New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-01-28
QUOTA OF NETWORK CITY.
REPORT NJ COMMITTEE on VOLUNTEERING,
They ale Authorized to Increase
Hand-Money.
Exciting Debate in tho Board Of
Supervisors.

, The Doafd met by special call at 8 o'clock las
evening" thu President Hon. WILLIAM NJ. TWEED intht
chair The Special Committee Volunteering sub
mtted the following report:
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
SPECIAL SESSION, Friday, Jan. 26 1861
, The BOl~d met in their Chamber, No. II City
Hall, pursu |, 10 the following call:
BoARD SUPERVISORS, orucs No. y Cry HALL
NEW. YORK, Jan. ~ 1857
We, the rrisrsigned members of the Board OF Super
visors of ths ounty Of Ncw.York, do hereby request
Joseph b. yolug Clerk OF the Board of Supervisors
said County 10 call special meeting of said Board
Superyisors.or Friday the 9th inst, at G p m, t.
transact sue business may be brought before th'
Board (si,led)
/ ELIJAH r. PURDY, SHERIDAN SHOOK,
hSpREAs WILLhANN. 9hIsoN KLUST,
Ta H. Tweed Ss s.q P fTs in the
chair. and te following members Supervisors Blunt,
Davis, Ely, furdy, Roche, Shook and wnlmann-s.
| MOTION.
| Supervisor BLUNT moved that the regular order OF
business be suspended. for the purpose Of permittins
him TO subms report.
Which va aIied.
| REPORT.
Supervisor Luxr presented the following report OF
the Special G. lmittee Volunteering;
The Specirs Committee on volunteering wonld re-
specially
REPORT:
! That In AZ ordnance with the instructions OF Your
honorable bcs ss per resolution adopted at the meet
ing held evening Of the 18th inst, the Chairman
Of your Com 'ttes at midnight proceeded to WISHING
Ton. immediately upon his arrival he lad an inter
view with r. ,vost. Marshal General Fry and endeay.
ored to obtain an explanation On accordance win he
d The Board OF the means ,, Dy %n' ne
sand four L1hdred and thrtythrec (i4JJl az an
nounced BY lin to Brig. Gen. Hays on the sd ult to
the amber Of tweniyone thousand aud nine
teen q. OBJ
The CHARM an OF your Committee was informed that
this increase IN the quota VS. aitribuieoisi
Firts To ths rcdistribution OF the Naval Crediis
claimed by W aud allowed.
Sseondls; &c reductions in the enrollments Of the
country disI.,s Of this and other States, which, by
materially re ceins their proportion Of the men to be
raised, rendssed ours comparatively larger.
thirdly By the report Of the War Department, be-
tween tie III and Jst Of December. OF men raised pre-.
yious b. the ~ Of December who were hot considered
In the first ,Jraecnent. In some States the CHAR.
ruan II yobr comnittce assured that the number
thus reported was very large.
Thee were the only explanations which the Chair
man o. your Committee could obtain OF the astounding
increase Of our quOta.
Voluninous statistics were presented TO him bnt
nothing showing the precise method in which the quota
OF this County arrived at. Full explanations were
promised through Brgadier Hays but such eA'
This one fact all that was clear that tie County
81 Now-Yogk IL required 10 furnish twenty lone thous
AID and nineteen l OIy) men, in addition 10 al men
furnished and credits obtained up To the 3st u; and
the Chairman OF your Committee was assured that but
ior the al and other credits secured by yonr Commit
tee upon the present sd the previous call this County
would have boon obliged 70 furnish fortysix thousand
six hundred and siHtyone 46 GOD men instead Of
4 tWCniy.onc thour and and nineteen ~ OlW.
! The number m now demanded OF the County Is
divided among t... lycral districts, rs follows;
Fourth pistrct..... 4,03g seventh District. 800
liith Dlstnct..... 3sgI Liglth Dlstrict'.... ~
Sixth Disiriet.... 1903 Ninth Disiret...... %7J2
-
! Total q Ol9
In arriving at these figures, lar !oul Committee
upon a call for eigbi hundred thousand 10000 men
and the enormous number Of men held 10 be due nom
this County has been derived from It's outFagcousy ex
| ccssive enrolment.
| Had your Committee rs desired by them, been an.
tlorlzed by the War Department two months earlier
than they TO undertake the correction Of the Gu
rollmcut tho work would have been finished before The
present quotas we've assigned. and tho quota Of tails
County would have been reduced by ut least hIteon
thousand $4,000 men.
| Annexed Ia this report and marked Appendix A. Is
tie new order ol the Provost Marshal General On
ing the quota Of the Southern District Of New York
Appendix b. also annexed, Is Il cory OF letter to
Brig Gen. William Hays, 4. \. i. NJ. Gen. which Is
the only official explanation yet made OF tic changes Ia
the qaoin OF this district.
Your Committee hasten 20 lay these fncis before Xon!
Honorable Body. They believe that there is NJ cs.
cape from the demand now made upon Us for twenty
one thousand and nineteen (2l.OlD men. Tho number
of men enlstng at the present rate Of bounty is so
small as to be almost nothing III comparison With the
large number required Of us. Either The bounty must
be largely Increased must give up IN despair of
finding ANY means Of Avoiding draft.
Whatever injustice may have been done the county
In the withdrawal VI credits and justly awarded 10
us and BY delaying that withdrawal until IL is almost
too late think even OF supplying Tho deficiency thus
suddenly thrown upon uS, we have now no time to rem
oUsire,o. .
In order 20 show clearly the egset OF this with
drawoL We append. marked e. the letter Of PIorost.
Marshal. Fry to BrigadicrGenerl HAYS. dated
Iecember 30 lsGi stating the number of men due om
this County be fouhoGsand tour hundred and thirty.
three a, 1889
The following shows the number of men demanded Of
each Congressional District Of this County by sc orders
of December % and that Of January "a. and the in
crease IL the demand in each district
-NPE pENsyDfD--
Congressional by Older by order
D..,s.cs vi Dec - OF jan -. Increase.
" .............. 22t l,0Jy 2,rll
VI ....-.-.------.. IiJiJ J,U-5 btp,o
VII ......------..-- ca5 o,SiO J,Vti
VIII .......-.---..-. 3Jls 1'ois
TX ............. zee. 2,,3! 2,132
Total 4433 oIOig 10 j-6