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502 THE HISTORY OF BARRINGTON. cepted by the State authorities within fifteen days from this date, they shall be paid by the Town Treasurer ten dollars for each man. " Resolved that the time for receiving the volunteers from this town who are to receive the bounty of three hundred dollars shall expire on the fifteenth day of August next." " Resolved, that the Assessors of this town be directed to make within thirty days a new enrollment of all the citizens of this town : Such an enrollment as is called for by the Ad- jutant-General each year." September i, 1862. The following preamble and resolu- tions were adopted: — "Whereas the President of the United States under date of August 9, 1862, has called for three hundred thousand men by draft, it is therefore, Resolved, that we the undersigned agree to pay the sums affixed to our respective names into the hands of a Committee here- after to be chosen, said sums to form a fund to be used and appropriated by said committee in their discretion for the procuring of substitutes to take the place of those who may be drafted in town under the above call, and who may desire a substitute. Any part of the above fund not used by said committee to be returned to the subscribers." Names. 1 George B. Allen 2 Thomas R. Allin 3 William H. Allin 4 Welcome Arnold 5 James Adams . 6 Henry A. Adams 7 John W. Barnes 8 Joseph Bean 9 Leonard S. Bosworth 10 Jonathan Bowen 11 William J. Bowen 12 Allen Brown . 13 Nathaniel Brown 14 James D. Bullock $5 00 25 00 25 00 5 00 10 00 4 00 7 00 7 00 35 00 . 10 00 15 00 30 00 10 00 10 00 15 James E. Budlong 16 Peleg H. Barnes 17 Capt. Crosby . 18 William Carter 19 Joseph A. Chedel 20 Solomon Cooke 21 John Clark . . 22 Edward Clark . 23 Hiram Drown . 24 Samuel U. Drown 25 Charles E. Drown 26 William A. Drown 27 George A. Gladdin 28 Martin L. Grant . $20 00 10 00 10 00 3 00 12 00 5 00 5 00 25 00 30 00 15 00 5 00 5 00 15 00 5 00