444 MORTGAGES. [ART. 64.

113. The adjutant general shall, within fifteen days after the
commencement of each session, make a report to the General
Assembly of the number of arms furnished by him to volunteer
companies, with the name of the company for whose use they
were furnished, and the names of the obligors and the penalties
of the bond taken therefor, and he shall also show in such report
the number of arms, accoutrements, and so forth, in the State
Armories, together with the description and condition of the
same, and the number of arms and accoutrements belonging to
the State which are in the possession of volunteer companies at
the time of such report, and the names and location of the com-
panies, and the number of arms and accoutrements held by each
company respectively.

114. In every case where it is made the duty of any officer of
the militia to make a division, brigade, regimental or company
return to the adjutant general, and such officer may have omitted
to make such return when the same has become due, the adjutant
general shall issue an order, and have the same published in one
newspaper in the county where the officer or officers reside,
stating the nature of the return which has been omitted to be
made, and the name of the officer whose duty it was to have
made it; and if there is no newspaper published in said county,
then in one newspaper published in each of the cities of Anna-
polis and Baltimore.

ARTICLE LXIV.
Mortgages.

SEC. 1. Every deed conveying real estate or chattels, which by
any other instrument or writing shall appear to have been in-
tended only as a security in the nature of a mortgage, though it
be an absolute conveyance in terms, shall be considered as a
mortgage, and the person for whose benefit such deed shall be
made shall not have any benefit or advantage from the recording
thereof, unless every instrument and writing operating as a
defeasance of the same, or explanatory of its being designed to
have the effect only of a mortgage or conditional deed, be also
therewith recorded.