THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1837.

first day of May, shall if published or performed on or
before that day, be as effectual during the present year
as if the same had been published or performed with-
in the time prescribed by law, for such publication or

CHAP. 349.

performance of duty, as the case may be, provided
nevertheless, that no officer who may be found delin-
quent in the performance of his duty shall be allowed
to plead this act in justification of his delinquency.

Proviso.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That any commissioned
officer in either of said divisions, failing to perform any
duty prescribed by law, and where no penalty is an-

Division officers
failing in duty.

nexed, shall for every such delinquency, be fined not
exceeding one hundred dollars in the discretion of such
court martial, as the case may require.

Liable $100.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That the act entitled an
additional supplement, to an act for the better regula-
tion of the Militia of the city of Baltimore, passed
at December session eighteen hundred and twenty-five,
chapter two hundred and eighteen, and the twentieth
section of act of December session eighteen hundred
and thirty-five, chapter two hundred and ninety-five,
be, and the same are hereby repealed.

Laws repealed.

SEC. 18. And be it enacted, That nothing in the
act of December session, eighteen hundred and thirty
four, chapter two hundred and fifty one, entitled, an
act to enroll, organize, equip and regulate the militia of
this State, or in any supplement thereto, shall be con-
strued to repeal any act, or part of an act, relating to
the militia of the city of Baltimore, nor shall any part
of said act of eighteen hundred and thirty four, chap-
ter two hundred and fifty one, or any part of any sup-
plement thereto, be construed to extend to the city of
Baltimore.

Explanatory of
1834, ch. 251.

SEC. 19. And be it enacted, That the field and staff
officers of the fifty-third regiment of volunteer infant-
ry, be and they are hereby authorised, so to alter their
uniforms, as now prescribed by law, as to make the
same in their judgment, properly conformable to the
uniforms of the company officers generally, of the said
regiment; provided, that no such alteration shall be
made without the approval, in writing,of the brigadier
general of the brigade, to which the said regiment is
attached.

Relative to uni-
form.