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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Governor be, and he is hereby
empowered and directed upon the application in writ-
ing of any volunteer officer or soldier who served in
the first or second battalions of Maryland volunteers
in the Mexican war, or any citizen of Maryland who
enlisted in any company composing a portion of the
ten additional regiments called into service by act of
Congress during the said war and served therein,
and upon such proof as he may deem necessary to es-
tablish such service, and an honorable discharge from
or muster out of the same, to issue to such volunteer or
enlisted officer and soldier a copy or duplicate of the
discharge received by him, when so discharged or mus-
tered out of service, the said copy or duplicate to be
printed upon parchment and signed by the Governor,
the Secretary of State and Adjutant General of Mary-
land and attested by the great seal of the Slate.
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Authorised to
issue dupli-
cate.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the sum of five
hundred dollars or so much thereof as may be neces-
sary, be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any
unappropriated money now in the Treasury, to defray
the expenses of carrying into effect the provisions of
the first section of this act.
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Sum appro-
priated.
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