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buy any arms or equipment or other property furnished to any
organization of the Maryland National Guard, the property of
the State or of any such organization, without proper authority,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, on conviction
thereof in any court having criminal jurisdiction in the State of
Maryland or before any justice of the peace of the State of Mary-
land in the county or city where the offense has been committed,
be punished by imprisonment in the city or county jail for not
less than six months nor more than one year or by a fine of not
less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered
as provided in section 27 of this article.

1896, ch. 89.

46. The commander-in-chief may authorize the adjutant gen-
eral or the commanding officers of the regiments and separate
organizations, provided for in this article, under such rules and
regulations as he may prescribe, to rent suitable and convenient
places for armories and places of drill and deposit and safe keep-
ing of arms, equipments, and other property furnished by the
State for military purposes to the said regiments or separate
organizations.

Ibid.

47. All certificates of membership of any regiment or separate
organization provided for in this article shall be signed by the
commanding officer thereof; which certificates shall be issued on
or before the first day of April in each year to such persons as
may then compose the uniformed and active members of said
regiment or separate organization. Every such regiment or sep-
arate organization may receive and have as many honorary mem-
bers as it has active and uniformed members, and no more, on
payment in advance by each person desiring to become such hon-
orary member of not less than ten dollars per annum, which said
money shall be received by the commanding officer of the regi-
ment or separate organization and be by him applied to such pur-
poses as may be authorized by the by-laws of said regiment or
separate organization; and the commanding officer of every
regiment or separate organization shall, on or before the first day
of June and December of each year, render to the adjutant gene-
ral an account of the money so received and expended by him;