ART. 65] COMMISSIONS——COMMISSIONED OFFICEES. 1491

1 Chief Quartermaster.

1 Chief Gunner's Mate.

1 Chief Yeoman.

3 Hospital Stewards.

1908, ch. 103, sec. 31.

30. At any time upon the report of and recommendation of the
brigade commander, that any company or separate organization is not
up to the proper standard of numbers (minimum of forty), efficiency
or discipline, the commander-in-cbief may, in his discretion, muster out
of service such company or separate organization so reported inefficient,
and thereupon the commissions of all the officers of such company or
separate organization shall be vacated; and at any time upon the
report and recommendation of the adjutant general, after an inspection,
by him ordered or made of any divisions of the naval brigade, that such
divisions so inspected is not up to the proper standard of efficiency or
discipline, the commander-in-chief may, in his discretion, muster out
of the service such divisions so reported inefficient, and thereupon the
commissions of all officers of such divisions shall be vacated.

1908, ch. 103, sec. 32.

31. All officers shall, upon their elections or appointment, be com-
missioned by the governor, at his discretion, on probation, but no one
shall be permanently commissioned unless the conditions set forth in
the next two sections have been complied with, and no one shall be
recognized as an officer unless he shall have been so commissioned.

1908, ch. 103, sec. 33.

32. Com missioned officers must be citizens of the United States,
of the age of twenty-one years and upwards. No person who has been
expelled or dishonorably discharged from any military organizations
of any State shall be commissioned unless he has re-enlisted and served
as provided in this chapter. No person shall be commissioned unless
he shall possess the additional requirements herein prescribed for the
particular office to which he is to be commissioned. A brigadier gen-
eral at the time of his election must be an officer in active service in
the national guard of this State, of the grade of field officer, or have
been in active service in said national guard as a field officer, or in
the service of the army or marine corps of the United States as a field
officer. A colonel of a regiment, at the time of his election, must
either be an officer in active service in the national guard of this
State, or, if not in active service at the time of his election, must have
had prior service of at least three years in the national guard of this
State, or in the army or marine corps of the United States, or in all
combined as commissioned officer. A lieutenant colonel and major
of the line at the time of his election must either be an officer in active
service, and for two successive years immediately preceding his elec-
tion must have been in active service in the national guard of this or