Class Book COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT EEPOKTS speoij?lL ooi^i:mittee VOLUNTEERING COUNTY OF NEW YORK, RELATIVE TO OPERATIONS UNDER CALL DATED DECEMBER 19, 1864. 1864—1865—1866. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, 1866. NEW YORK: THE N. Y. PRINTING COMPANY, PRINTERS FOR THE COUNTY, Nos. 81, 83 AND 85 Centre Street. 18GG. '\ z^ :.S4S CONTENTS. I. The Quota. 11. The Quota Changed. III. Explanation as to the Change in the Quota. IV. The Revision of the Quota — Report op the Com- mittee APPOINTED to visit WASHINGTON. V. Men furnished and Public Funds expended for THE War. VI. Statement of all Expenditures for the War — Report of the County Treasurer. THE QUOTA UNDER THE CALL OP THE PRESIDENT, DATED DECEMBER 19, 1864, FOR THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, DECEMBER 31, 1864. The following Report of the Special Committee on Volunteering, in rela- tion to the Quota under the call of the President dated December 19, 1864, for Three Hundred Thousand Men, was received, and the Ordinance attached thereto adopted. JOSEPH B. YOUNG, Clerk. REPORT. To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors : The County Committee on Yolunteering, respectfully REPORT : That on the 21st inst., the following proclamation was issued by the President, being a call for three hundred thousand (300,000) men. Washington, December 20, 1864. t A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, By the Act approved July 4th, 1864, entitled " An Act further to regulate and provide for the enroll- ing and calling out of the national fordfes, and for other purposes," it is provided that the President of the United States may. at his discretion, at any time hereafter, call for any number of men as volunteers, for the respective terms of one, two, or three years, for military service, and that in case the quota, or any part thereof, of any 10 town, township, ward of a city, precinct or election dis- trict, or of a county, not so subdivided, shall not be filled within the space of fifty days after such call, then the President shall immediately order a draft for one year to fill such quota, or any part thereof, which may be un- filled ; and Whereas, By the credits allowed in accordance with the Act of Congress on the call for five hundred thou- sand men, made July 15, 1864, the number of men to be obtained under that call was reduced to 280,000 ; and Wliereas, The operations of the enemy in certain States have rendered it impracticable to procure from them their full quotas of troops under the said call ; and, whereas, from the foregoing cause, but 250,000 have been put into the army, navy and marine corps under the said call of July 18, 1864, leaving a deficiency on that call of 260,000 ; Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, in order to supply the afore- said deficiency, and to provide for casualties in the military and naval service of the United States, do issue this, my call for three hundred thousand volunteers, to serve for one, two or three years. The quotas of the States, districts, and sub-districts under this call will be assigned by the War Department, through the bureau of the Provost-Marshal General of the United States, and 11 in case the quota, or any part thereof, of any town, town- ship, ward of a city, precinct or election district, or of a county not so subdivided, shall not be filled before the 15th day February, 1865, then a draft shall be made to fill such quota, or any part thereof, under this call> which may be unfilled on said 15th day of February, 1865. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this 19th day of De- comber, in the year of our Lord, one thousand [l. s.] eight hundred and sixty-four, and of the Indepen- dence of the United States of America the eighty- ninth. (Signed) ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President, William H. Seward, Secretary of State. Under this call the quotas of the several districts have now been assigned, and your Committee have just re- ceived a copy of the following communication from Brig- adier-General J. B. Fry, Provost-Marshal General, to Brigadier-General William Hays, Acting Assistant Pro- vost-Marshal General, which will demonstrate the posi- tion of the County of New York in respect to its quota under the above call of the President for three hundred thousand (300,000) men : 12 War Department, Provost-Marshal's Office, ) Washington, D. C, December 23, 1864. j Brigadeer-General William Hays, Acting Assistant Pro.-Mar. Gen., Southern Division, N. F., New York City : The quota of your division of New York, under the call of the President for three hundred thousand (300,000) men, dated December 19, 1864, is six- teen thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven (16,887). This is the number required under the call, after taking into account the credits to which the State is entitled, by estimating the number of years of service furnished by one, two, and three years men. The quota of the First District is 2,686 Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth 4,995 2,610 1,228 961 1,345 899 2,1G3 The whole number of years of service furnished by each district, and which is to be considered in apportioning the quotas of sub-districts, is DISTEICTS. TEARS. Beins an ex- cess of j cars service on the No. of men fur- nished. First 4,225 5,934 6,596 9,153 9,347 7,705 9,695 1,592 1,808 3,022 5,382 5,376 4 220 Second Third Fourth • Fifth Sixth Seventh 5 456 Eirrhth Ninth Tenth 3,846 1 572 13 In order to equalize this credit, it will be added to the quota of the dis- trict in gross, and distributed among the sub-districts, according to the number enrolled in each. This wiU give the quota of the sub-district increased by the excess in pro- portion to the number enrolled ; but as the number of one, two and three years men respectively, have been furnished without regard to the number enrolled, the Provost-Marshal will subtract from the gross quota the actual amount of excess of years of service which the sub-district has fiu-nished. The inclosed formula is furnished as a rule for assigning quotas to sub- districts. suppose the quota under the present call in a given district containing ei-ht (8) sub-districts is one thousand (1,000) men, and that the quota in that district under the call of July 18, 1864, was one thousand six hundred (1,600), which was filled as follows : PERIOD OF SERVICE. SUB-DISTRICT. Number of men furnished. 3 o o ;-. C3 o o EC s ID Total number of years service. Excess number years sei"vicc over number men. Pipgt 200 240 ICO 200 180 240 140 ISO 140 ISO 80 120 100 120 GO 132 20 10 12 30 10 20 10 24 40 50 68' 110 70 100 70 24 300 350 308 510 330 460 290 252 100 110 148 250 150 220 150 72 'j'j5^ij'(^\ Piftii Civth Eighth Total 1,600 932 136 582 2,800 1,200 -^ — It will be seen that the excess of years of service over the number of men fiu-nished in the First Sub-district is one hundred (100), in the Second one hundred and ten (110), &c., &c. Total in the district one thousand two hundred (1,200). 14 The quota of the district under the present call is one thousand (1,000) to this add the excess, one thousand two hundred (1,200), making two thou- sand two hundred (2,200) ; then as tlie number enrolled in the district, twenty thousand (20,000), so is the number enrolled in the sub-district to its quota, which will be reduced by substracting frota its share of the excess. FORMULA. SUB-DISTRICT. ti oj is V. CO eg O 3 1; 3 d 3 ng rt-So jsm m fT-^ Sh i^ ^"s!:- s ='-' y.2 02 s !zi o* iz; w S5 First 20.000 20,000 20.000 2,200 2,200 2,200 2,400 2,800 2,000 204 SOS 220 100 110 148 164 Second 198 Third 72 Fourth 20,000 2.200 3,200 352 250 102 Fifth 20,000 20,000 2.200 2,200 2.200 2,800 242 308 150 220 92 Sixth 88 Seventh 20,000 20,000 2,200 2,200 2.000 2,C00 220 286 150 72 70 Eighth 214 20,000 2,200 1,200 1,000 The above formula is furnished to Boards of Enrollment as a rule by which they will apportion the quotas of sub-districts, and determine the amount of credit due them. Official. (Signed) JAMES B. FRY, Provost-Marshal General. Geoege E. Scott, Capt. Yet. Res. Corps. By the above it appears that the number of men de- manded from the County of New York is four thousand four hundred and thirty-three (4,433), apportioned to the several districts, as follows : 15 No. of men District. Demanded. Fourth 1,228 Fifth 961 Bixth 1,315 Seventh 899 Eighth none. Ninth none. Total 4,433 The entire quotas of the several Districts, before the deduction of the credits allowed, do not appear in this communication, but taking the apportionment of the quotas under the call for five hundred thousand (500,000) men as a basis, we are enabled to ascertain what the quotas, under the call for five hundred thousand (500,000) men, would have been, had they been apportioned in the same manner, that is to say, according to the num- ber of persons enrolled in each District as liable to duty. The figures would have been as follows : Districts. Call for 500,000. Call for 300,000. Fourth. Fifth... Sixth... Seventh Eiiihth., Ninth... 4,071 3,971 3,485 4,239 4,346 3,028 23,140 2,443 2,383 2,091 2,543 2,607 1,81? 13,884 And, comparing these quotas in the several Districts with the numbers of men demanded from each, we de- 16 termine the exact number of credits allowed in the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Districts, and the mini- mum number of credits allowed in the Eighth and Ninth Districts, to be as follows : Districts. Entire quota. Men de- manded. Credits allowed. Fourth 2,443 2.383 2,091 2,543 2,G07 1,817 1,228 'JGl 1.345 899 1,215 FiiUi 1,422 Sl::tli Seventh 740 1,614 Eiii'iith 2,607 Niiith 1,817 • 13,884 4,433 0.451 But the number of credits due to the County of New York is, according to the least liberal computation, over sixteen thousand (16.000) in men, and over thirty-two thousand (32,000) in years of service. The basis, there- fore, upon which the above table is computed — Avhich is the same as that of all previous quotas — appears to have been abandoned by the War Department, and your Com- mittee find in the formula given for the apportionment of a district quota among sub-districts (so as to allow to each sub-district due credit for Avhatever excess it may have furnished over the demand on previous calls, while at the same time the whole ntimber of men demanded from the district is raised), an explanation of the in- genious method by which the Department has fixed the quotas under the present call, so as to prevent the allow- ance for credits due from diminishino: the number of men 17 actually to be raised under tlie call. The formula given is, that as the total enrollment of one portion of the country is to its actual quota, plus the excess of years of service, so is the total enrollment of any other portion of its actual quota plus the excess of years of service. The proportion of the total enrollment of New York County to the total enrollment of the United States is as 46,280 to 1,000,000. By the application of this formula to the number of men demanded from the County of New York, forty-four hundred and thirty-three (4,433), plus the excess of years of service, thirty-two thousand five hundred (32,500), we find that the whole United States must have an excess of years of service of no less than four hundred and ninety-eight thousand and thirty-four (498,034), or about five hundred thousand (500,000). It appears, therefore, that the three hundred thousand (300,000) years of ser- vice called for by the President's proclamation has been added to the five hundred thousand (500,000) years of service already furnished in excess of all previous calls, and that the sum of eight hundred thousand (800,000) years has been apportioned among the several Congres- sional Districts, and that by this apportionment, the quota of New York is fixed at nearly thirty-seven thousand (37,000) years of service, exhausting its surphis of thirty-two thousand five hundred (32,500) years, and demanding in addition four thousand four hundred and 18 thirty-three men for one year. By this means only is the War Department able to secure the number of men called for, and at the same time make the allowance which it had pledged itself to make to those portions of the country which filled calls for one year men with men for two and three years. The wisdom of the course adopted by the County in recruiting men mainly for three years stands vindicated by the result. Had no credits been due to this County, the attempt- to raise thirty-seven thousand (37,000) men must have been abandoned in despair. Forutnately, the naval and other credits obtained without the payment of bounty by your Committee on the last quota have contributed even more to save the County from the present Draft than from the last. The great majority of these credits wore for the three years men, of whom but one year of service was counted on the quota under the call for five hundred thousand (500,000) men, while on the present quota the remaining two years of service are counted. Your Committee desire to express their thanks to the War Department for the adoption of this method of fixing the quota, whereby justice is done to every portion of the country without chousing the Government out of a single one of those three hundred thousand (300,000) men called for by the President. 19 We would state that, though the demand upon ns is for four thousand four hundred and thirty-three (4,433) men that the number of men which we will be com- pelled to raise to satisfy the demand is only about three thousand five hundred (3,500) men. This discrepancy is caused by the fact that allowance has only been made by the War Department for men enlisted up to and including the 30th of November. Since that period, and up to this date, there have been raisedof Army Volunteers, Re-enlisted men. Naval Re- cruits, Substitutes in anticipation of the Draft, and Rep- resentative Recruits, a total of about one thousand (1,000) men, and this number we are entitled to have deducted from the demand for four thousand four hundred and thirty-three (4,433) men, leaving only about three thou- sand four hundred and thirty-three (3,433) men to be raised. But to raise even this small number of men will be matter of much labor, and will require a very large expenditure of money. The quotas of the several Dis- tricts being announced, every effort will at once be put forth by districts surrounding this County to raise tlieir complement. As usual, this County will be the great recruiting ground where all will centre to obtain their men. It is also natural to suppose that very heavy bounties will be 20 oSered, as hitherto, to secure these men. Either this County must give up in despair of filling its quota without a Draft, or it must offer a bounty suflScient to prevent the surrounding districts taking the men from us. Your Committee are satisfied that a large bounty will be necessary to secure us the number of men needed to prevent a Draft. There is now in the County treasury, to the credit of the Volunteer funds, a sum sufficient only, we think, to cover expenditures in raising Volunteers up to this time, and to pay the expenses of the gigantic work of correct- ing the enrollment. Your Committee have, therefore, concluded to recommend and have appended hereto , an ordinance providing for the raising of the men de- manded of us and appropriating the sum of four millions (4,000,000) of dollars to cover the expenses therefor. As there exists no Legislative authority for this loan, it will have to be placed before the people for subscrip- tion solely on patriotic grounds. It is true the Legis- lature is about to assemble, but to wait the few days necessary to obtain the Legislative authority might be fatal, and every moment now is of value, as it will require all the time up to the extreme limit of the President's call to raise the number of men wanted, even at a large bounty. 21 Your Committee believe that they are but expressing the feelings of the patriotic citizens of this county, whether rich or poor — high or low — whether liable or exempt, when they say that no means which labor or money can render available, should be spared to save our County from the disgrace of a draft. They, therefore, recommend the adoption of the ordinance annexed. Dated, Dec. 31, 1864. ORISON BLUNT, WILLIAM M. TWEED, ELIJAH F. PURDY, C. GODFREY GUNTHER, Special Committee on Volunteering. C. Corson, Clerk. APPENDIX. 25 AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF TOLUXTEERrf FOR THE ARMIES OF THE UNION AS PART AND PARCEL OP THE QUOTA OP THE CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK, UNDER THE CALL OP THE PRESIDENT, DATED DECEMBER 20TH, 1864, FOR THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND (300,000) MEN. Tlie Board of Supervisors of the County of New York do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. For the purpose of securing the additional number of men required of the County of New York under the call of the President of the United States, dated December 20, 1864, for three hundred thousand (300,000) men, the Comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to pay, as hereinafter provided, such sum and sums of money as may be necessary to obtain acceptable volunteers for the United States sernce, either in the Army or Navy, not exceeding one thousand dollars for any one Volunteer, provided such Volunteer shall be credited and allowed on account of the quota of men required to be fm-nished by the Coimty, under such caU of the President. Sec 2. The money authorized by the preceding section to be paid for Volunteers, shall be paid to such Volunteers respectively, at the office of the Comptroller, or such other place or places as said Comptroller may designate, immediately on said Comptroller being fiu-nished with satisfac- tory evidence of their having enlisted and been duly mustered into the military service of the United States for the term of their enlistment. Sec 3. In order that the Comptroller may be enabled to make the pay- ments hereinbefore authorized and to meet the expenses necessarily inciured in the execution of this ordinance, he is hereby authorized to borrow, from time to time, on the faith and credit of the County of New York, a sum not exceeding an aggregate of four millions (4,000,000) of dollars, in addition to all loans heretofore authorized under authority of 26 the Legislature or otherwise, for the pm-pose of volunteering, which araoimt is hereby appropriated therefor. Sec. 4. For the money so borrowed, the Comptroller is hereby aiithorized to issue bonds of the County, which shall be designated and known as the " Soldiers' Bounty Fund Bonds, No. — ," and the same shall be transfer- able at the pleasure of the holders thereof, cither in person or by attorney, only upon the books of the County, at the office of the Comptroller, and certificates of such transfers shall be indorsed thereon by the Stock Clerk. Sec. 5. The said bonds sliall be signed by the Compti-oller, countersigned by the Mayor, sealed with the common seal of the Board, and attested by the Clerk of this Board, and they shall bear interest at a rate not exceed- ing seven per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually. Sec. 6. For the payment of the principal of said bond, and the interes to accrue thereon, the faith of tlie Coimty of New York, and the Board of Supervisors of said County, is hereby solemnly pledged, and the Comp- troller is hereby authorized and required to redeem and cancel the same from time to time, at or before their maturity. Sec. 7. The Mayor and the Comptroller of the City of New York, and the following-named members of this Board, that is to say : Elijah F. Purdy, Orison Blunt, William M. Tweed and William R. Stewart, are hereby desig- nated and appointed a Committee to procure the enlistment of Volunteers authorized by this ordinance, and to secure the counting of the Volimteers raised under this ordinance upon the quota of this County. THE QUOTA CHANGED. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, JANUARY 25, 1865. The following Report of the Special Committee on Volunteering, in re- lation to the change in the quota under the call of the President, datfd December 19, 1864, for three hundred thousand men, was received. JOSEPH B. YOUNG, Clerk. 31 REPORT. To the EonoraUe the Board of Supervisors : The Special Committee on Volunteering respectfully REPORT : That they have just been advised that the number of men called for, in addition to men hitherto furnished from the County of New York, under the last call of the President, dated December 19, 1864, for three hundred thousand (300,000) men, has been increased from forty- four hundred and thirty-three (4,433), as originally called for, to nearly twenty thousand (20,000). By what piocess this conclusion is arrived at, upon what basis of calculation, or under what influences, your Committee are not advised. They believed, from the assurances of Provost-Marshal General Fry, made to them when last in Washington, that the quota of four thousand four hundred and thirty-three (4,433) would not be mate- 32 rially changed. This quota tho}'- had nearly filled, and the announcement of this enormous increase is as start- ling to them as it will be to the people of the County. Dated January 24, 1865. ORISON BLUNT. WM. M. TWEED, ELIJAH F. PURDY, WM. R. STEWART, Committee on County Volunteering Cornelius Corson, Clerk. EXPLANATION AS TO THE CHANGE IN THE QUOTA BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, JANUARY S8, 1865. The following Report of the Special Committee on Volunteering, contain- ing an explanation of the change in the quota under the President's call, dated December 19, 1864, for Three Hundred Thousand Men, was received. JOSEPH B. YOUNG, Clerk. REPORT. To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors : The Special Committee on Volunteering would re- spectfully REPORT : That, in accordance with the instructions of your Hon- orable Body, as per resolution adopted at the meeting held on the evening of the 24th inst., the Chairman of your Committee at midnight proceeded to Washington. Immediately upon his arrival he had an interview with Provost-Marshal General Fry, and endeavored to obtain an explanation (in accordance with the instructions of the Board) of the means by which the quota of this County had been raised from four thousand four hundred and thirty-three (4,433), as announced by him to Briga- dier-General Hays on the 23d ult., to the enormous num- ber of twenty-one thousand and nineteen (21,0 19). The Chairman of your Committee was informed that this increase in the quota was attributable — 38 First. To the redistribution of the Naval Credits claimed by us and allowed. Secondly. To reductions in the enrollments of the country districts of this and other States, which, by ma- terially reducing their proportion of the men to be raised, rendered ours comparatively larger. Thirdly. By the report of the War Department, be- tween the 23d and 31st of December, of men raised pre- vious to the 23d of December, who were not considered in the first announcement. In some States the Chair- man of your Committee was assured that the number thus reported was very large. These were the only explanations Avhich the Chairman of your Committee could obtain of the astounding in- crease of our quota. Voluminous statistics were presented to him, but nothing showing the precise meth-:>d in which the quota of this County was arrived at. Full explanations were promised through Brigadier-General Hays, but such ex- planations have not yet been received. This one fact was all that was clear, that the County of New York is required to furnish twenty-one thousand and nineteen (21,019) men, in addition to all men fur- nished and credits obtained up to the 31st ult. ; and the Chairman of your Committee was assured that but for 39 the naval and other credits secured by your Committee upon the present and the previous call, this County would have been obliged to furnish forty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-one (46,651) men, instead of twen- ty-one thousand and nineteen (21,019). The number of men now demanded of the County is divided among the several districts as follows : Fourth District 4,039 Fifth " 3,907 Sixth " 3,023 Seventh " 3,970 Eighth " 3,348 Ninth " 2,732 Total 21.019 In arriving at these figures, so far as your Committee could learn, the quotas assigned appear to be based upon a call for eight hundred thousand (800,000) men, and the enormous number of men held to be due from this County has been derived from its outrageously excessive enrollment. Had your Committee, as desired by them, been au- thorized by the War Department, two months earlier than they were, to undertake the correction of the en- rollment, the work would have been finished before the present quotas were assigned, and the quota of this County would have been reiluced by at least fifteen thousand (15,000) men. 40 Annexed to this Report, and mai-ked Appendix A, is the new order of the Provost-Marshal General assigning the quota of the Southern District of New York. Appendix B, also annexed, is a copy of letter to Brig- adier-General William Hays, A. A. P. M. General, which is the only official explanation yet made of the changes in the quota of this district. Your Committee hasten to lay these facts before your Honorable Body. They believe that there is no escape from the demand now made upon us for twenty-one thousand and nineteen (21,019) men. The number of men enlisting at the present rate of bounty is so small as to be almost nothing in comparison with the large num- ber required of us. Either the bounty must be largely increased, or we must give up in despair of finding any means of avoiding a draft. Whatever injustice may have been done the County in the withdrawal of credits once and justly awarded to us, and by delaying that withdrawal until it is almost too late to think even of supplying the deficiency thus sud- denly thrown upon us, we have now no time to remon- strate. In order to show clearly the effect of this withdrawal, we append (marked C), the letter of Provost-Marshal General Fry to Brigadier-General Hays, dated December 23d, 1864, stating the number of men due from this 41 County to be four thousand four hundred and thirty- three (4,433). The following shows the number of men demanded of each Congressional District of this County by the order of December 23d, and that of January 24th, and the in- crease in the demand in each district : CONGEESSIONAL DISTRICTS. Fourth. . Fifth.... Sixth . . . Seventh. Eiglith.. Ninth. . . MEN PEMANDED. By order of Dec. 23. Totals. 1,228 9G1 1,345 899 4,433 By order of Jan. 24. 4,039 3,907 3,023 3,970 3,348 2,732 INCREASE. 21,019 2,811 2,946 1,678 3,071 3,348 2,732 16,586 In making this Report, the duty of your Committee is discharged. It is now for your Honorable Body to de- termine what course will be most conducive to the inter- ests of the people of this County. Dated January 28, 1865. ORISON BLUNT, ) Special Committee WILLIAM M. TWEED, V on ^ ELIJAH F. PURDY. ) Volunteering. CoKNELius Corson, Clerk. 45 APPENDIX A. ICE,i War Department, Pbovost-Marshal General's Office Washington, D. C, Jan. 24, 1865 Bbigadieb-General Hats, Acting AssistarU Provost-Marshal General, New York City : The quota of the Southern Division of New York, under the call of the President for three hundred thousand (300,000) men, dated December 19, 1864, is Ti/>enty-eight thousand six hvmdred and thirty-one (28,631). This is the number required under the call, after taking into account the credits to which the State is entitled, by estimating the number of years of service furnished by one, two, and three years men. The quota of the First District is 1,065 Second District 3,172 Third District 1,741 Fourth District 4,039 Fifth District 3,607 Sixth District 3,023 Seventh District 3,970 Eighth District 3,348 Ninth District 2,732 Tenth District 1,934 28,631 In tills estimate, the Provost-Marshal General has taken into account all credits to which the several districts are entitled on account of men raised up to December 31, 1864, including excess under former calls. 46 In order to equalize this credit, tou will miiltiply the quota of the di.^rrict by iliree, thus reducing it from a three years to a one year basis. To the product, add the excess of years* service, and then distribute this sum to the several sub-distriot^ in proportion to the nombox enrolled in each. This gives the number of years of service required from each sub-district, incxeased by the exc. From this number deduct the excess which the sub-disirict has actually furnished, and the remainder is the actual number of years service required, which, divided by three, gives the acxual number of men required fhsm the sub-district under the caiL Suppose the quota, under the present call, in a given district containing eight (S) sub-districts, is 1.000 men, and that the quota in that district, under the call of July IS, 1S&4, was 1,600, which was flUed as follows : 1st 2d Sd TUj 8ih Sub-district. Sub-districi- S-lw;!~trict. rict. - rict. :-,->. v.. ^;rici- Sub-district. Sub-district. Total No. of Men Fur- nished. PERIOD OF SERVICE. •2CD 240 160 260 ISO 240 140 ISO 1.600 One Year. 140 ISO 80 120 100 120 60 132 Two Years. 932 20 10 12 30 10 20 10 Three Years. Total yo. Years of Service. 40 60 68 110 TO 100 70 24 136 M-: 510 330 460 290 252 2.SC»> I Excess or Xo. of Years" Service over Xo. I of Men. 100 ilO 14-3 250 150 220 150 i.:w —it win be seen that the excess of years of service over the ntimber of men furnished in the 1st sub-district is 100 : in the 2d, 110, Ac, dec. Total in the district, 1.200. The quota of the district, tinder the present call, is 1.000 ; this, multiplied by thr?e (3), gires 3.000 years of service : to this add the excess (UIOO) . then, as the number eoroJied in the district (20.000) is :o this sum ;4.200\ so is the number enrolled in the sub-dlstrici to the nxmiber of years' service required. lncr\?ased by its excess : nxnn walch deduct ihe excess o:" years 47 of service wliich the sub-district has farniohecl, and divide the remainder by three (3), to find the quota of the sub-distiicL -3 .■a 'S^- ^ 5 ■E-^ to c3 "S-S =" ST-c o s wis .::i « W;= O O P o cf 9 !--r X y r.o 1^ "2 t-— CO ■z ^ 5-2 s- 9 c O g^ §ts>. ts O" !a o W ^'^ "" ^ = 1st Sub-district 20,000 4,200 2,400 504 100 -404 135 2d Sub-district 20,000 4,200 2,800 588 110 478 159 3d Sub-district 20,000 4,200 2,000 420 148 272 91 4th Sub-district 20.000 4,200 3,200 072 250 422 141 5th Sub-disti-ict 20,000 4,200 2,200 462 150 312 104 6th Sub-district 20.000 4,200 2,800 588 220 368 122 7th Sub-district 20.000 4,200 2,000 420 150 270 90 8th Sub-district 20,000 4,200 2,G00 546 72 474 158 Total 20,000 4,200 20,000 4,200 1,200 3,000 1,000 The above formula is furnished to Boards of Enrollment as a nde by which they will apportion the quotas of sub-districts, and determine the amoimt of credit due them. JAilES B. FRY, Provost-Marshal General. XOTE.— This formula to be used instead of the one dated December 23, 1864. Official copy respectfully ftimished for the information of 0. Blunt, Esq., Chairman, &c. H. F. BROW^SON, A. A. G. APPENDIX B. 51 War Department, ( Pkovost-Marshal General's Office. \ Bkigadier-Gexekal William Hays, U. S. V., A. A. Provost-Marshal General, New York City : General : I deem it proper to call your attention to certain facts connected with the quotas of the Cities of New York and Brooklyn, which have increased the number required from the former and diminished that of the latter. The quotas assigned to the 23d ultimo were based upon the best informa- tion available as to the enrollment of the 30th day of November, and the reports of men raised and reported up to that time. Since then material changes have been made on the enrollment lists in many localities, and full reports received of men and years of service furnished up to January 1st, embracing not only the enlistments for December ultimo, but in cer- tain instances for previous months not hitherto received. Another reason is, that a more just and equitable distribution of the one, two and three years naval enlistments has been made, by which the several districts receive their proper share of two and three years men, as well as one year men. The report fui-nished to this office gave to New York all the three years men and a portion of the one and two years men, and to Brooklyn only one year men, and, if adopted and adhered to, would have produced much of the inequality that was indicated by the quotas assigned on tlie 23d ultimo. I am. General, Your obedient servant, (Signed) J. B. FRY, Provost-Marshal General. [A true copy.] H. F. Brownson, a. a. G. APPENDIX C. 55 War Department, PRovosT-MiRsaAL's Opfick, * Washington, D. C, December 23, 1864. j Brigadibii-Gbnbral William Hays, Acting Assistant Pro.-Mar. Gen.. Southern Division, N. Y., New York City : The quota of your division of New York, under the call of the President for three hundred thousand (300,000) men, dated December 19, 1864, is six- teen thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven (16,887). This is the number required under the call, after taking into account the credits to which the State is entitled, by estimating the number of years of service furnished by one, two, and three years men. The quota of the First District is 2,686 Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth 4,995 2,610 1,228 961 1,345 899 2,163 The whole number of years of service furnished by each district, and which is to be considered in apportioning the quotas of sub-districts, is DISTRICTS. TEARS. Beins ancx- cess<(f years ser'.'ice on the No of mc'-i fnr- nislied. First ' 4,2'25 5,934 6,596 9,453 9,347 7,705 9, €95 1 593 Second 1,S0B 3 02'' Third Fourth 5,382 Fifth Sixth 4 "(Oy Seventh Ei!?hth Ninth Tenth 3,846 1 572 ■ 56 In order to c^iualize fliis credit, it will be added to the cjuota of the dis- trict in gross, and distributed among the snb-districts, according to the nunil)er enrolled in each. This will give the quota of the sub-district increased by tho excess in pro- portion to the number enrolled : but as tho number of one, two and three years men respectively, have boon furnished without regard to the number enrolled, the Provost-Marshal will subtract from the gross quota the actual amount of excess of years of service which the sub-district has furnished. The inclosed formula is furnished as a rule for assigning quotas to sub- districts. Suppose the quota under the present call in a given district containing eight (8) sub-districts is one thousand (1,000) men, and that the quota in that district under the call of July 18, 18G4, was one thousand six hundred (1,C00), which was tilled as follows : PERIOD OF SKRTICE. c ^ . - O fc< ct 111 SUB-DISTRICT. c a ■5 3 03 2 J 5 '^ c Is -5 o % is a f: J5 c ''• y. ''•- ~ "^ O H H H ■^ First 200 240 100 200 180 240 140 140 180 80 120 100 120 60 20 10 12 30 10 20 10 40 50 (iS 110 70 100 70 300 350 308 510 330 4G0 290 KiO Second 110 Third 1 8 Fourth 250 Fiftli 150 Sixth 220 Seventh 150 Eighth 180 132 24 24 252 T'' Total 1,600 932 13G 582 2,800 1,200 It will be seen that the excess of years of service over the number of men furnished in the First Sub-district is one hundred (100), in the Second one hundred and ten (110), Ac, &c. Total in the district one thousand two himdred (1,200). 57 The quota of the district under the present call is one thousand (1,000), to this add the excess, one thousand two hundred (1,200), making two thou- sand two hundred (2,200) ; then as the number enrolled in the district, twenty thousand (20,000), so is the number enrolled in the sub-district to its quota, which will be reduced by subtracting from its share of the excess. SUB-DISTRICT. First... Second. Third . . , Fourth. . Fifth... Sixth . . . Seventh Eighth.. h xcess 00 by • Washington, I). C, Feb. 4, 1865. ) President of the Board of Supervisors for the County of New York, Washington, D. C. Sir— The Committee appointed by your Board, consisting of Colonel Stone- house and others, to ascertain the principles upon which the quotas of New York City are assigned, and the amount of credit which the City had received, and the occasion of the increase of the quotas assigned in January, ultimo, over those assigned in December, having made an exam- ination as to the principle on which the quotas of January 24 were assigned, and ascertained the amount of credit given, and calculated the quota of the city for themselves, and having expressed themselves satisfied that justice had been done to the City, except that the enrollment on which the quota is based is deemed by them to be excessive, and having submitted to me a rough draft of a report which they proposed to submit to you as the result of their examination, I have the honor to request that you will inform we whether : First. The principles upon which the quota of the City of New York is assigned have been made known to the Board of Supervisors, and if so, whether the same is to them satisfactory. Second. Whether these principles have been fairly applied to the City of New York, and whether her full share of credit has been allowed to her by the January assignment. Third. And whether the Board is advised of any method other than the one adopted, which would carry out the law governing the subject, and more equitably apportion the credits and quotas to the City of New York and the country. I would respectfully request that you will, on the part of the Board of Supervisors, furnish a reply to this communication before leaving the city, and that yon will inclose a copy of the report made to the Board by the Committee which made the examination in this office. 72 I would also state, that if the Board desires any further information on any subject connected with the draft, or the business of recruiting, I shall be pleased to impart such information as I may be able to communicate, I am, Sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, JAMES B. FRY, Provost-Marshal Ckneral. The information asked by the Provost-Marshal General in this letter could not bo given, for the reasons pre- viously stated by us, in relation to the report of our Sub-Committee. It was therefore determined to request of Iiira the figures necessary to complete our compu- tation. SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL. Our Sub-Committee visited the Provost-Marshal Gen- eral's office and stated our wants. They were promised the information in a few moments. But after waiting five hours, they were informed that the application for what was desired, must be made in writing. The following letter was therefore at once prepared and handed to the Provost-Marshal General : 73 The Committee to the Provost-Marshal General. Brigadiee-Genebal J. B. Fry, Provost-Marshal General : Sir— Please fiu-nisli the figures wMcli fill the following table : Total enrollment to the United States, on which was apportioned the quota assigned December 23, 1864 Surplus years of service due to whole United States NEWTORK CONGBESSIOKAL DISTRICT. Fourth Fifth Sixth .... Seventh ... Eighth Ninth Total O OJ OJ >,a 5 « O" If the manner in which the quotas assigned December 23 were compu- ted is different from this, please fiu-nish the "figures to us in the manner in which these quotas were arrived at by you. ORISON BLUNT, WM. M. TWEED, JOHN FOX, ANDREAS WILLMANN, SMITH ELY, Jr., Committee of the Board of Supervisors ofthe County of New York. "WASnrs-GTON, February 4, 1865. The following answer to the foregoing was received on Sunday morning, dated on that day, and declining to fur- nish the information desired : ] 74 The Provosfy-Marshal General to the Committee. War Department, Provost-Marshal General's Bttreait Washington, B. 6'., Feb. 5, 1865 Orison Blunt, Esq., Chairman of the Committee^ Board of Supervisors of the County of New York : SlR- I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a communication of your- self and others of the Board of Supervisors, of yesterday evening, request- ing me to furnish you with a tabular statement of the basis and amounts of credits, the enrollments, &c., Ac, upon which the assignment of quotas to the several districts embraced in the City of New York, dated December 24, was predicated. You request me to furnish you with the amount of the "total enrollment of the United. States, on which was apportioned the quota assigned Decem- ber 23, 1864. " The siu-plus years of service due by the whole United States. " The enrollment of each of the Congressional Districts embraced in the City of New York. " The aggregate years of service furnished to these several districts. "Their quotas under the call, July 18, for five hundred thousand (500,000). " The excess of years of service furnished by the districts respectively. "Their several quotas under the call of December 19," and their defi- ciency or surplus. As this information pertains exclusively to the quotas that have been abandoned, in consequence of their revision, as explained to the Board of Supervisors, and as it does in no way aflect the quota of January 24, with which we at present have to deal, I do not see that it would be of any practical utility to go into that subject, as the December assignment, whether correct or incorrect, has been replaced by that of January. 75 I have, within the last two clays, extended to you the opportunitj- to examine the records of this office, and communicated to you the principles upon which the present quotas were assigned, and the amount of credit which has been allowed, and I have understood from the Committee, which the Board of Supervisors had designated to make the examination, that they were convinced that the quotas of January 24 are correct and just, except that they deem the enrollment to be excessive. To go over the subject of the December assignment, would necessitate a further suspension of the ciurent business of one of the most important branches of my office, now requiring constant attention, and would result in inconvenience and hardship to parties from other States, who await the completion of my business with yoiu- Committee, to get information required by their respective localities. Having laid the subject before the President and Secretary of War, and received their instructions to this effect, I beg that you will excuse me from giving further time to an inves- tigation into the December assignment. I beg leave, however, to assure you, as stated in my letter of yesterday, that it will give me great pleasure to impart any information at my dispo- sal, touching the draft or the business of recruiting. I am, Sir, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, JAMES B. FRY, Provost-Marshal General. The Committee at once dispatclied the following reply : The Committee to the Trovost-Marskal Gen£ral. Washington, D. C, February 5, 1865. Brig.-Gcn. J. B. Frt, Provost-Marshal General : Sir— We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of yesterday, requesting repUes to the following questions. 76 ^' First. Whether the principles upon which the quota of the City of New York is assigned have been made linown to the Board of Supervisors, and if so, whether the same is to them satisfactory. Second. Whether these principles have been fairly applied to the City of New York, and whether her full share of credit has been allowed to her by the January assignment. Third. And whether the Board is advised of any method other than the one adopted, which would carry out the law governing the subject, and more equitably apportion the credits and quotas to the City of New York and the country." We have to reply to tlie first clause of the first interrogatory, that the principles upon which tlie quota of the City of New York is assigned, have been made known to the Committee of the Board of Supervisors by the report made to the Sub-Committee appointed by them, to which you refer, which report is appended hereto, marked A. To the second clause of the first interrogatory, "whether the same is to them satisfactory," we have to say that the data furnished us by the annexed report we deemed insufiicient. We thought it necessary, in oi'der to show the occasion of the increase of the quotas assigned in January, ultimo, over those assigned in Decem- ber, that the figures by which the quotas of December were arrived at should be furnished us in the same manner as the figures for the quotas of January had been. We therefore applied for those figrrres, and we have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of this morning, stating that you had laid the subject before the President and the Secretary of War, and received their instructions, and asking that we will excuse you from giving further time to an investigation into the December assign- ment. We regret this conclusion from the conviction that only through the publication of the process by which the quotas of our County, for Decem- ber as well as January, were arrived at, could our constituents be satisfied that the increased quotas under the last assignment ^were just. 77 we regret, also, the delay occasioned by onr misapprehensimi of the opport Jity extended to us to examine the records of your office. We now learn for the first time that such opportunity is extended, and shall gladly avail ourselves thereof. We desire now to be aUowed to copy from the records the enrollment of the remaining Congressional Districts of the Loyal States, the terms of service, the quotas of July 18, 1864, the excess or deficiencies, if any, and the quotas assigned January 24, 1865. When we shall be in possession of these figures, we shall be able and pleased to answer the remainder of your iuterrogatories. The bearer of this will await your reply, and our Sub-Committee will immediately thereupon proceed to the examination. We have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your obedient servants, ORISON BLUNT, ") Committee S'fK'- ''''^^' Uoara ol^rvisors SmiIs WlfeilANN, ) County of few York. Appended was the report of our Sub-Committee, whicli forms Appendix B of this report. This request was also refused by the Provost-Marshal General, in the following letter : TTie Provost-Marshal General to the Committee. War Department, ) Pbovost-Marshal General's B^Rf^^i t Washington, D. C, Feb. 5, 1865. ) Oeison Betiejt, Esq., Cliairman of the Committee, Board of Supervisors of the County of New York : Sib— I have the honor to acknowledge the receii^t of your communication of this date, from which I quote as follows : 78 "We regret also the delay occasioned by our misapprehensiou of the op- portunity extended to iis to examine the records of your office. We now learn for the first time that such opportunity is extended, and shall gladly avail ourselves thereof. " We desire now to be allowed to copy from the records the enrollment of remaining Congressional Districts of the loyal States, the term of serv- ice, the quotas of July, 1864, the excess or deficiencies if any, and the quo- tas assigned January 24, 1865." In reply to the two paragraphs quoted from your letter, I would respect- fully state as follows : to the first, By reference to my letter of this morning, I find the following : " I have within the last two days extended to you the opportunity to ex- amine the records of this office," &c. I regret to infer from your communication, just receivod, that the Com- mittee has understood this remark as having a more extended meaning than was intended. It was not supposed that the Committee would under- stand mo as saying that they had been offered an opportunity to examine all the records of the different branches, or all of any one branch of this office, or that they were now invited to do so. An opportunity has been afforded to examine only the records necessarj- to a proper understanding of the snbject under consideration, to wit : the quota of New York County, as assigned January 24th, 1865. I respectfully request that the Committee will so understand my letter of this morning. To the second : I have already made the Committee as fully acquainted with the method of computing the quotas assigned on the 24th of January, as it is in my power to do. The figures, statements, &c., asked for abovci will give the Committee no additional raeiuis of forming a correct opinion as to the method of computing the quotas referred to. The request made in the second paragraph, quoted from your letter of this date, has been laid before the Secretary of War, and endorsed by him as follows : "The demand of the Committee appears to me unreasonable and im- practicable, but the Provost-Marshal General will put on it such force as he can, and in the meantime go on with the di-aft. Filling the army cannot bo 9 delayed by calls on the office of the Provost-Marshal that will require months to fill, and which can serve no other purpose than delay." It is at this time more impracticable to grant the request made by the Committee, and referred to above, than it would have been to grant that made in their letter of yesterday, and which was indorsed by the President, as follows : "This is too large a job for the officers to be encumbered with now, in the midst of preparations for the approaching draft." I am unable to inform you definitely at what time the informatioii will be prepared. I am, Sir, very respectfully. Your obedient servant, JAIIES B. FRY, Provost-Marshal General. Determined to use our best exertions to obtain these figuresj your Committee dispatched the following letter to the Provost-Marshal General, which closed the corres- pondence of the 5th : The Committee to the Provost-Marshal General. Washington, Feb. 5, 1865, 11 p. m. Brigadter-Genetul J. B. Fry, Provost-Marshal General : Sir : We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your second communi- cation of this date. We regret to find that our request seems to have been entirelyTnisunder- stood both by the Secretary of War and yourself. So far from being a " call on the office of the Provost-Marshal that will require months to fill, and which can serve no other pui'pose than delay." it will require no labor or attention on the part of yorn- clerks, except an exhibit of the records, and we will engage (the nimiber of figures to bo 80 copied being less tlian 4,000) to have the copy made in two honi's by two persons. From the tenor of your communication, we are led to infer that you are under the impression that an opportunity has been afforded us to examine some of the records of youi* office. Although we have been detained for many hours in your office in momentary expectation of receiving the fig- ures for which we had asked, the only opportunity we have had of exam- ining records has been limited to a single page (the Southern District of New York), and that for but a few moments. We acknowledge that you have already made the Committee as fully ac- quainted with the method of computing the quotas assigned on the 24th of January as it is in your power to do. It is hardly necessary, however, for us to suggest that in acquainting us with this method, you assumed as basis of the computation two numbers, upon the correctness of which the justice of the results entirely depends. The first of those numbers is the sum of the enrollment of all the districts of the loyal States, and the second is the sum of the excess of credits in those districts on December 31st, 1864, after- satisfying all calls previous to December, 1864. We have no means of testing the correctness of these numbers, and can have none except from the figures which we have asked permission to copy. Unless the means of verifjring their correctness be in our possession it will be impossible for us either to reply to the interrogatories proposed in your communication of yesterday, or to demonstrate to ourconstituentsthe justice of the increased quotas now demanded. If the means of satisfying our constituents be afforded us, we laiow that they will heartily respond to any just call which has been or may be made upon them, and we are entirely confident that recruits will then be ob- tained so rapidly by voluntary enlistment, that the enforcement of the draft will be imnecessary. Trusting that this explanation of oiu- request may be satisfactory to the Department, and hoping immediately to receive the permission to copy the figures desired, we remain Your obedient servants, ORISON BLUM". ") Committee WILLIAM ai. TWEED, ofthe JOHN FOX, • Board of Supervisors SMITH ELY, Jr., 'ofthe ANDREAS \VILLMANN, J County ofJSJew York. 81 INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESIDENT. Your Committee had, since their arrival in- Washing- ton, endeavored to see the President, but it was not until the morning of Monday, the 6th, when our correspond- ence with Provost-Marshal General Fry had reached this point, that we were enabled to have an audience with His Excellency. In order that there might be no misunderstanding as to what we desired, the following points of our claim were submitted to him in writing : Washington, D. C, February 6, 1865. To ffis ExcelleTicy the President of the United States. Under your call of December 19, 1864, for 300,000 men, there was assigned to the County of New York, on the 23d of December, a quota of 4,433 men. On the 24th of January, 1865, our quota was increased to 21,019 men. We ask: First. Inasmuch as the increase in our quota is due in great part to a re-assignment of quotas after the correction of the enrollment in other districts, we think it but fair that our quota should be re-assigned after the correction of our enrollment. We ask, therefore, that upon the comple- tion of the correction of our enrollment, which will be in about twenty days, our quota be re-assigned. Second. In case our County shall keep her Pi-ovost-Marshals reasonably busy mustering in recruits, that the Provost-Marshals be not withdrawn from that duty to enforce the draft. Third. To satisfy our constituents as to the justice of this increase of our quota we ask leave to copy the figures on which the quotas of December and January are based. As the quota of each district depends on the figures for every other district, we shall be obliged to copy the figures of aU the districts of the loyal States. This we will do at any hour of day or 82 night Tvhich may be least inconvenient to the War Department, and we will do it in less than two hours. Although your Committee received no positive assur- ance from the President to the two first points presented to him, they were led to believe that His Excellency saw their force and justice. In regard to the third point, however, in which our correspondence with the Provost-Marshal General had been so unsatisfactory, he remarked it had been repre- sented to him that we desired these figures for the pur- pose of showing that the Government was wrong. Your Committee assured him, however, that their only object was to be put in possession of the data on which they might satisfy themselves and their constituents that the quota assigned them was jast. On this explanation. His Excellency was kind enough to hand to your Committee the following order to Provost-Marshal General Fry. The President to tlie Provost-Marshal General. Executive Mansion, ) Wasuington, February 6, 1865. j Provost-Marshal General: These gentlemen distinctly say to me, this morning, that what they want is the means from your office of showing their people that the quota assigned to them is right. They think it will take but little time, two hours, they say. Please give them double the time, and every facility you can. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. 83 THIRD INTERVIEW WITH THE PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL. With this memorandum, and a copy of that portion of the paper handed the President relating to this subject, our Sub- Committee called upon Provost-Marshal General Fry, ready to proceed with the labor of copying the figures. The Provost-Marshal General took the papers and shortly after handed the Sub-Committee the following : The Provost-MarsTial General to the Committee. War Department, Provost-Marshal General's Bureau Washington^ D. C, February 6th EAU, V , 1865. ) To the Board of Supervisors of the County of New York: Gentlemen : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a meraorandum from the President, by the hands of your Sub-Committee, in reference to furnishing the information asked by you yesterday, and which was declined by my letter to you of last evening. Since the receipt of the memorandum from the President, I have called upon and conferred with him upon the subject, and am now directed by him to inform you that in answer to your applica- tion for figures, statements, &c., I have only to repeat my letter of last evening, to which I refer you. I am, gentlemen. Very respectfully. Your obedient servant, JAMES B. FRY, Provost-Marshal General. 84 Thus your Committee were at last informed distinctly that, even with the President's permission, they could not have the figures necessary to demonstrate the accu- racy either of the quota of 4,433, demanded in Decern' ber, or the quota of 21,019, required in January. Had this refusal been given us at the outset, much valuable time would have been saved us, and we should the sooner have been able to lay our report before your Honorable Body. As your Committee was appointed in part for the pur- pose of ascertaining the justice of the increased quota, or, at least, the reasons which operated to increase the demand for 4,433 men in December to a demand for 21,019 men in January, they felt that they would have been remiss had they less pertinaciously insisted upon obtaining the desired information. During the evening of the 6th your Committee were surprised at the receipt of a letter from the Provost Marshal General, again refusing to furnish the informa tion asked. It was as follows : 85 The Provost-Marshal General to tlie Committee. War Department, ) Provost-Marshal General's Bureau, > Washington, D. a, Feb. 6, 1865. ) Orison Blunt, Esq. Chairman of the Committee, Board of Supervisors of the County of New York: Sir: Your communication of this date lias been received, asking for an opportunity to examine tlie records of this office, and obtain such infor- mation as Nvill enable you to test the accuracy of the "sum of the enroll- ment of all the districts of the loyal States, and the sum of the excess of credits of those districts on December 31, 1864, after satisfying all calls previous to December 19, 1864." In your communication you allege that these two numbers are assumed, and then add that the correctness of the quota of New York depends upon the correctness of these assumed numbers. In reply, I have the honor to state that "the sum of the enrollment of all the districts of the Loyal States" to which quotas have been assigned, and which was furnished you on the 4d instant, and which is correctly stated in the repoi't of your Sub-Committee, and the "sum of the excess of credits of these districts," which were also furnished you are not assumed, but are the correct aggregate of the enrollment and excess of years of service. I beg leave to inform the Board of Supervisors that, having furnished them with this information, I have no further time at my disposal to devote to this subject. I am. Sir, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, JAMES B. FRY, Provost-Marshal General. Your Committee have received no further communi- cation up to the time of making their report. 86 THE TWO QUOTAS. In addition to the foregoing correspondence, your Committee have spent much time and labor in the endeavor to ascertain whether, of the two quotas assigned to this County in December and in January either or neither is just. For the quota of January the method of computation was in part presented to your Committee, and in order that the difference between the processes employed in the computation of the two quotas, may be clearly apparent, we give in detail the process of computation of the January quota, and an approximation to the pro- cess of computation of the December quota. QUOTA OF JANUARY. The following is a statement of the process employed in the assignment of the January quota. To save space, we have treated the County of New York as a single district, though actually a separate computation is made for each Congressional District : As the enrollment of the whole United States, two millions two hundred and nineteen thousand nine hundred and twenty- two 2,2 19,922 Is to the enrollment of the County of New York, one hundred and forty-eight thousand one hundred and lifty-fom- 118,154 87 So is the President's call for three hundred thousand. 300,000 men, less ten thousand 10,000 men raised between the date of the call, December 19, 18Gi, and the time up to which excess credits are allowed in the computation of the quota, Decem- ber 31, 1864, which makes the number of men re- quired on that day, two hundred and ninety thou- sand 290,000 these men being considered as three years men in the computation, the number of years of service represented by them is eight hundred and seventy thousand 870,000 To which add the credits due December 31, 1864, to all the districts of the United States for years of service of recruits furnished to the Government in excess of aU previous calls, four hundred and eighty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty- two 488,322 ■ making a sum of one million three hundred and fifty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty-two 1,358,322 To the quota of years of service demanded of the Coimty of New York, ninety thousand six hundred and fiftj'-two 90,652 From this sum, ninety thousand six hundred and fifty-two, 90,652 which is the quota of years of service demanded of the County of New York, subtract the credits for excess of years of service allowed the County, twenty-seven thousand sLx; hundred and forty-four. 27,644 and the remainder, sixty-three thousand and eight 63,008 is the number of years of service assigned to the Coimty of New York ; divide this by three and the quotient is the quota of men assigned to the County of Now York, twenty-one thousand and two 21,002 Or in more techical form, 88 Enrollment of the United States. -^ y Enrollment of the County of New York. CO > •g I President's Call, December 19, 1864- C [ Men raised between December 19, 1864, and December 31, 1864. Men to be raised to make up 600,000. X Aggregate of years of service of men to be raised distributed. ■^ V Excess years of service due the whole United States. to \ lo ' i» > Aggregate of years of service distributed of men raised and to be raised. CO V to 1 to/ §1 Aggregate of years of service apportioned to New York County, of men g ( raised and to be raised. toj I to) ■^ I Deduct excess credits due the County of New York. u w ) Years of service of men to be raised apportioned to the Covmty of New g > York. 00 } Quota of men actually assigned to the County of New York. 89 QUOTA OF DECEMBER. The Department having declined to give any data for the quota assigned December 23d, 1864, your Committee were obliged to make up an approximate statement of the process by which it was arrived at. This has been done from the figures in possession of the Special Com- mittee on Volunteering, the general allegations of Pro- vost-Marshal General Fry made to your Committee, the circulars issued by him to the Assistant Provost-Marshal Generals for their guidance in assigning the quotas of districts to sub-districts, his pubhshed communications in answer to applications for information from various parts of the country, and such other hints and indications as your Committee were enabled to obtain. Your Committee believe that the figures which they present below do not vary much from those which the War Department declined to furnish : As the (approximate) enrollment of the whole United States, two millions two hundred and ninety-nine thousand three hundred and forty-six 2,299,346 Is to the enrollment of the County of New York, one hundred and forty-eight thousand one hundred and fifty-four 14o,154 less Twenty (20) per cent., twenty-nine thousand six hundred and thirty-one 29,631 the remainder being one hundred and eighteen thousand five hundred and twenty-three 118,523 90 So is the President's call for three hundred thousand. . . 300,000 men, to which add the (approximate) credits due Oc- tober 31, 1864, to all the districts of the United States for years of service of recruits furnished to the Government in excess of all previous calls, four hundred and fifty-six thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight 456,988 the same being seven hundred and fifty-six thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight 756,988 To the quota of years of service demanded of the County of New York, thirty-nine thousand and twenty 39,020 From this sum, thirty-nine thousand and twenty . . 39,020 which is the quota of years of service demanded of the County of New York, subtract the (approxi- mate) excess of years of service allowed the County, thirty-five thousand three hundred and twenty-seven 35,327 and the remainder due is the quota of the County of New York, computing its six districts as one, three thousand six hundred and ninety-three 3,693 Or, in more technical form, 91 jo ?■ Approximate enrollment of tlie United States. CO \ OS"' •B r EnroUment of the County of New York. £) I -ffi y Twenty per cent, of the enroUment of the County of New York. si II -^{.EnroUment of the County of New York less twenty per cent. (a) The President's call, December 19, 1864. -^[Excess of years of service due the whole United States for men raised. II -I I A"^regate years of service distributed of men raised and to be raised. si '" t jS) Years of service of men raised and to be raised apportioned to the g (■ County of New York. ^] Years of service of men raised due to the County of New York, Octo- ^ { ber 31, X864. " I Quota if excess in Eighth and Ninth Districts could be applied to defl- § \ ciency in other Districts. -4- ;? [ Approximate excess In Eighth and Ninth Districts. V [ Quota assigned to the other four districts. to ' In reality, the computation being made for each Con- gressional District separately, there is an excess of cred- its in the Eighth and Ninth Districts, and a deficiency ia 92 the other four districts greater than this excess by three thousand six hundred and ninety-three (3,693). The Congressional Districts then stand as follows : CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. DEFICIENXY. EXCESS. Fourth 1,228 901 1,345 899 Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth 621 Niath » 119 Totals 4,433 740 Or, net quota, were the excess in the Eighth and Ninth Districts applicable to the other districts, three thousand six hundred and ninety -three (3,693). t The enrollment of the whole United States was stated to your Committee by Provost-Marshal General Fry to have been considerably reduced between the first and second assignments. We have made an allowance for such reduction of nearly eighty thousand (80,000). From the enrollment of the County of New York, the Provost-Marshal General stated to us that in the compu- tation of December he deducted twenty (20) per cent. We have, therefore, deducted twenty (20) per cent, from the enrollment as given us by him. Your Committee were informed that between the two computations a large num.ber of claims for credits were 93 received from various parts of the country. For this we have made an allowance of nearly thirty-eight thousand (38,000). The results obtained with these data, show an (approx- imate) excess of years of service still remaining in tlie Eighth and Ninth Congressional Districts of seven hun- dred and forty (740), applicable to future calls. It will be seen that the process employed in the com- putation of the quotas in December, was entirely different from that employed in January, as fully appears from the comparison of the circulars to the Assistant Provost-Marshal Generals, hereto annexed and marked C. The causes of this change appears from an address of the Governor of this State to the people, and a Mes- sage transmitted by him to the Assembly hereto annexed and marked D. In December, a one year's man enlisted in 1864, was counted as an offset to a one year's man enlisted in 1865. In January, three (3) one (1) year's men enlisted in 1864, were required to offset one man enlisted for one year in 1865. The credits due to localities for surplus men and surplus years of service were allowed at their full value in December, and at one-third of their value in January. The simplest method of effecting this reduction in value, would have been to divide the surplus years of service furnished by three ; but another method was adopted 94 which accomplished the same result, though in a less conspicuous manner. The justice of the system of credits for surplus years of service adopted by Provost- Marshal General Fry, in the computation of the Decem- ber quota, is supported at length by him in a communi- cation to the Governor of Minnesota, dated January 12, 1865, hereto appended and marked E. We desire to present no stronger condemnation of the system adopted in January than this argument, for the system of Decem- ber, made by the Provost-Marshal General himself. It will also be noticed that in the computation of January, large credits were taken away from us which had been allowed in the computation of December. That we were entitled to these credits, would seem to be shown by the December decision of the War Department, but additional grounds will be given hereafter in this Report. Most of these credits were for men enlisted in the Navy. Six thousand four hundred and forty-eight (6,448) years of service due to the County of New York on such enlistments, and allowed in the December com- putation, were taken from this County in the January computation, as your Committee believe, without shadow of evidence and without color of law. Your Committee have to report that, to the best of their belief, these credits are still due to the County of New York, and as such should be allowed. Your Committee deem the ground taken in both 95 computations, viz., that the call of the President is to produce a net result of 300,000 men, undiminished by any allowance for credits, is a pure assumption, and has no foundation either in the call of the President or in the Acts of Congress regulating conscription. Had the system of crediting adopted on previous calls been pursued in the assignment of the quotas under this call, not only could no quota have been assigned to the County of New York, but she w^ould have had still remaining a considerable surplus of credits applicable to future callb\ The character of the method last adopted in the com- putation of quotas is well set forth in a letter from the Governor of Pennsylvania to the President of the United States, an extract from which is appended herewith, together with the call of the President, marked F. The Provost-Marshal General to the Acting Assistant P7'ovosf-3Iarshnl General of the Southern Division of Neio York. As already stated, in their first interview with Provost- Marshal General Fry, he read to your Committee por- tions of a paper in explanation of the increased quota of the County of New York, which paper, he stated, would be made public. In the second interview with Provost-Marshal General 96 Fry, a copy of tbe paper which he read was requested. Wo were then furnished with what purported to bo a copy of a letter of the Provost-Marshal General to Brigadier-General Hinks, Acting Assistant Provost- Marshal General of the Southern Division of New York, but on examination it proved to be only a portion of the letter which, however, was published in fall in the New York City papers of the same day. This letter is appended marked G. The portion omitted was that reflecting on the County Committee on Volunteering. The statements of that letter, so far as they relate to the action of County authorities, require some illustration. The Provost-Marshal General says : " In reference to the City of New-York, the number of men to be raised was fixed at the low figtire of 4,433 in the first assignment from two pecu- liar causes. One related to the amount of credit to which that place was entitled on account of credits for men enlisted in the Navy prior to Feb- ruary 24, 1864. It was reported to me by the Chairman of the Volunteer Committee of the New York Board of Supervisors, in letter dated Decem- ber 20, 1864, that an agreement had been made between himself and General Hays, the then Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General, ' that the two and three years' naval men should be apportioned to ' the sub- districts of the County of New York, and reports were made to this ofiice In accordance therewith ; by which, of the naval credits allowed by the commission appointed for that purpose (and which commission considered only the number of men and not their periods of service), to the first ten districts in New York, composed of one, two and three years' men, all the two and three years' men were put to the credit of the City of New York, and such naval credits as belonged to Brooklyn and Tarrytown were reported asono year men, thus giving to each of the districts of New York City, and taking from the districts of Brooklyn and Tarrytown about two or three 97 times as much credit on ttiis account as was rigiit and just. The unfair' ness and injustice of this distribution escaped notice in the hun'y of prepar- ing the approximate quotas between the 2Qth and 2ith of December, but was subsequently discovered and corrected, the number of naval men assigned by the commission to the different districts being disturbed.^^ Fortunately the official correspondence of the County Committee on Volunteering is sufficient to answer this statement, and to prove that instead of the " unfairness and injustice of this distribution" escaping notice, the Provost-Marshal General was distinctly made acquainted with the fact that claim for cdl the two and three year men was made for New York. That General Fry knew all about this matter, when he assigned the quota the first time, is proven by the follow- ing :. ■ On the 19th of December, at midnight, the Chairman of the County Committee on Volunteering received from Provost-Marshal General Fry the following telegram : Provost-Marshal General to Orison Blunt. War Departxien't, Provost-Marshal General's Office, Washington, D. C, Dec. 19, 1864. Eon, 0. Blunt, Supervisor, New York City: Please send me, at the earliest possible moment, the terms of service for one (1), two (2), and three (3) years of the seamen credited to the Southern Division of New York, by the Naval Commission, by districts one (1) to tf^n (10) inclusive. (Signed,) JAMES B. FEY, Provost-Marshal General. 7 98 In reply to this, early the next morning, the following telegram was dispatched : Orison Blunt to Provost-Marshal General Fry. (Copy.) HEAD-QUAKTERS CO0NTT COMMITTEE OX VOLUNTEERING, ) City Hall Park, Broadway, f Corner of Chambers street, i New York, December 20, 1864. ) Brigadier-General J. B. Fry, Provost-Marshal General: Sir— I hasten to reply to your dispatch dated the 19th instant, received at midnight. The number of men enlisted in the City of New York for the Navy, from April 15, 1861, to February 24, 1864, and claimed by us, was twenty- sis thousand four hundred and eighteen (26,418). Of these the State Commission allowed the County of New York, in all, eighteen thousand nine hundred and forty-eight 18,948 There were allowed to Brooklyn, six thousand and forty-six 6,046 The balance of one thousand four hundred and twenty-four 1,424 were allowed to other places, but to what District we are not advised. Of the whole number of twenty-six thousand foui' hundred and eighteen (26,418), we have the official records to show that there were enlisted For three years, eleven thousand one hundred and fifty-one 11,151 For two years, five hundred and one. . .' 501 For one year, fourteen thousand seven hundred and Bixty-sLx — 14,766 Total, twenty-six thousand four hundred and eighteen — 26,418 As these men were all confessedly enlisted in New York City, and under a strict construction of the law, we think we should have been entitled to all not actually proven to have resided elsewhere, and as Brooklyn especially 99 presented no such evidence, iut received her credit off of our claim, icithout reference to years of service, we now claim that the six thousand and forty- six (6,04G) men allowed to Brooklyn shall be counted one year men, and that all the tioo and three year men belong of right to the County of New York. By this calculation there were allowed to New York— Of three years' men, eleven thousand one hundred and fifty-one 11,151 Of two years' men, five hundred and one 501 Of one year men, seven thousand two hundred and ninety-six... 7,296 Total allowed to New York, eighteen thousand nine hundred and forty-eight 18,948 Allowed to all other places — Of one year men, seven thousand four hundred and seventy — 7,470 Total allowed 26,418 In addition to the above there were allowed us, exclusively on your own order, credit for five hundred and twenty-nine (529) men enlisted in the United States Naval service from February 24, 1864, to April 4, 1864. Of these men there were enlisted— For three years, fifty-five 55 For two years, one hundred and twenty-one 121 For one year, three hundred and fifty-three 353 Total, five hundred and twenty-nine 529 On these two accounts, therefore, there were allowed to the City of New York a total credit of nineteen thousand four hundred and seventy- seven (19,477), of whom there were enlisted — For three years, eleven thousand two hundred and six 11,206 For two years, six hundred and twenty-two 622 For one year, seven thousand six hundred and forty-nine 7,649 Total, nineteen thousand four hundred and seventy-seven 19,477 100 I will transmit yon by mail, to-night, an official copy of letter to General Hays, Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General, Southern Division of New York, showing all credits due New York County up to October 31, 1864, which will show at a glance the position in which we stand as regarded credits on that date. I am, Sir, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, (Signed) ORISON BLUNT, Cliairman New York County Committee on Volunteering. Particular attention is called to the lines which we now italicise in the foregoing telegram. Can it be possible that the Provost-Marshal General's Bureau did not know when the quota of December 23d was as- signed that New York claimed and had been alloAved all the two and three years' naval men, when the only knowledge the Bureau had as to the terms of service of these naval men was derived from information which they had called upon us for, and had been by us fur- nished to them? And no better proof of the justice of the allowance of all these credits to New York, could be given than the fact that the authorities of none of the other localities which have now received the benefit of them could state the terms for which the men claimed by them had been enlisted. In addition to the telegram, and in order that there might be no mistake, on the evening of the same day a copy of that telegram was transmitted to Provost-Mar- shal General Fry by special messenger, together with 101 other papers relating to the same matter, designed to give the Department the fullest information on the sub- ject of all credits due the County of New York. The other papers are appended hereto, marked H. In his letter to General Hinks, the Provost-Marshal General further says : " In connection with tlie complaint made by New York City it is proper to state ttiat under tlie call of July 18, 1864, her quota was twenty-three thou- sand one hundred and forty (23,140). On that call the City, by the largest estimate that can be made, enlisted but five thousand sis hundred and fortj'-two (5,642) men. She secured credit for nineteen thousand six hun- dred and ten (19,610) seamen, said to have been enlisted between April, 1861, and February 24, 1864, who were not embraced in the enrollment on which her quota was based. For these she had to pay no bounties, and seems to have been at no further expense than that incurred in collecting and recording the names of the men, and having the sheets containing them bound in a ponderous volume." The statement that a small number of men were en- listed under the previous call is true. But under the law of Congress relating to navul credits and the order of the Provost-Marshal General himself, the County of New York was not justly required to raise one man of the quota of twenty three thousand one hundred and forty (23,140) men then demanded. Had the naval cred- its for men enlisted in our city all been allowed to us, ex- cept where evidence was furnished that at the time of enlistment they resided elsewhere, according to the terms of the law. New York Avould have been relieved of the 102 necessity of raising a single man under that call because of the excess of men already furnished the Navy. The Provost-Marshal General adds : " Of the five thousand four hundred and sixty-two (5,462) stated above as enlisted to the credit of New York City, since July last, many were fraudulently enlisted and counted several times over, and some of them are still in the City of New York, repeating their enlistments to fill the present quota. The conduct of the parties implicated in these frauds is now undergoing official scrutiny." This is a reflection upon the subordinate officers of the Provost-Marshal General's Bureau in the County of New York. It certainly could not have been intended to give the impression that the responsibility for such illegal en- listments, if any there be, rests with the County author- ities. The fact is, that the County authorities enlist no man. They merely pay the local bounty to those en- listed by the officers appointed for that purpose by the Provost-Marshal General. And if the recruiting officers fraudulently enlist men, which we do not believe, the re- sponsibility does not rest upon the County authorities. ■ Statements in support of this assertion of the Provost- Marshal General appear in the New York papers of this morning, apparently emanating from the War Depart- ment. In these statements it is intimated that the in- crease of the quota of this County from four thousand four hundred and thirty-three (4,433) to twenty-one thousand and nineteen (21,019) is explained by frauds 103 practiced on the Government in filling the quota of July. This is not so. Of the men enlisted under the call of July, every one credited to the County of New York re- ceived his bounty in his own hand, and no paper credits were bought. As to the naval credits, nearly all of them were for men enlisted at a time when no bounties were paid, and there was no inducement for the commission of fraud. It is true that there has been much swindling of re- cruits, and, we doubt not, of the Government, in the en- listment of men within the limits of the County of New York, to be credited to other localities. The County au- thorities have for the past year been endeavoring to pre- vent this. They liave given repeated warning of the ex- istence of these frauds, but the Government has persisted in a system which affords facilities for the practices of which it now complains. The only manner in which the Government can have suffered in regard to recruits credited to this County has been by the desertion of the men after their acceptance by the United States officers. This cannot affect our quota (except so far as it may render future calls on the whole country necessary), as is proved by the following extract from the letter of the Provost-]\[arshal General to the Governor of Minnesota, heretofore referred to : "The nile has always been, under all calls, that when a soldier is ac- cepted into the service, he is received and credited for the term of his en- 104 listraent or draft, the Government taking the responsibility that he will serve for tlie full period of his enlistuufnt, and in no case has any locality been called upon to replace men lost to the service by death, disability, or desertion." Instead of being responsible, in any degree, for the al- leged fraudulent enlistments, the official papers appended to this report, marked J, will prove that the County au- thorities have been active in bringing to the knowledge of the Government officials cases of fraud which have from time to time come under their notice. In regard to the correction of the enrollment now in progress, the Provost-Marshal General says : • " For more than a year corrections of the enrollment in New York City have been continually invited. A special appeal for this correction was made by circular from my office, dated June 25, 1864, and repeated Novem- ber 15, 18G4:. Copy herewith. During this time additions to and deductions from the enrollment lists in New York City were continually being made by officers of this bureau. The appeal to the people, represented by the Committee, to aid in these corrections, received no attention from the Com- mittee until the 24th of November, showing that they consumed five months in making a proposition which the Department took but one day to adopt ; and, furthermore, the Committee and the people were at liberty, at any time, without special authority from this Department, to correct their en- roUmerits, and in many States this privilege has been fully and advantage- ously exercised." So far from the " appeals to the people, represented by the Committee, to aid in these corrections" having re- ceived no attention from June 25 to November 24, the fact is that up to the 24th of November it had always been understood that no one except persons directly in- 105 tere •-ted would be allowed to assist in correcting the en- rollment. The County Committee had long contempla- ted this very work, and had consulted the Acting Assist- ant Provost-Marshal General of this District upon the subject repeatedly, but no encouragement was ever re- ceived by the County authorities to do the work until the application made in November was accepted. The proposition made by your Committee, to have the enrollment corrected by the County authorities, was in consequence of a Circular from the Provost- Marshal General, which was handed to the County Committee on Volunteering, by the Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal of the District, on the 24th of November. On the same day the Committee submitted a propo- sition to the Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General of the District, offering to undertake the work of the en- rollment. These documents are appended to this report, marked I. The Volunteer Committee were notified verbally of the acceptance of this proposition, with slight modifica- tions, on the 26th of November, and they at once pro> ceeded with the work. Of the results so far achieved by your Committee in this work, reference is made to Appendix A, attached to this report. 106 RESULTS. The results of the visit of your Committee to "Wash- ington may be summed up as follows : First. — Twenty-five (25) per cent, of the quotas of the several Districts has been deferred by the President, through the efforts of the State authorities, leaving the quotas as follows : CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. JANUARY QUOTAS. REDUCTION. FEBRUARY QUOTAS. Fourth 4.039 3.'J07 3,023 3,070 3,348 2,732 1,010 977 75G 993 837 683 ■ 3,029 2,930 Filth Sixth 2,267 2,977 2,511 2,049 Seventh Eighth Ninth Totals 21,019 5,256 15,763 Secondly. — A probable delay of the draft, in case the work of recruiting is prosecuted with satisfactory results. Thirdly. — A probable re-assignment of the quotas, when the correction of the enrollment is completed, on the basis of the corrected enrollment. 107 CONCLUSION. Nothing now remains but for the County authorities to make every effort to secure the enlistment of men, and trust to the future for justice in the regulation of credits and quotas. In this emergency, the Committee feel that the Board can rely upon the zealous co-operation of their constituents in the endeavor to avoid the fearful hard- ships of a draft. Regretting that the County of New York should by any means be brought into apparent antagonism with the War Department, at a time when the necessities of the country demand the harmonious co-operation of the peo- ple with every branch of the Government, and fully be- lieving that the Administration will ultimately do us no injustice, your Committee have entire confidence that the patriotic people of New York will promptly respond to the call for the additional troops deemed necessary for the successful prosecution of the war and for the mainte- nance of the Union. Your Committee recommend the adoption of the fol- lowing resolution : Resolved, That the Committee on Volunteering be and it is hereby authorized to offer such bounties as may be deemed wise and judicious, both for volunteers and sub- 108 stitutes, and instructed to report their determination to this Board. All of which is respectfully submitted. Dated February 28, 1865. ORISON BLUNT, ELIJAH F. FURDY, SMITH ELY, Je., JOHN FOX, WILLIAM M. TWEED, ANDREAS WILLMANN. Special Committee. Cornelius Corson, Clerk. Ill APPENDIX A. STATEMENT OF RESULTS IN THE CORRECTION OF THE ENROLLMENT OF THE FIRST FOUR WARDS OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK. First Ward. Total number of names on old enrollment 3,048 Deduct, as per report of Collectors, Examiners, &c. : Out of Ward ^^ Over age 77 Under age 1^ Alienage 154 No trace ^'^^^ Indefinite 262 Names duplicated 23 Claiming exemption on account of physical disability 75 Served in the army and honorably discharged 16 In the army *^ In the navy 21 Dead 27 Carried forward Ifido 3,048 112 Brought forward 1,895 3,048 Having exemption papers 2 Furnished substitutes 14 Other causes 34 1,945 Leaving, as being clearly liable on old enrollment 1,103 New enrollment of those clearly liable 29G Total enrollment 1,399 Secoxd Ward. Total number of names on old enrollment , 1,194 Deduct, as per report of Collectors, Examiners, &g. : Out of Ward 39 Over age 19 « Under age 2 Alienage 35 No trace 539 Indefinite 27 Names duplicated 42 Claiming exemption on account of physical disability 9 Claiming exemption 3 Served in the army and honorably discharged 1 In the army 7 Deserted from the rebel army 1 Disabled in the service 1 Furnished substitutes 3 Non-resident 78 Dead 5 Other causes 17 828 Leaving, as being clearly liable on old enrollment 366 New enrollment of those clearly liable 179 Total enrollment 545 113 TniED Ward. Total number of names on old enrollment 1,703 Deduct, as per report of Collectors, Examiners, &c. : Out of Ward 68 Over age 34 Indoflnite, on account of removal, &c 93 No trace 1^12 In the navy 2 In the army 16 Dead 2 Alienage 61 Furnished substitutes 6 Non-residents '3 Served in the army and honorably discharged 5 Having exemption papers 3 Paid commutation - 2 Claiming exemption on account of physical disability 27 Other causes 2 1,10G Leaving, as being clearly liable on old enrollment 597 New enrollment of those clearly liable 368 Total enrollment 965 Fourth Wakd. Total number of names on old enrollment '. 4,731 Deduct, as per report of Collectors, Examiners, &c. : Out of "Ward 9* Over age 1^3 Indefinite, on account of removal, &c 76 No trace 2,231 In the navy 31 Carried forward 2,545 4,731 8 114 Brought forward 2,5i3 4,731 In tlic army 100 Dead 41 Alienage 198 Furnished substitutes 5 Non-residents 72 Served in the army and honorably discharged 13 Having exemption papers 4 Claiming exemption on account of physical disability 49 Left the country 18 Under age 6 Three (3) years in the navy 1 Claims exemption 1 Other causes 76 3,129 Leaving, as clearly liable on old enrollment 1,602 New enrollment of those clearly liable .• 697 Total enrollment 2,299 ' APPENDIX B. 117 REPORT OF SUB-COiOnTTEE APPOINTED TO EXAMINE THE COMPUTA- TION OF THE QUOTAS. The following statement of figures was rendered to your Sub-Committee by order of the Provost-Marshal General : Enrollment of the Loyal States -'-^-^ ■'^- Excess credits on December 31, 1864, after satisfying all caUs pre- vious to December 19, 1864 ^^^'^22 Call of the President December 19, 1864 300,000 Less number of men raised between December 19th and 31st ^Q^"QQ Amount caUed for January 24 290,000 DISTRICTS. Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh — Eighth Ninth Totals ENROLL- MKXT. AGGKEGATE TKKMS OF SERTICK. 27,191 26,200 22,060 26,297 26,139 19,607 148,154 8,584 8,310 8,273 8,410 10,285 6,822 QUOTA JULY 18. 4,071 3,971 3,485 4,239 4,346 3,028 4,513 4.439 4,788 4,171 5,939 3,794 50,684 23,140 27,644 From these figures it appears that the call, as distributed on the 1st of January, is for three hundred thousand (300,000) men, minus ten thousand (10,onON men raised between December 19 and December 31. The caU be- 118 ing for one, two, or three years' men, the Department has assigned the quota on the following- basis : The two hundred and ninety thousand (290,000) men called for are con- sidered as eight hundred and seventy thousand. . .870,000 years of service. There are due to the whole United States, credits for extra men and years of service furnished under the calls of July, and up to the 1st of January, 1865, four hundred and eighty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty-two 488,322 years of service. JIaking the whole number of years assessed on the whole United States, under this call, one million three hundred and fifty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty-two I,:i58,;)22 years of service. Or, divided by three, equivalent to four himdred and fifty-lwo thousand seven hundred and seventy-four (452,774) three years' men. The quota of the Countj' of New York is then derived thus : As the enrollment of the whole United States, two million two himdred and nineteen thousand nine hundred and twenty- two 2,219,922 Is to the enrollment of the County of New York, one hundred and forty-eight thousand one hundred and filty-foui- 143,154 So is the whole number of years assessed on the whole United States, one million three hundred and fifty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty-two 1,358,322 To the number of years required from the County of New York, ninety thousand seven hundred and one 90,701 Deduct from the number of years of service required, ninety thousand and seven hundred and one (90,701), and the excess of service due the County of New York on the Ist of January, 1865, twenty-seven thousand six hundred and Ibrtj'-four 27,f44 Leaving years of service due from New York County, sixty- three thousand and fifty-seven 63,057 119 VVTiich, divided by three, gives the number of men deficient by New York County now, viz. : Twenty-one thousand and nineteen (21,019), which may be one, two or three years men. We have the honor to state that these deductions from the figures fur- nished to us were read to General Fry, and to their correctness he assented. We have since discovered an insignificant error of computation, which malces the result twenty-one thousand and two (21,002) instead of twenty- one thousand and nineteen (21,019). With this exception the application of the principles upon wMch the as- signment of quotas is made is correct. Washington, February 3, 1865. APPENDIX C. 123 QUOTA AND FORMULA OF DECEMBER. War Department, Provost-Marshal General's Office, ) Washmgton, D. C, January 23, 1865. ) Brigadier^teeneral William Hats, Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General, Southern Division, New York, New York City : The quota of your Division of Now York, under the call of the President for 300,000 men, dated December 19, 1864, is 16,887. This is the number required under the call, after taking into account the credits to which the State is entitled, by estimating the number of years of service furnished by one, two, and three years' men. The quota of the First District is 2,686 Second " 4,995 Third " 2,610 Fourth " 1,228 Fifth " ; 961 Sixth " 1,345 Seventh " 899 , Eighth " Ninth " Tenth " 2,163 The whole number of years of service furnished by each district, and which is to be considered in apportioning the quota of sub-districts, is Being an Excess of ^. . ^ „ Years' Service Districts. 1 ears. o^ tj^g number of Meu Furnished. First 4,225 1,592 Second 5,934 1,808 Third 6,596 3,022 Fourth 9,453 5,382 Fifth 9,347 5,376 124 Being an Excess of T^iatripfa Ypav? ^^^^^' Service UlStnClS. X eai S. j,^ ^^^ number of Men Furnished. Sixth 7,705 4,220 Seventh 9,695 5,456 Eighth Ninth Tenth 3,846 1,572 In order to equalize this credit, it will be added to the quota of the district in gross, and distributed among the sub-districts, according to the number enrolled in each. This will give the quota of the sub-district increased by the excess in proportion to the number enrolled ; but as the number of one, two, and three years' men respectively have been fiu-nished without regard to the number enrolled, the Provost-ilarshal will subtract from the gross quota tlie actual amount of excess of years of service which the sub-district has furnished. The enclosed formula is furnished as a rule for assigning quotas to sub- districts. Suppose the quota under the present call in a given district containing eight (8) sub-districts is one thousand meu, aud that the quota in that district under the call of July IStli, 1804, was 1,600 men, which was filled as follows : Number of Meu Furnished. PERIOD OF SERVICE. Total Number of Years' Service. Excess of No. of Years' Service over No. of Men. SUB-DISTRICT. One Year. Two Years. Three Years. First Second Third Fourth Fifth 209 240 160 260 180 240 140 180 140 ISO 80 120 100 120 60 132 20 10 12 no 10 20 10 24 40 50 08 110 70 100 70 24 532 300 350 308 510 330 460 290 252 100 110 148 250 150 •220 150 72 SLxth. Seventh Eighth Total 1,600 9;!2 136 2,800 1,200 125 It will be seen that the excess of years of service over the number of men furnished in the First Sub-district is 100, in the Second, 110, &c., &c. Total in the district, 1,200. The quota of the district under the present call is 1,000, to this add the excess (1,200), making 2,200; then, as the number enrolled in the district (20,000), so is the number enrolled in the sub-district to its quota, which will be reduced by subtracting from its share of the excess. SUB- DISTKICT, Number of Enrolled ia District. Quota, with Excess Added, 1,000 + 1,200. Ntimber Enrolled in Sub- district. Gross Quota. Excess Fur- nished by Sub- district. Net Quota or Number required under this Call. First 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 2,200 2,200 2,200 2,200 2,200 2,200 2,200 2,200 2,400 2,600 2,000 3.200 2,200 2,800 2,000 2,G00 2G-i 308 220 352 242 308 220 28G 100 110 148 250 150 220 150 72 164 Second Third Foiu-th Fifth 198 72 102 92 Sixth 88 Seventh Eighth 70 214 20,000 2,200 1,200 1,000 The above formida is furnished to Boards of Enrollment as a rule by which they will apportion the quotas of sub-districts, and determine the amount of credit dtie them. JAMES B. FRY, Provost-Marshal C^eral. 126 QUOTA AND FORMULA OF JANUARY. [ War Department, Provost-MarsSai. General's Office, Washington, J). C, January 24, 1865. Brigadier-General Hats, Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General, New York City ; The quota of the Southern Division of New Yorlv, under the call of the President for three hundred thousand (300,000) men, dated December 19, 1864, is twenty-eight thousand six hundred and thirty-one (28,631). This is the number required under the call, after takini? into account the credits to which the State is entitled, by estimating tJie number of years of service furnished by one, two and three years' men. The quota of the First District is 1,065 Second " 3,172 Third '^ 1,741 Fourth " 4,039 Fifth " 3,907 Sixth " 3,023 Seventh " 3,970 Eighth " 3,348 Ninth " ;.... 2,732 Tentih " 1,634 Total 28,631 In this estimate, the Provost-Marshal General has taken into account all credits to which the several districts are entitled on account of men raised up to December 31, 1864, including excess under former calls. 127 In order to equalize this credit, you will multiply the quota of the district by three, thus reducing it from a three years' to a one years' basis. To the product, add the excess of years' service, and then distribute this sum to the several sub-districts, in proportion to the number enrolled in each. This gives the number of years of service required from each sub- district, increased by the excess. From this number deduct the excess which the sub-district has actually furnished, and the remainder is the actual number of years' service required, which, divided by three, gives the actual number of men required from the sub-d' strict under the call. Suppose the quota, under the present call, in a given district containing eight (8) sub-districts, is 1,000 men, and that the quota in that district, under the call of July 18, 1864, was 1,600, which was fllled as follows : FEKIOD OF SERVICE. m !-> a . O !-> o H O o o o'F . £5 r-o 03 CO Excess of years' st over N men. First Sub-district 200 2-10 160 260 180 240 140 ISO 140 ISO 120 100 120 60 132 20 10 12 30 10 20 10 24 40 50 68 110 70 100 70 24 300 350 308 510 330 460 290 262 100 Second " 110 Third "• 148 Foiu'th '' 250 Fifth '• 160 Sixth '• 220 Seventh " 150 Eighth '' 72 Total 1,600 i;;;2 130 532 2,800 1,200 It will be seen that the excess of years of service over the number of men furnished in the First Sub-district is 100 ; in the Second 110, &c., &c. Total in the District, 1,200. The quota of the district under the present call is 1,000 ; this, multiplied by three (3), gives 3,000 years of service ; to this add the excess (1,200) ; then, as the number enrolled in the district (20,000) is to this sum (4,200), 60 is the number enrolled in the sub-district to the number of years' service 128 required, increased by its excess ; from which deduct the excess of years of service which the sub-district has furnished, and divide the remainder by three (3), to find the quota of the sul)-district. 4Jr« 1 lied ct. hed ct. 03 s i; the uir- o ■"■o ^ O'S DC-^H - Co fc. o< ^^ iS-a t a <» J etc O 0^.^ <«•- S «^S o 3^ ©*;>■. eS f_ iJ CO i°.&« mber iSub- & *::-^ «3 SS-o 2S a^ uota mult and ded. on DQ o a ^-r^-'o ^•5 ^ •rZ t-t «XJ i? O « ^ o* ^ O w 12; 12; First Sub-district . . . 20,000 4,200 2,400 504 100 404 135 Second " 20,000 4,200 2,800 688 110 478 159 Third " 20.000 4,200 2,000 420 148 272 100 Fourth " 20,000 , 4,200 3,200 672 250 422 141 Fifth " 20.000 4,200 2,200 462 160 312 104 SLxth " 20.000 4,200 2,800 588 220 368 122 Seventh " 20.000 4,200 2,000 420 150 270 90 Eighth " 20,000 4,200 2,600 546 72 474 158 Total 20,000 1 1 4,200 20,000 4,200 1,200 3,000 1,000 The above formula is furnished to Boards of Enrollment as a rule by which they will apportion the quotas of eub-districts, and determine the amount of credit due them. JAMES B. FRY, Provost MarsUal General. APPENDIX D. 131 ADDRESS OF HIS EXCELLENCY GOVEENOE FENTON TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE. Executive Department, ) Albany, N. F., February 1, 1865. J To the People of the State of New York : A call has been made by the General Government upon this State for an assigned quota of troops, in addition to those previously furnished, to recruit the ranks of the Federal armies. As the circumstances attendant upon this demand have been such as to excite much popular feeling, I deem it proper to address 3-ou officially upon the subject. It is not to be diguised that the manner in which the quota of this State has been assigned and distributed is too well calculated to justify unfavor- able criticism. Nor have I hesitated, by every means at my command, to impress this truth upon the authorities at Washington. The character of my efforts in this direction, and the spirit in which they have been met, need only be briefly alluded to at this time, as a full exposition of them will be embraced in my answer to legislative resolutions of inquiry upon the sub- ject. I have endeavored — faithfully and earnestly, I may claim— to har- monize a jealous and watchful regard for the interests of this State with the highest suggestions of patriotic impulse, keeping constantly in view the fact that the loyal masses, while eager that their rights shall be maintained, have no desire to be relieved from any sacrifices they may justly be called upon to make for the common weal. Upon a thorough review of the premises, it seemed conclusive to me that the basis upon which the quotas, as assigned at Washington, were to be 132 filled, was erroneous, inasmuch as it practically required those localities which had filled their former quota with one year men to furnish all the men to fill the present call. I took early occasion to bring these views to the attention of the War Department, by dispatching one of my military aids to Washington, and by correspondence, without, howerer, succeeding in obtaining prompt and definite action upon the propositions thus presented. While the discussion upon this point was pending, the subject was still fiu"ther complicated and the ditHculties increased, through what is termed, by the Provost-Marshal General, a revision of enrollments and credits. By this revision, an addi- tion of 15,255 is made to the quota previously announced. In reference to this changed state of the case, I have taken such measures, by a personal visit to Washington, and by the representations of a committee of eminent members of the Legislature, as are calculated to lead to an adjustment upon a basis satisfactory to every patriotic mind. I am not without hopes that a desirable result will be attained. Meanwhile, it becomes my duty to urge upon you, the people of the State, the importance of such conduct, in this exigency, as is in conformity with the dignity and virtue of true loyal sentiment. Especially injudicious and injurious is that temper which assumes intentional injustice on the part of the Federal Government, and proceeds to the conclusion that the State is necessarily in an attitude of hostility to the demands of the Federal authorities. At a time when the subject matter in dispute is unsettled, and the definite determination remains to be announced, all discussion calcu- lated to embitter feeling should be avoided. Let us patiently and manfully await this decision— resolved, whatever may transpire, that nothing ehaH be done to hazard the fortunes of our sacred cause, or diminish the patriot- ism of the Commonwealth. Let us at the outset declare that everything honor commands us to do shall be cheerfully and promptly done. Let us subordinate every other consideration to the one controlling ambition, to pursue such a course as shall give most vigor and efficiency to the arms of the Eepublic, enlisted in behalf of Liberty, Order and Union. The cause which demands our support is sacred, and appeals to the best instincts of our humanity. As New York has been heretofore under every discouragement and ad- 133 versity, so she will continue to be in the future, foremost among the States in every effort for national preservation. The armies in the field, depleted by the drains of exhaustive warfare, must be replenished. The places of the noble brave who have fallen must be supplied in the steadily advancing columns. Now, when rebellion totters to its fall— when every day sheds the lustre of new achievements upon our battle-crimsoned ensign — no measures on our part must be withheld which will hasten the auspicious conclusion of strife, and the re-establishment of national authority over all disputed territory. It is possible for us to answer the requisition made upon us without resort to conscription. To this accomplishment pride and patriotism alike impel us. Let the press throughout the State— recognized exponent of popular opinion— give emphasis to the will of the loyal masses. Let local boards of officers pursue such policy as mil surely and most speedily stimulate the spirit of volunteering in the several districts. Let capitalists and men in lucrative pursuits exhibit, in their readiness to make contributions for the grand object in view, the same spirit which has so uniformly animated them in the past. Let every loyal citizen, in whatever sphere, resolve to do the utmost to make the example of New York at this time a conspicuous object of emulation by her sister States. Thus we shall animate, with new fervor and brighter zeal, the hearts of our brave soldiers, who will send us echo to the shouts of victory from Atlanta and Wilmington and Savan- nah, in triumphant rejoicings over prostrate rebellion. Thus we shall per- form our full share of the duties and achievements of this crisis, and write upon the pages of our counti-y's history a record to which our children and children's children may point with pride and veneration. R. E. FENTON. 134 MESSAGE OP HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR FENTON TO THE LEGISLATURE. Stcate of New York in Assembly, { Albany, January 30, 1865. J On motion of Mr. Reed : Whereas, Information is abroad that the official quotas of this State, under the present call of the President for 300,000 men, as published on or about the 7th day of January, instant, has been increased from 42,000 to 62,000 men, which increase is apparently without explanation ; and TVhcrcas, The people of this State are as loyal and devoted to the national cause as at any period, but are surprised and sensibly affected by this change, which to them is inexplicable and unsatisfactory ; therefore Hesolved, That if not incompatible with the public interest. His Excel- lency the GoTernor is respectfully requested to communicate to this House all information he may have respecting the increased quotas of this State, the reason or basis of the same, and his action in connection or in reference thereto. By order, J. B. CUSHMAN, Clerk. MESSAGE. State of New York, Exectjtite Department, ) Albany, February 1. 1865. j To the Assembly : In compliance with the request contained in the foregoing resolution, I have the honor to submit the following : In view of the importance of the subject, I deem it due to the repre- sentatives of the people of the State that a full history of the action taken in reference to the quotas and the mode of fiUing thera be given. 135 Upon the first assignmcTit of quotas, under the present call, by the Provost-Marshal General, it appeared to me that there must be gi-eat inequality as between the districts in the number of men they should furnish for the service, and this soon became a source of general complaint and dissatisfaction among those districts which had heretofore furnished most largely of one year men. While, at that time, I do not suppose the quota of the State (about 46,000) was more than its just proportion of the 300,000 called for, still with the conviction that the quota, as assigned to the different districts, was unequal in its practical operations, I sent Lieutenant-Colonel J. B. Stonehouse, Assistant Adjutant General, on the 10th day of January, to Washington, in reference to means of filling the quota, and on the 12th instant sent my Aide-de-camp, Colonel George W. Palmer, to confer with the authorities at the War Department, giving them fully my views upon the subject, and directing him to communicate them to the Provost-Marshal General and the Secretary of War. Colonel Palmer reached Washington on the 13th instant, and obtained an interview with the Provost-Marshal General and Assistant Secretary of War— the Secretary himself being absent from the city— after which he submitted the following communication in writing, with the understanding that the matter should be submitted to the Secretary of War on his retiu-n, viz. : " Washington, January 14, 1865. " General : " I am directed by the Governor of the State of New York to represent to you the difficulties under which many of the districts in that State labor in the assignment of quotas under the last call of the President for 300,000 men, and to ask that some mode be adopted which will tend to relieve them from their heavy burden and distribute the number of men to be raised more equally between the several districts. In filling the quota under the call of July 18, 1864, for 500,000 men, made under the new law requiring the term of enlistment as well as the number of men furnished to be taken into account, the effect of a longer or shorter term of service was not regarded in many districts through ignorance of the operation of the law, from an apprehension that no more men would be needed— a view which was encouraged in various ways — and from a strong desire to avoid conscription, which required immediate action, with the necessity of en- 136 listing ^vlthol^t regard to the terms of service. The result is that many dis- tricts furnished almost exclusively one year men. " These were generally inland and rural districts, whose location preclu- ded them from obtaining recruits from a class of transient men and for- eigners, and compelled them to send their own stiu-dy yeomanry into the field, paying large bounties as an inducement, and thus getting the very best class of soldiers. Other districts, having greater facilities for furnish- ing men, with less efibrt, enlisted three years men. " The assignment of quotas, imder the present call, though made accord- ing to law, throws the burden of raising all the men upon the districts which have enlisted the one year men, and which arc entitled' to the credit of doing everything they could to fill the quota, and actually fur- nished a superior class of soldiers. It is worthy of consideration, also, that if the credits, on account of which the late call was made, could have been allowed before, instead of after the call of 50,000 men, and the quota suflScient to raise the required number of men been then assigned to the various districts, the relative disparity in the number of men to be raised would not have existed. The quota would have increased in proportion to the number of men and not in proportion to the years of service. It is easier to procure one tliree years man than three one year men, and es- pecially when they have to be taken from the bone and sinew of those dis- tricts whose honest laboring classes are already sadly depleted, and it is difficult to carry on the labor of the country by reason of it, and it would seem eminently proper to adopt some plan, if possible, which would at once relieve this difficulty and do no injustice to any locality, nor yet vio- late the laws of the land. " It is confidently believed that if, under the last call for 300,000 men, the term of enlistment should be regarded as the basis upon which the quotas might be filled, and men enlisted for two and three years be allowed to credit as two and three one year men, this burden would soon equalize it- self, and if the required number of men should not be obtained under this call, repeated calls might be made until the army should be sufficiently sup- plied with men. " I am satisfied, if this plan can be adopted, that the people of those dis- 137 iTicts wliich now have such large quotas to fill, would go earnestly and cheerfully to work to procure good men for long terms of service, feeling that they had a chance to place themselves upon an approximate equal footing with otlier districts which had already furnished three years men ; but if, on tlie contrary, it shall be decided that these districts must furnish now the full number of men called for, I greatly fear that the people will settle down into a state of despondency, and, thinking that their burden is greater than they can bear, do Uttle or nothing toward raising the requi- site men for the service. "Very respectfully, your obedient servant, " GEORGE W. PALMER, ''■ColonelandA. B.C." The case being thus presented to the War Department, I awaited the re- turn and decision of the Secretary of War until the evening of the 20th inst., when Col. Stonehouse handed me the following telegram from Pro- vost-Marshal General Fry : Washington, D. C, January 20, 1865. To Col. J. B. STONEnoTJSE : The revised quotas will be sent in a day or two. The quota of New York will be increased by the revision, and will probably be a little over sixty thousand (00,000). jAMES B. FRY, Provost-Marshal General. Tills large increase of the quota of the State from forty-six thousand (46,000) to sixty-one thousand (61,000) was surprising to me, and I took the first train on the morning of the 21st for Washington, to do what was in my power toward correcting oiu- quota, and if possible prevail upon the Secre- tary of War and Provost-Marshal General to adopt my proposition as to the mode of filling the quotas. I at once obtained an interview on my arrival at Washington with them, and urged the adoption of making one year's service as the basis of credit in filling this call, thus giving an opportunity to speedily equalize the number of men to be raised, between the several States, districts, and sub-districts in the country. I called their attention to the above written statement left in the raattej- by Col. Palinei-, and en- dorsed the following upon it, viz. : 138 " I respectfully tender the suggestions of Col. Palmer, and ask early con- sideration and reply. The views herein submitted are still in force, and I can only add that it is my earnest desire they may receive the approval of the Provost-Marshal General and the Secretary of War. "R. E, FENTON. "January 22, 1865." I will not attempt to give a detailed account of the interview or the ar- guments used orally at this, time in favor of the proposition, but merely state that I endeavored to impress upon their minds the injustice toward a large portion of the State, which wonld result from the enforcement of the system of filling the quotas then adopted at the Department, and the im- portance of so changing it as to make all acknowledge that there was a dis- position at the Department to divide the burdens to be borne as equally as possible. In reference to the matter of the great increase of the quota of the State, while I was not prepared, nor had I the figures to prove their incor- rectness, yet in my interview with the Provost-Marshal General and Secre- tary of War, I presented substantially the following statistics and views for their consideration therewith : The quota of New York imder the call of February 1, 1864, for five hundred thousand (500,000) men, was eighty-one thousand nine hundred and ninetj'-three (81,993). On this basis the State would have to furnish, on a call for three hundred thousand (300,000) men, forty-nine thousand one hundred and ninety-five (49,195). Under the call of July 18, 1864, the number assigned to this State as its quota of five hundred thousand (500,000) was eighty-nine thousand thi-ee hundred and eighteen (89,318). A call for three hundred thousand (300,000) on this basis would make the quota for the State fifty-three thousand nine hundred (53,900). The State, at the date of the present call, had a surplus of six thousand seven hun- dred and fifty (6,750) men over aU former calls, which should go to reduce its quota under the present call. Assuming that the State of New York had fiuTiished comparatively as many three years' men as the other States, it will be seen that the quota 139 under this call, as originally assigned, is nearly correct. For instance, take the quota on the basis of July, 1864, of. 53,900 And deduct the surplus 6,750 It would leave the quota 47,150 The quota as at first assigned under the last call was 46,821 Making the difference only 322 I stated it was difficult to see how such great changes as had been made in the quota of New York could be rendered necessary by the alterations in the enrollments, and the addition of credits since the promulgation of the first assignment of the quota. I also referred to the large increase of the quotas in the City of New York, which seemed to me extraordinary. In general terms, as near as I now can recoUect, the explanations for these great changes in the quotas, as given by General Fry, were : That there had been credits given to a considerable extent to some States and localities that belonged to others, and which had been corrected since the first assignment. That owing to the neglect of mustering officers to make their reports of musters promptly, and from other causes, large numbers of credits of men enlisted prior to the last call had been reported from some States and lo- calities, and credits for them had been given. Thus many of the States and localities has corrected and reduced their enrollments largely, some to a greater extent than others, which, when taken into consideration, materially changed the quotas. That by reason of some or all of these causes the differences and changes complained of as between States and localities in the first and second as- signment of quotas were perfectly explained, and that the quotas as now assigned were just and right, as near as he could make them. I understood at that time that the question of assignment of quotas, as between the several States, under the present call, would not be again opened. I returned to Albany on the morning of the 24th. I sent the following telegram to the Provost-Marshal General : 140 Ar.BANY, N. Y., January 24, 1865. James B. Fey, Provost-Marshal General, Washington, D. C. : Upon my return I met Mith additional reasons in favor of my proposition. I hope yourself and Secretary of War will conclude to adopt tliem. R. E. FENTON. To which, on the same day, I received the following answer : Washington. D. C, January 24, 1865. Governor Fenton— When you receive the apportionment of quotas to districts, and under- stand the manner in which they are to be sub-divided among towns, I think you will find that there is not much to object to in the arrangement. Please, however, submit, at your earliest convenience, the additional rea- sons in favor of your proposition, to which you refer In your dispatch of to-day, that I may lay the same promptly before the Secretary. JAMES B. FRY, Provost-MarsMl General. On the morning of the 25th I forwarded by mail to the Provost-Marshal General the following reply : State of New Yoek, Exicutive Department, | Albany, N. Y., January 15, 1865. J General — What I meant to have you understand by my dispatch of yesterday, in stating that there were "additional reasons in favor of ray propositions," was simply that the pressure of public sentiment is becoming more intense in favor of the adoption of the system which I proposed. In view of all the circumstances and the manifest equity of proposition to take one year service as the basis of credit in filling the present quota, thus giving those districts which have heretofore fmnished one year men the same chance now which others have had to furnish years of service ; I am convinced, as a matter of policy alone, that this plan should be adopted, as it would secure the hearty co-operation of the people in raising men for the service, and produce that moral eflect upon the soldiers which is important to the effective condition of an army, and which can be but 141 obtained by a healthy home feeling. If in adopting this policy the requi- site number of men should not be obtained, another call might be made for the deficiency which, under the operation of this system, would be dis- tributed among all the districts in the country, and thus render the burden more equal. Very respectfully, yoiu" obedient servant, R. E. FENTON. To Brigadiek-General J. B. Fry, Provost-Marshal General. On the 26th of January, a delegation of honorable gentlemen from the Senate and Assembly indicated to me their willingness to visit Washington, and urge again upon the authorities the adoption of the proposition al- ready submitted by me, and, after full consultation, they left the next day for that city. On the day following (28th), I again sent Colonel Stonehouse with full instructions and figures, as to quotas, to confer wilh tliis commit- tee and present anew to the Department ; and on the 30th I sent him fiuther instructions in writing as follows : State op New York, Executive Department, | Alouny, January 30, 18G5. ) Col. J. B, Stonehouse, A. A. G., State of New York : Colonel — In addition to the instructions given in reference to your commu- nications with the authorities at the War Department as to the correc- tion of the quota of this State, and the mode of filling it, you are further directed, if my former proposition is not accepted, to urge that the time for raising the men, to fill the quota in those districts which furnished one year men, be extended tiU the term for which these men enlisted expires ; and that the privilege of correcting the enrollment be continued until the very latest practicable time before the draft, and the final quota be made up from this coiTected enrollment. And further you are directed to urge, in any event, that the time for the execution of the draft be postponed. It may not be important, how- ever, to insist upon this if my proposition in regard to the mode of filling the quota be accepted. Very truly, E. E. FENTON. 142 This comprises the action taL:eu in relation to the subject matter of the foregoing resolutions, and I can only add that whatever may be the final decision upon the questions thus presented— while, if adverse, we cannot but feel the inequality and hardship— yet the best interests of the country and the high sense of duty to the cause in which we are engaged demand that we submit with becoming cheerfulness to what we have been unable to change, and put forth every possible effoit to fill the quota assigned to the State in the manner prescribed. B. E. FENTON. APPENDIX E. 145 LETTER OF THE PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF MINNESOTA, IN EXPLANATION OF THE DECEMBER QUOTAS. War DeparTiMent, Provost-Marshal General's Office, Washington, I). C, Jan. 12, 18G5. His Excellency Stephen Miller, Governor of Minnesota : Sir— Your communication of tlie Sd inst., in relation to the quotas of the dis- tricts in the State of Minnesota, has been received, and in reply thereto I have the honor to state that — The call of the President for five hundred thousand (500,000) men, dated July IS. 1864, having been greatly reduced by credits on account of Army and Navy enlistments, which had not heretofore been credited, it became necessary to make an additional call of three hundred thousand (300,000) to make up the deficiency, and to preserve the present strength of the Army and Navy. It was not expected that the call of July 18, 1864, for five hundred thou- sand (500,000), would put that number of men in service, because the Act of Congress, under which the call was made, directed that all enlistments made in the Navy from the commencement of the rebellion until the 24th of February, 1864, should be credited upon the quota, and these, with other equitable claims for enlistments not previously credited, reduced that call and rendered necessary the one of December 19, 1804, for three hundred thousand (300,000). The object, therefore, of the last call is to put three hundred thousand (300,000) men in the service. Whether they arc enlisted for one, two, or 10 146 three years, they will be counted as units in filling the quota, and the ex- cess or credit which any locality may be entitled to, on account of filling its quota with three year men, will be estimated in the assignment of fu- ture quotas, should there be another call, upon the same principle that has varied the quotas under the present call, because some localities have filled their quotas under the call of July 18, 1864, with three years men, and others with one year men. It will be observed that the numbers of men to be furnished under the present call are not in proportion to tlie population of States or districts, nor to the number enrolled. Had all localities filled the call for five hun- dred thousand (500,000) with three years men, or all one year men, or all in the same pi'oportion of both, the number of men to be furnished under the present call would be in proportion to the number enrolled, and ap- proximate three-fifths of the quota under the call for five hundred thou- sand (500,000), varied only to correspond with the changes in the enroll- ment as revised and corrected. But as it woidd be unjust and illegal to require a district, which had filled its quota under the last call with three years men, to furnish as many men imder the present call as an equal district which had filled its quota under the last call with one year men, the former having furnished three times the number of years of service which the latter had furnished, it became necessary to estimate the number of years of service which each State, district, and sub-district had furnished respectively, so that in ascertaining the required number for each district, in order to obtain three hundred thousand (300,000) men, each locality would receive full credit for the num- ber of years of service fiu-nished under the last call, or excess carried for- ward and credited upon that call, previous calls being filled with three years men, or enlistments reduced to the three years basis. The call of December 19, 1864, having been made to make up deficiencies under the call of July 18, 18G4, it is not to be expected that the number of men required from localities will correspond with the number of enrolled, or their quotas imder the call for five hundred thousand (500,000). In or- der, therefore, to ascertain what number of men is due from a given dis- trict, we must look to what it actually furnished under the call of July 18, Instead of what it was required to furnish. Thus, where two districts, 147 having the same enrollment, were required, under the call of July 18, 18G4, to fiu-nish two thousand (2,000) men each, and one actually fm-uished but one thousand (1,000) men, while the other filled its quota, it would not be lawful for the latter district, which had put two thousand (2,000) men in service, to bo required now to fui-nish the same number as the former, which had furnished only one thousand (1,000). But suppose that both of the above districts had filled their quotas, the former with one year men, and the latter with three years men, the one furnishing two thousand (2,000) and the other six thousand (G,000) years of service ; now, as the law provides that quotas shall be assigned "■ among the districts of the several States, considering and allowing for the num- bers already furnished, as aforesaid, and the time of their service," in as- signing a quota under a call to malie up deficiencies, the deficiency of years' service, as well as the deficiencies in number, is to be estimated and the quotas varied accordingly. As before said, the object of the present call is to raise three hundred thousand (300,000) men, and they will be required from the different local- ities in proportion to the number enrolled, and the number which such localities were deficient, or in excess, under the call for five hundred thou- sand (500,000). This principle was announced from the Provost-Marshal General's Bu- reau when the quotas under the call for five hundred thousand (500,000) men were announced, or about that time (see opinion of Solicitor of War Department, herewith), and the benefits that would result from three years' enlistments, and the law governing the subject explained. To secure three years men, the Government ofi"ered three hundred doUars ($300) bounty, and paid but one hundred ($100) to one year men ; municipal authorities generally contributed local bounties in similar proportion. The law having provided that the periods of service heretofore furnished should be considered in assigning quotas, the question then to be deter- mined is, at what time shall the credit be applied. As it is impossible to follow the fortune of eacli individual soldier, and reckon the period of his actual service, it follows that either the credit for the period for which they eirlist should be given when the men enter the service, or withheld imtil the expiration of the three years term. 148 The nile has always been, under all calls, that when a soldier is accepted into the service, he is received and credited for the term of his enlistment or draft, the Government taking the responsibility that he will serve for the full period of his enlistment, and in no case has any locality been called upon to replace men lost to the service by death, disability or deser- tion. Enlistments for six months, nine months, one and two years, under for- mer calls, were counted as of that term on entering the service, and, us such, reduced to the three years service basis. The period of service is reckoned as a unit, having no fractional parts, so far as credit is concerned : a soldier who enlists for three years, and dies or is discharged at the end of twelve months, is credited to his sub-district as a three years man ; and the man who enlists for one year, and is dis- charged in a week after enlistment, is credited as a one year man. To await the expiration of three years, that is, until the service had been ren- dered, would defeat the object of the law, and would probably delay the draft until after the close of the war. It must follow, then, that the amount of credit to be given is, and always has been dependent upon the period for which the soldier enters the service. When a district presents an ac- ceptable recruit for three years, and he is received as such by the Govern- ment, that district has done all it can do in the premises, and the Govern- ment takes the responsibility that the soldier will serve his term of enlist- ment. This being admitted, the time to apply the credit, or to take into account the amount of credits to which the district is entitled, is when a settlement is made with all the districts, with a view to assigning quotas under a new call. This follows, not merely as a matter of convenience in computation, but as a matter of necessity, in order to do exact justice to all the difi'erent States and districts, and moreover, is in exact accordance with tlie terms of the statute, which provides that "In assigning to the districts the number of men to be famished there- from, the President shall take into consideration the number of volunteers and militia fm-nished by and from the several States in which said districts are situated, and the period of their service since the commencement of the present rebellion, and shall so make said assignment as to equalize the 149 numbers among tlie districts of tlie scverul States, considering and allow- ing for the numbers already furnished as aforesaid, and the time of their service." And again, section 2, Act of February 24, 1864 : " That the quota of each ward of a city, town, tovmship, precinct or election district, or of a county, where the county is not divided into wards, towns, townships, precincts or election districts, shall be, as nearly as pos- sible, in proportion to the number of men resident therein liable to military service, taking into account, as far as practicable, the number which has been previously furnished therefrom." I have the honor to inclose a copy of Circular No. 1, of 1865, which pro- vides that the quotas assigned under the call of December 10, 1864, for three hundred thousand (300,000) men, are not to be reduced except by actual enlistments since the 19th of December, 1864. The rule in applying credits is, that they should be deducted from the quota of the call that produced them. All men raised since the call of July 18, 1864, are credited upon the quota under that call ; if the quota is more than filled, it is carried as excess to the credit of the locality, and taken into account in the assignment of the quota under the call of December 19, 1864. and Provost-Marshals are instructed that, in determining the quotas of sub-districts under the present call, they will apply such excess accord- ingly ; and all men raised since December 19 are, of course, credited upon the call of that date. In crediting the excess that is carried forward from the call of July 18, 1864, and applied to the call of December 19, 1864, 1 con- sider not only the number of men of which the excess is composed, bul also the period of their service ; and the quotas assigned under the call of December 19 are thus reduced by this excess of service, and hence they should not be fiu-ther reduced, except by enlistments subsequent to De- cember 19, 1804, the date of the call for three hundred thousand (300,000j men. The credits to the State of Minnesota (imder the call of July 18, 1864), up to November 30, 1864, show that the men furnished for one year was two thousand six hundred and eighty-five (2,685) ; for two years two hundred and four (204) ; for three years sixty-one (61) ; a very large proportion, as 150 vrill be obser\-ed, being one year men. The excess of credits on the 1st day of August was one thousand four hundred and seven (1,407), of which the First District is credited with one thousand and thii'ty-seven (1,037), and the Second District with three hundred and seventy (370), and credit has been given for three years term of service on each unit. The First District furnished one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine (1,859) more years of service than the Second District, and consequently tlie larger num- ber to be furnished, under call of December 19, falls on the Second District. If there is any error in these figures, I shall be happy to correct it when pointed out. Very respectfully, ^ Your obedient servant, JAMES B. FRY, Provost-Marshal General. APPENDIX F. 153 EXTRACT FROM A COMMUNICATION ADDRESSED TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF PENNSYL- VANIA, IN RELATION TO JANUARY QUOTAS. Sir— You may not have been heretofore apprised of the fact that your subor- dinates are wholly disregarding the Act of 24th of February, 1864. They are proceeding in open and direct violation of it, and are thus creating, naturally, great confusion and uncertainty among the people. They an- nounce, on the one hand, that although a three years man counts only as a one year man toward the quota on which he volunteers, yet that he shall be counted as three one year men toward the quota on a future call. This is directly in the teeth of the law. On the other hand they are cyphering out a deficiency on the last call, by counting three one year men as only equivalent to one three years man, which is equally against law. Thus the quota of Pennsylvania, under the call of the 18th of July last, was filled in accordance with the law by men to serve for not less than one year. The term of service of these men is not yet half expired, and yet your subor- dinates are threatening a draft to fill an alleged deficiency on that very call, the existence of which they attempt to make out by persisting in their unlawful and unsubstantial theories and calculations. Our people know that the Government requires more men. They are willing to furnish them, heavy as the burden has become on the industrial population. Let the requirement be made in the clear and definite shape which the law provides for, and it will be cheerfully complied with. But it is hardly to be tolerated that your subordinates should be permitted lon- ger to pursue the system of substituting for the law an eccenti'ic plan of their own. 154 Sir, on behalf of the freemen of this Commonwealth, who have always given a cheerful and hearty support to your Government in the prosecu- tion of this war, it is my duty to insist, and I do insist, that you enforce upon your subordinates that obedience to the law, which you owe, as well as they and all of us. It is of evil example, it tends to enfeeble— nay to destroy— the just power of the Government, that you should suffer your of- ficers to treat with open contempt any acts of Congress, and especially those which you have yourself approved, and which regulate a matter of such deep and delicate moment as the enforcing a draft for the military service. Relying heartily on your wisdom and justice to set right what has thus been going wrong, and to compel henceforth, on the part of all a proper respect for and obedience to the laws of the land. THE PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Wltercas, By the Act approved July 4, 18G4, entitled "An Act further to regulate and provide for the enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes," it is provided that the President of the United States may, " at his discretion, at any time hereafter, call for any number of men, as volunteers, for the respective terms of one, two and three years, for military service," and " that in case the quota of, [or] any part thereof, of any town, township, ward of a citY, precinct, or election dis- trict, or of a county not so sub-divided, shall not be filled within the space of fifty days after such call, then the President shall immediately order a draft for one year to fill such quota, or any part thereof, which may be un- filled; and Wfiereas, By the credits allowed in accordance with the Act of Con- gress on the call for five hundred thousand (500,000) men, made July 18, ISfii, the number of men to be obtained under that call was reduced to two hundred and eighty thousand (280,000) ; and 155 Whereas, The operations of the enemy in certain States have rendered it impracticable to procure from them their full quotas of troops under said call; and Whereas, From the foregoing causes, but two hundred and forty thousand (240,000) men have been put into the army, navy and marine corps, under the said call of July 18, 1864, leaving a deficiency on that call of two hun- dred and sixty thousand (260,000). Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, in order to supply the aforesaid deficiency, and to provide for cas- ualties in the military and naval service of the United States, do issue this my call for three hundred thousand (300,000) volunteers, to serve for one, two or three years. The quotas of the States, districts, and sub-districts, under this call, will be assigned by the War Department, through the Bu- reau of the Provost-Marshal General of the United States, and, " in case the quota, or any part thereof, of any town, township, ward of a city, pre- cinct, or election district, or of a county not so sub-divided, shall not be filled" before the fifteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty- five, then a draft shall be made to fill such quota, or any part thereof, imder this call, which may be unfilled on said fifteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. Done in the City of Washington, this nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and [l. s.] of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty- ninth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President. William H. Seward, Secretary of State. By order of the Secretary of War. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Arljutant-General. 156 THE LAW UNDER WHICH THE PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION WAS ISSUED. AN ACT FURTHER TO KEGCLATE AND PROVIDE FOR THE EXROI.LINt! AND CALLING OUT THE NATIONAL FORCES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The President of the United States may, at his discretion, at any time hereafter, call for any number of men as volunteers for tlie respective terms of one, two and Uiroo years, for military service, and any such vol- unteer, or, in case of a draft, as hereinafter provided, any substitute shall be credited to the town, township, ward, or city precinct, or election dis- trict of a county, toward the quota of which he may have volunteered or cnj^aged as a substitute, and every volunteer who is engaged and mustered into the service for a term of one year, unless sooner discharged, shall re- ceive and be paid by the United States a bounty of one hundred dollars ($100) ; and if for a term of two years, unless sooner discharged, a bounty of two hundred dollars ($200) ; and if for a term of three years, unless sooner discharged, a bounty of three hundred dollars ($,100) ; one-lhird of which bounty sliall bi; paid to the soldier at tlie lime of liis being mustered into the service, one-lhird at the exi)iration of one-half of his term of ser- vice, and oue-third at the expiration of his term of service ; and in case of his death while in the service, the residue of his bounty unpaid shall be paid to his ^ridow, if he shall have left a widow ; if not, to his children ; or, if there be none, to his mother, in case she be a widow. In case the quota or any part thereof of any town, township, ward of a city, precinct or election district, or of any county not so sub-divided, shall not be filled within the space of tifty days after such call, then the Presi- dent shall immediately order a draft for one year to fill such quota, or any part thereof which may be unfilled, and in case of any such draft no pay- ment of money shall be accepted or received by the Government as com- 157 mutation to release any enrolled or drafted man from personal obligation to perform military service. It sliall be hi-,vfid for the executive of any of the States to send recruit- ing agents into any of the States declared to be in rebellion, except the States of Arkansas, Tennessee and Louisiana, and to recruit volunteers imder any call under the provisions of this Act, who shall be credited to the State and the respective sub-division thereof which may procure tlio enlistment. Drafted men, substitutes and volunteers, when mustered in, shall be or- ganized in or assigned to regiments, batteries or other organizations of their own States, and as far as practicable shall, when assigned, be per- mitted to select their own regiments, batteries or other organizations from among those of their respective States which at the time of their assign- ment may not be iilled to their maximum number. The twentieth section of the act entitled "An Act to amend an act for enrolling and calling out the national forces," approved February 24, 1864, shall be considered to mean that the Secretary of "War shall discharge mi- nors under the age of eighteen years, under the circumstances and the conditions prescribed in said section ; and hereafter, if any officer of the United States shall enlist, or muster into the military service, any person under the age of sixteen years, with or without the consent of his parents or guardian, such person so enlisted or recruited shall be immediately and imconditionally discharged upon the repayment of all the bounty received ; and such recruiting or mustering officer, who knowingly enlists a person under sixteen years of age, shall be dismissed the service, with the for- feiture of all pay and allowances, and shall be subject to such further pun- ishment as a court martial may decide. Section three of an act entitled " An Act to amend an act entitled an act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes,'' approved February 25, 18G4, be and the same is hereby amended, so as to authorize and direct district provost-marshals, under the direction of the Provost-Jtarshal General, to make a draft for one hundred per centum, in addition to tlie number required to fill the quota of any district, as provided by said section. 158 That instead of traveling pay, all drafted persons reporting at the place of rendezvous shall be allowed transportation from their place of residence, and persons discharged at the place of rendezvous shall be allowed ti'ans- portation to their places of residence. All persons in the naval service of the United States who have entered said service during the present rebellion, who have not been credited to the quota of any town, district, ward or State, by reason of their being in said service, and not enrolled prior to February 24, 18G4, shall, on satisfactory proof of their residence, made to the Secretary of War, be enrolled and credited to the quotas of the town, ward, district, or State, in which they respectively reside. If any person, duly drafted, shall be absent from home in the prosecution of his usual business, the Provost-Marshal of the district shall cause him to be duly notified as soon as may be, and he shall not be deemed a deserter, nor liable as such until notice has been given to him and reasonable time allowed for him to retiu'n and report to the Provost-Marshal of his district, but such absence shall not otherwise affect his liability under this act. Nothing contained in this act is to be construed to alter or in any way affect the law relative to those conscientiously opposed to bearing arras, or to affect the rights of persons to procure substitutes. APPENDIX G. 161 LETTER FROM THE PROVOST-MARSHAL TxENERAL TO A. A. PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL, SOUTHERN DIVISION OF NEW YORK, IN RELATION TO THE JANUARY QUOTA ASSIGNED THE CITY OF NEW YORK. War Department, Protost-Maeshal General's Bureau Washington, D. C, Feb. 2, 1865 •i Beigadier-General E. W. Hinks, Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General, New York City : General— In the account of troops called for and furnished, kept in this office, it is shown that various States and districts had, on calls prior to that of July last, an excess to their credit, resulting mainly from the long terms of service for which they put in men. Under the call of July IS, 1864, men were permitted by law to enlist for one, two or three years, and the excess above alluded to was in some places increased under that call, and in other places an excess was created on account of both the number of men and the length of the period for which they were accepted. The acts of Congress and the pledge of the Government require that all the above excess should be duly considered in distributing the quotas imder the call of December 19. Whenever the quotas assigned under the call of July 19 were not filled by volunteers enlisted, or credits allowed according to acts of Congress, drafts have been made and the requisite number obtained, so that, under the call of July 18, there is no considerable deficiency in any of the States or district in the quotas assigned. But as a large proportion of these quotas was filled by paper credits, there was a deficiency of men under that call. The Presi- dent's proclamation of December 19 announces that that call is made to 11 162 supply this doficiency. The quotas under the call of July 18, having been filled by men and credits, as authorized by law, the call of December 19, for three hundred thousand (300,000) men had to be distributed the same as it would have been if there had been no deficiency in men. Under the call of December 19, it is required- First. That three hundred thousand (300,000) men (and not credits alone) shall be obtained. The acts of Congress require that the distribution shall be made in pro- portion to the number of men liable to duty in the different districts, and that due consideration shall be given to every locality for any excess it may have on former calls. To carry out the foregoing conditions, the total excess in the United States was added, in gross, to the call, and the sum distributed among the districts in proportion to their enrollment ; this, giving the gross quota of each district, the actual excess belonging to each district was then deducted from this gross quota, and the remainder gives the net quota of the locality under the call of December 19. The sum of the net quotas makes up the three hundred thousand (300,000) men required. A formula, to make the above distribution correctly and to make it bear with the least possible hardship, has been communicated to the Provost- Marshals. As it is not possible to compute the quotas without full informa- tion from all the States and districts, it is plain that the figuring of persons who have no other information than what pertains to their respective localities can lead it to no correct results. With the foregoing principles in view, on the 24th of December, the quotas under the call of December 19 were computed upon the best information at hand, regarding the en- rollment up to November 30, and reports as far as received, of troops fur- nished up to December 19. It was known, at the time of computing these quotas, that vigorous efforts had been going on during the month of December to revise the en- rollment, and that the result of these efforts, and complete reports of troops raised during the month of December,* could not be received until after the 1st of January. This date was looked forward to as likely to furnish more correct data, and also as the time to rectify those errors and omissions 163 which it is impossible to discover until a call is actually made. The ap- proximate quota of the State of New York, prepared from data on the 30th of November, was forty-six thousand eight hundred and twenty-one (46,821). During the month of December, vigorous efforts were made, as before stated, to revise the enrollment, and material reductions in it were made in various States and districts. Accui'ate calculations made upon the en- rollment, as corrected up to December 31, and complete data as to credits due up to that date, show the true quota of that State to have been, on the 1st inst., sixty-one thousand and seventy-six (61,076). In reference to the City of New York, the number of men to be raised was fixed at the low figure of four thousand four hundred and thirty-three . (4,433) in the first assignment from two peculiar causes. One related to the amount of credit to which that place was entitled on account of credits for men enlisted in the navy prior to February 24, 1864. It was reported to me by the Chairman of the Volimteer Committee of the New York Board of Supervisors, in letter dated December 20, 1S64, that an agreement had been made between himself and General Hays, the then Acting Assistant Provost- Marshal General, "that the two and three years naval men should be ap- portioned to " the sub-districts of the County of New York, and reports were made to this oflSce in accordance therewith ; by which, of the naval credits allowed by the commission appointed for that purpose (and which commission considered only the number of men and not their periods of service), to the first ten districts in New York, composed of one, two and three years men, aU the two and three years men were put to the credit of the City of New York, and such naval credits as belonging to Brooklyn and Tarrytown were reported as one year men, thus giving to each of the districts of New York City, and taking from the districts of Brooklyn and Tarrytown about two or three times as much credit on tliis account as was right and just. The unfairness and injustice of this distri- bution escaped notice in the hurry of preparing the approximate quotas between the 20th and 24th of December, but was subsequently discovered and corrected, the number of naval men assigned by the commission to the difl'erent districts not being disturbed. Second. It was reported to me that the revision of the enroUraent in New York City, which it was supposed would be completed before the new as- signment of quotas was to be made, would result in a reduction of the list 164 of twenty-five per cent., and the approximate quotas of December 24 were consequently calculated on the assumption that there could be a reduction of twenty per cent. When the actual condition of the enrollment was officially reported, after the 1st of January, it was found that it had not progressed so far as to prove that any material reduction had taken place, and the corrected quotas were assigned on the true enrollment, as reported by the Provost-Marshals, and as was done elsewhere. The fact that a con- siderable reduction had talien place in the enrollment of other States, and also in other districts of the State of New York, contributed to increase the quota of New York City. These causes created the difference in the quotas assigned on the 24th of December and the 24th of January. The last quotas of the districts in New York City were prepared in the same manner as the quotas of all other districts in the United States, and all the credits due to them have been considered. Complaint has been made that a hardship is imposed on New York by in- creasing her quota, even if correctly done, at so late a day that she cannot raise it by volunteers before the time fixed for the draft. There seems to be nothing to show that the time of assignment would have made any ma- terial difference to the City ; between the announcement of the quota of four thousand foiu- hundred and thirty-three (4,433) and that of twenty-one thousand and nineteen (21,019), to wit, 24th of December and 24th of Jan- uary, the City raised but few volunteers on the smaller quota, and there was nothing to indicate that she would, before the time fixed for draft, have filled either the larger or smaller of the two quotas. In connection Avith the complaint made by New York City, it is proper to state that under the call of July 18, 1864, her quota was twenty-three thou- sand one hundred and forty (23,140). On that call the City, by the largest estimate that can be made, enlisted but five thousand four hundred and sixty-one (5,4G1) men. She secured credit for nineteen thousand six hun- dred and ten (19,610) seamen, said to have been enlisted between April, 1861, and February 24, 1864, who were not embraced in the enrollment on which her quota was based. For these she had to pay no bounties, and seems to have been at no further expense than that incurred in collecting and recording the names of the men, and having the sheets containing them bound in a ponderous volume. Of the five thousand foui- hundred and sixty-two (5,462), stated above as enlisted to the credit of New York 165 City, since July last, many were fraudulently enlisted and counted several times over, and some of them are still in the City of New York, repeating their enlistments to fill the present quota. The conduct of the parties implicated in these frauds is now undergoing oflScial scrutiny. In the proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of the County of New York, as given in the New York papers of the 28th inst., a report by a Committee, consisting of Mr. Orison Blunt, appears, which pm*- ports to give an account of a visit made by him to my office. The report is as follows : (Extract.) REPORT, In accordance with the instructions of your Honorable Body, as per res- olution adopted at the meeting held on the evening of the 24th inst., the Chairman of yom* Committee at midnight proceeded to Washington. Im- mediately upon his arrival, he had an interview with Provost-Marshal Gen- eral Fry, and endeavored to obtain an explanation (in accordance with the instructions of the Board) of the means by which the quota of this County had been raised from four thousand four hundred and thirty-three (4,433), as announced by him to Brigadier-General Hays on the 23d ult., to the enormous number of twenty-one thousand and nineteen (21,019). The Chairman of your Committee was informed that this increase in the quota was attributable : First. To the re-distribution of the naval credits claimed by us and al- lowed. Second. To reductions in the enrollment of the country districts of this and other States, which, by materially reducing their proportion of the men to be raised, renders ours comparatively larger. Third. By the report to the War Department, between the 23d and 31st of December, of men raised previous to the 23d of December, who were not considered in the first announcement. In some States the Chairman of your Committee was assured that the number thus reported was very large. These were the only explanations which the Chairman of your Committee could obtain of the astounding increase of our quota. 166 Voluminoas statistics were pi-eseuted to liim, but nothing showing the precise method in which the quota of this County was arrived at. Full ex- planations were promised througli Brigadier-General Hays, but such ex- planations have not yet been received. ********** Had your Committee, as desired by them, been authorized by the War Department two months earlier than they were, to undertake the correc- tion of the enrollment, the work would have been finished before the pre- sent quotas were assigned, and the quota of this County would have been reduced by at least fifteen thousand (15,000) men." This report, is materially incorrect. Mr. Blunt not only "endeavored to obtain," but he did obtain a full explanation " of the means by which the quota of this County had been raised from four thousand four hundi'ed and thirty-three (4,433) to the enormous number of twent3'-one tliousand and nineteen (21,019).'' He not only acknowledged that the explanation was full, but stated in terms that he understood it perfectly, that it was right, and that he would 80 inform the people of New York. He was "shown the precise method in which the quota of the County was arrived at,"' and expressed himself satisfied with both the method and calculation. He is not correct in stating that "full explanations were promised through Brigadier-General Hays, but'feuch explanations liave not yetteeen received." No other explanation was promised through General Hays than that contained in a letter from me to that oflicer, dated January 24, 1865, which appears in Mr. Blunt's report, and which I read to him when he was in my office on the 2Gtli iust. The incorrectness of Mr. Blunt's statement, in regard to revising the en- rollment, is shown by the fact that Mr. Blunt's letter asking authority to revise the enrollment, addressed to General Hays, was dated in New York, November 24, 1864. It was presented to me by General Hays in person on Sunday, the 27th of November, and was answered by me on Monday, the 28th of November, agreeing to tlie proposition with some modifications, which were accepted and created no delay. The injustice of the statement will be recognized when it is remembered that for more than a year cor- rections of the eni-ollment in New York City have been continually invited. 167 A special appeal for this coiTection was made by circular from my office, dated June 25, 1864, and repeated November 15, 1SG4. Copy lierewith. During tliis time additions to and deductions from the enrollment-lists in New York City were continually being made by officers of this bureau. This appeal to the people, represented by the committee to aid in these corrections, received no attention from the committee until the 24th of No- vember, showing that they consumed five months in making a proposition which the department took but one day to adopt ; and, furthermore, the committee and the people were at liberty, at any time, without special au- thority from this department, to correct their enrollments, and in many States this privilege has been fully and advantageously exercised. Mr. Blunt is doubtless aware that the increase of the quota of New York City results in a considerable degree from his action in claiming an undue proportion of the amount of service due on account of naval credits. His report is calculated not only to do injustice to this department, but it has misled the people of New York who have confided in him to aid in raising soldiers to strengthen the Army and Navy. The principles pointed out in the letter show the incorrectness of various figures and statements made by Mr. Blunt before the Board of Supervisors. Without disturbing the manner of determining and distributing the quo- tas of the districts in the State of New York, the President has ordered that twenty-five per centum of the quota of each district in the State be set aside until fiu-ther orders. I am, General, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, J. B. FRY, Provost-Marshal General. War Department, ) Provost-Marsual General's Office, J- Washington, 1>. C, November 15, 18G4. j (Circular No. 39.) Attention is again called to the necessity of correcting the enrollment- lists in every district and sub-district. While the Board is responsible, as a body, for the enrollment, the Commissioner of the Board wiU be required 168 to give Ms particular attention to the correction, revision and preservation of the lists, and to the preparation of all reports and returns iu regard to them ; and he is hereby especially directed to see that monthly reports of the corrections made in the enrollment for the preceding month are promptly forwarded to this office on or before the third day of every month. Circular No. 24, from this office, dated June 25, 18G4, is reproduced and revised for the guidance of all concerned. It is as follows :— The attention of Boards of Enrollment is called to section six of the Act amendatory of the Enrollment Act, which is in the following words, viz. : • Section 6. And be it further enacted, that Boards of Enrollment shall enroll all persons liable to draft under the provisions of this act, and the act to which this is an amendment, whose names may have been omitted by the proper enrolling offlcei's ; all persons who shall arrive at the age of twenty years before the draft ; all aliens who shall declare their intention to become citizens; all persons discharged from the military or naval service of the United States, who have not been in such service two years during the war, and all persons who have been exempted under the pro- visions of the second section of the act to which this is an amendment, but who are not exempted by the provisions of this act ; and said Boards of En- rollment shall release and discharge from draft all persons who, between the time of the enrollment and the draft, shall have arrived at the age of forty-five years, and shall strike the names of such persons from the en- rollment. Attention is also called to paragraphs 55, 56, 57, 58, 69, GO, Gl and 62, Ke- vised Regulations for the Bureau of the Provost-Marshal General. It is to be borne in mind by the Boards that their duties, in regard to the correction of the enrollment, do not cease with its revision as recently completed or now in progress. On the contrary, the revision and correc- tion of these lists is a continuous duty, to which the labors of all Boards must be directed. The names of all persons liable to military duty taking up their residence in a sub-district, as well as all iu the sub-districts who from time to time become liable, shall be added to the eurollment-lists ; and the names of persons who enlist into the military or naval service, or re- move permanently from a district, or whose liability terminates while in it, 169 will be stricken off; and in case of feraoval, whenever it is practicable, the Board of Enrollment of the district to which he removes will be notified, and he will be enrolled by that Board. The Board of Enrollment shall have copies of the enrollment-lists open to the examination of the public at all proper times, and shall give public notice that any person may appear before the Board and have any name striclten off the list, if he can show, to the satisfaction of the Board, that the person named is not properly enrolled, on account of— 1. Alienage. 2. Non-residence. 3. Over age. 4. Permanent physical disability, of such a degree as to render the person not a proper subject for enrollment under the law and regulations. 5. Having served in the military or naval service two years during the present war, and been honorably discharged. Civil officers, clergymen, and all other prominent citizens are invited to appear at all times before the Board, to point out errors in the lists, and to give such information in their possession as may aid in the correction and revision thereof. To the duty of hearing and acting upon claims for exemption, Boards of Enrollment are enjoined to devote all the time that can be spared from other less pressing duties. They will report to the Provost-Marshal Gen- eral, for the purpose of correcting lists on file, at the end of each month, upon sheets of consolidated enrollment-lists, the names and residences of all persons who have been added to or stricken from the rolls duinng the month. They will send with each report a recapitulation, showing, in concise form, the number enrolled at the time of forwarding the last list, the number stricken from the enrollment, and the number added to it since that time, and its actual condition at date of report. JAMES B. FRY, Provost-Marshal General. APPENDIX H. 173 COPY OF LETTER TO THE PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL IN RELATION TO NAVAL CREDITS. Brigadier-Gkneral J. B. Fry, Provost-Marshal General : Sir— I have the honor to transmit you, by the hand of Mr. B. Eastman, Special Messenger, several documents, of which the following is a memorandum : First.— Copy of telegram to yourself, of date December 20th. .Second.- Copy of letter to General Hays, Acting Assistant Provost-Mar- shal General, of date December 13, relative to credits due on 31st October. Third.— Copy of letter to General Hays, Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General, of date December 14, relative to claim for credit for marines enlisted from April 21, 1861, to April 4, 1864. Fourth.— Copy of Size Roll (Muster and Descriptive), in bound volume, of marines enlisted as stated above. I would respectfully state that, after sending to you to-day the telegram relative to the naval credits, I had a conference with Brigadier-General Hays, and it was agreed that the two and three years naval men should be apportioned to. the several sub-districts of this County in the following proportion : Congressional District. Fourth . Fifth . . . Sixth. . . Seventh Eighth . Ninth . . Three Years Naval Credit. 2,000 2,000 1,353 2,000 2,000 1,853 11,206 Two Years Naval Credit. 107 103 103 103 103 103 622 TotaL 2,107 2,103 1,456 2,103 2,103 1,956 11,828 174 Of conrse. all the other credits due are already apportioned. I might add that I am now preparing for you copies of the muster and descriptive lists, showing the years of credit of each of the men credited for enlisting in the Navy. As they make four ponderous volumes nearly as large as the one containing the ships' rolls, heretofore transmitted to you, you will understand at once that it wiU take some time to complete the evidence. I would respectfully suggest that it would be a matter of great conve- nience in making all credits and quotas for this County, if they could be summed up and given in gross, leaving it to the Acting Assistant Provost- Marshal General to divide credits and quotas among the sub-districts. As the County Committee, of which I am the Chairman, is working for the interests of the whole Countj', and no particular district, and as the money expended by us in raising men, &c., is equally borne by all portions of the City, this course would enable us, by consultation with General Hays, who is always accessible, to secure that the sub-districts are all fairly dealt by. If this suggestion be adopted, it would save your department much trouble and greatly accommodate us. The form would tlien be something like this: Quotas. Deficiencies. Surplus. Fourth to Ninth Districts, inclusive. New York County ,. I am, sir, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, (Signed) OEISON BLUNT, Chairman New York County Committee on Volunteering. 175 COPT OP A LETTEH TO ACTING ASSISTANT PROVOST-MAESHAL GEN- EEAL, SOUTHERN DIVISION OF NEW YORK, RELATIVE TO ALL CREDITS DUE THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK ON THE 31ST OF OC- '^OBER. Headquarters ) County Committee on Volunteering, > - - '13, 1864. J Headquarters , „mittee on VOLl New York, December 13, Brigadieb-General Willum Hats, Acting Assistant Pro.-Mar. Gen. : Sir— I transmit you herewith a complete statement of all credits allowed on the quota of the City and County of New York, under the President's call of July 28, 1864, for five hundred thousand (500,000) men, with statement of credits due on 31st of October, 1864, on any future call. I desire to call your particular attention to the fact that there have been allowed us credits for men enUsted in the Navy from April 15, 1861, to April 4, 1864, nineteen thousand four hundred and seventy-seven (19,477) men. Of these men, there were enlisted For one year ''^'^^^ For two years ^^^ For three years ^^^-'^^ 19,477 Of the two and three years men there have been allowed us one year of credit. So that there remains in this item yet to be credited six hundred and twenty-two (622) years of service for two years men, and twenty-two thousand four hundi-ed and twelve (22,412) years of service for three years men ; being in all twenty-three thousand and thu-ty-four (23,034) years of service due New York Countj- on this account. Our total claim for credits due on all accounts up to October 31st is twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine (29,829), as per the annexed schedule. 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Total 23,168 Total number of years of credit due on any future call : For two years men, one year already credited, and one year due 660 For three years men, one year already credited, and two years due 14,588 For four years men, one year already credited, and three years due 21 Total 15,269 Leaving a balance of one year men allowed as one year, and on whom no credit is due 7,899 Of the total number on whom credit is due there are — Of men on whom one year is yet to be allowed. 660, being 660 years. " "• two years are yetto be allowed 14,588, " 29,176 " u u three " " " 21, " 63 " Total number of years yet to be allowed 29,899 I APPENDIX I. 181 CIRCULAR OF THE PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL. War Department, ) Provost-Marshal General's Office, > Washiyigton, B. 6'., Nov. 15, 1864. ) Brigadier-General William Hays, Acting Assistant Provost-ifarslml General, New York City, N. Y. : General— Circular No. 39, in reference to correction of the enrollment, has this day been issued. The subject is one which requires the closest attention of the officers of this bureau. The work must, therefore, be performed mainly by the employees we have imder pay, and by securing the assistance and co-operation of the people in every sub-district. They should understand that it is plainly for the interest of each sub-dis- trict to have stricken from the list all names improperly enrolled, because an excess of names increases the quota called for from such sub-district ; and that it is equally for the interest of each person enrolled in a given sub-district to place upon the lists all persons in the sub-district liable to military duty, because the greater the nvunber to be drawn from, the less the chance that any particular individual wUl be drawn. It is the peTsonal interest of every enrolled man that the quota in which he is concerned shall not be made too large, and that his own chances for draft shall not be unjustly increased ; both these objects will be obtained if all parties will aid in striking out the wrong names and putting in the right ones. Especially is this the interest of those drafted men, who, by putting in substiUites themselves liable to draft, have secured exemption which by 182 the terms of the law holds good ouly until the present enrollment is ex- hausted in their sub-districts. Men who are over forty-five years of age, and in consequence excused by law from the performance of duty in the field, owe it to the cause and to the country to take a zealous and active part in the correction of the en- rollment-lists, a military service of the first importance. The law requires that quotas shall be assigned in proportion to the enrollment, and the fair- ness and justice of the mode of determining the amount of military ser- vice due from each and every section of the country cannot be doubted, if the enrollment is made as nearly perfect as it is practicable to make it. The amount of seifice due to the nation from every town or county is thus laid fairly and plainly before the citizens, and I am sure that a higher motive than self-interest will prompt all to do their share in perfecting the enrollment, and securing a just and efficient execution of the laws for raising troops whenever it becomes necessary to apply them. Confer with the State and local authorities, and present the foregoing views to them, and secure, if possible, prompt and practical assistance from them in perfecting the enrollment-lists. The subject should receive the attention of town, precinct and ward meetings and committees. I am. General, very respectfully. Your obedient servant, (Signed) JAMES B. FRY, Provost-Marshal General. [A true copy.] (Signed) H. F. BROvncsoN, A. A. G. Orison Blunt, Esq., Chairman Volunteer Committee. 183 PROPOSITION OP THE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON VOLUNTEEEING TO CORRECT THE ENROLLMENT. ConNTT Volunteer Committee, ) New York, Nov. 24, 1864. j BKIQADrER-GENERAX, WILLIAM HaTS, Acting Assistant Provost-Marslial General : Sir— Circular No. 39, from the Provost-Marshal General's office, and the procla- mation from the Governor in regard to the enrollment, calls attention to the necessity of municipal authorities undertaking the work of correcting the enrollment, with a view to having proper quotas assigned under any future call of the President for men. The County Committee on Volunteering have determined to undertake the task, so far as regards the County of New York, knowing from ex- perience that such labor in oiu: city would not be otherwise performed. Why this is, it is needless now to discuss ; sufficient, that the fact is so. The duty, therefore, devolving on the county authorities, and you having kindly offered your co-operation, we will at once enter upon this work under a systematic plan to be immediately agreed upon. We believe that the Provost-Marshal's Department equally Mitli ourselves is anxious that all cause for dissatisfaction in regard to our enrollment should be removed, and we believe, also, that our taking this matter in hand will allay much of the dissatisfaction as regards the enrollment which has hitherto existed. In correcting this enrollment it will be oirr desire as well as our effort to secure as a result a perfectly fair enrollment of this county, and to this end I herewith submit a plan of action for your approval, on which I trust you will take speedy action. I am, sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, (Signed) ORISON BLUNT, ClMirman. 184 New York Codntt Enrollmknt Bureau. Plan for Correction of United States Enrollment in the County of New York. I. A complete copy of the enrollment will be obtained from each Provost- Marshal on the usual blanks. II. These copies shall be arranged by Wards. III. The work of correction wiU be done as follows : 1. lu each Ward, a number of officers shall be appointed equal to the present election districts, who shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties assigned to them. 2. These officers shall be selected by the Committee on Volunteering or by the Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General. 3. Their duty shall be to take each blank as prepared, visit each house which appears upon the rolls, and ascertain— A. Whether each person, whose name is recorded, is a resident therein. B. Whether he is exempt from draft for either of the following reasons : a. Over forty-five years of age. h. Under twenty years of age. c. Alienage. d. Having furnished a substitute in anticipation of the draft. e. Having been drafted and furnished a substitute. /. Having been drafted and paid commutation. g. Having been drafted and received a certificate of per- manent pliysical disability. h. Being permanently physically disqualified. i. Having served two years in the Army or Navy during the present war and been honorably discharged. 185 4 mcnevor any of the above exemptions shall appear, or any dis- ■ crepancy shall he found between the Provost-Marshal's enrollment and the facts, that discrepancy shall be noted on the margin of the blank under the head of remarks, and no change under any cu- cumstances be made in the body of the blanks. 5 After the blanks shall have gone through the hands of the officers 'appointed to make the correction, a copy will be made, and the originals handed over to the Provost^Marshal of the district. 6 The Provost-Marshals shall at once examine the corrected rolls, ■ and strike from the rolls on file in their office,.and also on the rolls furnished them, such names as it shall appear by the corrected returns should be stricken off. 7 The rolls fumished'proYOst-Marshals will then be returned, and in 'all cases where exemption is alleged, the Provost-Marshals shall not deem the memorandum of the collector sufficient to justify the striking of the name from the roll, but due efforts .ill be made to procure the necessary affidavits to establish the alleged exemption. 8. All the expense of this correction, including all clerk hire, will be paid by the County. 9 The Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General will issue an order 'directing the Assistant Provost-Marshals of cUstricts to furnish aU facilities for carrying out this plan. By order of ORISON BLUNT, Cliairman N. T. Co. Vol. Com. Per C. COESON, Chief of Enrollment Bureau. APPENDIX J. 189 FRAUDULENT ENLISTMENTS IN THE ARMY. Copy of an Affidavit sent to the Acting Assistant Provost-Marslial General of the Southern Division of New York, hy the County Committee on Volunteer- ing, on the IQth of November, 1864. State of New York, | gg . CiTT AND County of New York, j WaUace Dunbar, being duly sworn, says he resides at No. 145 Wayne Street, Jersey City, in the State of New Jersey ; that on the 26th day of October, 18G4, he went to a pubUc house kept by Alexander Simpson, at No. 61 Carmine Street, in the City of New York ; that said Simpson pro- posed that this deponent should enUst in the army, but this deponent said he had been examined by a surgeon and rejected for the reason that he was near-sighted and could not see without glasses any distance ; that lie had worn glasses for fifteen years ; that he could not see a good sized Roman letter, half-inch in size, to tell what it was at a distance of more than fifteen inches ; that he met a man who said he was a discharged soldier who said he could get him, this deponent, passed ; that said discharged soldier and Simpson took this deponent to a place in SLxth Avenue, near Thu-teenth Street, to enlist, and this deponent has since been informed that it was the office of Captain Coster, Pi-ovost-Marshal, Sixth District ; that he took off his glasses before he entered the office of the Provost-Marshal ; that the Burgeon did not reqmre him to take off his clothing ; that the Siu-geon held up a common playing card at a distance of abont ten feet, and this depo- nent coulcl not tell the number of spots on the card, and was rejected by the Surgeon ; that the said Simpson took this deponent to a substitute broker's office in Fulton SU-eet, near Gold Street ; that after being there a short time, Simpson wanted this deponent to go as a substitute. This deponent replied he was not eligible, for he was not born in this country. This de- ponent returned to the public house kept by Simpson, where he again met the discharged soldier, who blamed this deponent for not gomg as a sub- 190 ptitnte, and said the swearing amounted to notliing, as it was only holding up a hand or kissing a booI\. That the discharged soldier told this depo- nent that the reason why he was not accepted by the Surgeon at the office of Provost-Marshal Coster, was that he (the discharged soldier) did not soap the doctor, which this deponent afterwards understood as paying the doctor some money. That the discharged soldier and Simpson took this deponent to a place in White Street, that he believed to be a broker's of- fice ; that some one in this office held up a card, and this deponent could not tell the spots, or what card was held up ; that this deponent then came, in company with Simpson and the discharged soldier, to the office of the County Volunteer Committee, corner Broadway and Chambers Street, and was shown into the room of the Surgeon, where this deponent took off his clothing ; that he did not have on his glasses, and did not put them on while he was in the office of the County Volunteer Committee. Tills deponent was examined by the Surgeon ; a common playing card was held up at a distance of about six feet, which he could not see to tell what the card was ; that the discharged soldier had told this deponent that either clubs or spades would be held up ; and this deponent when asked what was held up by the surgeon, he could not tell, but guessed first either clubs or spades, and the surgeon still held up the card, when this deponent named the other denominations. This deponent was satisfied that the card held up was either clubs or spades. This deponent was passed by the Sur- geon, and was sworn into the service of the United States Army, and as- signed to the 127th New York Volunteers, and received the County Bounty of three hundred dollars ($300). That Simpson received the hand-money, fifty dollars ($50), from the County Volunteer Committee for presenting him as a recruit. The dis- charged soldier was with Simpson at the time, and before this deponent re- ceived the County Bounty, three hundred dollars ($300V The discharged soldier said to liim that this deponent agreed to pay to the discharged sol- dier and Simpson one hundred dollars ($100) each, which this deponent has no recollection of having agreed to. The discliarged soldier said he had to give the Surgeon one hundred dol- lars (SlOO) for passing and accepting this deponent as a recruit ; this depo- nent then gave two hundred and seventy dollars ($270) to Simpson to give 191 the Surgeon one hundred dollars (SlOO), and to divide one hundred dollars ($100) between themselves, and the balance, seventy dollars (S70), to give to his sister, which was not done ; but this deponent has since been in- formed that his brother-in-law, A. H. Parmly, called on Simpson and re- ceived seventy dollars (S70) from Simpson. This deponent believes that the discharged soldier and Simpson defrauded him out of two hundred dollars ($200), which he had received from the County Volunteer Commit- tee by reason of his enlisting. This deponent is unable to do military duty on account of his being near- sighted, and will only be an expense to the United States Government if he remains in the service. t This deponent wishes the said Simpson to refund the two hundred dol- lars (S200) paid to him by this deponent, so that this deponent can refund to the County Volunteer Committee, if he can seciu-e his discharge from the United States service. (Signed) WALLACE DUNBAB. Sworn to before me, i November 9, 186Jt. [ A. J. Cadt, Commissioner of Deeds. FRAUDULENT ENLISTMENTS IN THE NAVY. Copy of Letter sent to Rear Admiral Paulding, in charge of Brooklyn Navy Yard, December 29, 1864, by the County Committee on Volunteering. Headquarters, County Volunteer Committee, New York, Dec. 29, 1864 Bear Admiral Hiram Paulding : Dear Sir— •[ I respectfully call your attention to the following fact : A man by the name of Peter Breene applied at the office to day to ship in the United States Navy. He was sent with a messenger from this office by Acting-Master Baker, 192 to No. 173 South Street, the Tendczrous in charge of Act. Vol. Lieut. C. F. W. Vehm. When they arrived at the door of the rendezvous, the messenger was told by a man who pretended to keep the door, that the recruit would be permittod to enter, but he coukl not. The recruit was then passed in, e.tamined, shipped, and taken away from the messenger, and credited to some county other than the County of New York. Upon the retirrn of the messenger, I immediately went down to the ren- dezvous, 173 South Street, with Iiim, to investigate the case. I saw Lieut. Vehm, and he called in the man at the door and asked him what right he had to hold t'^^ r-> — ". ^s he did not recognize him as being connected with the ofBce ? I also saw one of the firm of Merritt, Davies & Co., who said that their firm was employed in the office, but did not receive any pay from the Gov- ernment ; and Mr, Davies, of that firm, was recognized by the messenger as the man that had refused to admit him into the rendezvous, and had taken away the said Peter Breene. The messenger informed Mr. Davies, distinctly, that he brought the said Peter Breene from my office for the purpose of shipping him for the County of New York. I asked Lieutenant C. F. W. Vehm if he recognized these men, Merritt, Davies & Co., as attached to his office, and he said he did, as he found them there when he came. I asked him if they received pay from the Government, and he said he thought they did not. Mr. Merritt, of that firm, said they were not paid by the Government. We sent, on one occasion, as many as thirteen men to the different ren- dezvous in this County, and we lost them in the same manner. I was well satisfied, before making a personal examination, that the business at these offices was carried on loosely, and until I made this per- sonal examination, I was unable to understand how the men were taken away from us. 193 I now make the statement of facts to you in order that you may under- stand how the business is conducted at that rendezvous, and I am fully satisfied it is carried on in the same manner at the other rendezvous. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, ORISON BLUNT, Chairman New York County Committee on Volunteering. FRAUDULENT ENLISTMENTS IN THE MARINE CORPS. Extract from Report of the County Committee on Volunteering, submitted to the Board of Supervisors October 4, 1864. Notwithstanding that at our principal office in the Park we are very strict in refusing any facility for the enlisting of any except such as would count on the quota of New York, we found that even there advantage was taken of us, and men enlisted for other localities. Lieutenant E. P. Meeker, Mustering Officer for the Marine Corps, we found engaged in this business, using the facilities afiforded him by us for the good of New York for the benefit of other places as well. The first instance of the kind which came to the knowledge of your Committee was the occasion of the following letter : County Volunteer Committee, j Mw York, July 25, 1864. j Lieutenant E. P. Meeker, U. S. Marine Corps, Recruiting Officer at County Volunteer Rooms : Sir— It is my duty to inform you that it is against the positive rule of this Com mittee to have any one enlisted as a substitute within its jiu-isdiction except for a resident of the City and County of New York. Except by you, such a thing has never been done in our office, and I therefore deem it essential that you should be officially apprised of this rule. I am, sir. Very respectfully, &c, (Signed) ' ORISON BLUNT, Chairman County Volunteer Committee. 13 194 Lieutenant Meeker undertook to argue that it was not so much his busi- ness to consult the interests of the County of New York as to consult the interests of the Marine Corps, and get for that arm of the service all the men he could, without reference to our wishes in the matter. As your Committee could not so understand it, but as they did not desire to injure the cause of enlistments for the Marine Corps, the following notice was at once sent to Admiral Paulding : County Volunteer Rooms, } Mew York, July 26, 1864. J Admiral H. Paulding, Brooklyn Mavy Yard: Sir— Will you please detail a Mustering Officer at this office for the Marine Corps. Lieutenant E. P. Meeker, who has been acting in that capacity at this office, has assumed the right to muster in substitutes for persons residing outside the County of New York, and as such action is in direct contraven- tion of the rules of this Committee, as being most unjust to the County of New York, we have been obliged to discontinue his relations with us. As, however, we are desirous of aiding the Marine Corps, as well as other branches of the service, I request that some other officer be detailed here to muster in marines, otherwise the Marine Office at our rooms will be closed. I am, sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, (Signed) ORISON BLUNT, Chairman County Volunteer Committee. Navy Yard, } To which the following reply was received : New rorfc,' July 28, 1864. Sir^ In reply to your communication of the 26th inst., requesting that another officer should be detailed in place of Lieutenant Meeker at the Marine ren- dezvous, I have to say that inasmuch as he has acted in entire accordance with my views, and in compliance with the regulations of the service, I cannot act upon your request. Were we to refuse all recruits except those 195 who coiild be accredited to the quota of New York Coixnty, the service would suffer materially. If it be contrary to your views that he should continue to act as heretofore, I will have that rendezvous for marines closed. Respectfully, Your obedient servant, H. PAULDING, Commandant. Orison Blunt, Chairman County Bounty Committee, New York. Upon this your Committee determined to close that office, believing it their duty to protect the County, even if the Marine Corps suffered. The following notice was therefore sent to Admiral Paulding : Headquarters County Volunteer Committee, ) City Hall Park, V Broadway, corner CHAiiBERS Street. ) Admiral H. Paulding, Commandant Navy Yard, Brooklyn : Sir— Your letter of the 28th inst. is received. Inasmuch as the County Volun- teer Committee have not the room to spare in their building for the purpose of raising recruits for other Counties or States, though we have willingly inconvenienced ourselves to afford every facility for the filling of our quota, I would respectfully suggest that we have this morning placed the rooms hitherto occupied for the Marine rendezvous to piu'poses exclusively con- nected with the filling of the quota of New York County. While we are willing to do our utmost to recruit for every part of the service, and have and will afford every facility to that end, we do not deem it oiu" duty to give the opportunity to enlist men, properly belonging to the City and County of New York, for the benefit and credit of other counties or States. I am, sir. Very respectfully, itc, (Signed) ORISON BLUNT, Chairman Volunteer Committee. 196 Subsequent events proved that your Committee acted wisely in closing the office of Lieutenant Meeker, as the affidavit accompanying the follow- ing letter will demonstrate : Headquarters Countt Volunteer Committee, ^ City Hall Park, f Broadway, corner Chambers Street, ^ New York, August 20, 1864. ) Colonel Reynolds, Sir— Marine Corps Barracks, Brooklyn Navy Yard Accompanying please find affidavit of John B. Eandolph, marine, which would seem to demand attention. Circumstances similar to those narrated in this affidavit led to the closing of the Marine rendezvous at this, office when in charge of Lieutenant Meeker. It is an outrage that men should be so deceived, and it is due alike to the party making the affidavit, to Lieutenant Meeker and the Government, that the affair should be investigated. I respectfully ask that you will institute inquiry into the facts contained in this affidavit, and that you will direct Lieutenant Meeker to report to me, and explain his conduct in the matter. I am, sir, very respectfully. Your obedient servant, (Signed) ORISON BLUNT, Chairman County Volunteer Committee. City and County ofNeio Yo7'k, ss : John B. Randolph, being by me duly sworn, doth depose and say, that on the 20th day of July, 18G4, he went to No. Ill Nassau Street, in said city, for the purpose of inquiring about enlisting in the United States Marine Corps ; he there saw a man in charge, and this deponent told him that he wanted to enlist in the Marine Corps ; he was told that the office was not open at that time, but if he would wait for half an hour the office would then be open. The deponent waited. In the mean time went out, and in 197 the course of twenty or twenty-five minutes returned, saying that if he, deponent, would go with him to the rooms of the County Volunteer Com- mittee, that he could there enlist. Deponent went with him to the above place, and was duly examined by the siu-geon there, and signed the papers that Lieutenant Meelier requested him to do, with the understanding that he was to go as a volunteer ; that Lieutenant Meeker received from the man that went with deponent to enlist the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) ; that Lieutenant Meelier put the said three hundred dollars ($300) in an en- velope and addressed it to this deponent, and gave it to the Orderly, and this deponent went witli the Orderly to the Marine Barraclis at Brooklyn, New York, and that the Orderly delivered the said envelope to the Colonel commanding at that place and that the said Colonel placed the amount to the credit of this deponent, and from time to time gave to this deponent what sums he wished. This deponent further says : That on the 19th of August, 1864, at about half-past one in the afternoon, a man by the name of William Hay ward came to the Barracks, at Brooklyn, and while there came into the room where tliis deponent was, and in the course of conversation this deponent made the remark that lie had been enlisted one month from the 20th of August, 1864 ; that then this man Hayward put his hand into his pocket and pulled out a paper, and said that he, meaning this deponent, had enlisted on the 18th of July, and not on the 20th, as this deponent said, and this de- ponent saw indorsed on the back of said paper these words : " John B. Kandolph, substitute for John Grant," and this deponent asked, *' am I a substitute ?" and the answer was, " Oh, no." He then placed the paper in his pocket, and immediately left the barracks ; that the deponent went to the Colonel and told him what had taken place, and he, the Colonel, told the deponent to go and report the same to Mr. Orison Blunt, Chairman Coixnty Volunteer Committee. (Signed) J. B. EANDOLPH. Sworn to before me, this 20th ) day of August, 1S64. j (Signed) A. S. Cadt. Commissioner of Deeds. To tliis the following answer was received : 198 Marine Barracks, ) Brooklyn, August 28, 18G4. j Sir— In answer to your note of the 26th instant, I have to state that John B. Randolph is noted on the muster of Lieutenant Meeker as tlie representa- tive of John Grant, Nineteenth Congressional District, Middletown, Dela- ware County, New York. Will you please to refer to your record, and ascertain whether Robert Jarvis has been returned by you as a volunteer ? Sergeant Ramsay, who was at your ofHce a few days since, informs me you have him so returned ; on Lieutenant Meeker's roll he is noted as a substitute, which, from the amount of money deposited, four hundred dollars ($400), would seem to be the case. I cannot understand how he can appear on your rolls as a vol- unteer, at four hundred dollars ($400), when you have at no time to my knowledge exceeded the sum of three hundred dollars ($300). It bears the appearance, as it now stands, of having received your bounty of three hun- dred dollars ($300), and afterwards altered to a substitute without yoiu' knowledge. Jarvis enlisted July 20, 18G4. Corporal Randolph certainly should be protected, and the case of Jarvis put right. If the latter is a volunteer, he is entitled to three himdi'ed dol- lars ($300) Government bounty. I am, sir, very respectfully. Yours, &c., (Signed) JOHN G. REYNOLDS, Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Post. Orison Blunt, Esq., Chairman, &c., New York. Though investigation proved that so far as the case of Robert Jarvis (alluded to in Colonel Reynold's letter) was concerned, there was no de- ception, yet the case of Randolph was so glaring as to prove full justifica- tion of the Committee's action in regard to Lieutenant Meeker. MEN FURNISHED AND PUBLIC FUNDS EXPENDED BY THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK FOR THE ^^J^lEi. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, JUNE 30, 1865. The following Report of the Special Committee on Volunteering, relative to men furnished and public funds expended by the County of New York for the war, was received and directed to be printed. JOSEPH B. YOUNG, Clerk. 203 REPORT. To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors : The Special Committee on Volunteering would re- spectfully REPORT : That they have in course of preparation their full and complete report of operation in filling the quota, under the last call for three hundred thousand (300,000) men. They are delayed in submitting the same in consequence of the incompleteness of the account with the State rela- tive to reimbursement for bounties paid for men raised under the last call, provided for by the Bounty Law of 1865. In the meantime, however, your Committee have been called upon to furnish the United States authorities with a full statement of men furnished and moneys paid by the City and County of New York during the war. 204 Accordingly, your Committee have had carefully pre- pared an elaborate statement, showing the whole business of the City and County in recruiting, and in expenses for recruiting, and for all other purposes, which, with the correspondence on this subject, will be found appended hereto. This paper it is thought proper to officially lay befor( 3ur Honorable Body, for your information. The figures presented are in detail, and, your Com- mittee believe, give the fullest and clearest view of this subject which has ever yet been presented. The statements will repay attentive perusal. They show that the whole number of men enlisted in this City and County during the rebellion, credited and not cred- ited, was as follows : By the City— Prior to August, 1863 63,430 By the County— After August, 1863 52,952 Total number of men enlisted 116,382 Of these the following number were paid Bounty : City 9,876 County 27,883 Total paid Bounty 37,759 205 The total rmmber of men enlisted represented the fol- lowing years of service : City 136,630 County 130,921 Total years of service 267,551 The number who received Bounty represented the following years of service : City 29,522 County 77,142 Total years of service of those to whom Bounty was paid 106,664 The total amount of moneys expended foots up as follows : City $7,412,929 89 County 10,099,743 30 Total expenditure $17,512,673 19 Of the above amount there was expended for Bounties and Premiums, and all expenses connected with Bounties and Recruiting : City $494,648 38 County 10,099,743 30 Total $10,594,391 68 206 There was expended for purposes not connected with Bounties and Recruiting : City $6,918,281 51 County Nothing. Of the amount expended by tlie City, there has been reimbursed from the National Treasury, on account of equipments furnished City Regiments at the outbreak of the rcbelhon $39,458 54 Reimbursed the County by the State, on account of expenditures for Bounties under t^^e last call $2,140,000 00 Yet claimed, but not deter- mined, about 750,000 00 Total reimbursed County 2,896,000 00 Total reimbursed City and County. $2,935,458 54 Deducting the above from the total expenditures, it leaves the following net expenditure : City $7,373,471 35 County 7,203,743 30 Total ... $14,577,214 65 207 RECAPITULATION, Total number of men <54,430 Number paid Bounty i^Rfi^O Total years of service ijo,dou Years of service of those to whom] Bounties were paid 29,522 52,952 27,833 130,y21 77,142 116,382 37.759 267,551 106,664 Total amount of money expended for all purposes ■■■■■■ Expended for Bounties and Pre- miums and all expenses con- nected therewith Expenses for purposes not con- nected with Bounties and Pre- miums. . - — • Eeimbursed from National and State Treasuries Net expenditure for all purposes $7,412,929 891 $10,099,743 30 494,648 38 6,918,281 51 39,458 54 7,373,471 35 10,099,743 30 2,890,000 00 7,203,743 30 $17,512,673 19 10,594,391 C8 6,918,281 51 2,935,458 54 14,577,214 65 Your Committee would add, that so soon as the claim of the County against the State is entirely settled, they will present their detailed Report. All of which is respectfully submitted. New York, June 30, 1865. ORISON BLUNT, ELIJAH F ^^^^' WILLIAM BLUNT, ) F. PURDY, V 1 M. TWEED,) Special Committee on Volunteering. CoENELius Corson, Clerh APPENDIX. 211 CORRESPONDENCE. Provost-Marshal General Frij to A. A. Provost-3Iarshal General Dodge. WAR DEPARTMENT— Pbovost-Marshal General's Bureau, ) Washington, D. C, June 14, 1865. j Bvt. Lt.-Col. R. J. Dodge, A. A. Pro.-Mar. General, New York City, New York ; Colonel— The Provost-Marshal General directs that you ascertain from the most reliable sources, and report as soon as practicable, the exact amount (if possible), or the average amount of bounty (other than paid by the United States), which has been paid for men put into the service in each District under your supervision, under each call heretofore made for troops. Report upon each call separately, and let the figures be correctly given. I am, Colonel, Very respectfully. Your ob't serv't (Signed) GEO. E. SCOTT, Mc^or Vet. Ees. Corps. [Special attention.'] 212 A. A. Provost-Marshal General Dodge to Supervisor Blunt. Office of Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal General, ) Southern Division of New York, '• New York, June 16, 18G5. ) Official copy respectfully forwarded to 0. Blunt, Esq., with a request that such information as can be furnished from the records of his office may be transmitted to this, in order to comply with the desire of the Department. (Signed) N. PRIME, Bvt. Lt.-CoL, U.S.A.,A.A.A. General. Supervisor Blunt to A. A. Provost- 3Iarshal General Dodge, Headquarters County Committee on Volunteering New York, June 26th, 1865, Bvt. LL-Col. Dodge, Sir— A. A. P.-M. General, Southern Division ofNexD York : In answer to your memorandum of June 16th, on communication of June 14th from the Provost-Marshal General's Department at Washington, ask- ing information as to the exact or average amount of Bounty which has been paid for men put into the service in each District under your super- vision, under each call heretofore made for troops, I have the honor to reply. The City and County of New York have never paid Bounties by Districts, and it is therefore impossible to answer yoiu* inquiry in that shape. Bounties always having been paid in gross for the whole City and County, the statements which are annexed hereto are made up in that form. This statement embraces a full exhibit of all the public moneys dis- bursed, both by the City and County on account of the war. 213 It also embraces a full statement of all the men enlisted in this City and County, excepting the proportion of naval enlistments, credit for which was allowed us December 23, 1864, and taken from us January 24, 1865, under the last call, and the services of our militia during the war, for which latter credit has never been allowed. I have the honor to be. Sir, Very respectfully, Yourobd't servant, ORISON BLUNT, Chairman 27. Y. County Committee on Volunteering. 214 CITY OF NEW YORK. Statement of number of Men raised, and expenditures for Bounties^ pnor to August, 1863; toith amount expended hy the City Authorities for all pur- poses connected with the War, from its 'commencement to the close of Secruiting. Men. Raised Tvitliont Bonnty. Army Volunteers prior to July 2, 1862, stated by the Judge-Advocate General in report to Governor Seymour, dated May 7, 1863, as follows: 51 Eegiments of Infantry. 6 Regiments of cavah'y. 1 Battalion of Mounted Rifles. 1 Regiment of Engineers. 1 Regiment ) 2 Battalions v of Heavy Artillei'y. 7 Batteries ) 1 Regiment of Marine Artillery, 1 Rocket Battalion. Making a total of *53,554 men. Men Raised ivith Bonnty. After July 2, 1862, and prior to August, 1863 9,876 men. Grand total 63,430 men. In addition to this, there were enlisted several thousand Naval Recruits, who were subsequently credited under the call of July 18, 1864, for 500,000 men. * These men were enlisted for various periods, mostly, however, for three years, and their terms of service would average about two years. 215 Payment of Bounties. 1862. 9,704 men, enlisted for 3 years, to whom was paid $485,200 00 51 me-, enlisted for 1 year, to whom was paid ^^^'^^ °" 9J55 men, to whom was paid $486,475 00 Add, expenses of disbursing the above '^'^^^ ^^ Total expenditure in 1862 $488,631 12 1863. 119 men, enlisted for 3 years, to whom was paid. . . . $5,950 00 2 men, enlisted for 1 year, to whom was paid 50 00 121 men, to whom was paid $6,000 00 Add, expenses of disbui-sing the above '^^ 26 Total expenditure in 1863 ^^^^'' ^^ Total expenditure in 1862 and 1863 $494,648 38 Recapitnlation. 1862. 9,704 men, enlisted for 3 years, to whom was paid $485,200 00 1863. 119 men, enlisted for 3 years, to whom was paid ^^^'^^ 00 dfi2^ men, enlisted for 3 years, to whom was paid $491,150 00 1862. 51 men, enlisted for 1 year, to whom was paid $1,275 00 1863. 2 men, enlisted for 1 year, to whom was paid 50 00 53 men, enlisted for 1 year, to whom was iiaid. . . . 1,325 00 9,823 three years' men. 9,87'6 total men. to whom was paid $492,47o 00 Carried forward. 216 Brought forward S492,475 00 1862. Add, for expenses incurred in disbursing the above. . $2,156 12 18G3. Add, for expenses incurred in disbursing the above. . 17 26 2,173 38 Total expenditures in 1862 and 1863 $494,648 38 Kxpenditnres otlier tban for Bounties. I By the City Authorities, through the Union Defense Committee : For the equipment and fitting out of Regiments at the out- break of the Rebellion* $1,001,655 31 For the Relief of Families of Volunteers : In 1861 $702,915 69 In 1862 1,248,165 55 In 1863 1,634,946 77 In 1864 1,765,047 05 In 1865 (thus far) 565,551 14 Total 5,916,626 20 Total expenditure $6,918,281 51 I Recapitulation of all Expenses. For Bounties $494,648 38 For Equipment of Regiments, &c 1,001,655 31 For BeUef of Families of Volunteers 5,916,626 20 $7,412,929 89 * It is proper to say that, in addition to this expenditure from the public treasury for this purpose, at this time, there were contributed by citizens money and articles to the value of about $1,000,000. 217 COUNTY OF NEW YORK. Statement of all Men raised in, and to whom Bounty loas paid hy, the County of New York, from the 23lh of August, 1863, lohen the County Bounty icas first paid, to the I3th of April, 18G5 {inclusive), when Becruiting and the Payment of County Bounty ceased. Call for 5tli January, 1864, for 300,000 men. Quota of the County of New York 12,000 men. Drafted Citizens Relieved by the Coaiity. 1,855 men, by substitutes furnished for 3 years, to whom was paid $555,437 00 123 men, by commutation for 3 years, for which was paid 36,900 00 4 men, by electing to go to the war for 3 years, to whose families was paid 1,200 00 1,982 men, to and for whom was paid $593,537 00 Add, for all other expenses connected with the disbursement of the above amount 17,548 55 Total expenditure $611,085 55 CaU for 10th March, 1864, for 500,000 men, being really a call in addition to the above (5th January, 1864) for 200,000 men. Quota of the County of New York under the whole call, 15,979 men, being a large reduction of the quota on the additional number of men called for, the addition to the call being two- thirds, or 200,000 men, and the addition to the quota being less than one-third, or, in exact figures 3,979 men. 218 7,995 men, volunteers for 3 years, to whom was paid $2,398,500 00 4,539 re-enlisted men, for 3 years, to whom was paid 1,361,700 00 Haml-mouey or premiums paid 12,620 00 12,534 men, to and for whom was paid $3,772,820 00 Add, for all other expenses connected with the disbursement of the above amount 41,859 00 Total expenditure $3,814,679 00 Recapitulation. Call for 10th March, 1864, for 500,000 men. Quota of the County of New York 15,979 men. In filling which the County paid the following suras : 1,855 men, substitutes for 3 years, to whom was paid $555,437 00 123 men, commutations for 3 years, to whom was paid 36,900 00 4 men, electing to go to the war, to whom was paid 1,200 00 7,995 men, volunteers for 3 years, to whom was paid 2,398,500 00 4,539 re-enlisted men, for 3 years, to whom was paid 1,361,700 00 Hand-money or premiums paid 12,620 00 14,516* men, to whom was paid $4,366,357 00 Add, for all other expenses connected with the disbursement of the above amount 59,407 55 Total expenditure $4,425,764 55 Call dated March 14, 1864, for 200,000 men. Quota of the County of New York 7,509 men. * It will be noticed that this total falls considerably short of the quota. The balance was made up on the call for 5th January, when many drafted men furnished their own substitutes, and paid their own commutation, of which of course we have no record, nor any means of ascertaining the figui-es. There can be no doubt, however, that it averaged $300 per man, which, for 1,463 men, would be an additional expenditure for bounties of $438,900. 219 In filling which the County paid the following sums : 3,140 men, army volunteers, for 3 years, to whom was paid $942,000 00 1,104 re-enlisted men, for 3 years, to whom was paid 358,200 00 125 men, marines, for 4 years, to whom was paid 37,500 00 556 men, naval volunteers, for 3 years, to whom was paid. . . 166,800 00 1,004 men, naval volunteers, for 2 years, to wliom was paid . . . 200,800 00 601 men, naval volunteers, for 1 year, to whom was paid. . . . 60,100 00 Hand-money or premiums paid 67,400 00 6,620 * men, to and for whom was paid $1,832,800 00 Add, for aU other expenses connected with the disbursement ot the above amount 32,271 29 Total expenditure; $1,865,071 29 Call dated July 18, 1864, for 500,000 men. Quota of the County of New York ^ 23,140 men. In filling which the County paid the following sums : 394 men, army volunteers for 3 years, to whom was paid $118,200 00 7 men, army volunteers, for 2 years, to whom was paid 1,400 00 108 men, army volunteers, for 1 year, to whom was paid 17,940 00 212 re-enlisted men, for 3 years, to whom was paid 63,600 00 13 men, marines, for 4 years, to whom was paid 3,900 00 4 men, naval volunteers, for 3 years, to whom was paid 1,200 00 21 men, naval volunteers, for 1 year, to whom was paid 3,290 00 Hand-money or premiums paid 19,940 00 759t men, to and for whom was paid $229,470 00 Add for aU other expenses connected with the disbursement of the above amount 130,212 46 Total expenditure $359,082 46 * * The difiference between this total and the quota was made up by credits for 1,186 men, enlisted in the months of August, September, October and November, 1863, and 840 re-enlisted veterans, none of whom received any County Bounty. t The difference of 22,381 men between this total and the quota was made up from the following credits, for wliich no County Bounty was paid: 220 Call dated December loth, 18G4, for 300,000 men. Quota of the County of New York as assigned December 23d: Number demanded in gross (stated as years of service) 36,933, deducting from wliich surplus of years on men previously furnished, viz., 32,500, leaving ag deficiency, or quota, 4,433 years of service to be filled by men who might be enlisted for one or more years. As re-assigned January 24th: Number demanded in gross (stated as years of service) 90,701 Deducting from which surplus of years on men pre- viously furnished, which surplus was reduced by credits allowed in December, and taken from lis and allowed elsewhere in January 27,644 Leaving years of service due 63,057 Surplus 31st May, under prior call 1,137 men. Naval recruits not paid County Bounty 19,477 men. Re-enlisted men not paid County Bounty 621 men. Substitutes in anticipation of th^ draft, paid by private indi- viduals and not through the County, supposed to be 914 men. Averaging two years of service, and costing an average of $300 per man, making a total cost of $270,000. Substitutes in anticipation of draft, paid through the County, but not from the County funds 260 men. 22,409 men. The following statement gives the particulars of payments to substitutes through the County: Substitutes in anticipation of the draft, paid through but not by the County: 34 men for the army, for 3 years, to whom was paid $11,390 00 2 men for the army, for 2 years, to whom was paid 470 00 13 men for the army, for 1 year, to whom was paid 3,240 00 49 men for the army, to whom was paid $15,100 00 Carried forward. 221 Wliich is divided by three to make the deficiency, or quota, being 21,019 men. —to be filled by enlistments for either one, two or three years? In filling which the.County paid the following sums : 3,335 men, army volunteers, for 3 years, to whom was paid $1,045,200 00 119 men, army volunteers, for 2 years, to whom was paid 36,800 00 1,970 men, army volunteers, for 1 year, to whom was paid 551,720 00 128 men, re-enlisted for 3 years, to whom was paid 38,700 00 2 men, re-enlisted for 1 year, to whom was paid 540 00 3 men, marines, for 4 years, to whom was paid 1,800 00 327 men, naval volunteers, for 3 years, to whom was paid. . . 188,700 00 94 men, naval volunteers, for 2 years, to whom was paid. . . 31,600 00 10 men, naval volunteers, for 1 year, to whom was paid 1,410 00 Hand-money or premiums paid. . . : 452,755 00 5,988* Total $2,949,225 00 Carried forward. Brought forward 815,100 00 99 men for the navy, for 3 years, to whom was paid $33,165 00 7 men for the navy, for 2 years, to whom was paid 1,645 00 105 men for the navy, for 1 year, to whom was paid 23,895 00 211 men for the navy, to whom was paid 58,705 00 49 men for the army. 260 men, total army and navy $73,805 00 * In addition to the above there were credited to the County of New York on this call, without paj-ment of County Bounty— Of re-enlisted men for 3 years, about 100 men. Of substitutes, in anticipation of the draft — Number to whom bounty was paid, not by but through the County 627 men. Number to whom bounty was paid by individuals, and not thi'ough the County 581 men. Total 1,308 men. Of the substitutes in anticipation of the draft paid by individuals and not tbrough the County, the average is about two years of service, and the 222 Brought forward $2,949,225 00 AM, for all expenses incurred in the disbursement of the above sums^in part estimated, the account not being closed), including the expense of the correction of the enrollment, say 500,000 00 Total expenditure $3,449,225 00 average cost is believed to have been $750 per man, wluch would make a total cost of $435,750. Of the substitutes paid through the Comity, the following are the partic- ulars of years of service and bounty paid : 491 men, for the army, for 3 years, to whom was paid $402,800 00 21 men, for the array, for 2 years, to whom was paid 9,520 00 38 men, for the army, for 1 year, to whom was paid 14,340 00 550 men for the army, to whom was paid $420,660 00 C4 men, for the navy, for 3 years, to whom was paid $59,000 00 12 men, for the navy, for 2 years, to whom was paid 6,385 00 1 man, for the navy, for 1 year, to whom was paid 220 00 77 men, for the navy, to whom was paid 65,005 00 550 men for the army. 627 Total for the annrand navy $492,265 00 223 8 IO c o ts S o> >J ° -j S g R Pi ^ ^ § CO S c; O «a IM o «D ^' 'fT US' cT ci" o R 2g« b c ew 3 -H* O 00^ OC^ CO "^ ^ HMt- >j^ » t— ffi 5> w '^ CO i • s _ \ S H«S s C'l cc isps ! i CO c3 co' 2 s § g M O » 8 * Q iS S g gi ^ a : S H a w (S O O O O M • M ■** ^' ■^' »o oi" 'tT 1 -^ TOTAL XPENS NNECT WITH lUNTIE f 3 S g iS? ^ : S «g « «» co" p- m" : c» OO O O Ci ^ o K CO o o o r- O -"^ O O ; M 55 M* »o C^ ^ o -«1 • S O oj Sf S' S S g g : £:' 'J* Mrs t^ r^ c^ -^ ■ ^? ■5 2 «> « -' o, cc -, o.cn TP c-_ •«I n" i-T oo CO 1 i I cv m SocooooDiN t- n 1 . . ^ lO t^ -rj^ (M rt C» lO . , . «» col -H' . -J) --J •■N ■ . • -OT • • ■ -.O • • ■ ■ = "* h3 -rH -o • t^ . . .^^ ^ -1 ; :3 Oi --i) •t-i : : : :o x-^ o H loT IO :h-" It— ' '. 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(S ff > 1 c. e^ 1- S >^ ^ a o "3 ^ , £ f ^ _r: 1-5 c ^ "C >c CC c- H p £ i c o C O eo — F - ca c "c c cS a 1- t: C t; (J U H 4J fe o %-> f3 ^ ^ « ^ >> a a> H a si fc ~ c >-T ,C3 0. ■*-' Cm O rn 'ft 0/ 0) a g 11 0) a. a M M 4J i< tf; sn C o -a n 3 c> H a STATEMENT ALL EXPENDITURES BY THE CITY AND COUNTY ON ACCOUNT OF THE WAR. REPORT OF THE COUNTY TREASURER. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, FEBRUARY 27, 1866. The following Report of the Special Committee on Volumeering, ap- proving of the Report of the County Treasurer relative to the Expendi- tures of the City and County of New York on account of the war, was re- ceived and the resolution attached thereto adopted. JOSEPH B. YOUNG, Clerk. EEPOET. The Special Committee on Yolunteering, to whom were referred the annexed resolution and accompanying papers in regard to payments made to the County Treasurer on account of the war, respectfully REPORT : That they have carefully examined the same, and be- lieve the statement to be correct. It is a matter entirely under the direction and control of the County Treasurer, but needs the approval of the Board in order to comply with the requirements of the statute. Your Committee would ace .rdhigly recommend for adoption the following resolution : Resolved, That the statement of the County Treasurer, in regard to pavments on account of the war, by the County cf New York be, and it is hereby, approved by 238 the Board of Supervisors, and the Clerk directed to cer- tify the same, attach thereto the seal of the Board, and transmit the same to the Superintendent of the Bureau of Military Statistics. February 27, 1866. ORISON BLUNT, ) Special Committee WM. R. STEWART, V on WILLIAM M. TWEED, ) Volunteering. I^pptli^, COMMUNICATION. City op New York — Department op Finance, Bureau of Deposit and Disbursement, County Treasurer's Office, February 19, 1866. Gentlemen of (lie Board of Supervisors of the County of New York : In compliance with a circular, which is hereunto an- nexed, issued by the Bureau of Military Record to the various County Treasurers of this State, in pursuance of chapter 690, Laws of 1865, requesting information, with full particulars of all expenses incurred by the County of New York for war purposes, I have the honor to sub- mit the annexed statements for your approval, as requir- ed by the eighth section of the Act above referred to : " And it shall be the duty of Boards of Supervisors to examine, and if correct, to formally approve these state- ments of the County Treasurers ; and if incorrect, to cause them to be corrected and filed in the Bureau of Military Record.'' The books, showing in detail all loans and expenditures of the City and County of New York, are in the custody of the Comptroller, and kept by his direction. I am IS 242 therefore indebted to the courtesy of that officer for the said statements, which have been compiled by his order. I am also under obligations to the Hon. Orison Blunt, Chairman of the Committee on Volunteering, for much valuable information in relation to this subject. Respectfully submitted, DANIEL DEYLIN, County Treasuren OIEOULAR. State of New Yoek, Bureau of Military Record Albany, November Dear Sir— K, ) 3C0RD, V —1865.) In pursuance of chapter 690 of the Laws of 1865, 1 submit herewith a blank for the statistical and other in- formation which, by the Act, is required of your county. Accompanying this blank are memorandums that give such figures as have been already furnished this bureau by your county. These, if correct, can be inserted in the proper places in your return. That the plan of the blank may not be misunderstood, I submit below, in a supposed case, the manner of filling up the statement, under paragraph I. : Statement of Money raised by 07^ in helialf of the Co^mty^ hy tax or otherwise, on the property thereof, for purposes connected with the luar, independent of toion taxes for war purposes : Whole amount borrowed by the Board of Super- visors or by the County Treasurer, in advance 244 of specific authority of the Legislature, in 1861 $4,500 Amount raised by Goimty tax in 1862 1,745 1863 4,400 « « 1864 7,345 « . " 1865 27,450 Note.— This total includes aU sums raised by direct County tax, and paid for bounties, support of soldiers' families, &c. ; and includes also the amount raised to pay matured and maturing principal and interest of bonds issued by the County for war purposes f 45,44P Amount raised by loaning the County's credit in 1862 $3,500 Amount raised by loaning the County's credit in 1863 6,400 Amount raised by loaning the County's credit in 1864.... 10,250 Amount raised by loaning the County's credit in 1865 17,500 Total amount raised by County loans for war purposes $37,650 Deduct, amount of County bonds paid from proceeds of County tax, as above, viz : Principal of County bonds paid in 1862 $1,000 Amounts carried for ward... $1,000 $37,650 $45,440 245 Amounts brought forward.. $1,000 $37,650 $45,440 Principal of County bonds paid in 1863 3,000 Principal of County bonds paid in 1864 5,000 Principal of County bonds paid in 1865 9,000 Deduct, amount re-imbursed by i the State for bounties in 1865. 9,100 $27,100 Leaving of principal of County bonds still unpaid $10,550 $10,550 Gross amount of money raised by the County for war purposes • $55,990 The several Supervisors of your County have been called upon for a statement of the money borrowed on town bonds, and the amounts raised by town tax, and ex- pended by the several Supervisors, under direction of the Town Board, for war purposes. You will, therefore, omit from your statement everything that Avas not strictly a county tax or a county obligation ; and if the towns at any time have assumed any part of tue county's war debt, or refunded to the county any portion of the amount raised by county tax, deduct from the " gross amount of 246 money raised by tlie county for ivar purposes " the amount thus assumed or paid by the towns. The returns from the County Treasurer and the Super- visors of each town will be brought together, by me, on one sheet. In order that the several sums thus furnished, when united, shall show exactly what has been paid for war purposes (exclusive of sums re-imbursed) by the •whole people of your county, acting both in their town and their county capacities, and no more,it will be neces- sary for you to discriminate with great care between town and county expenditures, embracing, of course, in your report the former only. It is especially requested that your statements of money raised by taxes, loans, and otherwise, on the property of the county, and of the expenditures for war purposes, be prepared Avith as particular reference to detail, and with as strict accuracy and fullness, as though the Govern- ment was about to refund the money paid by the county, and that the statement now called for was to be used as the basis of the settlement. Omit from your statements all money raised by volun- tary subscription, unless such sums were afterward for- mally assumed by the county, and have been refunded to the subscribers thereto, as the Act contemplates only what has been raised by county tax, or borrowed on the credit of the county. 247 It is intended to embrace in the next report from this Bureau to the Legislature, the statistics furnished by you and other County Treasurers, and by Supervisors, and to that end it is hoped your statement will be returned to the undersigned in conformity with the requirement of the law without delay. I am, with much respect, Your obedient servant, LOCKWOOD L. DOTY, Chief of Bureau. , Esquire, County Treasurer of the County of . Chapter 690. AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE BUREAU OP MILITARY STATISTICS, Passed May 11, 1865, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represent&ji in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : Section 1. The title of the Bureau of Military Statis- tics shall hereafter be the Bureau of Military Record, and by that name it shall be known. * * * * * •jfr * Sec. 5. Blanks for a detailed statement of moneys raised and of moneys paid for every purpos^ connected 248 with the war, by towns, cities and counties, as well bj^- loans as by tax, classified by years and objects, the num- ber of men raised under the several calls of the Presi- dent, the number of men to whom bounty has been paid, and the rate of bounty per man, together with such other information as falls within the cognizance of officers of towns, cities or counties, shall be prepared by the Chief of the Bureau of Military Record, and distributed to such officers. Sec. 7. To the end that the record above required of Town Clerks may be complete, it shall be the duty of Supervisors to afford all necessary information, so far as they may be capable of doing so, to the Town Clerks, and if the town records in the keeping of Town Clerics do not show such fact, they shall add or cause to be added opposite the name of each soldier or officer the amount of bounty paid to him by the town, or by the county, if the county bounty was disbursed through the Supervisor. And it shall be the duty of the Supervisor to furnish to the Bureau of Military Record a detailed statement of moneys raised and paid by the town, the aggregate number of men furnished thereby, and such other facts as may properly be required of Supervisors, on his being furnished with the blanks provided for in section five of this act. Sec. 8. it shall be the duty of County Treasurers to 249 furnish to the Chief of the Bureau of Military Record a statement of the amount of moneys raised by tax and by loans, the amount expended for every purpose connected with the war, classified by years and by objects, together with particulars about loans ; and it shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors to examine, and if correct, to for- mally approve these statements of the County Treasurers, and if incorrect, to cause them to be corrected and filed in the Bureau of Military Record. Sec. 10. Supervisors, County Treasurers, and officers of cities, or persons employed by the Mayor and Common Councils for that purpose, shall be entitled to a reason- able compensation for their services and expenses in performing the duties devolved upon them by the pro- visions of this Act, to be paid by their respective towns, counties, or cities, in the same manner as other town, county, or city charges. COUNTY TEEASUEER'S REPORT. City op New York — Department op Finance, ) Comptroller's Office, December 30, 1865. j To the Chief of tht Bureau of Military Record of tlw State of New Jorh : Sir- As required by chapter 690 of the Laws of 1865, en- titled " An Act in relation to the Bureau of Militar}' Sta- tistics," I furnish below, for the Bureau of Military Rec- ord, a detailed statement of the moneys raised by taxes and by loans, and the amount expended by the City and County of New York for every purpose connected with the war, classified by years and by objects, together with particulars about loans, about the payment of bounties, and the re-imbur semen t of bounty moneys by the State, during the war of the Rebellion ; that is to say, from April 15, 1861, to the date of this statement, inclusive. I. — Moneys I'aised hy Taxes, Loans, and otherivise, on tlw property or credit of tJie City and County. Statement of moneys raised by or in behalf of the City and County, by tax or otherwise, on the property thereof, for purposes connected with the war, independently of City and County taxes for war purposes, namely : 251 Whole amount borrowed by the Board of Supervisors, or by the County Treasurer in advance of specific authority by the Legislature in 1861 Amount raised by City Tax in 1862 $609,709 03 " " 1863 705,69196 " " 1864 $1,146,687 43 Amount raised by County Tax in 1861 149,102 55 1,295,789 OS Amount raised by City Tax in 1865 $781,533 37 Amount raised by County Tax in 1865 559,301 82 1,340,835 19 Total $3,952,026 16 Amount raised by loaning the City's credit in 1861 $1,395,570 00 " " " 1862 1,533,100 00 Amount raised by loaning the City's credit in 1863 $1,956,900 00 Amount raised by loaning the County's credit in 1863 2,370,100 00 4^327,000 OU Amount raised by loaning the City's . credit in 1864 $1,627,000 00 Amount raised by loaning the Coun- ty's credit in 1864 5,572,700 00 7,199,700 00 Amount raised by loaning the City's credit in 1865 $639,500 00 Amount raised by loaning the Coun- ty's credit in 1865 2,056,700 00 2,696,200 00 Total amount raised by City and County loans for war purposes $17,151,570 00 $21,103,596 16 Principal of City bonds paid in 1862 $500,000 00 " " " 1863 500.000 00 " " " 1864 895,570 00 " " " 1865 500,000 00 2,395,570 00 Gross amount of money raised by the City and County for war purposes. ..^ $18,708,026 16 252 Total amount of City and County bonds issued $17,151,570 00 Deduct amount of bonds redeemed as follows : City bonds paid from tax as above $2,395,570 00 County bonds paid from proceeds of State bonds sold, and other funds than taxes 1,913,000 00 4,308.570 00 Principal of City and County bonds stUl unpaid $12,843,000 00 n. — Paid hy, tJie City and County. There was paid out by the City authorities for support of families of Sol- diers— Inl861 $702,915 69 In 1862 1,248,165 55 In 1863 1,685,122 31 In 1864 1,766,333 35 Inl865 563,174 83 $5,965,711 73 There was paid by the City and Couhty for bounties, and for recruiting fees, hand-money, and other objects connected with enlistments : In 1861. For bounties For recruiting fees, hand-money, and other expenses For amount expended by the City through the "Union De- fense Committee," for aid to sundry regiments $665,220 00 1862 For bounties, by the City 486,475 02 For recruiting fees, hand-money, &c., by the City 3,131 10 1863. For bounties, by the City $6,000 00 For bounties, by the County 1,282,800 00 For recruiting fees, hand-money, &c., by the City $17 26 For recruiting fees, hand-money, &c., by the County 172,540 57 1,288,800 00 172,557 83 Amount carried forward. „ $2,610,183 95 253 Amount brouglit forward $2,616,183 95 1864. For bonnlies, by the County 5,419,400 00 For recruiting fees, hand-money, and other expenses, by the County 481,176 63 1865. For bounties, by the County 2,125,000 00 For recruiting fees, hand-money, and other expenses, by the County 728,387 75 Whole amount of City and County bounty paid during the war. $11,370,148 33 Rate of bounty paid by the City and County (per man) : In the year 1861 Number of men paid at above rate in 1861 -. In the year 1862 (City), for one year $25 00 " " " three years 50 00 Number of men paid at above rate in 1862 : For one year 51 For three years 9,704 9,765 In the year 1863 (City), for one year $25 00 " " " three years 50 00 Number of men paid at above rate in 1863 : For one year 16 For three years 112 128 9,883 In the year 1863 (County), for tliree years. $300 00 Number of men paid at the above rate in 1803 4,276 In the year 1864 (County), for one year — $100 00 " " " " 170 00 " " " " .... 270 00 Number of men can-ied forward 4,276 9,883 254 Number of men brought forward 4,276 9,883 In the year 1864 (County) , for two years . . . $200 GO " " " for three years. . 300 00 " " " for foxu" years... 300 00 Number of men paid at the above rates in 1864 : Foroneyear $100 00 733 " " 170 00 178 " " 270 00 2 913 Fortwoyears 200 00 1,066 For three years 300 00 16,869 For four years 300 00 138 18,986 In the year 1865 (County), for one year 100 00 " " " " " . . . . 300 00 " '' " for two years. . . 200 GO " " '* " "... 400 GO " " " for three years. . 300 00 " " " " " . . 600 00 " " " for four years... 600 00 Number of men paid at above rates in 1865 : For one year $100 00 44 " " 300 00 1,755 1,799 For two years 200 GO 29 " " 400 00 129 158 For three years 300 00 209 " " 600 00 2,452 2,661 For four years 600 00 3 4,621 27,883 Total number of men paid bounty by the City and County 37,766 255 EECAPITULATION. "Whole amount paid by the City and County during the war, classified as follows : For bounties $9,984,895 00 Less amount received from the State 200,000 00 $9,784,895 00 For recruiting fees, hand-money, and other expenses con- nected with enlistments 1,385,253 33 For support of families of soldiers 5,965,711 73 For interest on City and County loans 1.556,456 16 For cash on hand 15,709 94 ^ Making gross amount raised by City and County for war pur- poses $18,708,026 16 CONDITION OF THE BOND ACCOUNT. Total loans by the County $9,999,500 00 Eeceived from the State, cash 8200.000 00 " " bonds 1,946,000 00 2,146,000 00 Amount refunded $32.040 40 Eeceived interest on State bonds ($1,213,000) sold 37,435 14 69,475 54 $12,214,975 54 By bounties paid by the County $8,827,200 00 By recruiting fees, hand-money, expenses, &c.. . 1,382,104 95 . By County bonds paid ofif. 1,913,000 00 12,122,304 95 $92,670 59 Amount advanced from County Treasury in anticipation of the sale of State bonds 640,329 41 State bonds unsold December 30, 1865 $733,000 00 256 III. — Statement of City and TITLE OF BONDS. DATE OP ORDINANCE ACT OP LEGIS'R. CITY. Union Defense Fund Volunteer Soldiers' Family Aid Fund " No 2 Volunteer Soldiers' Bounty Fund , Union Defense Fund Redemption Volunteer Soldiers' Family Aid Fund, No. 3 " '' " 4 Volunteer Soldiers' Bounty Fund Redemption Volunteer Soldiers' Family Aid Fund Redemption . Volunteer Soldiers' Family Aid Fund, No. 5 " " " 6 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. COUNTY. Soldiers' Substitute Bounty Fund Soldiers' Substitute and Relief Fund — Soldiers' Substitute Bounty Redemption. Soldiers' Substitute and Relief Redemption. Soldiers' Bounty Fund Soldiers' Bounty Fund Bonds, No. 2 Soldiers' Bounty Fund Redemption, No. 2. Soldiers' Bounty Fund, No. 3 . . . Total City and County bonds issued Less, amount fuaded and paid as above . Amount outstanding Dec. 30, 1865. April 23,'f 1 July 17, " Dec. Ki, " Sept. 2, 'G2 Mav 3. '• •June IS, " Nov. IS, " Sept. 18,'(i3 May 1!», '05 Feb. 28, '63 June 10, " Oct. 9, " Feb. 9. '01 May 20, '' AU!I. 10, " Nov. 29, " Mar. 24, '65 Oct. 31, '03 Aug. 28, " May 4, '64 211802 2l '• 7 7 7*11 Feb. 17. '04 Mar. 18, '04 June 25, '61 May 3, '65 Jan. 10, '05 1S03 18G2 1863 1864 1805 257 County Loans for War Purposes. ■WHEN PAYABLE. Mav 1, 1862 July 1,1862 Feb. 1, 1863 Oct. 1, 1863 Nov. 1, i864 July 1, 1865 Nov. 1,1865 '' 1867 " )868 " 1869 " 1870 " 1871 " 1872 '' 1873 " 1874 " 1875 " 1876 June 1, '64 Sept. 1, '64 Nov. 1,1873 " 1874 " 1875 " 1876 " 1880 " 1881 " 1883 " 1884 •' 1885 " 1886 " 1887 " 1888 " 1889 " 1890 June 1, '65 Nov. 1,1891 " 1895 " 1896 " 1897 AMOUNT ISSUED. $1,000,000 00 500.000 0' 500.000 00 500,000 00 895.570 00 500,000 00 500,000 00 490,000 00 500,000 00 600,000 00 509,000 00 500,000 00 500,000 00 500.000 00 600,000 00 600,000 00 266.500 00 2,000,000 00 946,700 00 500,000 00 500.000 00 500,00(1 00 500.000 00 600,000 00 446,700 00 500,000 00 600,000 00 600,000 00 500,000 00 500.000 00 500,000 00 500,000 00 500,000 00 1,641,500 00 376,600 00 500.000 0(1 500.000 00 411,300 00 $22,474,870 00 9,631,870 00 $12,843,000 00 17 $11 00 2 96 8,236 20 15,000 00 120 00 9 00 47,760 86 1,904 95 • 118,683 75 REMARKS. Funded, payable Nov. 1, 1864. Raised by tax paid July 1, 1802. '' " Feb. 1, 1863. Funded, payable Nov. 1, 1867. Raised by lax paid Nov. 1, 1864. Funded,"payable Nov. 1, 1868. Raised by tax paid Nov. 1, 1865. Funded payment 1873, '74,'75 & '76. Funded payment 1880 and 1881. ) Funded paym't, 1891 $376,600 00 \ Paid off 1,264,900 00 3339,000 00 paid off. 91,000 00 '^ 218,100 00 ' t9it^ 258 Sundry rxvenses incurred hy the City and Comity of Kew York, in conse- qamce of the War of the Rebellion, in addition to the foregoing. Sundry expenses paid by the City in 18G1 Sr).0G3 -16 " " " " 1862 45,678 20 " " " " 1863 11,353 28 " " " " 1861 91,521 13 " " " " 1865 65,431 51 $223,047 58 Riot damages paid by the County in 1803 $713,589 33 " " . " 1864 643,560 80 " " " 1865 159,731 38 1,516,881 51 $1,730,929 09 It is hereby certified by the undersigned, City Cham- berlain and County Treasurer of the County of New York, that the foregoing detailed statement contains a full and complete account of all moneys raised and paid by the said City and County for every purpose connected with the war, classified by years and by objects, the num- ber of men to whom bounty has been paid, and the rate of bounty per man, together with particulars about loans, and the re-imbursement of bounty moneys by the State ; which statement is made in pursuance of an Act passed by the Legislature of the State of New York, approved May 11,' 1865, entitled '"An Act in relation to the Bureau of Military Statistics." Dated at New York, this ) 19th dav of Feb., 1866. j DANIEL DEVLIN, City Chamherlahi and County Treasurer of the said County of New York.