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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

furnished to volunteer companies, shall, when re-

quired by the commanding officers of the company,
battery, battalion, squadron or regiment, be de-

Arms to be

posited in the armory of said company, battery,

deposited in

battalion, squadron or regiment, and failure to

armory.

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 retaining it, or

by inexcusable neglect, shall be considered a mis-

Penalty for
non-compli-
ance.

demeanor, and the person so offending shall be
punished by a fine not exceeding double the value
of the property thus illegally detained, to be re-

covered on the complaint of the commander of the

company as provided in the acts of eighteen hun-

dred 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.

SEC. 27. And be it enacted, That the sum of thirty

thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be

necessary, is hereby appropriated for the support

of the militia of this State for the year eighteen

Appropria-
tion for sup-

hundred and seventy-eight ; and the sum of fifteen

port of militia

thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be

necessary, is hereby appropriated for the support
of the militia for the year eighteen hundred and

seventy-nine; said sums of money being hereby

appropriated out of any money not otherwise ap-
propriated in the Treasury of the State, to enable

the commander-in-chief to carry into effect the

provisions of this article, and he is hereby author-

ized to apply said funds as will in his judgment

best promote the interests of this act, the salary

of the Adjutant General to be included in and paid

out of the aforesaid sum ; and the Comptroller of

the Treasury shall, in his report to the General

Assembly, make a statement showing in detail the

items of all expenditures for military purposes of

said funds.

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

In force.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1878.