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Adjutants shall
attend the regi-
mental and bat-
talion meetings.
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26. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the adjutant of each regiment and extra-battal-
ion, to attend the regimental and battalion meetings,
and execute the orders of the commanding officers ne-
cessary to carry into effect the provisions of this law,
and upon refusal or neglect, to be subject to a fine not
exceeding thirty dollars, at the discretion of a regi-
mental court-martial.
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Persons holding
or refusing to
deliver up arms.
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27. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
shall hold or refuse to deliver up on application of a
commissioned officer, in whose district such person
resides, any arms or accoutrements belonging to the
state of Maryland, and not held and detained by such
person as a member of a volunteer militia company,
any commissioned officer, in whose district such per-
son may be, is hereby authorised to apply to any jus-
tice of the peace within the county where such person
resides, who shall thereupon issue a warrant to any
constable of the county, directing him to arrest
such person and carry him before some justice of
the peace for said county, together with any arms
and accoutrements alleged to be the property of
the state, which may be in the possession of such per-
son; and if the said justice of the peace should be of
opinion that the said arms or accoutrements are the
property of the state of Maryland, then and in such
case the said justice of the peace shall order and direct
that said arms and accoutrements shall be delivered up
to the said commissioned officer, for the use of the
company to which he belongs, until demanded by the
state; and upon such persons refusing or neglecting
to comply with such direction, the said justice of the
peace may commit such person to the public jail of
the county, until his compliance therewith; and if the
said justice shall determine that the said arms or ac-
coutrements are not the property of the state of Mary-
land, the costs of such proceedings shall be paid out
of the money in the hands of the pay-master, arising
from fines collected in the regiment to which such
commissioned officer belongs; but if he shall deter-
mine that the said arms or accoutrements are the
property of the state, and the person in possession of
the same knew them to be such, then the costs of such
proceedings shall be paid by the said person in pos-
session of such arms or accoutrements as aforesaid;
and if any person holding as aforesaid, any such arms
or accoutrements, and knowing them to be the proper-
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