A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

allowed, and where a legacy is left to an executor
by way of compensation, such legacy shall be reck-
oned in the commissions fixed by the court.

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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage, but noth-
ing herein contained shall be construed to release
the tax upon the commissions already fixed of any
executor or administrator to whom letters shall
have been issued before the passage hereof.

In force.

CHAPTER 373.

AN ACT to extend the time and provisions of the
act for the payment of bounties to volunteers
into the Maryland regiments in the service of
the United States.

Passed Mar.
4, 1864,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Governor be and he is
authorized to offer and pay the bounties provided
by the act passed by the General Assembly of this
State at its present session, entitled, "An act to
aid and encourage enlistments into the Maryland
regiments in the service of the United States," to
all such persons, resident, and non-residents, who
shall have, enlisted before the first day of April,
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, instead of the
first day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-
four, as therein provided, and who shall be cred-
ited as a part of the quota of this State under the
late call of the President of the United States for
five hundred thousand men.

Bounties to
be paid.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the filing with
the United States Board of Claims for compensa-
tion to masters of enlisted slaves organized in the
city of Baltimore, a deed of manumission, as re-
quired by the Government of the United States,
shall be deemed and taken as" a sufficient compli-
ance with the third section of the act to which this
act is supplementary, requiring such deed to —

Relating to
slaves.