THOMAS W. VEASEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,

1835.

posed of the field officers of the brigade, and three dele-

CHAP. 14

gates, to be elected annually in the month of April,

from each company, one of whom shall be a commis-

sioned officer, two-thirds of whom shall form a quorum

for the transaction of any business; which council shall

have power to provide for the regulation, discipline and

government of, the brigade, in all matters not provided

for by this act; for the imposition of fines and punish-

ments, and the mode and manner of imposing the same,

for the breaches of the laws made by said council; and

Said council may be convened at any time by order of

the Brigadier General, who shall be ex-officio President

thereof.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That for offences against

Offences— trials— process

the laws of the brigade, by any commissioned officer

thereof, and upon charges of improper conduct of any

kind preferred by any member of the brigade against

any commissioned officer thereof, such officer shall be

tried by the Brigade Council, and punished therefor in

Such manner as may be provided by said laws; provided

nevertheless, that to cashier any officer so tried, it shall

require a vote of two-thirds of the members of said

Council; and upon such trials, the President of the

Council shall have power to summon witnesses and ex-

amine them under oath, to be administered in the usual

form by said President.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That for the suppression

Mayor &c- author-ised to order out

or prevention of an insurrection or opposition to the

the guards

laws, within the limits of the city of Baltimore, it shall

and may be lawful for the mayor of the city of Balti-

more, or the chief justice of Baltimore city court, or

the chief justice of Baltimore county court, or in case

of the absence of said chief justices, for either of the

associate justices of said courts, to issue his requisition

in writing to the commanding officer of the Baltimore

City Guards, therein declaring that he has good reason

to believe that the peace and quiet of the State is like-

ly to be endangered by an insurrection or opposition

to the laws, and that military force is necessary to

suppress or prevent the same, and thereby requiring

him to order out such portion of the brigade as the

said mayor, chief justice or associate justice may deem-