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496 MILITIA. [ART. LXV
enlisted men of the Maryland National Guard who served in either land
or naval forces furnished by Maryland during the Spanish-American
War.
1916, oh. 311, sec. 89
87. No preceding section or provision of this Article, or any part
thereof, shall be deemed to be repealed, altered or amended by any
statute passed by the Legislature, unless such statute explicity refers
to this Article as the militia law, or by its other titles, as part of the
general laws of the State, and explicitly repeals, alters or amends the
same or some part thereof.*
1916. ch. 300. sec. 98.
88.+ Any person not now in the National Guard of the State but
who has heretofore served therein for a length of time sufficient to qual-
ify him to be placed upon the retired list known and designated as the
"Maryland National Guard Retired" as the same is provided in Section
42++ of this Article, but who is not upon such list, shall be entitled to
be placed upon such retired list, provided application be made by such
person to the Adjutant-General of this State on or before the 31st of
December, 1916.
See sections 33 and 34.
Maryland State Guard.
1917. ch. 26, sec. 91.
89. The Governor is hereby authorized to recruit and organize and
to train, equip, arm, ammunition and maintain a body of armed troops
within this State, to be known as the Maryland State Guard. Such
State Guard not to exceed, however, one thousand officers and men.
Such troops shall be recruited from the male citizens of this State, and
for the purpose of organizing said Maryland State Guard, the Governor
shall have the power to call for volunteers, and if there be an insuffi-
cient number of volunteers, or no volunteers, then the Governor shall
have the power to draft as many of the male citizens of this State as are
required, such draft or drafts to be made by the same officials and in
the same manner as the drafts authorized by the provisions of Chapter
311 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1916, and any
amendments thereto, or by any other law or laws now existing or here-
after passed whereby the Governor is authorized to draft. The Mary-
land State Guard shall not form part of the National Guard of the
*Section 90 of the Act of 1916, chapter 311, provides for the repeal of all acts
and parts of acts inconsistent with article 65 (as adopted by said act of 1916).
+The act of 1916, chapter 300, may have been repealed by the act of 1916.
chapter 311, repealing and re-enacting the whole of article 63; it was thought
best, however, to codify the former with this explanation.
++Apparently the reference was intended to be to section 41 of article 65 as it
stood prior to the act of 1916, chapter 311; see section 33 of the present article 65.
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