NOTES.-(1.) In the 13th, 14th, and 15th Regiments of Infantry, and 1st Regiment of Mounted Artillery, many men were mustered into service by volunteer officers, on account of the absence, when required, of any Regular United States mustering officer. (2.) In addition to the numbers furnished, as shown in the proper column, twenty-seven men were mustered in as Maine Volunteers for Corcoran's Brigade, but either re-enlisted into the United States regular service, or were transferred to the 7th Regiment,-and seven recruits have been mustered in for a Company of Cavalry authorized to be raised. (3.) The 10th Regiment is mustered into service for two years from May 3, 1861, except Companies A and D, which are mustered in for three years from October 4, 1861. (4.) The Regiments of Infantry from the 21st to the 28th, inclusive, are mustered into service for nine months. MONEY CONTRIBUTED TO DECEMBER, 1862.—In addition to the money expended on account of volunteers directly by the State, viz., $1,127,767.52, there was expended by the cities, towns, and plantations of Maine, under authority of State laws, $233,845 for aid to soldiers' families. [See Table B, next page.] The Adjutant-General also reports that the various cities, towns, and plantations have disbursed more than a million and a half of dollars for bounties, &c. to fill the quotas of the State. Of the first sum of $1,127,767.52, all but $196,897.41 constitutes a claim against the General Government,$677,702.10 have been allowed and settled. The State bounty was $45. ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S REPORT FOR 1862.-The report of General John L. Hodsdon, Adjutant-General of this State, is a large octavo volume of 1306 pages. It evinces great care and labor, and will prove to be hereafter a priceless record of the military and militia affairs of the State during the second year of the rebellion. MILITIA OF MAINE; NUMBERS AND ORGANIZATION. -By an act of the Legislature approved March 19, 1862, the State provided for an original constitu * Mustered out September 13, 1862. tional enrolment of the ununiformed militia from lists made by municipal authorities, as well as by other means. The mode of proceeding required by this act is, that aldermen of cities, selectmen of towns, and assessors of plantations shall annually, in April, make lists of all persons within their limits between the ages of 18 and 45 years, liable to enrolment. These lists must be filed with the municipal clerks, and copies sent to the Adjutant-General of the State, and to the MajorGeneral of the division. Before the 1st of June in each year, the major-general of each division is required to appoint a suitable person, within the limits of every company, as orderly-sergeant, who acts ex officio as clerk of his company, and commands it until commissioned officers are elected. This officer must take the municipal lists made as above, and enter on company blanks all persons within his limits on said lists, and all others known to him as liable to enrolment, and, before the 10th of June, must certify his list to the Adjutant-General. Under this act an enrolment was made in May and June, and the rolls of 643 companies, comprising the names of 69,172 men, were returned + Mustered out September 10, 1862. to the Adjutant-General. This was but a comparative success, as the Census returns of the State for 1860, and the report of the Adjutant-General in 1861, showed that there were at that time in the State over 112,000 males between the ages of 17 and 40 years. In the following October a second enrolment was made under General Order No. 48 of Adjutant-General Hodsdon, and under this the names of 94,939 men were returned as liable to enrolment. At the same time returns were made of 38,514 names of persons who had entered the service of the United States during the war. The excess of this number over the number (33,105) returned in the table of volunteers, is accounted for by the return under the last enrolment of all persons enlisted in the organizations of other States and in the Regular Army and Navy. TABLE B. TABLE exhibiting the Militia of Maine by Counties under two Enrolments in 1862; also the Number returned as having entered the Service during the War, prior to October, 1862; and also the Aid furnished to Soldiers' Families under authority of State laws, during the same time. OFFICE. Settled in 1623. Capital, Concord. Area, 9280 square miles. Population, 1860, 326,073. The Governor, Councillors, and members of the Legislature are elected annually by the people on the second Tuesday of March. The Secretary of State, Treasurer, Commissary-General, &c. are chosen annually by the Legislature in joint convention. The Attorney-General is appointed by the Governor. No person who is not of the Protestant religion can hold the office of Governor, Senator, or Representative in the Legislature. Councillors, five in number (one from each of five districts), are chosen by the people to advise the Governor in the executive part of government. The Councillors and Governor have a negative on each other both in nominations and appointments to office. The supreme legislative power within the State is vested in a Senate and House of Representatives, and the two together are styled the General Court of New Hampshire. The General Court assembles annually in regular session on the first Wednesday in June. The Senators are twelve in number, elected by districts; the Representatives are one for every town, parish, or place having 150 ratable male polls, and one additional Representative for every additional 300 ratable male polls in excess of the first 150. Towns, parishes, or places having less than 150 polls are classed together and elect Representatives by turns. There were 333 Representatives in the Legislature of 1862-3. Every male inhabitant of a town, or parish with town-privileges, or place unincorporated, in this State, of twenty-one years of age (excepting paupers, or persons excused from paying taxes at their own request), has a right to vote in the town, &c. wherein he dwells. Board of Education. Rockingham county, John Colby, of Hampton; Strafford county, Roger M. Sargent,* of Farmington; Belknap county, Henry W. Dudley, of Gilmanton; Carroll county, George F. Hobbs, of Wakefield; Merrimack county, Sylvanus Hayward, of Dumbarton; Hillsborough county, Josiah W. Pillsbury, of Milford; Cheshire county, Wm. L. Gaylord, of Fitzwilliam; Sullivan county, Francis Chase, of Claremont; Grafton county, Charles A. Downs, of Lebanon; Coos county, Prescott Fay, of Lancaster. * Roger M. Sargent, Secretary. (The members of the Board of Education hold office for one year.) Lancaster.. First Tuesday of December. For Rockingham and Strafford. For Merrimack and Hillsborough. For Cheshire and Sullivan. ..Tuesday after fourth Tuesday For Grafton and Coos. Trial terms are held twice a year in every county. WAR FUNDS. Balance in the treasury on this account, June 1, 1862............. Interest and premium on State bonds to date of issue.............. Charges of all kinds for bounties, pay, transportation to volun- The above totals are much larger than the real receipts and expenditures, as they are swelled on both Dr. and Cr. sides by the double entry of sums which neither passed into nor out of the Payments on war accounts. $28,259 19 $728,974 36 697,512 85 $31,461 51 treasury. That part of the expenditures of New Hampshire for military purposes which constitutes a charge against the United States may be expressed briefly as follows: Amount paid by the State on account of the war and charged to Total............. $907,602 46 ...$1,305,835 60 TABLE exhibiting the Capital and Loans of the Banks of New Hampshire, and the Amount of their Immediate Liabilities, or Circulation and Deposits, and the Specie on hand, the 1st of June in each Year for Ten Years, from 1854 to 1863 inclusive, and on Dec. 1, 1863. |