1835.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 295.

except those of uniform companies, and except also the field and staff officers of the first rifle regiment, to adopt

the uniform prescribed for the officers of the United

States army of corresponding grade and arm of service,

except that for the letters U. S. where used by the offi-

cers of the United States army, there shall be substitu-

ted the letters M. M. to denote Maryland Militia.

Bounds of brigade

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That the commanding

division to be fixed

officer of the third division shall between the first and

fifth days of April next, cause the bounds of the bri-

gade districts of that division to be revised and fixed,

and published in general orders agreeably to the tenth

section of the act of eighteen hundred and twenty

three, chapter one hundred and eighty eight, and the

said brigade districts shall be made as equal as may

be in reference to population, and one of said dis-

tricts shall be allotted to the third brigade, and the

other of said districts to the fourteenth brigade, any

thing in the third section of the act of eighteen hun-

dred and twenty three, chapter one hundred and eigh-

ty eight, to the contrary notwithstanding.

Bounds of 3d & 14

SEC. 18. And be it enacted, That each commanding

brigade, regimen-tal districts

officer of the third and fourteenth brigades, is hereby

required between the fifth and tenth days of April next,

to cause the bounds of his several regimental districts

To return same

to be revised and fixed, and to make return of the same

agreeably to the sixteenth section of the act of eigh-

teen hundred and twenty three, chapter one hundred

and eighty eight, and the commanding officer of each

regimental district within said brigades, is hereby re-

quired between the tenth and fifteenth days of April

Bounds of company districts

next, to cause the bounds of his several company dis-

tricts to be revised and fixed, and to make return of

the same agreeably to the last mentioned section of

the act last aforesaid.

SEC. 19. And be it enacted, That the Governor and

Council shall as soon as practicable after the first day

Vacancies

of April next, proceed to fill up any and all vacancies

which may be reported to them by the adjutant general,

among the commissioned officers of the third division,

and the adjutant general is hereby directed to make

said report to the Governor and Council, on or before

the day last aforesaid.