" In accordance with a resolution adopted at a town meeting held on September 23, 1803, a system of mutual insurance, as it were, agaiust draft, was established, which provided that every person enrolled as liable to military service who should pay into a common fund the sum of $30 should be entitled, if drafted, to receive from the town the sum of $300 to procure a substitute or pay the government for his exemp tion." Agreeably to this plan the bonds of the town were issued at various times, according to the quotas required from the town under different calls. " The total sum expended in Yorktown for volunteers was $87,745, and by the town itself, exclusive of the help received by the State, . . . f 66,445." : Mr. Charles E. Culver, the historian of Somers, gives the names and dates of enlistment of sixty soldiers from that township, distributed among seventeen regiments. In addition to these, he says, (here were twenty-three substitutes enlisted and twenty-five others were enlisted from other places for the town. kk Every burial place in the town contains the headstones of some of our soldiers." One of the heroic dead of Somers was Major Edward Jones, of the 6th New York Heavy Artillery, who fell at Cedar Creek. The amount required to be paid in Somers for what Mr. Cumming styles the insurance against draft was only $25.2 In the Town of North Salem Mr. Culver finds thirty-five records of enlistment.'' Mr. George Thatcher Smith, in his contribution to Scharfs History on the Town of Poundridge, presents a variety of interesting particulars. At the election of 1860 there were only 328 votes cast in the township, yvt " before the close of the war 94 residents had enlisted in the army and three in the navy," there being also ten reenlistments; and in addition about thirty-six non-residents were procured by the supervisors as substitutes.