Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-02-21
p4 How THE QUoTAs WERE Ass1eNED.-

Da5- HOW THE QUOTAS WERE ASSIGNED
We have received from the Office of Capt.
Hudson, Provost Marshal of this State, an
explanation of the rule by which the quo-
tas were assigned under the late call of the
President. Complaints having been made
in some localities, respecting the assign.
ments of quotas, the President appointed a
Board to examine into the proper quotas
sud credits of the respective States and
districts. The Board has made report,
which has been forwarded to the various
Provost Marshsls. The amount of service
furnishedis determined by multiplying the
number of men raised by the number Of
years for which they enlisted.
Having thus ascertained the number Of
men enrolled on the 3lst day of December,
1864; the number of men furnished up to
that date; the localities from which they
come, and the periods of their service, it is
proposed to distribute the call for 100000
men among the several districts, and parts
of districts, according to the number Of
men enrolled in each, and the number Of
men furnished, and the periods of service
previously rendered by each.
The rule by which this is accomplished
ls as follows
Take the whole number of years of SER
vice furnished by the districts of the United
States from the commencement of the re-
bellion to the 3lst of December, 1864.
From that sum deduct the whole number
of men furnished from all the districts of
the United States up to that date. The
remainder will be the excess of years of
service furnished by alltbe districts. Null
tipIy the call of December 18th, 1854, by
& three to have the number of years of SER
i vice upon that call, and to this add the
excess, as ascertained above. Then, as the
number of men enrolled from the whole
United States, up to the 3lst of December,
1864, is to the period of service, as above
ascertaiued, so is the number of men en-
rolled in given district, to the number of
years of service 1T is required to furnish,
including it's pro rata share of the excess.
From this sum deduct the actual excess
the district furnished; the remainder is the
number of years of service which the dis
trict is required to furnieh under the call
otDecembCr 10, 1864. which, divided by
three, gives the number of men required
from the district.
AS this call is tor 300, 900 men, that
number cannot be reduced by men going
in for period longer than one year. In
equalities produced by men going in un-
der this call for longer periods than one
year, must be equalized on future calls.
1t will be perceived that though the ag-
gregate of the excess furnished, is added
to the whole call, the excess of each dis
trct is afterwards subtracted from its
quota. Thus the number of men called for,
is neither increased ner diminished, but
equality produced, considering the number
of men, and the periods of their service.
Localities which have heretofore furnished
q greater amount of service have, in pro-
portion to their enrolment. a less amount
to furnish under this, aud converse.
Men having heretofore enlisted for one,
two and three years, it was necessary tc
take one of those periods as the basis o.
the calculation. AS three years embraced
both tn, other periods, it makes the oalou.
latiOn more simple to adopt that. Tit
same result would be arrived at by adopt.
ing either one or two years as the basis
but the process of calculation would b,
more complicated.