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and Comptroller of the Treasury, the officers employed in the
penitentiary, and also ministers of the gospel regularly ordained,
licensed or recognized by any religious society, shall bo liable to
militia duty or such regulations as are herein prescribed.

653. The said citizens are hereby formed into two divisions,
one of which shall be called the third division of Maryland
Militia, the other shall be called the first Light Division of
Maryland Volunteers; and each division shall be commanded
by the major general, who shall be entitled to the usual staff
officers.

654. The third division shall consist of the third and four-
teenth brigades, the third brigade shall be composed of the sixth,
twenty-seventh and fifty-fifth regiment of infantry; the four-
teenth brigade shall be composed of the thirty-ninth, fifty-first,
fifty-second and fifty-sixth regiments of infantry.

655. The major general, the brigadier general and the regi-
mental field officers of the third division, may revise the division
of brigades, and alter the same whenever it shall become neces-
sary and proper, and any meeting to be held for that purpose
shall be called by the commanding officer of the division, when
so required by three or more officers, and such alterations as may
at any time be made shall forthwith be published in division
orders.

656. The third and fourteenth brigades shall each be divided
into the company districts, and the several districts in each bri-
gade and regiment may be altered and arranged whenever
necessary in the opinion of the commanding officers of said
brigade; and when said commanding officers shall deem such
alteration necessary, they shall order a meeting of the colonels,
lieutenant colonels and majors within their brigades at some
convenient place, who, or a majority of them, shall revise and
fix the bounds of the regimental districts; and each commanding
officer shall, as soon as may be thereafter, make return in writ-
ing of such arrangement of bounds to the commanding officer
of the division, to be by him recorded; and the commanding
officer of each regimental district shall order a meeting of the
regimental, field and company officers within his district, at some
convenient place, who, or a majority of them, shall revise and
fix the bounds of the several company districts, and the com-
manding officers of the regimental districts shall forthwith make