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money or other property belonging to said national guard or any
organization thereof, or who shall, when lawfully called upon so
to do by the proper officer of said Maryland National Guard,
fail or refuse to pay or deliver to said officer any such money or
property in his possession, or for which the said member was
chargeable or accountable, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof before a court of competent jurisdiction
shall be fined a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars or sen-
tenced to imprisonment in jail for a period not exceeding one
year, or he shall be both fined and imprisoned as aforesaid, in the

discretion of the court.

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1896, ch. 89.

29. All arms, equipments or other property furnished to
organizations of the Maryland National Guard shall, when
required by the adjutant general, the commanding officer of the
company, or commanding officer of the regiment to which said
company belongs, or by the commanding officer of any separate
organization, he deposited in the armory of said company or regi-
ment or separate organization; 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,
shall be considered a misdemeanor; 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 com-
plaint of the adjutant general or of the proper commanding
officer as aforesaid, in the same manner as is prescribed for the
collection of fines in section 27 of this article, or by imprison-
ment in the county or city jail for not less than two weeks nor
more than two months.

Ibid.

30. Upon the disbandment of any company or organization
which has received arms, equipments or any other property of
the State for military or naval purposes, the commanding officer
of such company or organization 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 adjutant general to
take the necessary legal proceedings in the name of the State, or