LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

ARTICLE LXV.

MILITIA.
I. RESERVE MILITIA AND GENERAL STAFF.

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SECTION 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 persons holding any civil office created by the Constitu-
tion and laws of the State, practicing physicians, ministers of
any church or religious denomination, conductors and engi-
neers of railways, captains and chief engineers of steam ves-
sels and licensed pilots; all such exempted persons shall be
liable to military duty in case of war, insurrection, invasion or
imminent danger thereof.

Militia
subjects.

SEC. 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 the
full power and authority to make all needful rules and regu-
lations therefor, which rules and regulations shall have the
force of law.

When militia
to be
ordered out.

SEC. 3. At all times the commander-in-chief is hereby
authorized to make and publish all needful rules and regula-
tions for the control, discipline, armament and equipment of
the Militia to carry out the provisions of this Article, which
rules and regulations shall, as far as practicable, conform to the
laws and regulations governing the organization of the United
States volunteer forces, their discipline, armament, equipment
and officers, and which rules and regulations shall have the
force of law.

Rules and
regulations.

SEC. 4. Whenever the commander-in-chief shall deem it
necessary he may order an enrollment of all persons, other
than members of the National Guard, liable to military duty,
to be made by persons by him designated. Such enrollment
shall state the name, residence, age and occupation of the
persons enrolled. Two copies of such enrollment shall be
made, one to be tiled with the Clerk of the Superior Court of
Baltimore City, or with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the
county wherein such enrollment shall be made, the other to be
filed in the office of the Adjutant General of the State. The
officer making such enrollment shall, at the time of making

Enrollment.