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ARTICLE LXIII.

Military.

1 What militia to consist of: officers of registration to furnish list annually. 2. Call for volunteers or draft 3. Powers of commander-in-chief regula- tions to conform to those of United States. 4. Existing enrolment to continue. 6. How volunteer companies formed 6 General staff, what to consist of term of office aids 7. Duties of adjutant general. S Duties of officers of general staff 9. Election of officers proviso : appoint- ments warrants 10 Commissioned officers, power of gov- ernor 11. By-laws of volunteer companies fines and penalties, how collected 12 Rules for distribution of arms, &c. 13 Furnishing arms, &c bond fur safe keeping proviso arms, &c., to be fur- nished by contract.

14 Officer to account for property, suit on bond. 15 Arms, &c., to be deposited In armo- ries fine 16 Injury, &c , arms, &c penalty. 17. Selling, &c , arms, &c. penalty. 18 Return of arms, &c , on disbandment legal proceeding* J9 Board of examiners : proviso, 20 Pay and rations. 21 Armories rent. 22 Certificate of membership honorary members certificate exemption from jury duty, proviso 23. Oaths 24 Certificate. 25 Militia when called out by board of police or sheriff, subject to their orders 26 Arm ones at Annapolis and Easton. 27 Appropriation.

1870, c. 182 repeals 1868, c. 414 [Sup. 1868, p. 137] and enacts in lieu thereof the fol-
lowing sections to be arranged in the Code of Public General Laws under an arti-
cle to be entitled Military. (Const., Art. IX.)

SEC. 1. The militia of this state shall consist of all able bodied white male citizens, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, and not exempt by the laws of the United States, except the comptroller, the treasurer, the secretary of state, judges and clerks of courts of record, registers of wills, sheriffs and min- isters of any religious denomination. And it shall be	1870, c. 182. What militia to consist of.
the duty of the different officers of registration through- out the state to furnish annually to the adjutant gene- ral a list of all persons in their respective districts composing the militia as aforesaid.	Officers of re- gistration to furnish list annually.
2. In case of war, rebellion, insurrection or threat- ened invasion of this or any neighboring state, the governor, as 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 mili- tia as the exigency may in his judgment require ; and	Call for volun- teers or draft.