ART. 65] ADJUTANT GENERAL AND ASSISTANT. 1481

him, and shall, in case of absence or inability of the adjutant general,
perform all or such portion of the duties of the adjutant general as the
governor or adjutant general may expressly delegate to him. (/) In
order that the National Guard of the State shall receive the benefit of
the funds provided by congress, it shall be the duty of the adjutant gen-
eral of the State to submit to the proper United States authorities a plan
of proposed field or camps service of instructions, prepared by the
governor and commander-in-chief for the ensuing year, with an estimate
of the funds required for payment, subsistence and transportation of
the National Guard participating therein, said estimate to furnish the
details and to be made out in the form, required by instructions from the
secretary of war. (g) He shall recommend to the commander-in-chief
regulations pertaining to the preparation of reports and returns and to
the care and preservation of property for military purposes, whether
belonging to the State or to the United States, as in his opinion the
conditions demand, such regulations to be operative and in force when
promulgated in the form of general orders, circulars or letters of instruc-
tion.

1908, ch. 103, sec. 16.

15. The adjutant general, as acting quartermaster general may have
one assistant, who shall be a quartermaster with the rank of captain,
who shall also be the military storekeeper, and perform such other
duties as the adjutant general may direct, whose salary shall be twelve
hundred dollars per annum, and the said sum is hereby appropriated
for that purpose annually, and the comptroller is directed to draw his
warrant on the treasurer, who is hereby directed to pay the same in
equal monthly instalments. This officer shall be appointed and com-
missioned by the governor, upon the recommendation of the adjutant
general, and shall at the time of his appointment be a member of the
national guard of the State, or have served in the national guard or
United States army, and shall be entitled to the rights and privileges of
officers of the national guard of corresponding rank, (a) The assistant
to the acting quartermaster general may have one clerk and as many
laborers as may be required from time to time. The clerk shall be
appointed by and the laborers hired by the adjutant general, (b) The
adjutant general may require the assistant to the acting quartermaster
general to give bond, with sufficient surety, not to exceed ten thousand
dollars, to the State of Maryland, conditioned for the faithful perform-
ance of his duties, such bond to be approved by the governor and the
comptroller, and to be filed in the latter's office and to be paid for out
of the military funds, (c) The assistant to the acting quartermaster
general shall attend to the care, preservation, safe-keeping and repair-
ing of the arms, ordnance, accoutrements and all other military prop-
erty belonging to the State or issued to the State by the government of
the United States for the purpose of arming and equipping the organ-
ized militia. All military property of the State which, after a proper
inspection, shall be found to be unsuitable for the use of the State shall.