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manding officers of the company, battery, battalion, squadron, or
regiment, be deposited in the armory of said company, battery, bat-
talion, squadron, or regiment; 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 it to the armory, when
the article withheld has been converted to the use of the party re-
taining it, or, by inexcusable neglect, shall be considered a misde-

deposited in
armories

meanor, 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 commander of the company,
as provided in the acts of eighteen hundred and seventy, chapter
one hundred and eighty-two, or by imprisonment in the county or
city jail for not less than two weeks or more than two months

Fine

16. Whoever shall wilfully or maliciously destroy, injure, or
deface any arms, or other article of military property belonging to
the State, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be

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Injury to arms,
etc

punished by a fine not exceeding double the amount of the value of
the property so injured or defaced, to be recovered on complaint of
the commander of the company, as provided in the preceding sec-
tion, or by imprisonment in the county or city jail for not less than
two weeks nor more than two months.

Penalty.

1 7. Whoever shall secrete, sell, dispose of, offer for sale, or in
any manner pawn or pledge, or receive in pawn or pledge, or buy
any arms or equipments, or any part or parts thereof, the property
of the State, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall,

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Selling, etc.,
arms, etc

on conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the city or
county jail for not less than six months nor more than one year, or
by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars,
to be recovered as provided in the preceding sections.

Penalty.

1 8. Upon the disbandment of a volunteer company which has
received aims, equipments or any other property of the State, for
military purposes, the commanding officer of such company shall be
responsible for the return of the same to the custody of some duly
authorized officer of the State, and it shall be the duty of the ad-

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Return of arms,
etc, on disband-
ment.

jutant-general to take the necessary legal proceedings in the name
of the State, as provided in the preceding sections of this article,
unless the said property is properly accounted for by said command-
ing officer, as provided in section fourteen.

Legal proceed-
ings.

19. The commander-in-chief may, from time to time, and at
any time, appoint a military board of not less than three nor more
than five officers, whose duty it shall be to examine into the capacity,
qualification, propriety of conduct and efficiency of any commissioned
officer, who may be reported as a fit subject for examination; and
upon the report of such board, if adverse to such officer, and ap-
proved by the commander-in-chief, the commission of said officer

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Board of
examiners

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may be revoked; provided, always, that if practicable, two mem-
bers at least of such board shall have military rank, at least equal
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