The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-09-06
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
TIRE VOLUNTEER Bounty, .&c,-Tb

Ike FoLUNEEh DOUNTf, .CC.-1 he
County Commissioners were in session on
Monday and Tuesday last. Messrs. j. T.
Mccullough ard j. y. Crawford. who were
appointed b. the Commissioners commit.
tee 10 proceed to Baltimore to ascertain the
number Of cnlistments already made from
the county under the last calls Of the Presi.
dent, the number necessary to make up
Cecil's quota without draft, &C., reported
that the number of enistments up to Friday
last, the Doth, were, in the 9th Regiment,
Col. Geo. r. Howard, POI in the sth
Regiment, Col. Dcnnison, Capt. Irelands
Company, Sc men; in the cavalry being
recruited for the Purne!l Legion, by Mr..
Theodore Clayton, 4 men making in all
29l men, exclusive of officers. Seven or
eight men had also enlisted in Capt. Snow
Battery, but the committee could not say
whether or not Cecil county would get credit
with them as against the draft. The COM
mittee also reported that it was the inten-
ton. rs they learned, to give the county
credit with Capt. Ireland's company; and
that, in order to ascertain the quota Of the
county for draft, the county would be
charged with her several quotas under all
the calls for volunteers since the war com.
menced, and be credited with all the mon
furnished for Maryland regiments or organi-
cations, and none others. 1t was found
impracticable by the committee to ascertain
the exact number of enlstments prior to the
last two calls, no reliable sources of infor-
nation on that subject being within their
reach in the limited time allowed them for
the inquiry. The number of said enlist.
ments had been variously stated-the gen
eral belief being that the county had fur.
nishcd, for Maryland regiments, from 100 to
500 men. If 100 men had been furnished
they, added to the 29l men recruited under
the last two calls, as before stated, with ten
commissioned company officers accompany
ing them, would give as the total enlist
ments 1901 men, and if, as is believed, the
several quotas Of the county under all calls
does not exceed l, 100 men, there would still
be about 100 men to recruit in order to avoid
a draft.
The Commissioners thcreupon deter.
mined % provide Bounties of 500 for 300
men now enlisted, and 100 men yet to enlist,
making in all the sum of $40, ZOO. They
further determined to provide in the Special
Levy for the offer of discount of 5 per
cent on all Special County Taxes paid on or
before the LIST day of November, which
made their figures for the Special Levy as
follows
Fol Bounty Fund, $4,000
Allowance for per cent discount, 1,20G
Interest on probable loan Of $780, ,oo
900 for months, NV
3 per cent commissionsfor collec , ono 90
ton of special tax, ''-'''o'
lnsolvencics, 421. 40
Total Levy, ST., 1921. Os
Which sum would require rate of "a cents
in the 500 on the amount of property liable
to county tax for 1862. A Levy for that
amount was declared and certificates author.
izing its collection, by the Collectors already
appointed, will at once he issued upon the
approval Of the additional Bonds of said
Collectors, ordered to be prepared and for.
warded to them for execution and return on
or before the 9th inst. Bonds of the Com.
missioners to Cecil Bank were returned b,
number of those appointed for the purpose
otprocurihg endorsements. Those returned
being guaranteed by responsible taxpayers
to the amount of nearly $4,000; $4,000
of which it was determined By ehc Commits.
sloners to use Immediately in procuring q
present loan of that amount, to be dis
bursed at once as first instalment of the
Bounty to Cecil volunteers now in camp, to
disburse which the Commissioners deter.
mined to proceed to Baltimore on Thursday
morning, the 4th instant.