[141] was the true number, and was a surplus of seventeen over and above all demands. Thirteen were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town on account of the war, exclusive of State aid, was thirty-five thousand two hundred and forty-two dollars and twenty-one cents ($35,242.21). The amount of money raised and expended by the town during the four years of the war for State aid to the families of soldiers, and which was afterwards repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $1,101.33; in 1862, $2,980.89; in 1863, $3,046.36; in 1864, $4,060.06; in 1865, $2,900.00. Total amount in four years, $14,098.64.
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[141] was the true number, and was a surplus of seventeen over and above all demands. Thirteen were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town on account of the war, exclusive of State aid, was thirty-five thousand two hundred and forty-two dollars and twenty-one cents ($35,242.21). The amount of money raised and expended by the town during the four years of the war for State aid to the families of soldiers, and which was afterwards repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $1,101.33; in 1862, $2,980.89; in 1863, $3,046.36; in 1864, $4,060.06; in 1865, $2,900.00. Total amount in four years, $14,098.64.
1 This great diminution in the valuation was the effect of the war upon the whaling interest.
1871. E. P. DUtton and Co. Boston,.
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