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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
(calvary) districts, and one extra squadron, to wit: Washington
and Frederick counties shall constitute the first district;
Montgomery and Prince-George's counties, the second district;
Calvert and Anne-Arundel counties, the third district; Charles and
Saint-Mary's counties, the fourth district; Baltimore city, the fifth
district; Baltimore county, the sixth district; Harford county, with
Howard's troop from Baltimore county, the seventh district; Cecil
and Kent counties, the eighth district; Queen-Anne's and Talbot
counties, the ninth district; Caroline and Dorchester counties, the
tenth district; Somerset and Worcester counties, the eleventh district;
and Allegany county to compose an extra squadron, and for
the time being, or until a regiment can be formed in said county,
it shall be attached to the first regimental district. |
Regiments, &c. by
whom to be commanded. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That each regiment shall
be composed
of two squadrons, of two troops each, commanded by a lieutenant
colonel; each squadron by a major; each troop, consisting of two
lieutenants, one cornet, one quarter-master sergeant, four sergeants,
four corporals, one farrier, one sadler, one trumpeter and
thirty-two privates, by a captain. |
Supernumerary
troops—by whom
to be commanded. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That should there exist
any supernumerary
troops in any district, they shall be under the command of
the lieutenant colonel of such district, until the number of such supernumerary
troops shall increase to entitle them to be officered as
has been herein before prescribed, in which case the governor and
council are hereby authorised and required to cause commissions
to be issued accordingly. |
Governor and
council to appoint
lieut. colonels and
majors. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the governor and
council are
hereby authorised and directed to appoint, immediately, to each
district as before laid off, one lieutenant colonel and two majors,
whether the number of troops in said districts be now complete or not. |
Directed to appoint
general officers
if necessary. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the governor and
council are
hereby authorised and directed, in case of a call of the general government
upon the state of Maryland for her quota of cavalry, to
appoint such general officers as the number of troops so called out
may entitle them to, agreeably to the rules and regulations in similar
cases applied. |
Field-officers and
captains of cavalry
to meet in Baltimore. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the field officers
and captains of
cavalry shall meet in the city of Baltimore on the second Monday
in March next, in uniform, and completely equipped, and they, or
a majority of them, when so met, may agree upon a system of cavalry
tactics and trumpet soundings, and an uniform dress for the
cavalry field officers of this state, whether regimental or general,
and the result of the meeting herein above-mentioned shall be
forthwith transmitted to the governor of the state, signed by the
officers present, or a majority of them, who shall thereupon make
the same public by proclamation; and which determination of the
said meeting, when so published, shall become binding and obligatory
upon the field officers, captains and subalterns, of all troops
concerned, to adopt within six months thereafter, under the penalties
imposed for disobedience of orders by the act to which this is
a supplement. |
Lieut. Colonels
may call meetings
of officers and non-commissioned
officers |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That each lieutenant
colonel is hereby
authorised and empowered to call together the commissioned and
non-commissioned officers within their respective districts, at least |
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