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sons 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, members of religious commuinities, ecclesiastical students in the
various seminaries and schools of divinity, practicing physicians, superin-
tendents, officers and assistants of hospitals, prisons and jails; all persons
actually employed as teachers in any established school, college, or uni-
versity ; lighthouse keepers, conductors and engineers of railways, seamen
actually employed as such; (e) idiots, lunatics, paupers, vagabonds, con-
firmed 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 available for
military duty in case of war, insurrection, invasion or imminent danger
thereof.

1922, ch. 490, sec. 2.

2. When the militia of this State, or a part thereof, is called or drafted
under the Constitution and laws of the United States, the Governor shall
order out for service the Organized Militia, or such part thereof as may
be necessary, and if the number available be insufficient he shall order
out such part of the unorganized militia as he may deem necessary.

1922, ch. 490, sec. 3.

3. Whenever any portion of the militia shall be on duty pursuant to
the orders of the Governor, or shall be on duty or ordered to assemble for
duty in time of war, insurrection, invasion, public danger or to aid the
civil authorities on account of any breach of the peace, tumult, riot, resis-
tance to process of this State, or imminent danger thereof, or for any
other cause, the Articles of War governing the Army of the United States,
as well as such regulations issued thereunder, shall be in force and re-
garded as part of this Article until said forces shall be duly relieved from
such duty. As to offenses committed when such Articles of War are in
force, courts-martial shall possess, in addition to the jurisdiction and
power of sentence and punishment therein vested to them, all additional
jurisdiction and power of sentence and punishment exercisable by like
courts under such Articles of War or the regulations and laws governing
the Army of the United States, or the customs and usages thereof; but no
punishment under such rules and articles, which shall extend to the tak-
ing of life, shall in any case be inflicted, except in time of actual war, inva-
sion or insurrection, and then only after the approval by the Governor of
the sentence inflicting such punishment. Imprisonment other than in
guardhouse shall be executed in jails or prisons designated by the Gover-
nor for the purpose.

1922, ch. 490, sec. 4.

4. Every member of the militia ordered out, or who volunteers, who
does not appear at the time and place designated by his commanding offi-