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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

passed at the present session of the General As-
sembly entitled, an Act to provide bounty for sol-
diers entering the service of the United States to
fill the quotas pf Maryland, under the call of the
President of the United States of December eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-four, and under future
calls, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows :

Three hun-
dred dollars
bounty to be
paid.

SECTION 2. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That whenever under the afore-
said proclamation of the President, or any similar
one hereafter made, the quota of thia State shall
have been ascertained 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 authorized 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 ascer-
tained and certified as hereinafter directed.

Maryland
State Bounty
Commissioners

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the se-
cond section of said act be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows : That one responsible citi-
zen shall be appointed by the Governor, 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 Commissioners, for the
said counties and city respectively, and that the
said boards upon giving bond with security to the
amount of twenty thousand dollars, by each mem-
ber 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