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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Repealed.

eral Laws, title "Militia," be and the same is hereby

repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

SEC. 5. Whenever a sufficient number of militia shall

meet together and declare their purpose in writing to form

Militia.

a volunteer company, by subscribing their names to an

agreement to that effect, they may proceed to elect company

officers, as provided in section 9 of this article ; provided,

their number shall not consist of less than forty or more

than eighty persons. The captain -elect shall thereupon

transmit to the adjutant general the original agreement

signed by the members proposing to organize said company,

together with the proceedings of the meeting held and the

election duly attested by its chairman and secretary ;

and whenever the said officers-elect are commissioned by

Oaths of

the Governor, as provided in section 10, and the oaths of

office.

office, as provided in section 23 of this article, shall have

been taken and subscribed by the members thereof, said

organization shall be a legally organized company of the

militia of this State, subject to the requirements and

entitled to all the benefits and privileges of this article

and the provisions of this section, together with the other

provisious of the said article 65 shall be construed to apply

to all militia organizations heretofore organized under this

section, as well as those hereafter organized, and shall

include both land and naval militia organizations, but such

organizations shall not be considered in any manner as a

part of the Maryland National Guard or entitled to any

participation in any appropriation for the support thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 637.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments sections

111 and 112 of article 16 of the Code of Public General

Laws of Maryland, title "Chancery," sub-title "Non-

Residents."

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That

Repealed.

sections 111 and 112 of article 16 of the Code of Public

General Laws of Maryland, title " Chancery," sub-title

" Non -Residents," be and the same are hereby repealed and

re-enacted so as to read as follows :

111. In cases where it is unknown whether a non-resident

be living or dead the bill may be filed against him as if liv-