The foregoing tables show that every city and town in the Commonwealth has filled its quota upon every call made by the President for troops, and with the exception of twelve small towns each city and town has furnished a surplus over all demands, which in the aggregate amount to fifteen thousand one hundred and seventy-eight (15,178) men. So MASSACHUSETTS STOOD AT THE END OF THE WAR! BOUNTIES TO ENLISTED MEN. The Act passed November 18, 1863, entitled an Act to provide for the payment of bounties to volunteers, and for other purposes, and the Acts of April 11 and May 11, 1864, providing for the payment of bounties to enlisted men in the naval and marine service, made it the duty of the Adjutant-General to make out the pay-rolls for the payment of the bounties. The law provided that men enlisting in the military service for three years might elect to take the full bounty of $325, or they might elect to take the bounty of $50 in hand, and $20 a month; the monthly pay to begin from date of muster-in, and continue as long as they should remain in the service, provided that it did not exceed the original term of enlistment. The men who enlisted in the naval and marine service, and credited to our quota, were to receive bounties as follows: Three years men, $100; two years men, $66.66, and one year men, $33.33. In all cases copies of the muster-in rolls of men enlisting in the military arm of the service, and copies of the enlistment or shipping papers of men in the naval and marine service, had to be filed in this office, signed by the proper mustering and enlisting officers, showing the places to which the men were credited, before bounty pay-rolls would be made. They are held as vouchers, and they have been carefully preserved. The following tables show the number of men for whom bounty pay-rolls were made, up to December 1, 1864: To the above have been added, from the 1st of December, 1864, to 1st December, 1865, as follows: 1,124 three years men, who elected to take the $325 bounty. 13 two years men, who elected to take the $200 bounty. 1,182 one year men, who elected to take the $100 bounty. 531 three years men, who elected to take $50 in hand, and $20 a month. The following tables show the number of men in the military service to whom bounties were paid, or are due, under the Act, "To provide for the payment of bounties to volunteers, and for other purposes," approved, November 18, 1863: NUMBER. RECAPITULATION. Number of Men paid Bounties by the State of Massachusetts. Total. Amounts paid the above Men, exclusive of the Monthly Pay. Number of Men who elected to receive $20 per Month Bounty, from the State of Massachusetts, to Dec. 1, 1865. Amounts paid the above Men to December 1, 1865. Three Years Men. Two Years Men. One Year Men. One Hundred Total. $1,482,455 54 $5,353 13 $1,110,052 77 $455,886 16 $3,053,747 60 Total number of men for all terms of enlistment in the military service, and who elected to take the bounties allowed under the Act of November 18, 1863, forty-four thousand seven hundred and twenty-five, (44,725.) Total amount of bounties paid, or payments represented on the rolls made in this office for the above men, eleven millions six hundred and eighty-five thousand nine hundred and fiftyseven dollars and sixty cents, ($11,685,957.60.) The whole number of men who elected to take the State bounty of fifty dollars in hand, and twenty dollars a month, was as follows: Pay-rolls for the men were made, once in two months, upon the receipt of the muster pay-rolls from the organization to which they belonged, The following table shows the number of men now in the service, and the organizations to which they belong, to whom the monthly bounty is still paid :— The men in the Thirtieth and Twenty-Fourth Regiments Massachusetts Volunteers will, doubtless, be mustered out in a few months. The men in "Hancock's Veteran Corps" are, for the most part, one year men, and their terms of enlistment have nearly expired. The men in the Veteran Reserve Corps have nearly all been mustered out already. The remaining one hundred and eight men will, probably, remain in service one or two years longer. BOUNTIES PAID TO ENLISTED MEN IN THE NAVAL AND MARINE SERVICE, UNDER THE ACTS APPROVED APRIL 11 AND MAY 11, 1864. The Act of Congress, approved July 4, 1864, provided, that all persons in the naval service of the United States, who had entered said service during the rebellion, and who had not been credited to the quota of any town, district, ward or State, should be enrolled and credited to the quotas of the ward, town, district or State in which they respectively resided, upon satisfactory proof of their residence made to the Secretary of War. Upon an examination of the books of the Receiving Ship Ohio, at the Charlestown Navy Yard, and from returns made to me from the shipping officers in Boston and New Bedford, it |