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718. Any cavalry or field officer, or brigadier general, or
major general, or any other field officer, removing out of the limits
of the city of Baltimore, with an intention of making a permanent
change of his residence, shall, on such removal, be deemed
to have resigned his commission, and it shall be the duty of
the officer next highest* in grade to make such vacancy known
to the Governor as soon thereafter as'conveniently may be.

719. If any officer shall absent himself from the parades as
herein provided for the period of two years, the officer com-
petent to order a court martial for the trial of said officer for
any violation of this law, except such as arise from absence from
parade, shall, upon such information being lodged with him,
forthwith order a court martial for the trial of said officer, and
if the court shall find said officer guilty of such charge, and shall
give it as their opinion that he ought to be removed from his
command, the officer ordering the court shall without delay
transmit the proceedings thereof to the Governor, who may
thereupon revoke the commission of the officer absent as afore-
said; and if any officer shall neglect or refuse to comply with
any of the provisions of this section as required of him, he shall
be fined a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, in the discretion of
such court martial as the case may require.

720. If any militiaman shall remove out of the district in
which he was originally enrolled into another district, or shall
become a member of a uniformed volunteer company, he shall
be subject to all the fines and forfeitures which shall be incurred
in the district where first enrolled, unless he produces to the
commanding officer of said district, or to the court of appeal for
the same, established as hereinbefore provided, a certificate from
the commanding officer of the district into which he shall have
so removed, or from the commanding officer of said volunteer
company, relating that he has been enrolled in said district or
said volunteer company; and no person shall be permitted to
leave his company except to enroll in a volunteer company, or
unless he shall remove out of the limits of said district, or unless
commissioned in some other corps, without consent of his com-
maudiug officer, under a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars,
in the discretion of such court martial as the case shall require.

721. The resignation of a major general shall be made to the
commander in chief; the resignation of brigadier generals and
division staff officers shall be made through the major general of

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