MILITIA. . 2183
who has served a full term of enlistment and who re-enlists within ninety
days after the expiration of his previous enlistment, shall receive an in-
crease of 10 per cent, of his pay during this enlistment, and for each
three-year term of enlistment served thereafter an increase of 10 per cent,
will be granted, until 40 per cent, is reached; provided, that any man
who served in the Army or Navy of the United States during the World
War shall receive credit for all former military service in computing the
foregoing rates of percentage of pay increase.
And provided further, that all enlisted men who qualify, as prescribed
by the Governor, in small arms practice and who shall be present at the
annual inspection of his organization next succeeding said qualification,
shall be paid the following increase in the pay of their respective grades
for a period of one year beginning on January first following such quali-
fication: Experts, 20 per cent.; sharpshooters, 15 per cent.; marksmen,
10 per cent.
For all purposes of this section, officers and enlisted men of the organ-
ized militia who entered the military or naval service of the United States
in the Spanish-American or subsequent wars, shall be entitled to credit for
the time served in such service as if the service had been rendered in the
organized militia.
The provisions of this section not to apply when the troops are called
or drafted into the service of the United States.
1922, ch. 490, sec. 30.
32. The separate organizations in the City of Baltimore known as
the Veteran Corps of the Fifth Regiment, Infantry, M. N. G., and Old
Guard, M. N. G., respectively, shall be entitled to all rights and privileges
conferred by this Article except that said organizations shall not be en-
titled to the privileges of retirement or to be placed on reserve list nor to
wear a uniform not distinctive from the active military forces of the
State; nor to share any appropriation made for the support of the militia,
unless said organizations are called for service by the Governor in case
of emergency to aid the organized militia in quelling insurrection, in-
vasion, riot or breach of peace; when so called upon the members of said
organizations shall first sign, execute and deliver through their command-
ing officers to the officer commanding the units of the organized militia
to whom ordered to report, a form of enlistment to be prescribed by the
Governor, for a term not to exceed ninety days at one time, and if the ser-
vices of such organizations shall not be required for the full term of their
enlistment they shall be discharged by the Governor. If called into the
service of the State, the members of said organizations shall be equipped
and paid by the State and shall, in so far as applicable, be considered a
part of the organized militia of the State.
1922, ch. 490, sec. 31.
33. No body of men other than the regularly organized units of the
militia and the troops of the United States, except such military organiza-
tions as are now in existence, shall associate themselves together as a
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