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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1870
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ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 287

affirmations, as required by the laws of the State
of Maryland and of the United States, to qualify
him to discharge the duties of his office before me.

25. Whenever the Board of Police Com-
missioners for the City of Baltimore, or the
Sheriff of any County, shall call out any portion
of the Militia to aid in preventing threatened
disorder or opposition to the laws, or 'in suppress-

 

ing riol or disorder on election days, or at any
other times, as provided in Section eight hundred
and thirteen, of Article four, Code of Public
Local Laws, as amended by Act of Assembly of
eighteen hundred and sixty- seven, Chapter three
hundred and sixty-seven, said military force shall
be deemed to be on detached service, while under
the orders of the -said Board or Sheriff, and the
commanding officer thereof shall not be subject to
the orders of any superior officer whatsoever, except
the Commander-in-Chief.

26. All arms and equipments not issued to
the Militia, and now on hand, shall be stored

Aid in sup-
pressing riot.

in the State Armories at Annapolis and Easton,
and the Commander-in-Chief is hereby authorized
to have said armories put in proper condition for
the safekeeping and storage of said arms and
equipments; provided, the cost thereof does not
exceed the sum of one thousand dollars; and the

Arms to be
stored in State
Armory.

accounts thereof shall be audited and settled at
the Treasury, as is provided for contracts and
expenditures for military purposes in section thir-
teen of this Act.

27. The sum of twenty-five thousand dol-
lars per annum, or as much thereof as may be

Arms put in
order.

necessary, is hereby appropriated, until the next
meeting of the Legislature, out of any money not
otherwise appropriated in the Treasury of the
State, to enable the Governor, as Commander-
in-Chief, to carry into effect the provisions of
this Article, and he is hereby authorized to apply
the said funds as will, in his judgment, best
accomplish the purposes of this Act; the sala-

Appropriation

 

ries of the Adjutant General and the Armorers
at Easton and Frederick to be included in and
paid out of the aforesaid sum; and the Comptroller
of the Treasury shall, in his report to the General

Salaries.

 

 

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