ART. 63 ] MILITIA.

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adjutant-general and be exempted from further mili-
tary duty in time of peace.

Exemption.

22. The military year shall commence on the first
day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.

The military
year.

23. The commander-in-chief shall designate the
manner by which the commutation money as herein-
before provided for shall be collected and paid over,
and shall make all necessary rules and regulations
therefor, and such rules and regulations shall have
the force of law.

Commutation
money.

24. The treasurer shall keep an account of all
moneys which shall be collected for the state mili-

Treasurer to
keep an
account.

tary fund, showing all the sources and districts from
which it may be derived, and whether paid as com-
mutation or as a fine or penalty, and all fines and
penalties imposed by civil courts or justices of the
peace for any violation of the injunction of any por-
tion of this act shall be deemed to be a portion of the
military fund and shall be collected and accounted
for as such.

Military fund.

25. The sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is
hereby appropriated to enable the governor to carry
into effect the several provisions of this article, which
sum shall be loaned out of any moneys not otherwise
appropriated in the treasury of the state, to be re-
turned to the treasury as soon as the state of the mili-
tary fund will permit, and the governor, as com-
mander-in-chief, is hereby fully authorized to apply
the said fund as will in his judgment best effectuate
the several purposes of this act.

Appropriation.

26. All officers of the militia shall take in such
manner as the commander-in-chief may direct the
following oath or affirmation before receiving a com-
mission or be qualified to act : " I do swear (or affirm]
that I will bear true allegiance to the State of Mary-
land and support the constitution and laws thereof
and that I will bear true allegiance to the United
States and support, protect and defend the constitu-
tion and laws thereof as the supreme law of the land :
and I do further swear (or affirm) that I will to the

Oath to be
taken by
officers.