paid by the town during the war for State aid to soldiers' families, and repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $440.94; in 1862, $2,593.18; in 1863, $5,111.47; in 1864, $5,816.11; in 1865, $3,913.73. Total amount, $17,875.43.
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