[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The cost of procuring these forty-nine men was $24,017, of which $5600 was paid by persons drafted and obtaining substitutes. The bonds of the town were issued to the extent of $20,000 to meet the expense of filling the quota. The average bounty to each of the forty-nine men enlisting was $532. July 18, 1864, the President called f r five hun-dred thousand men. The quota of the town of Cortlandt was two hundred and nineteen men. The different towns of the county were now no longer able to float their bonds to pay bounties, and the county came to their relief by issuing its bonds for that purpose, and apportioning the proceeds of their sale among the various towns, according to the size of the quotas to be filled by them, and their necessities. The money thus advanced was to be repaid by the towns. The town of Cortlandt received $107,800. All of this sum was paid out, and $15,375 in town bonds were given to bounty brokers. The town pro-cured substitutes for a large number of the persons drafted, and received from assessments upon them $10,595 to help pay therefor. One hundred and nine persons drafted preferred to receive from the town the average price contributed by it towards furnishing substitutes, and then to obtain their own substitutes at whatever price they were able. The estimated amount expended by them over and above what they received from the town was $30,175. The sum of $555 on hand in possession of the town