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13. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and the county
commissioners of the several counties aforesaid, are hereby pro-
hibited from levying or paying any larger sum than is herein-
before provided for in section seven of this act, (section 12. )

In force from February 3, 1865.

Chapter 106 amends sections 1, 2, (sees. 6, 7) of the preceding act (ch. 33, ) and enacts

the following:

14. Whenever under the proclamation of the President of
December, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, or any similar one
hereafter made, the quota of this State shall have been ascer-
tained and promulgated, a bounty of three hundred dollars shall
be paid to every volunteer or drafted man who may enter or
shall have entered the military or naval service of the United
States, and to every drafted man who may furnish or shall have
furnished a substitute that enters such service in his stead, and
to every man liable to draft who may furnish or shall have fur-
nished such a substitute who so enters said service, or his author-
ized agent or attorney, and who shall be credited to the quota of
the sub-district of the State where such volunteer enlists, or
where such drafted men or man liable to service resides, the fact
of such person respectively having so entered the service and
being so credited to be first ascertained and certified as herein-
after directed.

15. One responsible citizen shall be appointed by the Gover-
nor, by and with the advice 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 Commis-
sioners, for the said counties and city respectively, and the said
boards upon giving bond with security to the amount of twenty
thousand dollars, by each member of said board, to be approved
by the Governor, shall have the right to draw from time to time,
upon the Comptroller of the Treasury for such sums as shall be
required to pay the bounty herein authorized, to the men or
their authorized agents or attorneys, who are credited to the
sub-district, within which said bounty commissioners are situ-
ated; the draft of said bounty commissioners to be affixed to a
roll, bearing upon it the names of the persons to whom said