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424 MILITIA. [ART. 65
and not exempt by the laws of the United States, except per-
sons holding, any civil office created by the constitution and laws
of the State, practising physicians, ministers of any church or
religious denomination, conductors and engineers of railways,
captains and chief engineers of steam vessels and licensed pilots;
all such exempted persons shall be liable to military duty in case
of war, insurrection, invasion or imminent danger thereof.
1896, ch. 89.
2. In case of war, rebellion, insurrection or threatened 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 militia as the exigency may in his judgment require, and
in such cases he is hereby vested with the full power and
authority to make all needful rules and regulations therefor,
which rules and regulations shall have the force of law.
Ibid.
3. At all times the commander-in-chief is hereby authorized
to make and publish all needful rules and regulations for the
control, discipline, armament and equipment of the militia to
carry out the provisions of this article, which rules and regula-
tions shall, as far as practicable, conform to the laws and regula-
tions governing the organization of the United States volunteer
forces, their discipline, armament, equipment and officers, and
which rules and regulations shall have the force of law.
Ibid.
4. Whenever the commander-in-chief shall deem it necessary,
he may order an enrollment of all persons, other than members
of the national guard, liable to military duty, to be made by
persons by him designated. Such enrollment shall state the
name, residence, age and occupation of the persons enrolled.
Two copies of such enrollment shall be made, one to be filed
with the Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore city, or with
the clerk of the circuit court for the county wherein such enroll-
ment shall be made, the other to be filed in the office of the
adjutant general of the State. The officer making such enroll-
ment shall, at the time of making the same, serve a notice of
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