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468 MILITIA. [ART. LXV
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 performance 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 Act-
ing Quartermaster General shall attend to the care, preservation, safe-
keeping and repairing of the amis, ordnance, accoutrements and all
other military property belonging to the State or issued to the State by
the Government of the United States for the purpose of arming and
equipping the organized 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, tinder the direction of the Governor, be disposed
of by the Assistant to the Acting Quartermaster General, at public auc-
tion, after a reasonable advertisement of the sale in at least one news-
paper published in the English language in Baltimore City, or the same
be sold at private sale, when so directed by the Governor. He shall bid
in the property or suspend the sale whenever, in his opinion, better
prices may or should be obtained. He shall, from time to time, render
to the Adjutant General a just and true account of the sales made by
him, and shall turn over to the Adjutant General the proceeds of said
sales. The Adjutant General shall be responsible to the Governor for
all the arms, ordnance, accoutrements, equipments and other military
property which may be issued to the State by the Secretary of War in
compliance with law, and it shall thereafter be his duty to prepare
returns of said arms and other property of the United States at the
times and in the manner required by the Secretary of War. The
Adjutant General (as Acting Quartermaster General) shall, upon the
order of the Governor, turn into the Ordnance Department of the
United States Army the rifles, carbines, bayonets, scabbards, gun-slings,
belts, and such other necessary accoutrements and equipments, the prop-
erty of the United States, and now in the possession of the State; which
may be replaced from time to time by new arms, equipments, etc., sent
by the Fnited States in substitution therefor, and cause the same to be
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