MILITIA. 2181

1922, ch. 490, sec. 24.

26. Each company, troop, battery, detachment and unit in the organ-
ized militia shall assemble for drill and instruction, including indoor tar-
get practice, not less than forty-eight times each year, and shall, in addi-
tion thereto, participate in encampments, maneuvers or other exercises,
including outdoor target practice, at least fifteen days in training each
year, unless such company, troop, battery, detachment and unit shall have
been excused from participation in any part thereof by the Governor;
provided that credit for an assembly for drill or for indoor target practice
shall not be given unless the number of officers and enlisted men present
for duty at such assembly shall equal or exceed a minimum to be pre-
scribed by the Governor, nor unless the period of actual military duty and
instruction participated in by each officer and enlisted man at each such
assembly at which he shall be credited as having been present shall be of
at least one and one-half hours' duration and the character of training
such as may be prescribed by the Governor.

1922, ch. 490, sec. 25.

27. Officers and enlisted men may be warned for duty as follows:
Either by stating the substance of the order or by reading the order to
the person warned, or by leaving a copy of such order at the last known
place of abode or business, or by mailing to the postoffice nearest thereto.
Such warning may be given by an officer or non-commissioned officer. The
officer or non-commissioned officer giving such notice or warning shall, if
required make a return thereof containing the name of the person warned
and the time, place and manner of warning, if required by the officer issu-
the order; such return may be verified by his oath, which may be admin-
istered by an officer. Such verified returns shall be good evidence on the
trial of any person returned as a delinquent, of the facts therein stated,
as if such officer or non-commissioned officer had testified to the same
before a military court on such trial.

1922, ch. 490, sec. 26.

28. All arms, equipment and other property furnished to organiza-
tions of this State shall, when required by the Ranking Line Officer, or
a commanding officer of any such organizations be deposited in the armory
of the said organization, and failure to deposit as aforesaid any article
of such property by the person to whom it was issued, ten days after ho
shall have been notified, by written notice from the commanding officer as
aforesaid, to return to the armory, shall be considered as a misdemeanor,
and the person so offending shall be punished by a fine not exceeding
double the value of the property thus illegally detained, to be recovered
on the complaint of the Ranking Line Officer or of the proper command-
ing officer as aforesaid, in the same manner as prescribed for the collec-
tion of fines in this Article, except that he money so recovered shall be
paid to the Ranking Line Officer of the State, to be by him applied to the
militia fund; or by imprisonment in the county or city jail for not less than
two weeks nor more than two months.