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462 MILITIA. [ART. LXV
are more than 18 and less than 45 years of age, and who are residents
of this State, shall constitute the militia, subject to the following exemp-
tions: (a) persons exempted by the laws of the United States; (b)
persons exempted by the laws of Maryland; (c) the members of any
regularly organized fire or police department in any city, village or
town; (d) judges and clerks of courts of record, registers of wills and
deeds, sheriffs, ministers of the Gospel, practising physicians, super-
intendents, officers and assistants of hospitals, .prisons and jails; all
persons actually employed as teachers in any public school, college or
university; lighthouse-keeper, conductors and engineers of railways, sea-
men actually employed as such; (e) idiots, lunatics, paupers, vaga-
bonds, confirmed drunkards, persons addicted to the use of narcotic
drugs, and persons convicted of infamous crimes. All such exempted
persons, except those enumerated in subdivisions (a) and (e), shall be
available for military duty in case of war, insurrection, invasion, or
imminent danger thereof.
1916, ch. 311, sec. 4.
2. Whenever the Governor shall deem it necessary, he may order an
enrollment to be made by officers designated by him of all persons liable
to services in the militia. Such enrollment shall state the name, resi-
dence, age and occupation of the persons enrolled, and their previous or
existing military or naval service. Three copies shall be made thereof:
one shall be retained by the enrollment officer, one filed with the clerk
of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, or with the clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court for the county in which the enrollment is made, and the orig-
inal in the office of the Adjutant General. If the Governor so direct,
such enrollment shall show separately all the seafaring men of whatever
calling or occupation; all men engaged in the navigation of the rivers
and other waters of the State, or in the construction and management
of ships and crafts, together with ship owners, and their employees,
yacht owners, members of yacht clubs and all other associations for
aquatic pursuits.
1916, ch. 311, sec. 5.
3. The officer making the enrollment shall at the time of making
same serve a notice of such enrollment upon each person enrolled by
delivering such notice to him or leaving it with some person of suitable
age and discretion at his place of residence. All persons claiming
exemption must within fifteen days after receiving such notice file a
written statement of such exemption, verified by affidavits, in the office
of the clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, or in the office of
the clerk of the Circuit Court of the county in which the enrollment is
made. Such clerk shall thereupon, if such persons be exempted accord-
ing to law, mark the word "exempt" opposite his name; and the re-
mainder of all thus enrolled, and not thus found to be exempt, shall
constitute the militia of the State, and such clerk shall transmit a copy
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