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relr-19BI, on)9*+ o In* boonIE.foi.LMt com the fore*DOWid no 5om-I hit oil If ofmen9. it icrt-■•T-nmslt;*7elt;3oxI for mia da-thistararRO ' hisgOTlenn o is if it if oflent,tinsEete-fnotlivoitofifci wit *rfgpthf oidiens®* lt;8 Tjfortday fc^enftg,W$4th! $*n the meeting ^/Called to order by Major Milohell.D. Darwin Hughes, Ea^.» Attorney for the City, ojj the paridf the Exeeu* tire Committee, sibmjjted a plan forthe prompt rauiogofmoney to pay ad ditional bounty to volunteers, embraced In the,following resolutions, which he asked the meeting to ratify and reoom* mend to the city authorities for adoption : . ' ■ ' . -. 1 , / s » ■•*•••§•• . 1 •—^esoftwdrjrbafrrwe* the Mayor, Re-corder aad Aldcrraeu of the -city of Marshal], do pledge ourselves to carry oat the wishes of oar constituents, as expressed in the foregoing Resolutions, ami that we. will at the Oext meeting of the State Legislature; petilfoa that body to allow us to assess 'upon the reifl and personal estate within the corporate limits of the City, and collect by tax the sum of 12,500, provided such sum shall be expended. And that as soon as suoh enabling act shall be passed and become alaw, we will came, to be assessetT'and collected the said hum of |2,500 to reimburso those who may have advaocedcmoney for the addftion-al bounties, as aforesaid.\ Jfaotuea, That the Recorder be, and is hereby directed to ssque,' and lie may'or may .not countersign in the usual manner, in such sums as may be convenient, not exceeding in all the sum of two thousand and five hundred dollars, with interest arien per cent, per annum,,pay able1 firsueh time as the Legislature shall pass an act for the pay-men* of tha same, and that said war-paitbsrants bo sold by the Mayor and Recorder, a sum of not less than the faoe of tho-warrants, ibr~the purpose -of rarsi ingafund:-to bo called the Soldier’sBounty Fund, and that all money received from the sale of such warrants shall bo paid, into the city treasury, Ruotvn7, That all the money to bepaid into the Treasury, as aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby appropriated to pay Bounty to soldiers eulisting into ‘*-1 the United States service-.TliDl. tlirafMaring one wed i un-tho ill a IT of iousic oifJRtiolyed^ That the'Mayor and Re-cordor, and they are hereby directed and required to draw from the Treasury to pay to. cacli soldier that may be recruited or enlisted into the Company to be known as Otho Marshall 'Company, of the 20th Michigan Infantry, by Lietr-tenant Bullis or Lieutenant Randall, or any other pcrson-legally authorized, and to evefjr soldier who may enlist and join any- Michigan liegiment_ now in the army of the Potomac, out of aaid Soldier’s Bounty JFnnd, the sutp ofTwenty Five Dollars; and to pay*the. B»me to said soldiers in th# order in^ which they shall be mustered into theservice of the United States..ProThat no bounty shalUbo paid out of said Fund to any soldier who shall not enlist within TWENTY DAY’S Irbiu this date.. Adopted July 24th, 1802.stillana-.theiteh-Lom-f in-) to. —A motion being made for the adopt-
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Democratic Expounder
Marshall, Michigan, US
Thu, Jul 31, 1862
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