EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 633

same in equal monthly instalments. This officer shall be ap-
pointed and commissioned by the Governor, upon the recom-
mendation of the Adjutant General, and shall at the time of
his appointment be a member of the National Guard of the
State, or have served in the National Guard or United States
Army, and shall be entitled to the rights and privileges of
officers of the National Guard of corresponding rank, (a) The
Assistant to the Acting Quartermaster General may have one
clerk and as many laborers as may be required from time to
time. The clerk shall be appointed by and the laborers hired
by the Adjutant General, (b) The Adjutant General may
require the Assistant to the Acting Quartermaster General to
give bond, with sufficient surety, not to exceed ten thousand
dollars, to the State of Maryland, conditioned for the faithful
performance of his duties, such bond to be approved by the
Governor and the Comptroller., and to be filed in the latter's
office and to be paid for out of the military funds, (c) The
Assistant to the Acting Quartermaster General shall attend to
the care, preservation, safe-keeping and repairing of the arms,
ordnance, accoutrements and all other military property be-
longing to the State or issued to the State by the Government
of the United States for the purpose of arming and equipping
the organized militia. All military property of the State
which, after a proper inspection, shall be found to be unsuitable
for the use of the State shall, under the direction of the Gov-
ernor, be disposed of by the Assistant to the Acting Quarter-
master General, at public auction, after a reasonable advertise-
ment of the sale in at least one newspaper published in the
English language in Baltimore City, or the same be sold at pri-
vate sale, when so directed by the Governor. He shall bid in
the property or suspend the sale whenever, in his opinion, bet-
ter prices may or should be obtained. He shall, from time to
time, render to the Adjutant General a just and true account
of the sales made by him, and shall turn over to the Adjutant
General the proceeds of said sales. The Adjutant General shall
be responsible to the Governor for all the arms, ordnance, ac-
coutrements, equipments and other military property which
may be issued to the State by the Secretary of War in compli-
ance with law, and it shall thereafter be his duty to prepare
returns of said arms and other property of the United States
at the times and in the manner required by the Secretary of
War. The Adjutant General (as Acting Quartermaster Gen-
eral) shall, upon the order of the Governor, turn into the
Ordnance Department of the United States Army the rifles.