The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-10-30
s2s3-614 IL

The constant changes which are taking place
in the various regiments by reason of deaths
discharges render it impossible To tell the exact
number who are entitled to draw aid from this
| fund From careful estimates we are satisfied
! that the number TINS entitled in the old regis
meuts, I'D TO and including the Nineteenth,
and lucluding the three cavalry regiments, the
various batteries of artillery, and the company
of sharpshooters, cannot be less than six thous-
and, Chapter four of the general laws of the
extra session of 1862 extends the aid TO the
families of volunteers $50 all regiments of in>
fantry, aud cavalry, and batteries of artillery
| raised or 0 be raised which have been or may
| hereafter be mustered into the service of tho
| United States or of this State " to which il had
not been extended by previous acts of this Legs
| stature. 1t is supposed that the great prepon
| derance of married men III the fourteen regi-
ments last raised, will increase the number en-
| titled to aid from this fund to at least twelve
| thousand &t#gE s9ua j
When the reports from these new regiments
are all in, the regular monthly drain upon this
| fund will be about sixty thousand dollars Fhe
balance in the war fund available for this pur-
| pose at this date, October LIST, 1862 is $75,-
| 203 IA. |... g. i. .y ina.
| Nothing has yet been drawn by the families
| of thos. connected with the new regiments from
| the goth to the SD. The necessary repo.te
| from these regiments will soon be on file, when
| the drain upon the fund will nea!iy double In
view of these facts, there Is every reason to bdS
| ieve the balance now in I'll fund will be eX-
| hausted by the middle Of next month (N0vem-
ber) The only provision made 10y the LegisS
! azure, at its recent session, for means 10 cons
| tinue the payment of this aid to the families
! of our volunteers. was the levying of special
| tax of 1926, 900. This tax is not due at the
State Treasury until some time in the month of
February, 1868. In any event the fund will
! be exhausted from about the middle of Novem-
Der until near the middle Of February and thus,
| during the severe weather OF winter the taml~
! lies of our brave volunteers will be without the
aid promised to them from the state. Judging
from the way the state tax is usually paid into
the treasury. there is no eaSon to expect that
more than 9175, 900 or at the outside S2OO,OOO
of this special tax will be received during the
month of February. Small payments on the
balance will be made at intervals during
the year, leaving at the close balance
still uncollected Owing to the delay
in the reception of the monthly reports of many
Of the regiments and to the fact that many of
those entitled to draw from this fund, make
their applications at periods of from four or
five months apart, it is a safe estimate to say
that the payments are, at all times, at least two
months in ar ears On this basis at the time
the first insallment of this special tax is paid
into the state treasury, there VIII be claims Tor
aid 20 The families OF volunteers, uue anu ib
paid amounting to at least $500, COO and should
the payment on the tax made at thattime equal
our hiShest estimate $500, 0O0it would suf-
fee to pay but two-thirds of the claims which
would then be due and unpaid.
To continue the payment from this fund IN
til a tax which may be authorized by the next
Legislature can be collected, will require be-
lween seven and eight hundred thousand dol
lars, -. 100.
An act 70 authorize the issue of $250OO0in
State bouds, passed the Senate at the recent
session of the Legislature, but was defeated IN
the Assembly. Had this measure become law
money enough would have been realized from
the sale of these bonds, which it is thought
could readily have been disposed of at par TO
have continued the payment to the families OIL
volunteers during the winter months, and un"
til further provision could have been made by
the next legislature.
Respectfully submitted,
SAM'L ID. HAsTINGT, State Treasurer.
STATE TREASURES OFFICE, Madison,
Oct LIST, 1862