THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 575
CHAPTER 322.
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AN ACT for the relief of Dr. John C. Parker
and other citizens of Calvert County.
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WHEREAS it appears to this General Assembly,
that by order of the Provost Marshal General of
the United States, issued to Col. Brown, A. A.
Provost Marshal of Delaware and Maryland, on
the twenty-fifth day of November, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-four, that the following colored re-
cruits were credited to the State of Maryland and
Calvert County, in the service of the United
States ; and whereas their names do not appear
upon the rolls of Maryland, entitled slaves, be-
cause of their having passed to the credit of Mary-
land by the aforesaid order ; and whereas the
aforesaid colored recruits were the slaves of the
following individuals ; therefore,
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Preamble.
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SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Comptroller of the State
of Maryland, be and is hereby directed to issue
warrants upon the Treasurer for one hundred dol-
lars to each of said owners of said recruits, he
being first satisfied, by good and sufficient proof,
under oath, that the said recruits were in the ser-
vice of the United States and credited to the State
of Maryland, and were the slaves of the following
named persons, and that the said parties have
never received any pay for the hereinafter named
slaves, under any of the Acts providing for the
payment of bounties to owners of slaves ; that is to
say, to Dr. John C. Parker, owner of Wm. Dor-
sey and Augustus Magruder ; Thomas Wood, own
er of James Geo. Herbert ; Dr. William Dorsey
owner of Job Harris, Hopewell Johnson and Ben
jamin Locks ; James Younger, owner of Thos. C
Jones ; Lewis Griffith, owner of Isaiah Sprigg am
John Wesley Cook ; and Franklin Griffith, owne
of Hanniball Canall.
Approved March 30, 1868.
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To issue
warrants.
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