ART. 63 ] MILITIA.

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shall, so far as practicable, conform to the laws and
regulations governing the organizing of the United
States volunteer forces, their discipline, equipment,
armament and officers, and which rules and regula-
tions shall have the force of law.

2. The militia of this state shall consist of all able
bodied male citizens of this state, between the ages
of eighteen and forty -five years, and not exempt by
the laws of the United States (excepting, however,
the lieutenant governor, the secretary of the state,
the comptroller, the treasurer, and all persons whose
religious opinions and conscientious scruples for-
bid them to bear arms, who shall produce to the
proper authority proof that they are so conscien-
tious.)

What militia to
consist of

3. The militia shall be divided into two classes,
the first class, or the active militia, shall be styled

How divided.

The Maryland National Guard, and shall consist
of the volunteer militia forces, and such as may be
drafted into such forces, as hereinafter provided;
and in case of war, invasion, insurrection or riots, or
the reasonable apprehension of such, the first class
shall be first called into service, unless the governor,
as commander-in-chief, shall otherwise direct, and
the first division of the national guard shall be
formed within the city of Baltimore ; the second

Maryland
national guard.

class or the reserve militia, shall be called out, either
in whole or in part, only when the public safety,
from the causes aforesaid, shall be so imminently
endangered as to require, in the opinion of the com-
mander-in-chief, a larger force than the national
guard can immediately supply.

Reserve
militia.

4. In case of war, rebellion, insurrection, or threat-
ened invasion of this or any neighboring state, the
commander-in-chief is hereby authorized to order
out, for actual service, either by calling for volun-
teers, by draft or otherwise, as many of the militia
as the exigency may in his judgment require; and
the commander-in-chief is hereby vested with the
full power and authority to fill up the national

Powers of
commander-
in-chief.