Scope and Content: The adjutant general of the Commonwealth, as executive administrator of the state’s Military Establishment, has been responsible for maintaining and reporting data concerning militia strength.  During the Civil War these activities were intensified, particularly as they related to fulfillment of municipal recruitment quotas and determinations of entitlement to state aid and bounties.  This series summarizes total bounties paid by the Massachusetts municipalities, as well as corresponding reimbursements made to them by the state.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by county, thereunder alphabetically by  municipality
Notes: Although the adjutant general had responsibility for militia pay records before, during, and after the Civil War, including this series, from Dec. 1864 (pursuant to General Order 51) such records were in the specific custody of the paymaster general until that office lapsed in 1866. Spine title: Municipal bounties–summaries of payments
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