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not to worry about him -- My health continues good -- Lt. Alford is well --

How one conscripts! How much are you paying now to drafted men when they do not go into the army -- They ought to have $100. And I understand that you are paying those who enter the service a bounty of $400, or [?]. That is not enough. They ought to have another hundred dollars at least -- I am willing to pay my part -- Our boy's pay amounts during the two years they have been in the service to 312 dollars add 22 dollars bounty and it amounts to 334 dollars -- Many of them are tax payers at home and it is really a pleasure to them to pay the tax raising $400 dollars for conscripts. But the conscripts ought to have more