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ART. LXV] MILITIA. 495
National Guard, to whom it is ordered to report, a form, of enlistment,
to be prescribed by the Governor, for a term of not less than thirty (30)
days nor more than ninety (90) days at one time, and if the service of
said Motor Corps shall not be required for the full term of their enlist-
ment they shall be discharged by the Governor. All members of said
organization, when called out into the service of the State, as herein,
provided, shall be equipped and paid by the State and shall be pro-
tected in the discharge of their duties and in obeying the orders of the
Governor, as though a part of the National Guard of the State.
1916, ch. 311, sec. 86.
84. To promote efficiency, and as a reward for continuous service,
the Commander-in-Chief shall have power, under regulations to be pre-
scribed by him, to issue service medals of appropriate designs to officers
and enlisted men of the Maryland National Guard who shall complete
ten years of continuous service.
1916, ch. 311, sec. 87.
85. All certificates of membership of any legally organized volun-
teer company of the militia shall be signed by the commanding officer
thereof, which certificates shall be issued on or before the first day of
April in each year, to such persons as may then compose the uniformed
and active members of said company; every such company may receive
and have as many honorary members as it has active and uniformed
members, and no more, on payment, in advance, by each person desiring
to become such honorary member, of not less than ten dollars per
annum, which said money shall be received by the commanding officer
of the company, and be by him applied to the payment of armory rent
or the purchase of uniforms for the rank and file of the active mem-
bers of his company or to such purposes as may be authorized by the
by-laws of said company; and the commanding officer of every company
shall, on or before the first day of June and December of every year,
render to the Adjutant General an account of the money so received and
expended by him, and every such honorary member shall be entitled to
receive a certificate of honorary membership of the company, to be
signed as aforesaid, and bearing date at the time of its issue; which
certificates of membership, whether of uniformed and active members,
or of honorary members, shall exempt the person therein named from
petit jury duty for the period of one year from the date of his said
certificate; provided, he files his said certificate with the clerk of the
court before the drawing of the jury.
1916, ch. 311, sec. 88.
86. In order to reward those members of the Maryland National
Guard who volunteered for service in the Spanish-American War, the
Commander-in-Chief shall have power, under regulations to be pre-
scribed by him, to issue medals of appropriate designs to officers and
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