MILITIA 2583

of the State from a proper appropriation made by the Legislature, upon
the warrant of the Ranking Line Officer, under and by direction of the
Governor.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 15. 1922, ch. 490, sec. 13. 1931, ch. 161, sec. 15.

15. The National Guard of Maryland shall consist of that portion of
the organized militia prescribed by the President to be maintained by the
State of Maryland under the provisions of the National Defense Act, as
amended, and regulations issued pursuant thereto. The organization of
the National Guard of Maryland, including the composition of all units
thereof, shall be the same as that which is or may hereafter be prescribed
for the Regular Army, subject in time of peace to such general exceptions
as may be authorized by the Secretary of War. Whenever the National
Guard of Maryland, or any part thereof, has been called or ordered into
the active military service of the United States by the President, the
Governor shall have the power to increase the military force and to organize
such units as the exigencies of the emergency in his judgment may require.

1939, ch. 544.

16. The Ranking Line Officer is authorized and directed to take out
and thereafter maintain a policy or policies of insurance with the State
Accident Fund or with any stock corporation or mutual association author-
ized to transact the business of Workmen's Compensation insurance in
this State, to secure compensation under the Workmen's Compensation
Law to all officers and enlisted men of the organized militia of the State
of Maryland. The Ranking Line Officer is authorized and directed to pay
the necessary premium or premiums for said policy or policies of in-
surance out of appropriations for the militia to be included in the State
Budget by the Governor of the State.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 16. 1922, ch. 490, sec. 14. 1935, ch. 583, sec. 16.

17. The Inactive National Guard shall consist of such officers and en-
listed men as are commissioned or enlisted therein or transferred thereto.¹

An. Code, 1924, sec. 17. 1922, ch. 490, sec. 15.

18. There shall be a retired list exclusively restricted to officers and
enlisted men of the organized militia and none other, to be known as the
"Maryland National Guard, Retired," and those placed thereon shall be
subject to the same restrictions as are enjoined by the retired lists of the
United States Army in so far as the same are applicable. Any officer or
enlisted man who has reached the age of sixty-four years shall be placed
upon the retired list and any officer or enlisted man who has been in the
active military service of the State for a period of fifteen years may, upon
' application, be relieved from active duty and placed upon the retired list
and, also, any officer or enlisted man who from physical disability or change
in residence, after ten years' active service becomes incapable of perform-
ing his duties may be placed upon the retired list. Provided, that an en-
listed man who has completed twenty-five years active service, may be
retired in the grade of Second Lieutenant.

¹ Sec. 2, ch. 583, acts of 1935, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to extent of
such inconsistency.