Report of Special committee on volunteering, embracing a complete statement of operations in filling the quota of the county of New York under the call of the President, dated July 18, 1864, for 500,000 men.dated December 19, 1864, for three hundred thousand men ... Document no. 12, Board of Supervisors, August 15, 1866:

Doc. No. 11.
Will you please indicate by return telegram to whom
and where such rolls shall be sent?
I am, Sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) ORISON BLUNT,
Chairman County Volunteer Committee.
In reply, we were informed that thle rolls should be sent
to Albany.
It is proper here to state that your Committee, in getting up their rolls, had determined to claim not only the
men enlisted from April 15, 1861, to February 24, 1864,
but also the men enlisted fiom Februarv 24, 1864, up to
the period when the first naval credits had been allowed
us, viz.: April 4, 1864. On the quota under the previous
calls we had made claim for credit for five hundred and
twenty-nine (529) men enlisted in the Navy between February 24, 1864, and April 4, 1864; and the, Chairman of
your Committee went to Washington to claim them; but,
though the credit was then promised, it never had been
given. Therefore, in preparing our muster and descriptive
rolls, we had embraced all men enlisted between April 15,
1861, and April 4, 1864; though those enlisted between
February 24, 1864, and April 4, 1864, were kept separate,
so that no trouble could possibly arise therefrom, or the
claim for the credits embraced in the Act of Congress be
in any way jeopardized by the extra claim.
Accordingly, the muster and descriptive rolls being completed, immediately on the receipt of the notification that
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