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for any misapplication of the said funds by the County Com-
missioners or City Begister.

25. A special tax of ten cents is hereby levied on every
one hundred dollars worth of the taxable property of this State,
to meet the interest and create a sinking fund for the redemp-
tion of the beads or certificates of debt herein directed to be
issued, and the tax shall be annually levied, collected and paid
over as the other State taxes are levied, collected and paid
over to the State Treasury, until the debt created by this act
sball have beeu paid, and a separate and distinct account shall
be kept thereof, and the proceeds thereof are hereby pledged to
the payment of the interest and principal of the said bonds or
certificates.

In force from February 6,1864. Sec 1864, ch. 199, under Art. LXXXI.
Chapter 216 explains the Proviso in sec. 3, of ch. 15,1864, and enacts as follows:

26. As the true construction of said Proviso, that all non-
resident volunteers enlisting as provided in said act, shall be
entitled to the bounty provided thereby, and shall be credited
to such county or city as they may respectively elect, and the
provisions of said act shall apply, and the bounty thereby ottered
shall be paid to all volunteers who shall have enlisted prior
to the first day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and ,
prior to the passage of said law, and shall be credited as a part
of the quota of this State, under the late call of the President of
the United States, and where said volunteer is a slave, the
bounty shall be paid as provided by said original act, and that
the County Commissioners of the several counties of this State,
and the corporate authorites of the city of Baltimore shall be
authorized to offer any additional bounty or to levy any taxes
for that purpose. No such bounty shall be paid to any person
unless an actual resident of Baltimore city for six months, be-
fore receiving the same; and every person so claiming said city,
and the several counties of this State bounty, shall state under
oath that he has so resided before he shall receive the same, and
prove such residence by testimony of a white person under oath.

In force from March 10,1864.

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