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to one year's men, $33.33: and imposed upon the Adjutant-General the duty of making out the bounty-rolls. From Feb. 24 to Dec. 1, 1864, 3,808 men enlisted in the navy, and were placed to the credit of the Commonwealth; making the total number of men who had enlisted in the navy from Massachusetts, up to that date (Dec. 1, 1864), 26,168, which completed a contingent of every town in the State upon all the calls made by the President, and left a surplus of 13,083 men. The law passed Nov. 18, 1863, by the Massachusetts Legislature, provided that residents of any town, or ward of a city, in this Commonwealth, enlisting in any other town or ward, shall, nevertheless, be counted on the quota of the town or ward of which the person is a resident, until the quota of that town or ward is filled. Upwards of a thousand contested cases of credits grew out of this section of the law: most of them being in regard to minors who lived in one town, and whose parents lived in another. A cir