802 C'ITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

October shall be brigade parades, and shall take place at one
o'clock, p. M., and the parades on the twelfth of September shall
be division parades, and shall take place at eight o'clock, A. M.

760. The commanding officer of each regiment in said divisions
shall, between the first and tenth days of March in each year,
in regimental orders to be published in at least three daily news-
papers, give notice of the time and place of parade as appointed
by law, and designated in division orders, and also, of the place
at which the court of appeal for his regiment shall meet, on. the
second Monday after each parade, at three o'clock, P. M.

761. There shall in said divisions be adopted the system of
tactics and discipline now practised in the army of the United
States; the companies of cavalry, artillery and infantry, shall
be officered in like manner as those of the army of the United
States of the corresponding arms, and to each company of rifle-
men. shall be attached one captain and three lieutenants; each
company shall adopt such uniform as they may agree upon, and
all officers except those of uniform companies and field and staff
officers of the first regiment of riflemen, shall adopt the uniform
prescribed for the officers of the United States army of corre-
sponding grade and arm. of service, except that for the letters
U. S., where used by the officers of the United States army, there
shall be substituted the letters M.M., to denote Maryland Militia.

762. All certificates of membership issued to uniformed and
active members of a volunteer company as hereinbefore directed,
shall specify that said member is a uniformed and active mem-
ber, but every such company may receive honorary members,
who, on payment of not less than five dollars in advance for the
use of the company, shall be entitled to a certificate of honorary
membership, to be issued in like manner and limited for the like
period as the certificates of uniformed and active members; and
the said honorary members shall, for the time limited in their
certificates, be exempted from militia duty, only except that they
shall be liable to duty in said company in case of invasion.

763. Any person who shall have been for seven successive
years a uniformed and active member in one or more volunteer
companies, shall thereafter be exempt from militia duty, except
in case of invasion or insurrection.