50 MILITARY AGENCIES. [ART.

Chapter 373 enacts the following Supplement to ch. 15,1864:

27. The Governor is authorized to offer and pay the bounties
provided by the act passed by the General Assembly of this
State at its present session, entitled, "An act to aid and en-
courage enlistments into the Maryland regiments in the service
of the United States," to all such persons, resident and non-resi-
dents, who shall have enlisted before the first day of April,
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, instead of the first day of
March, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, as therein provided,
and who shall be credited as a part of the quota of this State
under the late call of the President of the United for five hun-
dred thousand men.

28. The filing with the United States Board of Claims for
compensation to masters of enlisted slaves organized in the city
of Baltimore, a deed of manumission, as required by the govern-
ment of the United States, shall be deemed and taken as a suffi-
cient compliance with the third section of the act to which this'
act is supplementary, requiring such deed to be filed with the
proper authority, provided that such filing be attested by the
certificate of the clerk of said board or by the affidavit of the

party filing it.

In force from March 4,1864.

Chapter 364 continues in force 1862, ch. 276, [I. Supplement, 55,] and appropriates
the sum of fifty thousand dollars to be expended in the manner provided in said Act.

ARTICLE

Military Agencies

Chapter 393 adds the following as an Article to the Public General Laws, under the

above title:

SEC. 1. The Governor is hereby authorized to appoint an
agent or agents, whose duty it shall be to look after the interests
of the Maryland volunteers in the service of the United States,
to visit the troops in the field and elsewhere, aud especially to
discharge such duties relating to the welfare of the sick, wound-
ed and disabled soldiers of this State, as the Governor may from
time to time prescribe and direct. The Governor may at any time