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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 12: Norfolk County. (search)
August 10th, The selectmen were authorized to pay three dollars a week to the families or dependants of each person who has been drafted, who shall serve himself or by substitute, as a part of the quota of the town. The town having no authority to pass this vote, the selectmen declined to pay under it. 1864. April 20th, The selectmen were authorized to continue to recruit volunteers until March 1, 1865, and to pay to each recruit a bounty of one hundred and twenty-five dollars. Washington M. French, Albert Hayden, John Glover, Samuel Ames, E. W. Underwood, George Cahill, and Eliab Cahill assisted the selectmen all through the war in procuring recruits to fill the quota of the town under the various calls of the President for men. Quincy furnished six hundred and seventy-seven men for the war, which was a surplus of four over and above all demands. Forty-nine were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town for war purposes, exclus