84 MILITIA. [ART. 65

if found qualified, warranted by the captain or commanding
officer; divisional petty officers shall be appointed by the com-
manding officers of the respective divisions, who shall certify the
same to the captain or commanding officer; the captain or com-
manding officer shall thereupon cause an examination of the
officers so appointed to be held, and if they shall be qualified, he
shall issue warrants accordingly. The rank given in this article
to officers of the naval brigade is naval rank. The relative rank
of officers in said brigade with officers in the United States Army
is as follows: Captain, with colonel; commander, with lieu-
tenant colonel; lieutenant-commander, with major; lieutenant,
with captain; lieutenant (junior grade), with first lieutenant; and
ensigns, with second lieutenant. The relative position of seamen,
ordinary seamen and landsmen shall be that of a private in the
United States Army, and the relative positions of petty officers
in the said naval brigade with non-commissioned officers in the
United States Army shall be determined by the commander-in-
chief.

1900, ch. 657.

12.. The officers of the line of the brigade shall be elected as
follows: The brigadier-general by the ballots of the field officers
of the brigade; provided that no person shall be eligible to the
office of brigadier-general who shall not have served as a com-
missioned officer during the war or five years in the army of the
United States or in the National Guard; field officers by the
ballots of the company officers of the respective regiments;
captains and lieutenants of companies, the troop of cavalry, the
battery of artillery and the signal corps, by the ballots of the
enlisted men of the said respective organizations. The officers
of the naval brigade shall be elected as follows: The captain,
commander and lieutenant-commander shall be elected by the
ballots of the commissioned officers of the said naval brigade;
lieutenants, lieutenant's junior grade and ensigns shall be elected
by the ballots of the enlisted men of their respective divisions.

Ibid.

13. The election of the brigadier-general shall be ordered by
the commander-in-chief; the election of field officers of regi-
ments and officers of organizations unattached to regiments,