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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 12: Norfolk County. (search)
y recently formed in the town; and also to provide for the comfortable maintenance of the families of those volunteers who reside in the town, and for such other purposes as may be expedient in preparing our citizens by military training, in the event of their services being required by the Government; provided that the Legislature authorize towns to raise money for such purposes. The Legislature subsequently passed a general act giving full power. The town then chose Stephen M. Weld, Charles Brewer, J. Ingersol Bowditch, Joseph H. Billings, G. Winthrop Coffin, George S. Curtis, and Frank Hodgkinson a committee, to whom full power was given in regard to the expenditure of the money. A formal vote was then passed giving the selectmen authority to borrow the money. On the 7th of October another meeting was held, at which Mr. Weld, the chairman of the committee, recommended that the selectmen be authorized to pay each volunteer who shall enlist in the military service, and who is an