1124 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

amended by Chapter 103 of Acts of 1908, Chapter 204 of Acts
of 1910, and Chapter 851 of Acts of 1912, be and the same are
hereby repealed and re-enacted as Sections 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 49,
50, 54, 55, 68 and 70, of Atricle LXV, aforesaid.

SEC. 17. The Maryland National Guard shall consist of a
Brigadier-General; Adjutant-General's Department; Inspector-
General's Department; Ordnance Department; Quartermaster's
Corps (consolidating as at present organized the Quartermas-
ter's Department, the Subsistence Department and the Pay De-
partment) ; Judge Advocate General's Department; Medical
Department; Engineer Corps; Signal Corps; Coast Artillery
Corps; Infantry; Cavalry; Field Artillery, the existing mili-
tary organizations and the Naval Brigade.

The organizations authorized by this Section shall constitute
a Brigade and a Naval Brigade, to consist of such tactical units
officered and with an enlisted strength as may be determined in
the manner provided for in Section 18 of this Article.

The Governor shall have power in case of war, insurrection,
invasion, or imminent danger thereof, to increase the force here-
in provided for and to organize the same as the exigencies of the
service may require.

The Governor shall have power at any time to change the or-
ganization of regiments, battalions, troops, batteries, companies,
divisions, corps or departments so as to conform to any or-
ganization, system of drill or instruction, now or hereafter
adopted by the Army or Navy of the United States; and for that
purpose the number of officers and enlisted men of any grade in
regiments, battalions, troops, batteries, companies, divisions,
corps or departments may be increased or decreased to the ex-
tent made necessary by such cange; provided, that commis-
sioned officers who shall become surplus may be relieved from
active duty and held supernumerary and while held as super-
numerary shall be subject only to the orders of the Governor
and Commander-in-Chief, and shall be available for detail to
active duty at the pleasure of the Governor.

SEC. 18. The Governor as Commander-in-Chief by executive
order shall fix the number of officers and enlisted men that shall
compose the strength of the several departments, corps and tac-
tical units of the Maryland National Guard, provided, however,
that in time of peace the minimum enlisted strength of a com-
pany, troop, battery or division shall not be less than forty men.

SEC. 20. All officers upon their election, or appointment shall
be commissioned by the Governor, at his discretion, on proba-