Section 44
SEC. 44. The entire National Guard shall be inspected at their home stations at least once in each year by the inspector general or an assistant inspector general, or an acting assistant inspector general, specially detailed for the purpose by the Commander in Chief. The officer conducting such inspection shall carefully inspect all ordnance stores, clothing, equipage, books, records and property belonging to the Insular Government and to the Government of the United States, and the commanding officer of the organization undergoing inspection shall furnish said inspector with all necessary information, data and assistance to that end. And said inspector shall also examine and inquire into the method and scope of instruction as conducted by the commanding officer, the knowledge of and familiarity with the various duties on the part of officers and non-commissioned officers, also inform himself of the status of the organization undergoing inspection in the community where it is stationed and whether or not it merits or receives the moral support of the community, and make full report upon the prescribed blanks to the Commander in Chief, through the adjutant-general (and when the inspection is made by an officer other than the inspector general, through the inspector general), of the condition of each command, and the ordnance and property thereof. Inspecting officers shall be paid for the time actually devoted to said duty, under orders of the Commander in Chief, the pay to be fixed by law, and all necessary expenses incurred therein shall be paid on requisition in the same manner as herein above provided for. The Commander in Chief may authorize the commanders of brigades, regiments and battalions to inspect their commands or portions thereof at their home stations, whenever the interests of the service would be subserved thereby, and authorize the payment for such duty as above provided.