| 1811.
CHAP. 182.
Officers or privates
neglecting to attend
courts-martial,
may be fined. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any officer summoned
to attend
as a member of a general or division court-martial, who shall refuse
or neglect to attend at the time and place appointed, he shall
be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than
twenty-five dollars, unless he can give a reasonable excuse to the
court for such non-attendance; and any officer summoned to attend
as a member of a brigade court-martial, who shall refuse or neglect
to attend at the time and place appointed, he shall be fined in
a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, nor less than ten dollars, unless
he can give a reasonable excuse; and any officer summoned to attend
as a member of a regimental or extra battalion court-martial,
who shall refuse or neglect to attend at the time and place appointed,
shall be fined in a sum not exceeding thirty dollars nor less
than five dollars, unless he can give a reasonable excuse; and any
officer summoned to attend as a member of a company court-martial,
who shall refuse or neglect to attend at the time and place appointed,
he shall be fined in a sum not exceeding ten dollars, nor
less than two dollars, unless he can give a reasonable excuse; and
any non-commissioned officer or private, summoned to attend as a
member of a company court-martial, who shall refuse or neglect
to attend at the time and place appointed, he shall be fined in a
sum not exceeding five dollars, nor less than one dollar, unless he
can give a reasonable excuse; and said fines shall be collected under
such regulation, and on such conditions, as other fines of a
similar description by this act directed, and when collected, paid
over to the paymaster of the respective regiments or extra battalions
to which such delinquent belongs, except in case where a
general officer shall have incurred a fine, then said fine to be collected
by the sheriff of the county in which he resides, and the
amount, (after deducting ten per centum for collection,) paid to
the
treasurer of the shore on which such delinquent resides.
6. This section repealed by May
1813, ch. 19.
7. By this section each brigadier general was
required to order, in each year, at
least two meetings of the field officers of his brigade; and every commandant
of
a regiment or extra battalion, was required, in each year, to order at
least four
meetings of the majors and officers attached to his regiment or extra-battalion,
at some central place, and there drill and instruct the
said officers in all the necessary
duties of a soldier; and to establish a uniformity of
manœuvres and discipline.
But by December 1813, ch. 172, s. 8, so much of this act as relates to
the drill meetings of the officers is repealed, this section is therefore
omitted. |
Disciplining the
militia. Exercise
and inspection
days. |
8. AND, for the purpose of disciplining the
militia of this state,
BE IT ENACTED, That each brigadier-general, or commanding
officer of a brigade, shall appoint a day for the meeting and exercising
of each battalion of his brigade in the month of May next,
and shall also appoint a day for the meeting, exercising and inspection,
in the month of September next, of each regiment and
extra battalion, so that it shall be in the power of the brigade inspector
to attend to inspect the same; and it shall be the duty of
the brigade inspector to give notice to the commanding officers of
regiments and extra battalions, composing the brigade to which he
belongs, of the days so appointed, at least forty days previous
thereto, which days, when so appointed, shall continue to be the
days of meeting of the regiments and battalions annually, unless
otherwise ordered by the brigadier or commanding officer of the
brigade; and if any brigade inspector shall neglect to give the notice |
