COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY. 11

ending 30th September 1870, on this account were

$421,161.51.

BOUNTIES.

Statement "M" shows the sums paid as bounties to vol-
unteers, drafted men, &c., during the fiscal year ended
30th September 1870, and also a condensed statement of
the total receipts and disbursements, on account of boun-
ties to volunteers. The amount paid for bounties during
the fiscal year ended 30th September 1870, was
$233,412.53 of which the larger portion was paid previous
to January 1st, 1870. The Treasury has not been in a
condition to complete the payment of the bounties autho-
rized by law, if the same were fully audited. Many how-
ever of the claims yet unpaid, require additional proof, or
are imperfect in some respect.

Although, immense amounts have been paid by the
State of Maryland in the shape of bounties, a mere trifle
only, has accrued to the benefit of the men who were
drafted, and forced into the war, and who furnished sub-
stitutes. The Act of 1865, chapter 106, authorizes the
payment of bounties to drafted men who furnished sub-
stitutes, but limits its operation to those furnished under
"the call of the President of December 1864, and any
similar one thereafter made." This restricts the pay-
ment on this account, almost entirely, very few substitutes
being furnished under 1864, or any
subsequent call. It is to be regretted that while such
large amounts have been paid, that these deserving
citizens should be compelled to go without recompense for
the amounts expended by them necessarily in the procure-
ment of substitutes.

A number of our citizens who were drafted, have been
compelled to dispose of their farms, and all their available
property, to meet the heavy cost furnishing substitutes;
and yet the claims of these men to be reimbursed, although