Scope and Content: As head of the Pay Bureau and in charge of paymasters appointed pursuant to St 1863, c 254, the paymaster general was responsible for administering and recording all business pertaining to the payment of state bounties to military personnel during the Civil War.  Bounty payroll accounts document transactions of the paymasters with the paymaster general regarding payment of bounties and other obligations to military personnel.  They detail expenditures and receipts both in chronological (journal) and account (ledger) formats.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Bounty payroll journal; –(2) Bounty payroll ledger; __arranged chronologically –arranged by account
Notes: After 1866, when the post of Paymaster General had lapsed, the Adjutant General’s Office had custody of records of the Pay Bureau
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