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president is required to administer to them, as follows: "You, and
each of you, do swear or affirm, (as the case may be) that you will
well and truly try and impartially determine, all causes to be tried
by this court, according to the rules for regulating and governing
the militia within the limits of the city of Baltimore; so help you
God;"' and the president shall take the same oath, to be admini-
stered by any member of the court as aforesaid.
26. And be it enacted, That any officer required to attend as a
member of a division, brigade, regimental, extra battalion, or com-
pany court martial, or any other court as established under this
act, who shall refuse or neglect to attend at the time and place ap-
pointed, shall be lined not exceeding one hundred dollars by said
court, unless he can give a reasonable excuse for such non-attend-
ance; and any non commissioned officer or private required to at-
tend as a member of any such court, who shall neglect or refuse to
attend at the time and place appointed, shall bo fined not exceeding
five dollars by said court, unless he can give reasonable excuse
for such non-attendance; which said fines shall be returned for col-
lection to the officer ordering said courts-martial, except in the
cases of division courts-martial, and courts of inquiry, where the
fines shall be returned to the commanding officer of the brigade, to
which the offender belongs, in the same manner, and within the
time, as is directed by this act for the return of other lines.
27. And be it enacted, That each court martial may acquit any
delinquent by them to be tried, upon its appearing to such court
martial that sickness, or some such sufficient excuse, was the cause
of the violation of this act, for which such person is called to trial,
provided that business is not admitted as cause of acquittal; and
the officer ordering the court martial for the trial of offences under
this act, or his successor in authority, shall, where a lino shall be
adjudged by such court martial, have full power and authority to
remit the same, in those cases only where the delinquent did not
attend the court martial, and can prove to the satisfaction of said
officer that sickness, or some such sufficient cause, other than bu-
siness, prevented his attending the parade, as well the court mar-
tial.
28. And be it enacted, That the brigadier general of each of the
said brigades, shall, on or before the first day of July next, and from
time to time thereafter as may be necessary, appoint some suitable
person, on such terms as he shall deem advisable, to collect all fines
that may be imposed under this act upon all commissioned officers
of his brigade; and the commanding officer of each regiment and ex-
tra battalion, shall, on or before the first of April next, and from
time to time thereafter as may be necessary, appoint some suitable
parson, on such terms as he shall deem advisable, to collect all lines
that may be imposed upon non commissioned officers, privates and
musicians, of their regiment, or extra battalion, respectively, or
on other persons under the provisions of this act; and if either of
the officers aforesaid shall neglect or refuse to comply with the pro-
visions of this section, he shall be fined a sum not exceeding one
hundred dollars, in the discretion of such court martial, as the case
may require.
29. And be it enacted, That the president of each court martial
to try absentees from parade, and also the president of each and
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Dec. Ses. 1817
Penalty for re-
fusing to attend
courts martial.
Absentees may
be excused
Collectors to
be appointed.
Presidents to
make returns.
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