150 OFFICERS. [ART. 69.

1368, c. 425 entitled, an act to provide for the liquidation and settlement of claims
heretofore contracted for arming, equiping and uniforming the militia, enacts:

1. That the comptroller be and he is hereby authorized and directed to receive and
audit all claims and demands for arms or equipments, or uniforms heretofore fur-
nished to the state, or the militia since the last session of the general assembly, on
contract with an order by or request of the governor.

2. That each and.every of such claims shall be verified by the oath or affirmation
of the claimants, or his legal representative, or some other person in his behalf, and
the comptroller is hereby authorized to examine under oath the said complainants
and adjutant general, or any other person or persons he may see fit to examine
touching the correctness of said claims.

3. That the said comptroller shall, as soon as may be after said claims are pre-
sented to him, pass upon and audit them, and allow lor payment such as he may
find correct and true, and shall draw his warrants upon the treasurer in favor of
each claimant for the amount so found by said comptroller to be justly and truly due
to said claimant, and said warrant shall be paid out of any money thereafter in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated; provided the whole amount of said warrant
shall not exceed three hundred thousand dollars.

In force and approved March 30, 1868.

1868, c. 436 authorizes the adjutant general to purchase for the use of Charlotte Hall
School, sixty cadet muskets, or Enfield rifles, with accoutrements complete, and
six officers' swords and belts, and enacts further:

That the trustees of Charlotte Hall School shall, upon the receipt of1 said arms,
execute to the state of Maryland, a good and sufficient bond for the amount of the
cost of said arms, for their safe keeping and return to the adjutant general whenever
required by the legislature so to do.

That whenever the adjutant general shall present to the comptroller proper
vouchers of the cost of said arms, said comptroller shall issue his warrant to the
treasury for such sum as may be necessary to cover the cost thereof, to be paid by
the treasurer, provided the same do not exceed the sum of six hundred dollars.

In force and approved March 30, 1868.

	ARTICLE LXIX. Officers 12 Officers of general assembly, 1868, c. 61 adds the following section to this article:
1868, C 61. Officers of general assem- bly.	SEC. 12. Whenever the general assembly shall meet it shall not be necessary for any officer of the preceding general assembly to be present except the chief clerk, reading clerk and doorkeepers of the house of dele-