LAWS OF MARYLAND.

MAY SESS.

1813.

every company armed as aforesaid, to note down, at
every muster, each and every breach of this law, and
make report of the same to the presiding officer of the
company court martial.

Arms out of
order to be re-
ported & col-
lected.

18. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of every captain, in the hands of whose company
there are or may be public arms, at the next muster,
and at every subsequent muster, to examine the same,
and make report of such arms as are out of order to
the colonel, whose duty it shall be to have the same
collected and delivered to the order of the commander
in chief.
AND WHEREAS, It has been found detrimental
to the militia service in the city of Baltimore, that com-
pany districts should be attached to regiments compo-
sed of volunteer uniformed companies:

Commanding
officers of uni-
formed volun-
teer companies
in the 3d bri-
gade shall not
command
company dis-
tricts.

19. BE IT ENACTED, That from and after the
passage of this act, no commanding officer of an uni-
formed -volunteer. militia company in the third brigade
shall command a company district, but in all such
cases, it shall be the duty of the brigadier-general of
the third brigade to cause such districts to be distribu-
ted among other commanding officers of districts in the
same regiment, not commanding volunteer uniformed
companies, if such officers shall not have sufficient men
in their districts to form full companies; and if there
shall be none such, then among other regiments which
shall be either deficient in men or in districts, in the
proportion in which they shall be so deficient: Provid-

Proviso.

ed always, That in every instance where a district
shall be taken from the commanding officer of a uni-
formed company, it shall be the right of such officer, or
his successor, to keep his company full by volunteers
from other districts of the brigade,

Artillery in
Baltimore.

20 AND BE IT ENACTED, That the regiment
of artillery in the said city shall not exceed ten com-
panies, to consist of eighty privates each, beyond
which number no persons residing within the limits of
the third brigade shall be admitted into the said artil-
lery companies.

A rifle battal-
ion may be
raised in Bal-
timore.

21. AND BE IT ENACTED, That a battalion
of riflemen, consisting of five c6mpanies, not exceed-
ing ninety privates each in number, may be raised
within the said brigade to be attached thereto.

Company

fines.

22. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the commanding officer of each company of the
brigade to account quarter yearly with, and pay over
to the pay master of the regiment to which such com-
pany belongs, all company fines which shall be receiv-