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MILITARY. [ART. 63.

Maryland
national guard.

2. The militia of this state shall be divided into
two classes. The first shall be styled the Maryland
National Guard, and shall consist of volunteer organi-
zations as hereinafter provided, and in case of war,
invasion, insurrection or riots, or the reasonable appre-
hension 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 Bal-

Reserves.

timore; the second class shall be styled the Reserves,
and 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 commander-in-chief, a larger force than
the national guard can immediately supply.

Call for volun-
teers or draft.

3. 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 volunteers, by
draft or otherwise, as many of the militia as the exi-
gency may in his judgment require, and in such case he

Powers of com-
mander-in-
chief.

is hereby vested with the full power and authority to
fill up the national guard by draft, and to make need-
ful rules and regulations therefor, which rules and
regulations shall have the force of law.

Volunteering
or commuting.

4. Every person liable to militia duty in this state
is hereby required either to join the national guard as
a volunteer, or pay to the state the sum of two dollars
each year, the said sum to be collected under the for-
tieth article of the Code of Public General Laws, and the

Exemption on
payment.

payment of which sum shall exempt him from militia
duty for one year from the date of such payment, sub-
ject, however, to a call of the reserves rendered neces-
sary as aforesaid, and subject also to his liability to
draft as aforesaid to fill the ranks of the national guard.

Term of ser-
vice.

5. Every commissioned and non-commissioned offi-
cer 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 be discharged, and thereafter he shall be