ART. 63.] MILITIA. 441

officer commanding any company, squadron, battalion, regiment
or brigade of uniformed volunteer or draughted militia, may
order the corps under his command on service; but no militia
officer other than the commander in chief shall order out any
part of the militia of this State to suppress any insurrection or
opposition to the laws within- the same unless required so to do,
if in the city of Baltimore by the Mayor of said city or the
Judge of the Superior Court or of the Criminal Court of Balti-
more, or two justices of the peace of said city in writing; and
if in any county, then not unless required so to do by two jus-
tices of the peace under their hands and seals; and every officer
who shall order any of the militia on service, shall communicate
to his superior officer and to the commander in chief as soon as
possible, full information respecting the said invasion, insurrec-
tion or resistance to the laws and the measures adopted by him
to repel or suppress the same.

100. Every member of a uniform company, including officers,
who shall not attend a call made under the preceding section,
shall be fined a sum not exceeding twenty nor less than two
dollars, and every member who shall absent himself from a
parade or muster as authorized in the next succeeding section,
or who shall not appear in proper equipment or dress, or who
shall be guilty of disobedience or unsoldierlike conduct on the
day of parade, shall be fined a sum not exceeding five dollars
nor less than fifty cents.

101. The commanding officer of each regiment in this State
may call a parade or muster of the volunteer uniform companies
under his command whenever he may see fit, not exceeding three
times in the course of any one year.

102. All officers holding commissions in the staff shall be en-
titled to rank in the line as follows : the adjutant general shall
rank as a colonel of artillery in the line; officers composing the
staff of a division shall take rank in the line as majors of infantry,
and those composing the brigade staff shall be entitled to rank in
the line as captains of infantry, and those officers composing the
staff of regiments, extra battalions or squadrons, shall take rank
in the line as first lieutenants in their respective corps, and the
said officers shall be entitled to promotion in the same manner
and on the same terms as other officers of like grade in their re-
spective corps.