758 MILITIA. [ART. 65

day actually on duty. Officers, according to their rank, shall be enti-
tled 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 dol-
lars ; sergeants, 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 officers, who
shall be paid as follows: Chief petty officers, two dollars and twenty-
five cents; first-class petty officers, two dollars; second-class petty offi-
cers, one dollar and seventy-five cents; and third-class petty officers, one
dollar and fifty cents. And in addition 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 enlistment, and for
each full term of enlistment served thereafter an increase of ten per
cent, will be granted, until forty per cent, is reached.*

1908, ch. 103, sec. 82. 1912, ch. 851, sec. 82. 1914, ch. 663, sec. 68.
81. The general appropriations for the militia shall be exclusively
applied to the necessary and contingent expenses of the adjutant-gen-
eral's office and to the maintenance and equipment and for the general
efficiency of the Maryland National Guard, enlisted and organized as
provided for in this Article, and for the purchase and distribution of
authorized medals to the duly commissioned and enlisted personnel of
the National Guard of this State. The money to be allotted to the
various organizations of the Maryland National Guard shall be dis-
tributed and applied on warrant of the adjutant-general, under and by
direction of the Governor as Commander-in-Chief, to the respective
organizations constituting said Maryland National Guard, so as to pro-
mote the military efficiency of all said respective organizations, without
distinction, as the same may be needed by them respectively, 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 discipline thereof (and
it shall be the duty of the commanding officer of each regiment and
separate organization to receive or to designate and appoint some other
officer as treasurer or fiscal officer to receive such moneys as may be
allotted to such regiment or separate organization respectively, and such

*The act of 1914, chapter 672, strikes out the designation "Naval Brigade" wher-
ever it appears in article 65 of the code, and substitutes therefor the designation
"Naval Militia."