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CHAP. 228. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
extra battalion, and that each and every person belonging to said
organized band of musicians shall be under the command and direction
of the said commanding officer, and shall perform the duty
of musicians in said regiment, or extra battalion, instead of serving
as privates therein; and in all meetings as directed by this act, the
commanding officer as aforesaid shall cause the names of said musicians
to be called over, and a list of absentees to be returned to
him, within three days thereafter, which shall in like manner, and
at the same time, be handed over to the court martial for the trial
of non-commissioned officers and privates as absentees from parade;
and in case any of them should neglect or refuse to appear at such
meetings, when warned, with their instruments of music, they shall
be liable to such fines and penalties, to be imposed, collected and
distributed, in the same manner as is provided for in the case of
non-commissioned officers and privates. |
Militia may be
called out in case
of invasion or insurrection. |
62. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of an
invasion, or threatened
invasion, of Baltimore county, or any part of the limits of
the city of Baltimore, the brigadier generals, and commanding
officers of regiments or extra battalions, or squadrons of the said
brigades, shall have full power to order out the militia belonging
to their respective districts or commands, or any part thereof; and
it shall be the duty of any such officer to give notice of such invasion
or threatened invasion, with every circumstance attending the
same, as early as possible to their immediate commanding officer,
by whom such information shall be transmitted with the utmost expedition
to the commander in chief of this state; and in such cases
it shall be the duty of the commanding officer officer of the regiment,
battalion, extra battalion, or squadron, within the limits aforesaid,
to assemble his regiment, battalion, extra battalion, or squadron,
or such part thereof as he may deem necessary, and take measures
as he may deem requisite for the public defence and protection
of the state, until the orders of the commanding officer of the
brigade to which he belongs shall be by him received; and it shall
be the duty of the commanding officer of the said brigade, immediately
upon receiving such information, to communicate it to the
major general commanding the division, and to give such orders,
and if necessary such aid from his brigade, by causing detachments
therefrom as aforesaid, as in his judgment shall be required, until
the orders of the major general can be received; and to transmit
information of what he shall so have done in the premises to the
commander in chief, and to the major general aforesaid, without
delay, and the militia shall be ordered out as aforesaid for the suppressing
or preventing of an insurrection, or opposition to the laws,
within the limits of the city aforesaid, when the mayor of said city,
of chief justice of the Baltimore city court, or chief of Baltimore
county court, shall in writing require it, and therein declare
that he has good reason to believe that the peace and quiet of the
state is likely to be endangered by an insurrection or opposition to
the laws, and that military aid is necessary to suppress or prevent
the same; and if any officer shall neglect or refuse to give such information
as is required of them by this section, or shall neglect or
refuse to order out the militia under his command, or such part
thereof as he may be ordered or required to order out, as provided
for in this section, or when so called out shall neglect or refuse to |
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