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MILITIA. [ART. 63.

when other official duties will permit, and report at
the end of the year, to the commander-in-chief.

Times for
parade.

18. Every regiment, battalion, squadron or inde-
pendent company of the national guard shall parade
for the purpose of discipline, inspection and review
at least four times in each year between the first day
of May and the first day of December on such day
and at such places as the commanding officers thereof
respectively may designate; brigade and division
parades will be ordered from time to time by their

Camps of
Instruction.

respective commanders; a camp of instruction will
be ordered once in each year in each of the division
or brigade districts, as the commander-in-chief may
direct, and between the first day of May and the first
day of October for a period of not over five days,
and in case suitable ground cannot be found in any
districts for said camp the same may be held in an
adjoining district.

Fines and
forfeitures.

19. Every person called on to be enrolled who
shall refuse to declare his true name and age to the
best of his knowledge, or the name of any person an
inhabitant of his house with which he is acquainted,
shall for each offence forfeit and pay the sum of five
dollars, to be recovered by order and upon the cer-
tificate of the proper officer as other fines and forfeit-
ures are hereby directed to be recovered.

Physician's
certificate of
disability.

20. No person shall be excused from militia duty
on account of corporeal infirmity unless he shall
obtain from the surgeon of his military district, if
any, or if none, from such respectable physician of
the neighborhood or county to which he belongs as
the commanding officer of the district may name, a
certificate of such inability and the same be endorsed
by the said commanding officer.

Term of
service.

21. Every commissioned and non-commissioned
officer and soldier of the national guard shall be held
to service therein for the term of three years, unless
he shall sooner arrive at the age of forty-five years
or be disabled or discharged, and thereafter, he shall
be entitled to a certificate of such service from the