Board of Commissioners v. Wood

Complaint by the appellee against the appellant, alleging the following facts: that on the 17th of November, 1863, the defendant passed the following ordér, viz.: “On motion, the said board, after mature consideration and consultation with prominent citizens and tax-payers of Monroe county, agree and do give to each volunteer from Monroe county, under the present call for one hundred and forty-three men, one hundred dollars each; the said amount as bounty to be paid in cash or county orders upon the full quota being made up and mustered into the service of the United States.”

At the December…