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that country, but also in the leading- reviews and newspa])ers of Europe. It is not a 

 matter of surprise that the Frencli autliorities ultimately adopted a coile whieh was 

 modeled closely after the Prussian system, the efficiency of which thev had so fatally 

 experienced. Many of the chauncs, however, which \v(n-e strouiily advocated by theii- 

 most distinguished military surgeons, were, after all, not adopted., Some of these 

 recommendations will l)e noticed in the comments which it is now proposed to make 

 ui)ou the conclusions put forth in the following- reports 



In Europe, generally, the system of conscription liitlurto employed for the purpose 

 ' of maintaining' the full nuudiers in their standing armies is now fast giving ])lace to a 

 general enrollment of the eutii-e arms-bearing population. Even in Gi-eat Britain, 

 where the mode of administering public business is slow to change, and where a strt)ng 

 prejudice exists against enforced military service, the opinion is fast gaining ground that 

 a conscription-law nnist before long be introduced. In the United States, during the 

 war of the rebellion, the example was set of enrolling the whole military population of 

 the loyal States Previous to the enactment of the law for this purpose, however, the 

 system of offering large bounties as an inducement to enlist had been introduced, and 

 became, in the opinion of many exi)erienced men, a source of injury to the cause it 

 was intended to benefit. The bounty offered by the General Govermnent resulted in 

 an expenditure of over three hundred millions of dollars ; to this must be added a 

 nearly equal sum expended by the State governments in their efforts to furnish their 

 <pu>tas of men.' It ajjpears, then, that the enormous sum of nearly s/.r hundred millions 

 of doVars was paid out as bounties to recruits. 



' The following statement shows the amount paid by the ditfureut States ; it is, however, understated, as the 

 ■ (■turns to the Provost-Marshal-General's Office were not completed when his final report was made. 



Table of bounties, other than United Slates bounties, paid from the beginning to the end of the late war. 



Maine $7, H;i7, (MS 97 



New Hiimpshiro I),(i30,;u:i OU 



Vermont 4,528,774 SH 



MassaAusetts : •>-i,'M^,KM :iti ■ 



Rhode Island t"-ill, 7CS CO 



Counecticnt 6, SS7, .').'j4 "^7 



New York 86,029,-2as 1.^ 



New Jersey ■>:?, 868, iKili &i 



Pennsylvania 4:!, 154,981) <)> 



Delaware 1, i:i(!, 599 OG 



Maryland 0,271,992 00 



District of Columbia 134,010 00 



West Virginia 804, 7:!7 00 



Kentucky 092,577 00 



Ohio 23, .5.57, :!73 00 



Indiana 9,182,354 02 



Illinois 17,290,205 30 



Michigan .' ." 9,004,855 00 



Wisconsin 5,855,350 19 



Iowa 1,015,171 20 



Minnesota 2,000,404 00 



Missouri 1,282,148 .55 



Kansas 57,407 OC 



Total 285,941,030 09 



Add to this the sum expended by the General Government . . i 300, 223 500 00 



Total paid for bouuties, so far as returned 580, 104, 530 09 



{Final report uf the Provusl-.Uarshal-General, pp. 213-223, 8vo, W.isliiiigtou, 1800.) 



