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gaging to keep such arms or accoutrements in good order, and
to return them when they are required by said commanding
officer, and in default thereof he shall pay the sum of fifteen
dollars, to be recovered as other fines under this act, under the
direction of the commanding officer of said company, and when
received, paid over to the paymaster of his regiment for the
purpose of re-placing such arms or accoutrements ; and if ahy
officer, non-commissioned officer or private, shall refuse or ne-
glect to comply with any of the provisions of this section as
required of him, he shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars,
in the discretion of such court martial as the case may require }
and the governor and council are hereby authorized to loan to
the said division such of the public arms and accoutrements as
may hereafter be wanted therein, upon bond and security being
given for the same, in the manner herein before provided, by
the field officers of the regiment for whose use they may be
loaned ; and if such arms are distributed to companies, it shall
be done upon the like terms and under the like penalties as are
herein before provided, and when any field officer, who hath
given bond as aforesaid, shall resign or otherwise quit his com-
mand, he shall be released from his bond upon a new one being
given and approved as aforesaid by his successor and other
field officers of the regiment, which new bond they are hereby
required to give within one month after such successor's accept-
ance of his commission ; Provided, it shall appear by returns
from the quarter-master or commanding officers of companies,
(which either of the said officers who are to give such bond are
authorized to require, and shall under pain of being cashiered,
be forthwith made,) that such arms and accoutrements are then
in the regiment; and thereupon the officer failing to give such
new bond, shall be liable to be fined a sum not exceeding fifty
dollars, by such court martial as the case may require ; and
when any company officer who hath given bond as herein
before provided shall quit his company, he shall be released
from his bond, upon a new one being given and approved as
herein before provided, to the commanding officer of the regi-
ment, by his successor, with the other commissioned officers of
the company, which bond shall be given within ten days after
such successor's acceptance of his commission ; Provided, that it
shall appear by the receipts taken as aforesaid, or otherwise, that
such arms and accoutrements are then held by such company,
and thereupon the officer failing .to give such new bond, shall
be liable to be fined a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, by nuch
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In good
condition.
Penalty.
Governor
and council
authorized
to loan.
Proceed-
ings re-
specting.
C.189 Of
resignation.
Bonds can-
celled, how.
Proviso.
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