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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
25. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the brigade inspectors
are hereby
required, under a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars, at the discretion
of a brigade court-martial, in each and every year hereafter,
previous to the fifteenth of October, to make a correct return to
the adjutant-general of all arms and accoutrements the property of
the state, and also of all private arms and accoutrements, and designate
the companies and corps by whom said arms and accoutrements
are held; and it shall be the duty of the brigade inspector to
attend the brigadier general when required, to receive and execute
all orders necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this law,
and upon refusal or neglect, to be subject to a fine not exceeding
one hundred dollars, nor less than ten dollars, unless he can make
a reasonable excuse to the commanding officer of the brigade. |
1811.
CHAP. 182.
Brigade inspectors
required to
make returns of
arms, &c. |
26. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the adjutant
of each regiment and extra battalion, to attend the regimental
and battalion meetings, and execute the orders of the commanding
officers necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this law, and
upon refusal or neglect, to be subject to a fine not exceeding thirty
dollars, at the discretion of a regimental court-martial. |
Adjutants shall attend
the regimental
and battalion
meetings. |
27. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
shall hold or refuse
to deliver up, on application of a commissioned officer, in whose
district such person resides, any arms or accoutrements belonging
to the state of Maryland, and not held and detained by such person
as a member of a volunteer militia company, any commissioned
officer, in whose district such person may be, is hereby authorised
to apply to any justice of the peace within the county where such
person resides, who shall thereupon issue a warrant to any constable
of the county, directing him to arrest such person, and carry
him before some justice of the peace for said county, together with
any arms and accoutrements alleged to be the property of the state,
which may be in the possession of such person; and if the said
justice of the peace should be of opinion that the said arms or accoutrements
are the property of the state of Maryland, then and
in such case the said justice of the peace shall order and direct that
said arms and accoutrements shall be delivered up to the said commissioned
officer, for the use of the company to which he belongs,
until demanded by the state; and upon such persons refusing or
neglecting to comply with such direction, the said justice of the
peace may commit such person to the public gaol of the county, until
his compliance therewith; and if the said justice shall determine
that the said arms or accoutrements are not the property of the
state of Maryland, the costs of such proceedings shall be paid out
of the money in the hands of the paymaster, arising from fines collected
in the regiment to which commissioned officer belongs;
but if he shall determine that the said arms or accoutrements are
the property of the state, and the person in possession of the same
knew them to be such, then the costs of such proceedings shall be
paid by the said person in possession of such arms or accoutrements
as aforesaid; and if any person holding as aforesaid any such
arms or accoutrements, and knowing them to be the property of
the state, shall refuse to deliver up the same to any commissioned
officer demanding them, such person shall forfeit and pay the sum
of fifteen dollars, to be recovered as small debts are recovered in
the name of the state, and for the use of the regiment or extra battalion |
Persons holding or
refusing to deliver
up arms, how to
be proceeded
against. |
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