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WHEREAS, doubts exist as to the proper construc-
tion of the Proviso in the third section of the act
passed by the General Assembly of this State at
its present session, entitled, an act to aid and en-
courage enlistments into the Maryland regiments
in the service of the United States.
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Preamble.
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SECTION. 1: Be it therefore enacted by the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland, As the true construc-
tion of said Proviso, that all non-resident volun-
teers enlisting as provided in said act, shall be
entitled to the bounty provided thereby, and shall
be credited to such county or city as they may
respectively elect, and the provisions of said act
shall apply, and the bounty thereby offered shall
be paid to all volunteers who shall have enlisted
prior to the first day of March, eighteen hundred
and sixty-four, and prior to the passage of said
law, and shall be credited as a part of the quota of
this State, under the late call of the President of the
United States, and where said volunteer is a slave,
the bounty shall be paid as provided by said orig-
inal act, and that the County Commissioners of
the several counties of this State, and the corpor-
ate authorities of the city of Baltimore shall be
authorized to offer any additional bounty or to
levy any taxes for that purpose. No such bounty
shall be paid to any person unless an actual resi-
dent of Baltimore city for six months, before re-
ceiving the same; and every person ,so claiming
said city, and the several counties of this State
bounty, shall state under oath that he has so re-
sided before he shall receive the same, and prove
such residence by testimony of white person under
Oath.
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Bounties
paid to volun-
teers.
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