[136] State aid to soldiers' families. November 16th, The free use of the city hall was granted to Mrs. Richard Borden and Mrs. Mary A. Brayton ‘for the purpose of lectures, tableaux, &c., the proceeds to be given to the soldiers.’ December 21st, A lot in Oak-Grove Cemetery, directly in front of the entrance, was set apart as a soldiers' burial-place.1 1864. February 20th. A committee was appointed to make arrangements for the reception of Company G, Twenty-sixth Regiment. Two thousand dollars were appropriated ‘to pay expenses attending enlistment services.’ April 4th, The bounty to volunteers for three years service was fixed at one hundred and twenty-five dollars. June 8th, A committee was appointed to make arrangements for the reception of Companies ‘A’ and ‘B’ of the Seventh Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 1865. May 17th, It was voted as follows:—
Whereas the President of the United States has by proclamation recommended the observance of the first day of June as a day of mourning, in consequence of the death of our late beloved and honored Chief Magistrate, Abraham Lincoln; therefore— Ordered, That we do take measures for an appropriate observance of the day as recommended by the President, and that a committee be appointed to procure an orator for the occasion, and make necessary arrangements; and the sum of one hundred dollars is hereby appropriated.Fall River furnished eighteen hundred and forty-five men for the war, which was a surplus of twenty-one over and above all demands. Thirty-seven were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the city on account of the war, exclusive of State aid, was one hundred and seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars and three cents ($107,828.03). The amount of money raised and expended by the city during the four years of the war for State aid to soldiers' families, and which was repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $7,262.25: in 1862, $29,771.67; in 1863, $36,476.10;
