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17. Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman or for
conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline.

Enlisted men may be tried by court-martial for the following
offences:

1. Disobedience of orders.

2. Disrespect to superiors.

3. Mutiny.

4. Desertion.

5. Neglect of duty.

6. Drunkenness on duty.

7. Conduct prejudicial to good order and military dis-
cipline.

8. Any act contrary to the military law or to the provisions
of the regulations for the government of the National Guard.

9. Absence without proper excuse from, or tardiness with-
out like excuse in attending any drill, parade, encampment,
meeting for instruction or other duty ordered by competent
authority.

10. Neglecting to take proper care of any arms, uniforms,
equipments or military property, or wilfully injuring or de-
stroying any arms, uniforms, equipments or military property
whatever.

The provisions of this section are intended to provide an al-
ternative mode of trial in classes of duty mentioned in Section
13, other than those herein excepted and to provide for all other
cases not covered by said Section 13.

Section 73. Any person who shall secrete, sell, dispose of,
offer for sale, purchase, retain after demand by a commissioned
officer of the Maryland National Guard, or in any manner pawn
or pledge any arms, uniforms, equipments or other military
property issued under the provisions of this Act, and any per-
son who shall wear any uniform or device, strap, knot or in-
signia of any design or character used as a designation of
grade, rank or office, such as are by law or general regulations
duly promulgated and prescribed for the use of the active
militia or similar thereto, except members of the Army or Navy
of the United States and the National Guard of this or any
other States, officers of the independent military organizations
as designated in this Article, members of associations wholly
composed of soldiers honorably discharged from the service of
the United States and members of the Confederate Veterans or
like societies, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction thereof before a justice of the peace having criminal
jurisdiction of the city or county wherein such offence was com-