A. W, BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

paid at the time when such person is mustered into
the service of the United States, twenty dollars at
the end of each month of service for the five months
immediately succeeding such mustering into the
service of the United States, and fifty dollars at
the expiration of his term of service, or when such
person is honorably discharged from service.

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Sec. 2. Be it enacted, That to every person who
shall have already been in service six months, and
shall re-enlist before the first day of March next, to
serve as aforesaid, a State bounty of three hun-
dred and twenty-five dollars shall be paid, of which
one hundred and fifty dollars shall be paid at the
time of re-mustering into the service of the United
States, twenty dollars at the end of each month of
service for the five months immediately succeeding,
and seventy-five dollars at the expiration of his
term of service, or when such person is honorably
discharged from service.

Three hun-
dred and twen-
ty-five dollars
to be paid.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That to the owner of
every negro slave who shall agree to the enlist-
ment of his slave as above, the sum of one hundred
dollars shall be paid when such owner shall file
with the proper authority a good and valid deed
of manumission of such negro slave so enlisted,
which deed of manumission shall be duly recorded,
and to the negro, fifty dollars, when he shall be

Enlistment
of slaves.

mustered into service, and the like sum when he
shall be honorably discharged from service; pro-
vided, that every volunteer claiming the bounty
under the provisions of this act shall be credited
to the county or city where such volunteer resided
or in which he voted at the election next preced-
ing his enlistment, and that no volunteer shall be
entitled to claim any bounty under this act who
shall not, at the time of his enlistment, give, un-
der oath, the name of the county or city in which
he resided, and in which, if he be a voter, he voted
at the election aforesaid, and in case any county
or city shall furnish a surplus of freed negro vol-
unteers, such surplus shall be credited to the State
at large.

Proviso.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That if any person
enlisted under this act shall die in service, leaving
a wife or child, or children, the balance of the
bounty that may be due him shall, upon satisfac-

Death in ser-
vice.