90 MILITIA. [ART. 65

receive rations, as prescribed by the United States Army and
Navy regulations, or commutation thereof at a rate not exceed-
ing forty cents per diem; provided, that on the re enlistment of
any enlisted man within one week of the expiration of his
previous enlistment, he shall receive an increase of ten per cent,
of his pay in his preceding enlistment; and the officers, accord-
ing to their rank, shall be entitled to pay at the same rate per
diem that officers in the service of the United States receive;
and the officers detailed for inspection of said force as above
provided shall be entitled to transportation and pay for the time
so occupied, such as officers of their rank would receive in the
service of the United States; provided, however, that all of said
allowances or pay shall be paid only out of the general appropri-
ation for the militia then already existing, and none of said
allowances shall be made, unless there is sufficient money of said
appropriation on hand and otherwise unused; but in order to
provide a fund for the said encampment and cruises, it shall not
be required that any portion of the appropriation unexpended
for one year shall be turned back into the treasury, but such
unexpended appropriation may be applicable to the expenditures
and encampment of the next fiscal year.

1900, ch. 657.

34. Whenever the Board of Police Commissioners of the city
of Baltimore or the sheriff of any county shall require a portion
of the Maryland National Guard to aid in preventing threatened
disorder or opposition to the laws, or in suppressing riots or dis-
orders on election days or at any other times, the said board or
the said sheriff shall apply in writing or by telegraph to the
commander-in chief, setting forth particularly the necessity for
such aid, and if the emergency requires, the said board or the
said sheriff may, without waiting fora reply from the commander-
in-chief, forthwith apply in writing or by telegraph to the com-
manding officer of the military or naval organization most
accessible, and all commanding officers in such cases, whether
ordered out by the commander in-chief or applied to as aforesaid
by the said board or the said sheriff, shall forthwith assemble
their command and take such action as the exigencies of the case
may require to prevent the threatened disorder or opposition to
the laws, or to suppress the riot or disorder.