43 MILITIA. [ART. 63.

5. No payment shall be made by virtue of this act, to any
agent or attorney who may claim the same by virtue of any
agency created or any power of attorney executed prior to the
passage of this act.

In force from March 15, 1865.
Chapter 33 enacts as follows:

6. Whenever, under the proclamation of the President of
December, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, or any other similar
one hereafter made, a draft shall take place in this Suite to fill
her quota or the residue of her quota under such call, a bounty
of three hundred dollars shall be paid to every person drafted
and held to service, or to every person volunteering or furnishing
a representative substitute, or his authorized agent or attorney,
under the call of the President, of December, eighteen hundred
and sixty-four, or any other similar one which shall hereafter
be made.

7. Three responsible citizens shall be appointed by the Gov-
ernor of the State, by and with the advice of and consent of the
Senate, for each county, and one for each of the Legislative
districts of the city of Baltimore, to be called the "Maryland
State Bounty Boards, " for the said counties and city respec-
tively; and, the said boards, upon giving bonds to the amount
of ten thousand dollars, by each member of said boards, to be
approved by the Governor, shall have the right to draw upon
the Treasurer, upon the warrant of the Comptroller of the State,
for the amount of three hundred dollars for each drafted man,
volunteer or representative substitute, or his authorized agent
or attorney, to be paid to such persons as may furnish proper
certificates from the officer authorized to grant such certificates,
that he has volunteered, been drafted and held to service, or
furnished a substitute under said call, or any similar call here-
after made, and credited as a part of the quota of the sub-districts
in which such volunteer, drafted man, or principal of such sub-
stitute may reside; and every member of the said boards so
constituted under this section, shall receive a compensation of
two hundred dollars ($200) for the performance of the duties