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be given by any officer or non-commissioned officer. The officer
or non-commissioned officer giving such notice or warning shall,
if required, make a return thereof containing the name of the
person warned and the time, place and manner of warning, if
required by the officer issuing the order; such return may be
verified by his oath, which may be administered by any com-
manding officer. Such verified returns shall be as good evidence
on the trial of any person returned as a delinquent of the facts
therein stated as if such officer or non-commissioned officer had
testified to the same before a military court on such trial.
Every commanding officer shall make like return, on honor and
with like effect, of every delinquency or neglect of duty of his
officers and non-commissioned officers and also of every enlisted
man who shall refuse or neglect to perform such military duty
as may be required.

SEC. 55. The military courts of this State shall be:

General Courts-marital;

Special Courts-martial;

Summary Courts;

Courts of Inquiry.

The constitution and jurisdiction of courts-martial: The form
and manner in which the proceedings of military courts shall be
conducted and recorded, and the forms of oaths and affirma-
tions taken in the administration of military law by such courts;
the limits of punishment of officers and enlisted men when on
duty, as provided in Section twelve of this Article, and the pro-
ceedings in revision shall be governed by the Articles of War
and the Law and Proceedings of the Courts-martial of the
United States.

SEC. 68. The general apropriations for the militia shall be
exclusively applied to the necessary and contingent expenses of
the adjutant general's office and to the maintenance and equip-
ment and for the general efficiency of the Maryland National
Guard, enlisted and organized as provided for in this Article,
and for the purchase and distribution of authorized medals to
the duly commissioned and enlisted personnel of the National
Guard of this State. The money to be allotted to the various
organizations of the Maryland National Guard shall be dis-
tributed and applied on warrant of the adjutant general, under
and by direction of the Governor as Commander-in-Chief, to the
respective organizations constituting said Maryland National
Guard, so as to promote the military efficiency of all said respect-
ive organizations, without distinction, as the same may be needed