A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

of the President of the United States, dated Octo-
ber seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-
three, and the supplement thereto, dated February
first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, in all cases
where such volunteer or other person should be
credited to the county or city in which he resided
at the time of his enlistment, and the County
Commissioners of the several counties, and the
Register of the city of Baltimore, were thereby
constituted the agents of the State for the dis-
bursement 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 Resident 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 volunteers re-
sided, and were thereby inadvertently deprived of
the bounty to which they were fairly entitled un-
der the provisions of said laws; and whereas, the
payment of the bounty to the class of persons de-
nominated "negro slaves," in section three of said
act, 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; there-
fore,

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That every soldier volunteer or
other person, in the army, navy or marine corps,
who by his duly authenticated muster-roll or en-
listment papers shall appear to have been enlisted
or mustered prior to the first day of April, eigh-
teen 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 un-
der the call of the President, dated October seven-
teenth, 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,

Entitled to
bounty.