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1518 MILITIA. [ART. 65
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45. Officers to be held accountable
for all public property for mili-
tary use. Bond of officer liable.
46. Penalty for the destruction of
arms or military property.
47 Penalty for selling or pawning
arms, equipment or other
property belonging to the
Maryland National Guard
48. Adjutant general and command-
ing officers may rent armories
for military purposes under
authority from the governor.
49. Certificates of membership, how
signed. Fee of honorary
members, how applied. Report
of such fund. Honorary mem-
bers exempt from jury duty.
50. Definition of "Separate Organi-
zation "
51. Veteran Corps, Fifth Regiment,
to what entitled.
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5. MARYLAND NATIONAL GUARD
RETIRED.
52. Retired list, admission to.
6. ROSTER.
53. Roster to be kept by adjutant
general.
7. REWARDS.
54. Reward for continuous service.
55. Unlawful to dispose of service
medals; penalty.
Battle Flags of Maryland Regi-
ments During the Civil War.
56. Governor to appoint commis-
sion; personnel of commission;
its duties.
57. Commission to collect regi-
mental battle flags.
58. Flags to be sent to Annapolis
59 Appropriation of $1,500.
60. Future care and custody of such
regimental flags.
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I. Reserve Militia and General Staff.*
1896, ch. 89, sec. 1.
1. The militia of this State shall consist of all able-bodied
male citizens between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years,
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 immi-
nent danger thereof.
Ibid. sec. 2.
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
* This act of 1896, ch 89. repealed the pre-existing article entitled Mliltla " altogether
and enacts tills new article
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