ART. 65.] MILITIA—MARYLAND NATIONAL GUARD. 1009

modifications, however, as to him may seem advisable; but in
making any such changes, the same must be done gradually, and
not to be enforced in any one year, but with a due regard to
economy and consistent with the utilization of all serviceable
uniforms now in use in said organizations.

1886, ch. 162, sec. 10.

35. Whenever said organizations shall be ordered into camp as
aforesaid, or whenever ordered out by the commander-in-chief,
each enlisted man shall be entitled to one dollar and thirty-three
cents for each and every day he serves in said camp, and the offi-
cers, according to their rank, shall be entitled to pay at the same
rate per diem that officers in the service of the United States re-
ceive; and the officer detailed for inspection of said force, as
above provided, shall be entitled to transportation and pay for the
time so occupied such as officers of his rank would receive in the
service of the United States; provided, however, that all of said
allowances or pay shall be paid only out of the general appropria-
tion for the militia then already existing, and none of said allow-
ances shall be made unless there is sufficient money of said
appropriation on hand and otherwise unused; but in order to
provide a fund for the said biennial encampment, it shall not be
required that any portion of the appropriation unexpended for
any one year shall be turned back into the treasury, but such un-
expended appropriation may be applicable to the expenditures
and encampment of the next fiscal year.

Ibid. sec. 11.

36. In case any officer or man shall serve for the full period
of three years, he shall be entitled to a certificate of that fact,
signed by the commandant of the regiment, or battalion, or in-
dependent company to which he belonged, which, at his option,
and only in case he claims such exemption, shall exempt him
from jury duty for the full period of three years after the expi-
ration of his term of service.

Ibid. sec. 12.

37. The general appropriation for the militia, outside of the

expense of the adjutant general's office and the payment of such

obligations as are already due from the same, shall be exclusively

applied until otherwise provided by the general assembly, to the

64