ART. 63.] MILITARY.

qualify him to discharge the duties of his office before
me.

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25. Whenever the board of police commissioners 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
suppressing riot 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 what-
soever, except the commander-in-chief.

Militia, when
called out by-
board of police
or sheriff, sub-
ject to their
orders.

26. All arms and equipments not issued to the
militia, and now on hand, shall be stored in the state
armories at Annapolis and Easton, and the comman-
der-in-chief is hereby authorized to have said armories
put in proper condition for the safe-keeping and stor-

Armories at
Annapolls and
Easton.

age of said arms and equipments ; provided, the cost
thereof does not exceed the sum of one thousand dol-
lars; and the accounts thereof shall be audited and
settled at the treasury, as is provided for contracts and
expenditures for military purposes in section thirteen
of this act.

Proviso.

27. The sum of twenty-five thousand dollars per
annum, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is
hereby appropriated, until the next meeting of the
legislature, out of any money not otherwise appro-
priated 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 au-
thorized to apply the said funds as will, in his
judgment, best accomplish the purposes of this act;
the salaries of the adjutant general and the armo-
rers 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

Appropriation.