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BALTIMORE CITY,
commanding officer of division aforesaid, without delay ; and

Insurrec-
tions,&c.

(he militia shall be ordered out as aforesaid for the suppressing
or preventing of an insurrection, or opposition to the laws,
within the limits of the city aforesaid, when the mayor of the
said city, or chief justice of Baltimore city court, or chief jus-
tice of Baltimore county court, shall, in writing, require it, and
therein declare that he has good reason to believe that the peace
and quiet of. the state is likely to be endangered by an insurrec-
tion or opposition to the laws, and that military aid is necessary
to suppress or prevent the same, and if any officer shall refuse
or neglect to give such information as is required of him by this
section, or shall refuse or neglect to order out the militia under
his command, or such part thereof as he may be ordered or re-
quired to order out, as provided for in this section, or when so
called out shall refuse or neglect to discharge the duties re-
quired of him in pursuance of the provisions of this section, he
shall be liable to be cashiered, and fined not exceeding five
hundred dollars, in the discretion of such court martial as the
case may require ; and if any non-commissioned officer or pri-
vate shall refuse or neglect to obey any order given him by his
superior officer in pursuance of the provisions of this section,
such non-commissioned officer or private shall be liable to be

Penalties.

fined, not exceeding one hundred dollars, in the discretion of
such court martial as the case may require ; and in cases pro-
vided for in this section, the commanding officer of the division
shall have full power and authority to take such measures for
issuing and transporting such supplies and orders within his
division as he may deem requisite, until the orders of the com-
mander-in-chief shall be known*

Arms and
accoutre-
ments,
report of
the number.

SEC. 71, And be it enacted, That for the better preservation
of the public arms in said division, it shall be the duty of each
commanding officer of a company to report in March next to
the commanding officer of the regiment to which he is attached,
the number of arms and accoutrements, public and private, in
his company, designating such as belong to the state ; and the
field officers of every regiment, shall, on or before the first day

Bond for
return of.

of May next, give bond with security to the state, to be ap-
proved by the governor and council, for the safe keeping of the
arms and accoutrements belonging to the state, held by their
respective regiments, and for the return of the same when re-
quired by the state, and thereupon the bonds heretofore given
for such arms or accoutrements shall be cancelled ; and when
such public arms or accoutrements shall be left in the hands of
any company by the field officers of the regiment to which such
company belongs, the commissioned officers thereof shall give
bonds to the commanding officer of the regiment to which such
company is attached, to be by him approved, for the return of