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shall be forwarded to the Board of Relief, to be filed in their
office in the city of Baltimore, and it shall be the duty of the
board to adhere strictly, and in no case to depart from the
statements of these lists, as the basis of their disbursements.

5. The wife and each child of the private volunteer, claiming
and entitled to the benefits of this act, shall receive respectively,
the wife the sum of one dollar, and each child, under twelve
years of age, the sum of fifty cents per week, payable monthly
or oftener, if in the opinion of the board it should become neces-
sary; provided always, thai in no case the whole sum thus expen-
ded for each family, shall exceed the sum of ten dollars per
month; and any private volunteer, having at the time of his
enlistment a mother, or sister under twelve years of age, depen-
dent on him for support, shall be entitled to the benefits of this
act, the mother of such volunteer, and each sister under twelve
years of age, to receive respectively, the sum of one dollar for
the mother, and the sum of fifty cents for each sister, per week;
provided, that in no case the whole sum thus expended, shall
exceed the limit prescribed in the preceding clause of this sec-
tion, that is to say, the sum of ten dollars per month.

6. The families, or such dependents as are hereinbefore des-
cribed, of private volunteers enlisted in Maryland, or who may
hereafter enlist in a Maryland regiment, battalion, company or
other military division, from whatever State they may come, shall
be entitled to and receive the same sums in the order and man-
ner hereinbefore prescribed, that is to say, the wife, and each
child under twelve years of age, the wife the sum of one dollar,
and each child the sum of fifty cents, per week, and the mother
one dollar per week, and the sister or sisters under twelve years
of age, the sum of fifty cents each per week; provided, in no case
the whole sum so expended shall exceed ten dollars per month.

7. All persons claiming and entitled to the relief of this act,
shall make oath, the adults for themselves and for those of the
same family under age, before a justice of the peace in the coun-
ty, town or city of which they are inhabitants, and such oath
shall be further corroborated by the affidavit of two respon-