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MILITARY. [ART. 63.

Furnishing
arms, &c.

authorize the adjutant general to furnish with the
necessary arms and equipments, such companies of
cavalry, artillery and infantry, when duly organized
under this law, as he may deem necessary for the
proper enforcement of the laws ; and the commanding

Bond for safe
keeping.

officer of each company shall give a good and suffi-
cient bond to the state of Maryland, to be approved
by the adjutant general, for the safe keeping and
return of such arms and equipments, which shall re-
main and continue to be the property of the state, to
be used for military purposes only, and which shall
be returned to the state when called for by the com-

Proviso.

mander-in-chief; provided, however, that all arms,
ammunition, equipments, or other supplies directed
to be furnished by the governor under the provisions

Arms, &c , to
he furnished
by contract.

of this act, shall be so furnished by contracts made
with the lowest responsible bidder, upon public notice,
and the officer making such contracts shall certify the
account with explicit vouchers, and transmit the same,
countersigned and approved by the governor, to the
comptroller, for final settlement, in the mode and
manner prescribed in the constitution for the audit
and payment of claims against the state.
14. Any officer receiving arms and equipments, or

Officers to ac-
count for prop-
erty

other public property for military use, shall be ac-
countable for the same, and shall not be discharged
from his obligations therefor, until he has properly
accounted for said arms and equipments or other pro-
perty, either by receipt from his successor in com-
mand, or some other officer authorized to receive the
same for the articles received by him, in good order
and condition, reasonable use and wear excepted, or
by satisfactory proof to the adjutant general that any
article not so accounted for has been properly ex-
pended in the service, or defaced, injured, lost, or
destroyed, without any default or neglect on his part ;
and if lost, defaced or destroyed through the miscon-
duct of any person, that reasonable efforts have been
made by him to recover or prosecute for the same;
and it shall be the duty of the adjutant general to