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MILITARY. [ART. 63.

Exemption
from militia
duty.

9. 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 neighbor-
hood or county to which he belongs as the command-
ing officer of the district may name, a certificate of such
inability, and the same be indorsed by said commanding
officer.

Military dis-
tricts.

10. The adjutant general of this state shall, under
rules and regulations to be prescribed by the governor
as commander-in-chief, divide this state into military

Organization of
militia.

districts, and enroll and organize the militia of this
state into companies, batteries, squadrons, battalions,
regiments, brigades and divisions, and by general and
special orders to be approved by the commander-in-

Rules and regu-
lations.

chief, make such rules and regulations for their con-
trol, discipline, armament and equipment as may be
constitutional and necessary, which rules and regula-
tions shall, so far as practicable, conform to the laws
and regulations governing the organizing of the
United States volunteer forces, their discipline, equip-
ment, armament and officers, and which rules and
regulations shall have the force of law.

Volunteer com-
panies.

11. Volunteer companies, the members of which
reside in different military districts, will, with the
approval of the commander-in-chief, be recognized as
forming part of said national guard, and the several
districts to which they belong will be credited with
the number of men respectively so furnished.

By-laws of
companies of
national guard.

12. Every organized company of the national guard
may, by a vote of a majority of its members, adopt
by-laws which, when approved by the commanding
officer of the regiment, battery, battalion or squadron
to which said company belongs, and submitted to and
approved by the adjutant general, shall be binding
upon all members of such company, provided that
nothing therein shall be inconsistent with the consti-
tution of this state, or the general militia law thereof,
or the rules and regulations prescribed under the direc-
tion of the commander-in-chief as hereinbefore pro-