354 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 188

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 other
employees as may be required from time to time. The clerk
shall be appointed and the employees hired by the Adjutant
General, (b.) The Adjutant General may require the As-
sistant 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 perform-
ance of his duties, such bond to be approved by the Governor
and the Comptroller, and to be filed in the letter'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, safekeeping and repairing of the military prop^
erty belonging 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 be disposed of by
the Assistant to the Acting Quartermaster General as required
by Army regulations. The Adjutant General shall be re-
sponsible to the Governor for all the military property which
may be issued to the State by the Secretary of War in com-
pliance with law, and it shall thereafter be his duty to prepare
returns of said arms and other property of the United States
at the time and in the manner required by the Secretary of
War. (d.) The Adjutant General (as Acting Quartermaster
General) shall keep a just and true account of all expenses in-
curred, including pay of officers and enlisted men. subsistence
of militia, transportation of the militia and of all the military
property of the State, and such expenses shall be audited and
paid, (e.) The Adjutant General (as Acting Quartermaster
General) shall issue such military property as the Governor
shall direct, and under his direction make purchases for that
purpose. No military property shall be issued to persons or
organizations other than those belonging to the active militia,
without approval of the Adjutant General, except to such
portions of the reserve militia as may be called out by the
Governor. The regulations and orders of the United States
Army shall govern the Adjutant General in all matters not
specifically set forth herein in connection with the purchase,
care and accounting of military property.