ART. 65] MARYLAND NATIONAL GUARD. 1527

1896, ch. 89, sec. 16. 1900, ch. 657.

18. All persons who shall have successfully passed the
required examinations and have made the oath of affirmation
prescribed by the preceding section shall be deemed to be
enlisted and mustered into the Maryland National Guard, com-
missioned officers until their commissions shall have been duly
vacated, and non-commissioned officers and privates for the
period of three years from the date of such enlistments, unless
sooner discharged by proper authority.

1896, ch. 89, sec. 17.

19. The resignation of commissioned officers shall be in
writing directed to the adjutant general and forwarded immedi-
ately through all the intermediate commanders who shall
endorse the same with their approval or disapproval. No
officer shall be considered out of service on the tender of his
resignation until the same shall have been accepted by the
commander-in-chief.

Ibid. sec. 18.

20. No officer shall be permitted to resign his commission
who shall be under arrest or against whom charges shall have
been preferred for any delinquency; and no resignation shall
be accepted unless the officer tendering the same shall furnish
to the adjutant general satisfactory evidence that he has deliv-
ered all monies in his hands as such officer and all books and
other property of the State in his possession to his next superior
or inferior officer, or the officer duly authorized to receive the
same, and that his accounts for money or public property are
correct, and that he is not indebted to the State.

Ibid, sec 19.

21. At any time upon the report and recommendation of
the brigade commander that any company or separate organi-
zation is not up to the proper standard of numbers, efficiency
or discipline, the commander-in-chief may, in his discretion,
muster out of service such company or separate organization
so reported inefficient, and thereupon the commissions of all
the officers of such company or separate organization shall be
vacated. And at any time upon the report and recommenda-
tion of the adjutant general, after an inspection by him ordered
or made of any division forming a part of the first naval bat-
talion that such division so inspected is not up to the proper
standard of efficiency or discipline, the commander-in-chief