Q.  Had  you  heard  at  that  time  anything  about  naval  credits,  and  that
brokers  were  allotting  to  towns  names  of  men  already  in  the  naval  service,
under  some  arrangement  with  the  military  authorities  of  the  State  or  nation  or
both?

A.  I  had  heard  something  of  naval  credits,  but  how  it  was  managed  I  have
no  recollection  of  what  my  ideas  about  it  were  then.
Q.  What  property  did  you  suppose  Mr.  Pike  had  in  these  twenty-five  men
which  you  were  purchasing  for  the  sum  of  about  $11,000?

A.  I  don't  now  know  what  idea  I  had  upon  the  subject.  My  principal  anxiety
was  to  know  that  they  would  count  on  the  quota  of  Lewiston,  and  I  ascertained
that  before  paying.
Q.     Was  it  represented  by  Pike  that  he,  or  any  person  for  him,  had  ad-


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vanced  to  these  twenty-five  men  this  amount  of  $11,250,  or  any  part  of  it,  as
bounties  of  the  towns  to  which  they  might  be  assigned?

A.     I  do  not  think  that  Pike  made  any  such  representations  about  it.
Q.  Was  the  claim  of  your  city  for  reimbursement  for  these  men  disallowed
by  the  Commission  on  Equalization  of  Municipal  War  Debts,  and  if  so  upon
what  ground?

A.  I  have  understood  that  it  was  disallowed,  on  the  ground  that  they  were
paper  men.
JACOB  B.  HAM.
A.
[Annexed  to  the  foregoing  Deposition  of  J.  B.  Ham.']

$11,250.  Lewiston,  January  31,  1865.
Received  of  David  Farrar,  Treasurer  of  the  city  of  Lewiston,  eleven  thousand
two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  for  bounty  for  twenty-five  men  credited  on  the
quota  of  said  city  of  Lewiston,  said  men  being  enlisted  for  three  years,  as  per
certificate  of  Major  R.  M.  Littler,  to  the  Provost  Marshal  of  the  2d  District  of
Maine.
