ACT. 65. ] MILITIA. 207
of the regiment, company or separate organizations, be de-
posited in the armory of the said regiment, company or sepa-
rate organization, and failure to 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, shall be considered as a misdemeanor, and the person
so offending shall be punished by a fine not exceeding double
the value of the property thus illegally detained, to be recov-
ered on the complaint of the Adjutant General or of the proper
commanding officer as aforesaid, in the same manner as pre-
scribed for the collection of fines in Section 65 of this Act,
except that the money so recovered shall be paid to the Adju-
tant General of the State, to be by him applied to the militia
fund, or by imprisonment in the county or city jail for not less
than two weeks nor more than two months.
SEC. 77. Each officer and enlisted man ordered for duty by the
Governor, or under his authority by the commanding officer of
the Brigade or the Naval Brigade, shall receive the pay herein
specified for every day actually on duty. Officers, according to
their rank, shall be entitled to pay at the same rate per diem
that officers of like rank receive in the service of the United
States, including longevity pay. Enlisted men shall be paid
the following rates per day: Non-commissioned staff officers,
first sergeants and company quartermaster sergeants, two
dollars; sergeants, one dollar and seventy-five cents; corporals,
cooks and farriers, one dollar and fifty cents; musicians and
privates, one dollar and twenty-five cents; enlisted men of the
Naval Brigade, one dollar and twenty-five cents, except the
chief and petty officers, who shall be paid as follows: Chief
petty officers, two dollars and twenty-five cents; first class
petty officers, two dollars; second class petty officers, one
dollar and seventy-five cents; and third class petty officers,
one dollar and fifty cents. And, in addition to said pay, each
enlisted man shall receive rations as prescribed by the regula-
tions of the United States Army and United States Navy,
respectively, or commutation thereof at a rate not exceeding
forty cents per day; each enlisted man who has served a full
term of enlistment, and who re-enlists within thirty days of the
expiration of this previous enlistment, shall receive an increase
of ten per cent, of his pay during this enlistment, and for each
full term of enlistment served thereafter an increase often
per cent, will be granted, until forty per cent, is reached.
SEC. 78. All enlisted men who qualify in accordance with the
requirements of the course prescribed by order of the Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in small arms practice shall be
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