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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

DEC. SESS.

1813.

Passed Jan.
29, 1814.

CHAPTER 171.

A supplement to an act entitled, an act to authorise a
lottery or lotteries to raise a sum of money to make a
turnpike road from Frederick-Town to Harper's Fer-
ry and for other purposes, passed at November ses-
sion eighteen hundred and twelve.

Managers or

a committee of
managers may

exercise cer-
tain powers.

Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for
the president and managers of the Baltimore and Fred-
erick-Town turnpike road company, or for a committee
of managers to be appointed by them, or for a majority
of the persons so appointed, to exercise all the powers
tested by the act to which this is a supplement, in the
commissioners therein named in the same manner and
for the same purposes as directed by the said original

Proviso.

act; Provided, That the persons so acting shall first
comply with the provisions if the second section of the
said act.

Making of

the road.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for the president and managers of the said
company to commence the making of the road contem-
plated to he made by the act to which this is a supple-
ment, as soon as they may deem it to be expedient.

CHAPTER 172.

Passed Jan.
31, 1814.

Mounted in-
fantry. Their
armament.

An act entitled, a further supplement to an act entitled,
an act to regulate and discipline the militia of this

state.

Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That whenever any regiment, squad-
ron or troop of cavalry shall be called into actual service
that the governor and council be, and they are hereby
authorised and directed to ascertain and declare whether
the whole of what portion thereof shall act and be armed
and equipped as mounted infantry, and when the same
shall be so ascertained and declared, to furnish each
member thereof with a musket, carbine or rifle and the
necessary equipments.

Volunteers
for mounted
infantry or fly-

ing artillary.
Their equip-
ment.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whoever any
troop of cavalry or company of artillery shall volunteer
their services as mounted infantry or flying artillery the
governor and council at their discretion are hereby au-
thorised and empowered, to accept their services as such,
and to furnish each member of such troop with a musket
carbine or rifle, and each company of artillery with a
suitable piece or pieces of artillery and the necessary
equipments.

Rules, regu-
lations and dis-

cipline of said

corps.

8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the officers,

non-commissioned officers and privates of the mounted
infantry and flying artillery shall in all respects be sub-
ject to the same rules, regulations and discipline as the
cavalry and artillery respectively now are subject to.