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convenient places for armories and places of drill and deposit
and safe keeping of arms, equipments aqd other property fur-
nished by the State for military purposes to the said regiments
or separate organizations.

1896, ch. 89, sec. 47.

48. All certificates of membership of any regiment or sepa-
rate organization provided for in this article shall be signed
by the commanding officer thereof; which certificates shall be
issued on or before the first day of April in each year to such
persons as may then compose the uniformed and active mem-
bers of said regiment or separate organization. Every such
regiment or separate organization may receive and have as
many honorary members as it has active and uniformed mem-
bers, and no more, on payment in advance by each person
desiring to become such honorary member of not less than ten
dollars per annum, which said money shall be received by the
commanding officer of the regiment or separate organization
and be by him applied to such purposes as may be authorized
by the by-laws of said regiment or separate organization; and
the commanding officer of every regiment or separate organiza-
tion shall on or before the first day of June and December of
each year render to the adjutant general an account of the
money so received and expended by him; and every such hon-
orary member shall be entitled to receive a certificate of hon-
orary membership of the regiment or separate organization to
be signed as aforesaid and bearing date at the time of its issue,
which certificate of membership, whether of uniformed and
active members or of honorary members, shall exempt the
person therein named from jury duty for the period of one
year from the date of his said certificate; provided, he files
his said certificate with the clerk of the court before the
drawing of the jury.*

Ibid. sec. 48.

50. The term "separate organization" as used in this article
shall be held to designate a military or naval organization of
the Maryland National Guard unattached to a regiment.

Ibid. sec. 49.

51. The separate organization in the city of Baltimore,
known as the Veteran Corps of the Fifth Regiment Infantry
M. N. G. shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges con-
ferred by this article, except that said veteran corps shall not

*See Art 51. Sec 3.