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ARTICLE LXII.
Merger.

SEC. 1. Where the reversion of any land expectant on a lease
shall be merged in any other estate, the person entitled to the
estate into which such reversion shall have merged, shall have
the same remedy against the lessee, his representative or assigns,
for non-payment of rent or other forfeiture, or for not perform-
ing conditions, covenants or agreements, as the person entitled
to the reversion would have had if such reversion had not
merged.

2. There shall be no merger by reason of any conveyance by
way of mortgage, or assignment of mortgage, from the lessee of
any ground demised for a term of years, his executors, adminis-
trators or assigns, to the lessor of such ground or premises,
(whether by original or sub-lease,) his heirs, executors, adminis-
trators or assigns, and the same rights and remedies shall exist
as if the grantee in such conveyance had no other interest or
estate in the property than the one thereby conveyed.

ARTICLE LXIII.
Militia.

SEC. 1. All able bodied white male citizens between eighteen
and forty-five years of age, shall be subject to militia duty,
except officers of the Government of the United States and their
clerks, postmasters, ferrymen employed at any ferry on a post
road, stage drivers employed to carry the United States' mail,
the Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer, the Commis-
sioner of the Land Office, and their respective clerks, the judges
of the several courts in this State, and the clerks of said courts,
the Registers of Wills, the members of the General Assembly
and their clerks while in session, the professors and tutors of
colleges and public schools, school masters, practising physicians,
ministers of the Gospel, ordained, licensed or recognized by any