belong to their several offices, but they shall receive no
compensation therefor, except when on actual service by
command of the Commander-in-Chief, and mustered in
with troops. Sec. 7, Act of 1896, ch. 89.

The Adjutant General shall keep accounts showing the
disposition of all monies by him received and disbursed,
whether out of the appropriation made by the General
Assembly of Maryland or out of the general appropria-
tion received from the United States Government, as fol-
lows : 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 ac-
count 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 like-
wise 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 com-
manding 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 ascertain 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. Sec. 39, Acts 1896, ch. 89.

Attorney General.—Elected by the people every four
years. His duty to prosecute and defend on the part of
the State, suits in the Court of Appeals of the State and