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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 emer-
gency to aid the organized militia in quelling insurrection, invasion, riot
or breach of peace; when so called upon the members of said organizations
shall first sign, execute and deliver through their commanding 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 services 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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 33. 1922, ch. 490, sec. 31. 1931, ch. 161, sec. 33.

35. No body of men other than the units of the organized militia and
the troops of the United States, except such military organizations as are
now in existence, shall associate themselves together as a military company
or organization or parade in public as a military company or organization
without the permission of the Governor.

No armed military force from another State, Territory or District shall
be permitted to enter the State for the purpose of doing military duty
therein, without the permission of the Governor; provided, that the pro-
visions of this section shall not apply to troops acting under the authority
of the President.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 34. 1922, ch. 490, sec. 32.

36. The Governor may, upon the recommendation of their command-
ing officers, approved by the Ranking Line Officer, confer brevet commis-
sions upon officers of the organized militia of a grade next higher than
the regular commission held by them. The Governor may also confer upon
officers of the organized militia, brevet commissions of a grade equal to
the highest grade in which they previously served in the organized militia,
or in the Army of the United States. Brevet commissions shall carry with
them only such privileges or rights as are allowed in like cases in the mili-
tary service of the United States.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 35. 1922, ch. 490, sec. 33.

37. To promote efficiency and as a reward for continuous service, the
Governor shall have the power, under regulations to be prescribed by him,
to issue service medals of appropriate designs to officers and enlisted men
of the organized militia of the State, who shall complete ten or more years
of continuous service. Appropriate ribbon badges may be issued by the
State to represent any medal issued or authorized and the wearing of such
badge as a part of the uniform is authorized.