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expressly limits the number of assistant surgeons to each 
regiment to one.”^®^ 
Since this way to the federal treasury was effectively 
blocked, Morton again wrote General Buckingham, had the 
matter referred to the Surgeon-General, who replied that, 
“The Surgeon-General will approve these contracts, and their 
bills can then be paid by any quartermaster, paymaster, or 
disbursing officer. The regulations limit the allowance to 
$100 per month. Other special surgeons were ordinarily 
allowed from $100 to $150 per month by the state for their 
services, when any charge was made.^®® Much money was 
paid directly by Morton from the Financial Bureau. Serv- 
ices and expenses of special surgeons visiting hospitals and 
regiments from April 10, 1861, to November 12, 1862, amount- 
ed to $2,103.85,^^® and some $11,700 was paid for this purpose 
from April 18, 1863, to April 30, 1864.^"^ 
This movement agitated by Morton was instrumental 
in causing Congress to pass an act on July 2, 1862, which pro- 
vided that instead of having one assistant-surgeon for each 
regiment, there should be two, and that the President was 
to appoint 40 surgeons and 120 assistant-surgeons of volun- 
teers who should have “the rank, pay, and emoluments of 
officers of corresponding grades in the regular army”.^^^ Word 
was sent Morton on July 23, 1862, that the contract between 
him and his special surgeons should terminate immediately as 
Congress had provided for this, but the Governor’s plan of 
sending additional surgeons continued.^^^ A letter, written by 
Money paid special surgeons and not consented to by the state military auditing 
board was as follows for 1862 : 
April 10, J. S. Bobbs $17.00 33d Regiment, at Crab Orchard, Ky. 
April 23, Dr. J. C. Rooke. 23.00 Mound City, 111. 
April 24, R, A. Houghton 30.00 Pittsburg Landing. 
August 25, L. Dunlap 100.00 Examining disabled soldiers. 
September 18, Delaney Wiley 150.00 Army on Potomac. 
October 20, E. W. Leech 115.00 Visiting Seventh-sixth Regiment. 
October 22, Delaney Wiley 57.10 Hospitals east. 
October 29, W, B. Fletcher 29.00 Exp. surgeons in Kentucky. 
November 3, J. S. Bobbs 44.00 Visiting troops. 
November 12, F. S. Newcomer, . , 27.00 Perryville, Ky. 
For services and expenses of special surgeons visiting hospitals and regiments from 
April 10, 1861, to November 12, 1862, was paid $2,103.85 ; and from April 18, 1863, to 
April 30, 1864, $11,728.91. There was paid from State Treasury $13,832.76. Docu- 
mentary Journal, 1863, H, 37-43. 
C. P. Buckingham to O. P. Morton, July 23, 1862. 
169 Terrell, Report, I, Appendix, 291, 292. 
Documentary Journal, 1863, II, 37-43. 
Ibid., 1864, I, 10. 
U.S. Statutes at Large, 1862, chap, cxxvii ; Terrell, Report, I, 352. 
I, 352. 
