Clark v. Mayor of Baltimore
Court of Appeals of Maryland
* Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. This was an action of assumpsit brought by the appellant to recover from the appellee the sum of $200 bounty, under Ord.
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* Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. This was an action of assumpsit brought by the appellant to recover from the appellee the sum of $200 bounty, under Ord. No. 8, of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, approved February 16th, 1864. The facts of the case as agreed upon by the counsel of the respective parties are as follows: •The appellant, a colored soldier, enlisted at Baltimore City, in Company G, Fourth Regiment of United States Colored, Troops, (infantry,) a regiment raised in said city, and credited and apportioned as a part of the quota of said city, under the call of the…
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
On the 17th of October, 1863, the President issued a proclamation, calling upon the Governors of the several States, to “ raise and have enlisted for the various regiments in the field, from their respective States, their quotas of three hundred thousand men.”
The States failing to furnish their quotas under this call, the President issued the following order:
Executive Mansion, February 1, 1864.
Ordered, that a draft for five hundred thousand men, to serve for three years, or during the war, be made on the loth of March next, for the military service of the United States, crediting and…
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