| 1817.
CHAP. 228.
Proviso. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
be paid over by the commanding officers receiving the same, within
five days after such receipt, to their respective paymasters of regiments
and extra battalions; Provided, that in the uniformed volunteer
regiments, and extra battalion, one half of the fines collected
from each company, and its officers, shall be paid over to the commanding
officer of the company from which they were collected, for
the use of said company; and in case of neglect or refusal of any of
the said offices to execute the provisions of this section, be or they
shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, in the discretion
of such court martial as the case may require. |
Complement of
men, how to be
kept up. |
32. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no commander of
an uniform volunteer
company shall command a company district; and the fifth
regiment, the regiments of artillery and cavalry, and the battalions
of riflemen, shall be and are hereby authorised to keep up their
respective complements of men, by the enrolment of volunteers from
the different districts within the limits of said brigades. |
Persons who may
join such companies.
Provisos. |
33. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for
any person above the age of twenty-one, or between the age of
eighteen and twenty-one, with the consent of their parent or parents,
guardian, master or mistress, to join any uniformed volunteer company
willing to receive him as member thereof; and a majority of
any such uniformed volunteer company shall have power to determine
and declare what and how many days of training they will
have throughout the year, over and above the days herein before appointed
for their exercise and training, notice where shall be given
to such company by the commanding officer thereof; and to impose
and inflict such fines and penalties on any member of such company
who may refuse or neglect to attend on such stated extra days
of meeting, as may be fixed and agreed on by the by-laws of such
company; Provided, that no fine or forfeiture, for any one violation
of the by-laws of such company, shall exceed ten dollars; which
fines and forfeitures shall be collected in the manner as is herein
after directed, for the use of the company, by a constable, or other
suitable person appointed for that purpose by the commanding officer
of the company; And provided, that no part of the by laws of
said
uniformed volunteer company shall infringe or be inconsistent with
this act or the laws of the state. |
New companies
may be admitted
into regiments, &c. |
34. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whenever a number
of men not
less than forty-eight, shall have associated themselves into a uniformed
volunteer company, with an intention of joining a regiment,
or extra battalion, in which there may be a vacancy, they shall report
themselves to the commanding officer of said regiment, or extra
battalion, who shall forthwith consult his next two eldest officers
in rank, on the expediency of admitting said company into their regiment,
or extra battalion; and if there shall be a vacancy of a company
in such regiment or battalion, and the said officers, or a majority
of them, shall be willing to receive the company, so applying,
the commanding officer of said regiment or extra battalion, shall
thereupon inspect, or cause his adjutant to inspect the said company,
and upon its appearing that they have complied with the provisions
of this act, he shall forthwith apply to the governor and council
for commissions for proper persons to command said company,
to be attached to said regiment or extra battalion. |
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