304 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

appeal can only take effect for the meeting they are appointed
to decide upon, and for any subsequent meeting within the year,
and the commanding officer of. the regiment in whose district
such person shall reside, shall thereupon, cause his name to be
stricken from the muster roll of the company in which he is
enrolled, under a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars, in the
discretion of such court martial as the case may require.

767*. In case of actual or threatened insurrection or actual
threatened opposition to the laws of this State within the limits
of the said city, the first light division of Maryland volunteers shall
or may be ordered out by the commanding officer of said divi-
sion, whenever the Board of Police for Baltimore city shall in
writing and under their hands and official seal make a requisi-
tion on said commanding officer of said division for the whole or
any part of his command, and therein declare that the Board of
Police has good reason to believe that the peace and quiet of
the State is likely to be endangered by an actual or threatened
insurrection or opposition to the laws, and that military aid is
necessary to suppress or prevent the same, the said requisition
shall state in distinct terms what amount and kind of force is
required, not less than a company.

768*. If the said commanding officer, on whom such requisition
shall so be made, shall refuse or neglect to comply with the same
forthwith, then said Board of Police shall be and is hereby
authorized to address a similar requisition to the officer next in
command, and so on and in like manner upon the next succeed-
ing commanding officer, in every case where an officer so called
upon shall so refuse or neglect to obey forthwith such requisi-
tion of said Board of Police; and it shall be the duty of the said
commanding officer of the said division, if only a part of the said
division is called into service as aforesaid, immediately to pre-
pare and hold the residue of the said division in readiness to
support the portion of his command actually called out; and if
the said commanding officer of the first light division shall in
his opinion deem further military aid necessary, he shall be and
is hereby authorized and required to make a requisition in
writing upon the commanding officer of the third division Mary-
land militia for the whole or such portion of his division not less
than a brigade so deemed necessary by said commanding officer
of said first light division, and in case the whole or any part of
both divisions are on service together, the officers highest in
rank or the senior of same rank to have the command of the