ROBERT BOWIE, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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ly of the state, shall refuse to deliver up the same to any
commissioned officer demanding them, such person
shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifteen dollars, to be re-
covered as small debts are recovered in the name of
the state, and for the use of the regiment or extra-bat-
talion to which such commissioned officer may be

1812.

long; Provided nevertheless, That no justice of the
peace shall issue a warrant against any person alleged
to hold or detain any arms or accoutrements belonging
to the state of Maryland, contrary to the provisions of
this act, unless such justice shall be satisfied by the
oath of such officer or some other credible witness,
that the person so alleged to hold or detain the same,
has, upon application to him made by some commission-
ed officer in the district where he resides, refused to
deliver the same to such commissioned officer.

Proviso.

28. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of
the death, resignation, disqualification or remov-
al out of his district of any subaltern officer, the
commanding officer of the regiment or extra-bat-
talion to which such officer may have belonged, may
appoint a fit and proper person as a brevet officer,
and shall immediately thereafter notify the gover-
nor of the same; and such brevet officer shall have
and exercise all the powers incident to his office, in as
full and ample a manner as if he was commissioned,
until he shall be superceded by a commissioned offic-
er; Provided, That the removal of any such officer re-
siding in any city or town or precincts thereof to any
part of the said town or city or the precincts thereof,
shall in no wise be considered as the resignation of
such officer

In case of the
death, resigna-
tion, disqualifi-
cation or re-
moval of a sub-
altern officer,
the commander
of the regiment
may appoint a
brevet.

Proviso,

29. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the militia of
Allegany county shall be exempt from the regiment and
battalion meetings by this act appointed and directed;
but instead thereof, meet in company; and the company
at Selby's-Port, and that also at the Green Glades, shall
not, from their dispersed situation, be required to at-
tend any battalion meeting; but instead thereof, they
shall be compelled to meet in companies; and further,
as a relief to them, the commanding officer of the bat-
talion to which they may be attached, shall have pow-
er, in his discretion, to appoint some commissioned
or non-commissioned officer to call together and ex-
ercise such portions of either of the aforesaid compa-
nies, as he, from their remote situation, may consider
too distant to attend the company meetings by this act
before directed; and they shall be subject to the same

Militia of Alle-
gany county—
Selby 's Port and
Green Glades.