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CHAP. 182.
Proviso. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
to which such commissioned officer may belong; Provided
nevertheless, that no justice of the peace shall issue a warrant
against any person alleged to hold or detain any arms or accoutrements
belonging to the state of Maryland, contrary to the provisions
of this act, unless such justice shall be satisfied by the oath of
such officer, or some other credible witness, that the person so alleged
to hold or detain the same, has, upon application to him made
by some commissioned officer in the district where he resides, refused
to deliver the same to such commissioned officer. |
In case of death,
&c, of a subaltern,
commander of regiment
may appoint
a brevet
officer.
Proviso. |
28. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of the
death, resignation,
disqualification, or removal out of his district, of any subaltern
officer, the commanding officer of the regiment or extra battalion
to which such officer may have belonged, may appoint a fit and
proper person as a brevet officer, and shall immediately thereafter
notify the governor of the same, and such brevet officer shall have
and exercise all the powers incident to his office, in as full and ample
a manner as if he was commissioned, until he shall be superseded
by a commissioned officer; Provided, that the removal of any
such officer residing in any city, or town, or precincts thereof, to
any part of the said town or city, or the precincts thereof, shall in
no wise be considered as the resignation of such officer. |
Militia of Allegany
county—Selby's
Port and Green-Glades. |
29. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the militia of
Allegany county
shall be exempt from the regiment and battalion meetings by this
act appointed and directed, but instead thereof meet in company;
and the company at Selby's-Port, and that also at the Green Glades,
shall not, from their dispersed situation, be required to attend any
battalion meeting, but instead thereof, they shall be compelled to
meet in companies, and further, as a relief to them, the commanding
officer of the battalion to which they may be attached, shall
have power, in his discretion, to appoint some commissioned or non-commisioned
officer to call together and exercise such portions of
either of the aforesaid companies, as he, from their remote situation,
may consider too distant to attend the company meeting by this act
before directed, and they shall be subject to the same fines for not
appearing at said meetings as they would be for not attending the
company meetings.
By 1817, ch. 136, the militia of Allegany
county not subjected to the discipline
of infantry, but to be trained as riflemen, and to be called out once in
June and
once in October. Not to extend to the militia in the town of Cumberland. |
Militia of Kent-Island. |
30. AND whereas, the remote and detached situation
of that part
of the militia of Queen-Anne's county who reside on Kent Island,
renders it impracticable for them to meet in battalion or regiment
off the said island, therefore, BE IT ENACTED, That the militia
residing on Kent Island shall not be compelled to meet in battalion
or regiment, but that the companies composing the militia on said
island, shall nevertheless be subject to be called together to exercise
twice a year on said island, exclusive of company meetings, at
such times and such place as the commanding officer of the battalion
to which they belong shall direct, and shall be subject to the same
fines for not appearing at said meetings as others are for not meeting
in battalion or regiment, any thing in this act to the contrary
notwithstanding. |
Militia subject to
articles of war
when called into
service. |
31. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the whole,
or any part of
the militia of this state, shall be ordered into actual service, they |
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