[360] was voted to pay each volunteer for three years service, when mustered in and credited to the quota of the town, a bounty of one hundred dollars, which vote was ratified at a legal meeting held on the 26th of July, and the treasurer was authorized to borrow money sufficient to pay the same. It was also—
Resolved, That we pledge ourselves to furnish our share of the three hundred thousand men called for and apportioned to this town, and to furnish material aid for the support of the war, and to make such sacrifices as are necessary to sustain the Government and the army in their endeavors to support the Union of the States, and to defeat the rebel leaders and traitors who are engaged in destroying the Government they have sworn to support. Resolved, That if there should be a failure to get the number of men called for by voluntary enlistment, we would recommend to the Government to call out by draft five hundred thousand men, to take the field and uphold the Constitution.August 30th, Voted to pay a bounty of one hundred dollars to each volunteer for nine months service, who shall enlist and be credited to the quota of the town, and the treasurer was authorized to borrow money for that purpose. 1864. April 18th, The treasurer was authorized to borrow not exceeding four thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars to pay citizens who had contributed money for the payment of bounties since Oct. 17, 1863; also to pay a bounty of one hundred and twenty-five dollars to each volunteer who had enlisted to fill the quota of the town since Feb. 6, 1864, by reenlist-ment from old regiments. July 30th, Fifty-five hundred dollars were appropriated ‘to pay the forty-four men the town is called upon to furnish.’ 1865. March 6th, The treasurer was authorized to borrow not exceeding twelve thousand dollars for State aid to soldiers' families, ‘or the payment of the town debt.’ May 10th, Voted to appropriate eight thousand five hundred and fifty-eight dollars for the payment of money subscribed and paid by citizens to fill the quota of Ware for 1864. Ware, as reported by the selectmen in 1866, furnished three hundred and eleven men for the war, which, we think, is forty less than the number actually furnished, as Ware filled its quota
