442 MILITIA. ' [ART. 65

"any further payment of said money to said commanding officer
until said officer shall report as aforesaid to the adjutant general.

1896, ch. 89.

39- The adjutant general shall keep accounts showing the dis-
position of all monies by him received and disbursed, whether
out of the appropriation made by the General Assembly of
Maryland, or out of the appropriation received from the United
States government, as follows: General payments and expenses,
such as affect and pertain to the Maryland National Guard as a
whole, shall be kept in one general account, but the items of
such general expenditure shall in no case be sub divided. in the
accounts as if the same had been furnished or paid especially to
said respective organizations, nor shall such general items be
charged to said organizations in their separate accounts. In
addition to the said general account of general payments, he shall
likewise keep separate accounts with each regiment and separate
organization, wherein shall be specified only the money and
material actually distributed to each respective organization. The
adjutant general shall make annually to the Governor, before the
first day of January in each year, and likewise to the General
Assembly at each session, a detailed itemized report of all sums
of money disbursed by him to the said Maryland National Guard
from whatever source received, specifying the amounts disbursed
for the guard as a whole and to or for each regiment and separate
organization, and for what purpose so paid, and he shall likewise
publish annually for the information of said Maryland. National
Guard and for the public, said report so by him to be made as
aforesaid. All commissioned officers of the Maryland National
Guard shall have access at all reasonable times to said accounts,
and the commanding officer of the brigade, or the commanding
officer of any regiment or separate organization applying through
him to the comptroller of the State shall have the right to ascer-
tain from the books of the State comptroller the amount of
disbursements made from time to time, and to whom made, and
upon what warrants the same have been paid.

Ibid.

40. The State military board, to be composed of the adjutant
general, comptroller of the treasury and State treasurer, shall