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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1939
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MILITIA 2593

3. Drunkenness on duty.

4. Neglect of duty.

5. Disobedience of orders or any act contrary to the provisions of the
Militia Law of the State or to the orders and regulations prescribed
for the government of the militia.

6. Refusing to grant a discharge to an enlisted man when entitled to
same.

7. Oppression or injury of any under his command.

8. Conspiracy or attempt to break, resist or evade the laws or lawful
orders given to a person or advising any person to do so.

9. Insult or disrespect to a superior officer in the line of military duty.

10. Presuming to exercise his command while under arrest or suspen-
sion.

11. Neglect or refusal when commanding officer to order out the troops
under his command when required by law or lawfully ordered by
his superior officer.

12. Neglect or refusal to make a draft or detachment when lawfully
ordered to do so.

13. Receiving any fee or gratuity for any certificate.

14. Neglect when detailed to drill or instruct a command to make com-
plaint for neglect or violation of duty, as provided by law, or for
any other neglect for which a commanding officer would be liable.

15. Refusal or neglect to obey a precept or order to call out the National
Guard or Militia or an order issued in obedience thereto, or for
advising any officer or soldier to do the like.

16. Making a false certificate account or muster; or parade return.

17. Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, or for conduct pre-
judicial to good order and military discipline.

Enlisted men may be tried by court-martial for the following offenses:

1. Disobedience of orders.

2. Disrespect to superior.

3. Mutiny.

4. Desertion.

5. Neglect of duty.

6. Drunkenness on duty.

7. Conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline.

8. Any act contrary to the Militia Law of the State or to orders and
regulations issued for the government of the Militia.

9. Absence without proper excuse from or tardiness without like ex-
cuse in attending any drill, parade, encampment, meeting or in-
struction, or other duty ordered by competent authority.

10. Neglecting to take proper care of any arms, uniforms, equipment or
military property, or wilfully injuring or destroying any arms,
uniforms, equipment or military property whatever.

11. Fraudulent enlistment.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 45. 1922, ch. 490, sec. 43.

47. Any officer of the Organized Militia, on conviction of any of the
offenses mentioned in the preceding Section may be sentenced to be dis-
missed from the service, fined to an amount not exceeding $200.00, or
reprimanded, or to all or either of such fines and penalties. Any enlisted
man of the Organized Militia, on conviction of any of the offenses men-


 

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