1835.

LAWS OF MARYLAND

City Guards to whom any requisition or order shall

CHAP. 107. Proclamation re-

be issued, requiring him to order out any portion of

quired before or-

the said Guards under his command as may have been

dering to fire. &c

deemed necessary to prevent or suppress any insurrec-

tion or opposition to the laws, shall give his first com-

mand under any such requisition or order, to the

Guards serving under him, to fire or charge upon any

assemblage of persons, it shall be and is hereby made

his duty to proclaim to such assemblage, his purpose

to, give such command, unless the persons constituting

such assemblage on whom said charge or fire would be

made, shall disperse within a time which he shall fix

according to the exigency of the case, upon his own

judgment, and first proclaim to said assemblage.

Case of Absence of the Brigadier

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if the Brigadier

General

General commanding the Baltimore City Guards shall

be absent, or whenever the Mayor of the city of Bal-

timore or any justice who might issue any requisition

commanding him to order out any portion of the said

Guards to prevent or suppress any insurrection or op-

position to the laws, shall believe that said brigadier

is absent from the said city or that the occasion de-

mands a more immediate compliance with such requisi-

tion than could be had if the same were to be address-

Authority vested

ed to said Brigadier, the said Mayor or Justice may

issue his requisition in writing to any commissioned

officer of the said Guards commanding him to order

out the whole or such portion of said Guards under his

command as the said Mayor or Justices may deem neces-

sary for the occasion, and it shall be the duty of such

commissioned officer to comply with every such requi-

sition and also of the Guards under his command, to

Duty required

obey and execute the orders which he may and shall

then lawfully give, under the pains and penalties pre-

scribed by the act to which this is a supplement, for

the punishment of any like neglect or refusal on the

part of any officer or private to obey his commanding

officer or for non compliance with any requisition of

the said Mayor or Justice as the case may be.