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the details and to be made out in the form required by instruc-
tions from the Secretary of War. (g) He shall recommend to
the Commander-in-Chief regulations pertaining to the prepara-
tion of reports and returns and to the care and preservation
of property for military purposes, whether belonging to the
State or to the United States, as in his opinion the conditions
demand, such regulations to be operative and in force when
promulgated in the form of general orders, circulars or letters
of instruction.

SEC. 16. The Adjutant General, as Acting Quartermaster
General may have one Assistant, who shall be a Quartermaster
with the rank of Captain, who shall also be the military store-
keeper, and perform such other duties as the Adjutant General
may direct, whose salary shall be twelve hundred dollars per
annum, and the said sum is hereby appropriated for that pur-
pose annually, and the Comptroller is directed to draw his
warrant on the Treasurer, who is hereby directed to pay the
same in equal monthly instalments. This officer shall be
appointed and commissioned by the Governor, upon the rec-
ommendation of the Adjutant General, and shall at the time
of his appointment be a member of the National Guard of the
State, or have served in the National Guard or United States
Army, and shall be entitled to the rights and privileges of
officers of the National Guard of corresponding rank, (a) The
Assistant to the Acting Quartermaster General may have one
-clerk and as many laborers as may be required from time to
time. The clerk shall be appointed by and the laborers hired
by the Adjutant General. (6) The Adjutant General may
require the Assistant to the Acting Quartermaster General to
give bond, with sufficient surety, not to exceed ten thousand
dollars, to the State of Maryland, conditioned for the faithful
performance of his duties, such bond to be approved by the
Governor and the Comptroller, and to be filed in the latter's
office and to be paid for out of the military funds, (e) The
Assistant to the Acting Quartermaster General shall attend to
the care, preservation, safe-keeping and repairing of the arms,
ordnance, accoutrements and all other military property be-
longing to the State or issued to the State by the Government
of the United States for the purpose of arming and equipping
the organized militia. All military property of the State
which, after a proper inspection, shall be found to be unsuita-
ble for the use of the State shall, under the direction of the
Governor, be disposed of by the Assistant to the Acting Quar-
termaster General, at public auction, after a reasonable adver-
tisement of the sale in at least one newspaper published in the
English language in Baltimore City, or the same be sold at