<emph>A Bill To Amend an Act Entitled an Act For the Relief of The Wives and Families of Soldiers In The Army, Ratified February 10th, 1863.</emph><emph>House Bill, No. 7, Ses. 1863:</emph> Electronic Edition. North Carolina. General Assembly. House of Commons Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title. Text scanned (OCR) by Barry Maglaughlin Text encoded by Allen Vaughn and Natalia Smith First edition, 2000 ca. 7K Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.

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 A Bill To Amend An Act Entitled An Act For The Relief Of The Wives And Families Of Soldiers In The Army, Rratified February 10th, 1863 1 p. [Raleigh, N. C.] W. W. Holden, Printer to the State. 1863 Call number VCP351.5 1863.1 (North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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 Library of Congress Subject Headings, 21st edition, 1998 English Military dependents -- North Carolina. War relief -- North Carolina. Legislation -- North Carolina. North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Civilian relief. North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Civilian relief. 2000-11-14, Celine Noel and Wanda Gunther revised TEIHeader and created catalog record for the electronic edition. 2000-02-11, Natalia Smith, project manager, finished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing. 2000-02-10, Allen Vaughn finished TEI/SGML encoding 2000-01-29, Barry Maglaughlin finished scanning (OCR) and proofing. House Bill No. 7 . . . . . . SES. 1863. Introduced by Mr. McCormick, of Harnett. W. W. Holden, Printer to the State. A BILL TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OF SOLDIERS IN THE ARMY, RATIFIED FEBRUARY 10th, 1863.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 2 State of North-Carolina and it is hereby enacted by the 3 authority of the same, That section first of an act entitled 4 an act for the relief of wives and families of soldiers in the 5 army be amended in the first line by striking out “one 6 million” and inserting “three million,” and in the second 7 line by, inserting after the word “hereby ” the word 8 “annually,” that it may read “That the sum of three million 9 dollars be, and the same is, hereby annually appropriated 10 to the use and benefit of the wives and families of 11 indigent soldiers who are now or may hereafter be in the 12 services,” &c.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the third section be 2 amended by striking out “one million” and inserting 3 “three million.”

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be in 2 force from and after its ratification.