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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 153.

Passed Feb.
24, 1864.

AN ACT to add to the fourth article of the Code
of Public Local Laws the following sections to
confirm, ratify and legalize an ordinance, and
the various supplements thereto, entitled, " An
ordinance to encourage the enlistment of volun-
teers in the several regiments now being raised
by the late order of the War Department, and
to make an appropriation as a bounty to such
volunteers as may be mustered into the service
of the United States, in any of the said regiments

raised in the city of Baltimore," approved the
ninth day of August, eighteen hundred and
sixty- two.

Additional
lections.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the ordinance of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, entitled, "An ordi-
nance to encourage the enlistment of volunteers in
the several regiments now being raised by the
order, of the War Department, and to make an ap-
propriation, as a bounty to such volunteers as
may be mustered into the service of the United
States, in any of the said regiments raised in Bal-
timore city," approved the ninth day of August,
eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the various
supplements thereto, are hereby confirmed, ratified
and legalized, and all acts or things done by virtue
of said ordinance and the various supplements
thereto, are declared to be legal and binding, and
of full effect.

In force.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from and after the date of its passage.