1650 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 851]

77. Each officer and enlisted man ordered for duty by the
Governor or under his authority by the commanding officer of
the brigade or the Naval Brigade, shall receive the pay herein
specified for every day actualy on duty. Officers, according to
their rank, shall be entitled to pay at the same rate per diem
that officers of like rank receive in the service of the United
States, including longevity pay. Enlisted men shall be paid the
following rates per day: Non-commissioned staff officers, first
sergeants and company quartermaster sergeants, two dollars; ser-
geants, one dollar and seventy-five cents; corporals, cooks and
farriers, one dollar and fifty cents; musicians and privates, one
dollar and twenty-five cents; enlisted men of the Naval Brigade,
one dollar and twenty-five cents, except the chief and petty offi-
cers, who shall be paid as follows: Chief petty officers, two dol-
lars and twenty-five cents; first-class petty officers, two dollars;
second-class petty officers, one dollar and seventy-five cents; and
third-class petty officers, one dollar and fifty cents. And in ad-
dition to said pay, each enlisted man shall receive rations as
prescribed by the regulations of the United States Army, and
United States Navy, respectively, or commutation thereof at a
rate not exceeding forty cents per day; each enlisted man, who
has served a full term of enlistment and who re-enlists within
90 days after the expiration of this previous enlistment, shall
receive an increase of ten per cent of his pay during this enlist-
ment, and for each full term of enlistment served thereafter an
increase of ten per cent, will be granted, until forty per cent, is
reached.

82. The general appropriations for the militia shall be ex-
clusively applied to the necessary and contingent expenses of
the adjutant-general's office, and to the maintenance and equip-
ment, and for the general efficiency of the Maryland National
Guard, enlisted and organized as provided for in this article.
The money to be allotted to the various organizations of the
Maryland National Guard shall be distributed and applied on
warrant of the adjutant-general, under and by direction of the
Governor and Commander-in-Chief, to the respective organiza-
tions constituting said Maryland National Guard, so as to pro-
mote the military efficiency of all said respective organizations,
without distinctions, as the same may be needed by them re-
spectively, except that the amount appropriated for the Naval
Brigade, and that amount only shall be distributed and applied
as aforesaid to and for the use of the Naval Brigade, so as to
promote the efficiency and discipline thereof (and it shall be
the duty of the commanding officer of each regiment and sepa-
rate organization to receive or to designate and appoint some