WAR RECORDS OF MARYLAND SOLDIERS AND SAILORS

The Maryland War Records Commission for World War I having
disbanded, all records pertaining to this War have been deposited in
the Department and are now available for reference purposes at all
times.

Numerous requests are received for the service records of men who
served in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War,
the Civil War, Spanish-American War, and the World War. Every
request is complied with, without charge, if the record is available in
the Department, and when not available the applicant is advised of
the best authentic source to seek the same. Only in respect to the
records pertaining to the Revolutionary, War of 1812, and Mexican
Wars are our records rather incomplete and the incompleteness is
solely due to the methods used in those days of making and pre-
serving records.

Nelson B. Lasson is in charge of the compilation of records of
World War II, under the jurisdiction of the Maryland Historical
Society.

CONTROL OF STATE ARMORIES

By Act of the General Assembly of 1922 (Art. 65, P. G. L.. Md.)
the State Armory Commission was abolished and the direct control of
all State Armories placed with the Ranking Line Officer of the State,
to whom all applications should be made for the use of any armory.

In addition to the Fifth Regiment Armory in Baltimore City, State
owned armories are now completed in the following towns and cities
throughout the State:

Pikesville Laurel
Frederick Salisbury
Hagerstown Centreville
Cambridge Crisfield
Bel Air Annapolis
Elkton Pocomoke City
Hyattsville Silver Spring
Cumberland Kensington
Westminster Chestertown
Easton Towson
Denton

MILITIA LAW OF MARYLAND

The National Defense Act required all States to make their military
laws conform with the provisions of the Act, in so far as any State
law might have been in conflict or might have been deficient as to
certain mandatory features of the Act, to entitle any State to partici-
pate in the Federal appropriations for arming, equipping and training
the National Guard.

Accordingly, Article 65, P. G. L.. Md., was repealed and re-enacted
by the Legislature at its January (1922) session in which certain
provisions of the National Defense Act have been incorporated as the
law of the State, thereby conforming to the Act.