Duties. Third. He shall attend to the care, preservation and safe-keeping and repairing of the arms, ordnance, accouterments, equipments, and all other military property belonging to the State, or issued to the State by the government, of the United States for the purpose of arming and equipping the organized militia. All military property of the State which, after a proper inspection, shall be found unsuitable for the use of the State shall, under the direction of the Governor, be disposed of by the Quartermaster-General, as required by law. He shall be responsible for all arms, ordnance, accouterments, equipments, and other military property which may be issued to the State by the Secretary of War in compliance with law; and it shall thereafter be his duty to prepare returns of said arms and other property of the United States at the times and in the manner requested by the Secretary of War. He shall, upon the order of the Governor, turn in to the Ordnance Department of the United States Army the rifles, carbines, bayonets, bayonet scabbards, gun slings, belts, and such other necessary accouterments and equipments, the property of the United States and now in possession of the State, which may be replaced, from time to time, by new arms, equipments, etc., sent by the United States in substitution therefor, and cause the same to be shipped, under instructions from the Secretary of War, to the designated arsenal or depot, at the expense of the United States. And when the National Guard of the State shall be fully armed and equipped with standard service magazine arms, and the standard equipment and accouterments of the United States Army, he shall cause all the remaining arms, equipments, etc., the property of the United States and in possession of the State, to be transferred and shipped as above directed.
Fourth. He shall keep a just and true account of all expenses necessarily incurred, including pay of officers and enlisted men in his department, transportation of the land forces, and of all military property of the State; and such expenses shall be audited and paid in the same manner as other military accounts.
Duties of other staff officers. In addition to what is specially prescribed, the duties of the other staff officers shall be such as are discharged by similar officers in the United States Army, and such other duties as they may be directed to perform by order of the commander in chief. Bonds of disbursing and distributing officers. And in the cases of disbursing or distributing officers, the Governor shall have power to prescribe forms of bonds for the faithful performance of duty, which shall not exceed in amount twice the sums of money or property passing annually into their hands. Reports of disbursing officer.
The disbursing officer, designated by the Governor to receive and disburse the funds apportioned to this State from the National Government for the National Guard of the State, shall file with the