46 MILITIA. [ART. 63.

several counties, and the Register of the City of Baltimore, were
thereby constituted the agents 6f the State for the disbursement
of said bounties; and whereas, it has frequently happened that
persons enlisting in the United States service as part of the
quota of the State under said calls of the President for troops,
were improperly credited upon the muster rolls of their company
or regiment to some Congressional district, or to the State at
large, instead of the proper county or city in which the volun-
teers resided, and were thereby inadvertantly deprived of the
bounty to which they were fairly entitled under the provisions
of said laws; and whereas, the payment of the bounty to the
class of persons denominated negro slaves, in section three of
said act, (sections 20, 26 of Article 63, in II. Supplement, 47,
49, ) and to their owners, has been delayed for want of proper
evidence that said negro slaves were duly enlisted and credited
upon the State's quota, and it is desirable that measures should
be adopted with a view to the prompt payment of said bounties
to the persons denominated negro slaves, as also to their
masters or owners; therefore,

SEC. 1. Every soldier, volunteer, or other person in the army,
navy or marine corps, who by his duly authenticated muster
roll or enlistment papers shall appear to have been enlisted or
mustered prior to the first day of April, eighteen hundred and
sixty-four, as part of the quota of this State, or in the case of
negroes who shall appear to have been enlisted from this State
prior to the first day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-four,
in the service of the United States, under the call of the Presi-
dent, dated October seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-
three, and subsequent calls; but who from any cause, shall not
have been credited to the county or city where such person at
the time of his enlistment resided, shall be entitled to receive
the bounty provided by said act.

2. The Treasurer of the State, upon receipt of lists of such
persons from the Acting Assistant Provost Marshal for Mary-
land, or from any other duly authorized officer of the United
States, certifying that such persons were credited upon the quota
of this State, and in the case of negroes from the United States,