170 MILITARY AGENCIES—OYSTERS. [ARTS. —. -66.

best of my ability protect and defend the union of
the United States and not allow the same to be
broken up or dissolved or the government thereof
to be destroyed under any circumstances, if in my
power to prevent it, and that c will at all times dis-
countenance and oppose all political combinations
having for their object such dissolution or destruc-
tion, so help me God."

In force from March 22, 1867.

NOTE —See Const 1867. Art IX, by which it is provided, that the existing Militia Law of
the State shall expire at the end of the next session of the General Assembly, except so far as
it may be re-enacted subject to the provision of Article IX of Constitution This article
provides, that no officer of the General Staff of the Militia, except the Adjutant General, shall
receive salary or pay, except when on service, and mustered in with troops Art III, sec 59,
of the Constitution is also prohibitory of section 14 (relating to pensions,) of the act of 1867.

ARTICLE ——.

Military Agencies.

NOTE —The act of 1864, c. 303 added an article to the Public General Laws under the above
title, which provided that the Governor should appoint an agent or agents to look after the
interests of the Maryland volunteers in the service of the United States, to visit the troops
in the field and elsewhere and especially to discharge such duties relating to the welfare of
the sick, wounded and disabled soldiers of this State as the Governor might prescribe and
direct And the sum of $10,000 was appropriated to defray the expenses, the amount of the
expenditures not to exceed the sum of $2,000 in any one year.

ARTICLE LXVI.

Negroes

1865, c. 166 repeals sections 1 to 81 inclusive and sections 83 to 94 inclusive of this
article; and the acts of 1862, c. 238, 1862, c. 128, and 1862, c. 96. The act of 1867,
c. 54 repeals the act of 1861, c. 105 and sections 42 and 43 of this article.