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provisions of this bill, shall be made to the Treasurer, on the
warrant of the Comptroller, and all certificates of debt or bonds
so issued, shall be signed by the Treasurer, and countersigned
by the Comptroller.
10. The special tax of ten cents on the hundred dollars, au-
thorized by the fifth section of the act of January session of
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, chapter fifteen, (section 25, II.
Supplement, 49, ) shall continue to be levied as therein provided,
to meet the interest and create a sinking fund for the redemption
of the bonds 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, and by the said
act of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, shall have been paid,
and a separate and distinct account shall be kept thereof, and the
proceeds thereof are hereby pledged to the payment of the prin-
cipal and interest of the said bonds or certificates issued under
this act or said act of eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
11. No further certificates of indebtedness under the act of
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, chapter fifteen, shall be issued,
and whatever bounties or arrearages of bounty still remain to be
paid, under the provisions of that act, shall be paid out of the
proceeds of the loan hereby authorized.
12. The Mayor and City Council of the city of Baltimore, and
the county commissioners of the several counties, are hereby
authorized to raise by loan or otherwise such sum or sums as
may be necessary to pay to each volunteer or drafted man, or
person furnishing a representative substitute, or his authorized
agent or attorney, the sum of two hundred dollars, in addition
to the State bounty, as provided for in the previous sections of
this act, for the purpose of filling the quota of the several
counties and of the city of Baltimore, under the call of the Pre-
sident of the United States for three hundred thousand men,
dated December, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, or any other
similar one which shall hereafter be made.
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