BUSINESS OF THE OFFICE. Three thousand eight hundred and eighty (3,880) pay-rolls for monthly bounty have been made in triplicate during the year, making the total number 11,640, on which thirty-six thousand nine hundred and forty-four (36,944) payments were made, amounting in the aggregate to one million eight hundred and eighteen thousand six hundred and thirty-nine dollars and seventy-seven cents ($1,818,639.77.) One thousand nine hundred and seven (1,907) rolls were made in duplicate for men who elected to take the bounty in one payment, making 3,814 rolls, on which were paid three hundred and four thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars ($304,175.) Telegraph messages received, one hundred and eighty-nine (189). Telegraph messages sent, one hundred and seven (107.) A number of duplicate rolls have been made for the AdjutantGeneral of the army; also final rolls of the First, Second, Third and Fourth Regiments and First Battalion of Heavy Artillery, and First and Second Regiments Infantry, showing the name, rank, company, occupation, age, married or single, residence, town credited to, date of enlistment, date of muster-in, term of service, date of re-enlistment, date of muster-out, where enlisted, the bounty elected to take, and what became of every officer and soldier in these organizations. The same roll will be made of every regiment and battery which Massachusetts sent to the war. These rolls are bound in books and will be placed, when completed, in the fire proof room. Number of General Orders issued during the year, twenty-two (22;) number of Special Orders, six hundred and seventy-one (671,) covering four hundred and eighteen (418) manuscript pages. Since January 1, 1861, there have been issued from this office two hundred and nine (209) General and five thousand four hundred and fifteen (5,415) Special Orders. Four thousand six hundred (4,600) letters have been received and properly filed, and upwards of five thousand five hundred (5,500) have been written, filling eleven volumes of five hundred pages each. The number of letters, exclusive of the number named above, asking for State aid certificates, average about twelve (12) a day, and have amounted in the aggregate 38 ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S REPORT. [Jan. to about four thousand five hundred (4,500.) These letters are answered by sending the certificate. These make the total number of letters received and attended to during the past year about ten thousand (10,000.) Total number of volunteer commissions since the war began, eight thousand seven hundred and forty-three, (8,743.) Average number of persons who visit the office daily on business, to get State aid certificates, &c., about one hundred, (100.) Estimated number of State aid certificates issued during the year, seven thousand, (7,000.) Number of commissions for volunteer regiments issued during the year, twelve hundred and five, (1,205.) For militia, two hundred and ninety-four, (294.) Commissions issued in accordance with section 4, chapter 238, Acts of 1864, to officers of district companies, three hundred and eighteen, (318,) and three hundred and three (303) of the same were discharged, in accordance with section. 17, chapter 250, Acts of 1865. Militia officers discharged during the year, ninety-five, (95.) Whole number of commissions issued during the year, eighteen hundred and seventeen. TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF MEN WHO WERE COMMISSIONED Number of officers belonging to Massachusetts, . Whole number of officers commissioned, 5,438 184 247 5,869 19 Lawrence, 5 Leicester,. 11 Lenox, 6 Leominster, 6 Leverett,. 56 Lexington, 0 Leyden, 0 Lincoln, 10 Littleton, 4 Longmeadow, 3 Lowell, 17 Ludlow, 27 Lunenburg, 0 Lynn, 24 Lynnfield, 7 Malden, 3 Manchester, 2 Marblehead, 1 Marion, 2 Marlborough, 4 Medford, 2 Medway, 73 Melrose, 1 Mendon, 0 Methuen, 13 Middleborough, 0 Middlefield, 11 Middleton, 1 Milford, 8 Millbury, 15 Milton, 92 9 Lee, 15 6 7 14 0 7 1 5 2 21 13 Hull, 0 Montague, 5 |