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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-
ing 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.
See notes to sec. 4.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 28. 1922, ch. 490, sec. 26.

29. 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 he
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 the 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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 29. 1922, ch. 490, sec. 27.

30. Every officer and enlisted man to whom public property of the
State or United States has been issued shall be personally responsible to
the State for such property, and no one shall be relieved from such re-
sponsibility except it be shown to the satisfaction of the Governor that the
loss or destruction of such property was unavoidable and in no way the
fault of the person responsible for the same; in all other cases the value
of the property lost or destroyed shall be charged against the person at
fault or the organization to which it had been issued; and such person or
organization, if not relieved from such charge by the Governor, shall pay
the value of such property to the Ranking Line Officer within ninety days
after such loss or destruction. The value of the lost or destroyed property
and the persons or organizations to be charged therewith shall be deter-
mined by an inspector appointed by the Ranking Line Officer. In cases
of disagreement, such value shall be fixed by the Ranking Line Officer.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 30. 1922, ch. 490, sec. 28.

31. At any time upon the report and recommendation of the Ranking
Line Officer to the effect that an organization is not up to the proper
standard of numbers, efficiency or discipline required, the Governor may,
in his discretion, muster out of service such organization so reported ineffi-
cient, and thereupon the commissions of all the officers of such company
or separate organization shall be vacated; provided, no organization of the
National Guard, members of which shall be entitled to and have received
compensation under the National Defense Act, shall be disbanded without
the consent of the President.