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mand, taking receipts in duplicate therefor; a report of such
action, containing a statement of the articles purchased and
the price thereof, with the receipts attached, must be made
forthwith through the regular channels to the Acting Quarter-
master General. The Comptroller of the State shall be the
auditor of all accounts for property purchased by the Adjutant
General (as Acting Quartermaster General), and copies of the
orders or contracts under which such purchases are made shall
be filed in the office of the Assistant Quartermaster General,
subject to his inspection. All other military accounts payable
by the State shall be audited by the Adjutant General. Mili-
tary accounts thus audited shall be paid by the Treasurer of
the State from a proper appropriation made by the Legislature,
upon the warrant of the Adjutant General, under and by direc-
tion. of the Governor and Commander-in-Chief.

SEC. 18. The Maryland National Guard shall consist of a
Brigadier General, an Adjutant General's Department, an
Inspector General's Department, a Judge Advocate General's
Department, an Ordnance Department, a Quartermaster's De-
partment, a Subsistence Department, a Pay Department, a
Medical Department, a Corps of Engineers, a Signal Corps, a
Hospital Corps and a Coast Artillery Corps, the existing military
organizations and the Naval Brigade as herein organized, and
such others as may be organized hereafter, and such persons
as may be enlisted or commissioned therein. The military
organizations of the National Guard shall constitute a Brigade
and a Naval Brigade, and the present regiments, troops, com-
panies and divisions, and shall remain as now established; and
the Governor shall, at any time have power to change the or-
ganization of regiments, battalions, troops, companies and divi-
sions so as to conform to any organization, system of drill or
instruction, now or hereafter adopted by the army or navy of
the United States; and for that purpose the number of officers
and enlisted men of any grade in regiments, battalions, troops,
companies and divisions may be increased to the extent made
necessary by the new positions thus created. The Governor
shall have power, in case of war, insurrection, invasion or immi-
nent danger thereof to increase the force beyond the maximum
and organize the same with proper officers, as the exigencies of
the service may require.

SEC. 19. The units of the National Guard shall be composed
and organized as follows:

1. A company shall consist of:

1 Captain.

1 First Lieutenant.

1 Second Lieutenant.