LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1834

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officers to be appointed shall be deemed both proper and re-
quisite by the governor and council, who may afterwards order

the armourer of any arsenal to deliver to the said company the
requisite number of arms and accoutrements to equip the same,
specifying said number, whenever the commanding officer of
said company shall have bonded therefor; but no uniformed
company shall, after the first day of October next, retain its
organization, or continue, which has not at least forty eight men,

Deliver
arms.

or company of cavalry continue which has not at least thirty-
two men completely uniformed and equipped; and it shall be
the duty of the commandant of every regiment, extra battalion
or squadron of uniformed militia, annually in the month of June,

Dissolved
by failing to
have speci-
fied number
of men.

to transmit by mail a return of the number of men in every
uniform militia company under his command, to the adjutant-
general's office, to be therein recorded; and if it shall appear by
any return so made, that any company hits not the requisite

Annual
report
required.

number of men, the adjutant-general shall report the fact to the
governor and council, who shall thereupon :revoke the commis-
sions of the officers of such company, and every revocation so
made, shall be communicated by the adjutant- general to the
commandant, on whose report the same was founded; and the
said commandant shall then furnish a list of the men who last
composed said company, to the captain of the district militia
within whose company bounds said men reside, who shall im-

If not suffi-
cient men.
Commis-
sions
revoked.
Revocation
reported.

mediately enroll them in said district militia, and notify them
thereof; and if any officer shall neglect or refuse to comply with
the provisions of this section, he shall be fined, not exceeding

Enrollment
ordered.
Notification

fifty dollars, in the discretion of such court martial, as the case
may require ; which fine shall be collected and paid over as other
fines are directed to be, in this act ; and no cavalry uniformed

Penalty $50

company shall consist of more than sixty men, and no rifle,
artillery, or infantry uniformed company, shall consist of more
than one hundred men, exclusive of commissioned officers, and
no uniformed brigade, which has for two successive years, less

Number in
companies
limited.

than two regiments; and no uniformed regiment which has for
two successive years, less than four companies of infantry, rifle
men or artillery; or if of cavalry, less than two companies, shall
continue or retain its organization ; and if from the returns re-

Brigades,
regiments,
&c. not to
have less
than.

ceived or wanting, the adjutant-general shall suspect that anj
brigade or regiment of uniformed militia has not such compli-
ment, he shall cause the same to be investigated ; and if it shal
be ascertained by him, that said brigade or regiment has not said

Duty of ad-
jutant gene-
ral to ascer-
tain.

compliment, he shall report the fact to the governor and council
who shall thereupon revoke the commission of the general and
staff officers of the said brigade, or the field and staff officers of
said regiment.

Report

Executive
revoke con
missions.