ART. 63.] MILITARY.

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organized and uniformed, as he shall think fit, to rent
suitable and convenient places for armories and places
of drill and deposit, and safe keeping of arms, equip-
ments and other property, furnished by the state for
military purposes to said regiments, batteries, battalions,

squadrons or companies ; provided, the rent to be paid
per annum shall not exceed the following sums, viz :

Proviso

For each regiment, the sum of four hundred dollars ;
for each battery, of four pieces of artillery, the sum of
four hundred dollars; for each battalion, the sum of
two hundred dollars; for each squadron, the sum of
one hundred and fifty dollars ; and for each indepen-

Rent.

dent company, the sum of one hundred dollars ; pro-
vided, that no rent shall be paid for any regiment
having a less number of rank and file than three
hundred ; for any battalion having a less number than
one hundred and fifty ; for any company having a less
number than forty, or for any squadron having a less
number than eighty, of rank and file, uniformed and
fit for active duty, and provided that said payments
shall be chargeable only to the appropriations made
by law for military purposes, and the accounts shall
be audited and settled at the treasury, as is now pro-
vided for contracts and expenditures for military pur-
poses.

Proviso.

22. All certificates of membership of any legally
organized volunteer company of the militia, shall be
signed by the commanding officer thereof, which cer-
tificates shall be issued on or before the first day of
April in each year, to such persons as may then com-
pose the uniformed and active members of said com-
pany; every such company may receive and have as

Certificates of
membership

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 members of his company, or to

Honorary
members.