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twenty-five dollars shall be paid, of which one hundred and
fifty dollars shall be paid at the time of re-mustering into the
service of the United States, twenty dollars at the end of each
month of service for the five months immediately succeeding,
and seventy-five dollars at the expiration of his term of service,
or when such person is honorably discharged from service.

20. To the owner of every negro slave who shall agree to
the enlistment of his slave as above, the sum of one hundred
dollars shall be. paid when such owner shall file with the proper
authority a good and valid deed of manumission of such negro
slave so enlisted, which deed of manumission shall be duly
recorded, and to the negro, fifty dollars, when he shall be
mustered into service, and the like sum when he shall be hon-
orably discharged from service; provided, that every volunteer
claiming the bounty under the provisions of this act shall be
credited to the county or city where such volunteer resided or
in which he voted at the election next preceding his enlistment,
and that no volunteer shall be entitled to claim any bounty
under this act who shall not, at the time of his enlistment, give,
under oath, the name of the county or city in which he resided,
and in which, if he be a voter, he voted at the election aforesaid,
and in case any county or city shall furnish a surplus of freed
negro volunteers, such surplus shall be credited to the State at
large.

21. If any person enlisted under this act shall die in service,
leaving a wife or child, or children, the balance of the bounty
that may be due him shall, upon satisfactory evidence of his
death, be paid to said wife, or to the legal representative of said
infant children for their benefit; provided, that if the said wife
or children be a slave or slaves, the said unpaid balance of
bounty shall revert to the State.

22. For the purpose of meeting the expenses to be incurred
under this act, a fund is hereby created, to be called the Defence
Loan, and the Treasurer of the State is hereby authorized,
under the direction of the Governor, to issue bonds or certifi-
cates of debt, bearing interest at six per centum per annum,