FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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commander-in-chief may at any time form all the said com-

panies into one or more battalion aud the battalions into

one or more regiments, as he may deem advisable ; and the

commander-in-chief may when two or more companies in

the same town shall be reduced below forty effective enlisted

men, or when in his judgment it may be deemed best for

the efficiency of the guard, consolidate them into one com-

pany and order a new organization thereof, and in addition

to the infantry commands hereinbefore provided for, the

commander-in-chief. may whenever in his judgment, the

State appropriation shall justify the expenditure, and the

efficiency of the service require it, authorize and direct

the formation of a battery of artillery of two sections and

four guns, the sections to be enlisted in the same town or

county, or one section in one town and one in another, as

the commander in-chief may direct, each section to be com-

manded by such officers as the commander -in -chief may

direct, and the whole battery to be under the command of

a captain, to be elected by both sections, the kind and cali-

bre of guns shall be designated by the commander-in -chief,

and he may in his discretion, assign one or more of the

said guns or sections to such infantry commanders as may

then be in existence to be attached to them and worked by

them as part of their service, under the officers designated

by the commander-in-chief for this duty, and the said

brigade, both infantry and artillery shall be commanded by

a brigadier-general, or in case of a vacancy by the senior

ranking officer until a brigadier-general shall be duly

elected and qualified, and the headquarters of the brigade

shall be in the City of Baltimore.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Effective.

Approved April 7th, 1892.