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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

members 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 desir-
ang to become such honorary member of not less than ten dol-
lars per annum, which said money shall be received by the com-
manding 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 organi-
sation shall, on or before the first day of June and Decem-
ber of each year, render to the Adjutant General an
account of the money so received and expended by him;
and every such honorary member shall be entitled to receive
a certificate of honorary 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 certifi-
cate; provided, 'he files his said certificate with the Clerk of the
Court before the drawing of the jury.

Meaning of
"Separate
Organiza-
tion."

SEC. 48. The term "Separate Organization" as used in this
Article shall be held to designate a military or naval organi-
zation of the Maryland National Guard unattached to a regi-
ment.

Veteran
corps, 5tn
regiment.

SEC. 49. The separate organization in the city of Baltimore,
known as the Veteran corps of the 5th Regiment Infantry M.
N. G. shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges conferred
by this Act, except that said Veteran Corps shall not share in
any appropriation made for the support of the National Guard.

Effective

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved March 27th, 1896.