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and one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, and one major to com-
mand each regiment; and to each regiment or extra or separate
battalion the following staff officers; one adjutant, one quarter
master, one surgeon, two surgeon's mates and one paymaster.

39. If the quota of militia hereinbefore mentioned, to wit:
one-fifth of the whole number enrolled in the respective counties
and the city of Baltimore of this State, shall be supplied by
volunteer companies, the Governor shall arrange said companies
into battalions, squadrons, regiments and brigades, and -appoint
and commission such field officers to command said corps when
so arranged as may be requisite, and shall be recommended by
the commissioned officers of the companies composing said corps
respectively or a majority of them; and so with regard to any
part of said quota that shall be furnished from any county or
the city of Baltimore.

40. The Governor shall order the requisite arms and accoutre-
ments belonging to this State, to be delivered from the most con-
venient arsenal to the commanding officer of every company of
militia that shall be draughted as aforesaid, and the said com-
manding officer shall bond for the same, and distribute and
deliver said arms and accoutrements to the members of the com-
pany under his command, and take their several bonds, by which
they shall obligate themselves severally and jointly, to keep the
arms and accoutrements so by them respectively received in good
order, and to re-deliver the same in like order when legally de-
manded or directed, under the penalty of fifty dollars, and it
shall be the duty of the commanding officer of every uniform
company of volunteers to take a similar bond from the members
of his company for the safe keeping and re-delivery of the arms
and accoutrements that he shall receive from the State and dis-
tribute or deliver to him.

41. Every member of a uniform or draughted company when
he is about to retire or be discharged therefrom, shall deliver in
good order the arms and accoutrements belonging to the State
which he had received to the commanding officer of his company,
who shall receipt therefor in duplicate, which receipt shall be
pleaded as a discharge of said member's bond.

42. Every commanding officer of every uniform and draughted
company of militia shall order every member who is about to re-
tire or be discharged from the company under his command to