EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 63

Article, and to be numbered, respectively, Sections 91, 92,
93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98 and 99, the same providing for the
organization, duties and maintenance of the Maryland State
Guard.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That nine additional sections be and they hereby
are added to Article 65 of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
title "Militia," as said Article was repealed and re-enacted by
Chapter 311 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland
of 1916, said additional sections to follow immediately after
Section 90 of said Article, to be numbered, respectively, Sec-
tions 91, 92, 93. 94, 95, 90, 97, 98 and 99, and to read as fol-
lows:

91. The Governor is hereby authorized to recruit and or-
ganize and to train, equip, arm, ammunition and maintain a
body of armed troops within this State, to be known as the
Maryland State Guard. Such State Guard not to exceed, how-
ever, one thousand officers and men. Such troops shall bo re-
cruited from the male citizens of this State, and for the purpose
of organizing said Maryland State Guard, the Governor shall
have the power to call for volunteers, and if there be an insuffi-
cient number of volunteers, or no volunteers, then the Governor
shall have the power to draft as many of the male citizens of
this State as are required, such draft or drafts to be made by
the same officials and in the same manner as the drafts author-
ized by the provisions of Chapter 311 of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland of 1916, and any amendments
thereto, or by any other law or laws now existing or hereafter
passed whereby the Governor is authorized to draft. The
Maryland State Guard shall not form part of the National
Guard of the State, but service therein shall not constitute an
exemption of any kind from service or liability to service in
the National Guard of the State or in the military or naval
forces of the United States, but all members of the Maryland
State Guard shall be liable to such service to the same extent
as if they were not members of said Maryland State Guard.

92. The Governor, from time to time, by executive order,
shall make regulations for the number of said Maryland State