LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

expenses, such as affect and pertain to the Maryland National
Guard as a whole, shall be kept in one general account, but
the items of such general expenditure shall in no case be
sub-divided in the accounts as if the same had been furn-
ished or paid especially to said respective organizations, nor
shall such general items be charged to said organizations in
their separate accounts. In addition to the said general
account of general payments, he shall likewise keep separate
accounts with each regiment and separate organization, where-
in shall be specified only the money and material actually
distributed to each respective organization. The Adjutant
General shall make annually to the Governor, before the first
day of January in each year, and likewise to the General
Assembly at each session, a detailed itemized report of all sums
of money disbursed by him to the said Maryland National
Guard from whatever source received, specifying the amounts
disbursed for the Guard as a whole and to or for each regi-
ment and separate organization, and for what purpose so paid,
and he shall likewise publish annually for the information of
said Maryland National Guard and for the public, said report
so by him to be made as aforesaid All commissioned officers
of the Maryland National Guard shall have access at all reas-
onable times to said accounts, and the commanding officer of
the brigade, or the commanding officer of any regiment or
separate organization applying through him to the Comp-
troller of the State, shall have the right to ascertain from the
books of the State Comptroller the amount of disbursements
made from time to time, and to whom made, and upon what
warrants the same have been paid.

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SEC. 40. The State Military Board, to be, c»mposed of the
Adjutant General, Comptroller of the Treasury and State
Treasurer, shall meet on the first Mondays of March and Sep-
tember in each year, and at such other times as the Adjutant
General, who shall be the president of said board, shall deem
necessary, upon notice by him to the remaining members of
the board, for the purpose of auditing and adjusting all mili-
tary claims incident to the organization, maintenance and
discipline of the National Guard, and which, on approval of
said board endorsed thereon, shall be paid as herein provided.

State military
board.

SEC. 41. No bill or allowance shall be paid unless said bill
or allowance is itemized and its correctness duly sworn to or
affirmed before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths
and affirmations.

Bills to be
sworn to.