[G.] List of Organizations recruited at Camp Meigs, Readville, Mass., for One Year's service. List of Organizations of Massachusetts Volunteers, which reported at Camp Meigs, Readville, Mass., for final Discharge and Payment. [I.] WAR DEPARTMent, Adjutant-GENERAL'S OFFICE, [Special Order, No. 448.] * General 28.-Readville, near Boston, Massachusetts, is hereby discontinued as a rendezvous for returning troops, and will be broken up immediately. All Government buildings and other United States Quartermaster's property and stores will be turned over to the Quartermaster's department for action, under paragraph 2, Orders, No. 113, June 15, 1865, from this office. Other United States property will be turned over to the proper supply department. The guards and officers on special duty connected with the discharge of troops at said camp, will report to Brevet-Colonel F. N. Clarke, Chief Mustering Officer, at Boston, for orders. Brevet-Colonel Clarke, Chief Mustering Officer, will look to the prompt execution of this Order. By order of the Secretary of War, Official: E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant-General. ALFRED TOWNSEND, 1st Lieut. U, S. A.; Post-Adjutant, Head-Quarters; Chief M. O. and Mil. Com'dr, State of Mass. Boston, October 19, 1865. A true copy, WARREN L. Brigham, Assistant Adjutant-General. [K.] HEAD-QUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE EAST, [Special Order, No. 138.] NEW YORK, June 8, 1864. 2.-Pursuant to orders from the War Department, of this date, the barracks at Readville, Massachusetts, will be at once turned over to the Medical Department for Hospital purposes. By command of Major-General Dix, CHAS. TEMPLE DIx, Acting Ass't Adjutant-General. A true copy, WARREN L. BRIGHAM, Assistant Adjutant-General. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. INSPECTOR-GENERAL'S OFFICE, His Excellency JOHN A. ANDREW, Governor and Commander in Chief: GOVERNOR,-I have the honor to submit the following in relation to the expenses incurred in recruiting by the State authorities, under the provisions of an Act passed by the general court of Massachusetts, entitled, "An Act to promote enlistments and regulate recruiting,"-approved March 17th, 1863. Section 2d of this Act, provided that "the governor is further authorized to use and expend in and about the procurement of such volunteers, to recruit the corps of Massachusetts three years volunteers now in the service, and those hereafter raised, whether in employment of recruiting agents, in subsistence, transportation, and such other reasonable expenditure as he shall judge necessary and expedient-a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each volunteer, who may hereafter be mustered into a pre-existing regiment or company, and sums not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars for each new regiment of Infantry hereafter organized and mustered in, &c., &c." Under this authority the following sums have been expended, viz. :— For transportation and expenses incurred in the direct procurement of recruits, Subsistence, Surgeons examinations, Incidentals, $76,841 00 920 24 377 83 5,884 63 |