1476 MILITIA. [ART. 65

1908, ch. 103, sec. 2.

1. All the able-bodied male citizens and able-bodied males of for-
eign birth, who have declared their intentions to become citizens, who
are more than 18 and less than 45 years of age, and who are residents
of this State, shall constitute the militia, subject to the following
exemptions: (a) persons exempted by the laws of the United States;
(b) persons exempted by the laws of Maryland; (c) the members of
any regularly organized fire or police department in any city, village
or town; (d) judges and clerks of courts of record, registers of wills
and deeds, sheriffs, ministers of the Gospel, practising physicians;
superintendents, officers and assistants of hospitals, prisons and jails;
all persons actually employed as teachers in any public school, college
or university; lighthouse-keeper, conductors and engineers of railways,
seamen actually employed as such; (e) idiots, lunatics, paupers, vaga-
bonds, confirmed drunkards, persons addicted to the use of narcotic
drugs, and persons convicted of infamous crimes. All such exempted
persons, except those enumerated in sub-divisions a and e, shall be avail-
able for military duty in case of Avar, insurrection, invasion or immi-
nent danger thereof.

1908, ch. 103, sec. 3.

2. Whenever the governor shall deem it necessary, he may order
an enrollment to be made by officers designated by him of all persons
liable to services in the militia. Such enrollment shall state the name,
residence, age and occupation of the persons enrolled, and their pre-
vious or existing military or naval service. Three copies shall be made
thereof:— one shall be retained by the enrollment officer, one filed with
the clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city, or with the clerk of
the circuit court for the county in which the enrollment is made, and
the original in the office, of the adjutant general. If the governor so
direct, such enrollment shall show separately all the seafaring men of
whatever calling or occupation; all men engaged in the navigation of
the rivers and other waters of the State, or in the construction and
management of ships and crafts, together with ship owners, and their
employes, yacht owners, members of yacht clubs and all other associa-
tions for aquatic pursuits.

1908, ch. 103, sec. 4.

3. The officer making the enrollment shall at the time of making
same serve a notice of such enrollment upon each person enrolled by
delivering such notice to him or leaving it with some person of suitable
age and discretion at his place of residence. All persons claiming
exemption must within fifteen days after receiving such notice file a
written statement of such exemption, verified by affidavits, in the
office of the clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city, or in the
office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the enroll-
ment is made. Such clerk shall thereupon, if such persons be exempted
according to law, mark the word "exempt" opposite his name; and the