EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 627

45 years of age, and who are residents of this State, shall con-
stitute the militia, subject to the following exemptions: (a)
persons exempted by the laws of the United States; (b) per-
sons exempted by the laws of Maryland; (c) The members of
any regularly organized fire or police department in any city,
village or town; (d) Judges and clerks of courts of record,
registers of wills and deeds, sheriffs, ministers of the Gospel,
practising physicians, superintendents, officers and assistants
of hospitals, prisons and jails; all persons actually employed as
teachers in any public school, college or university; lighthouse-
keeper, conductors and engineers of railways, seamen actually
employed as such; (e) idiots, lunatics, paupers, vagabonds,
confirmed drunkards, persons addicted to the use of narcotic
drugs, and persons convicted of infamous crimes. All such
exempted persons, except those enumerated in subdivisions
(a) and (e), shall be available for military duty in case oi
war, insurrection, invasion, or imminent danger thereof.

Section IV. Whenever the Governor shall deem it neces-
sary, he may order an enrollment to be made by officers desig-
nated by him of all persons liable to services in the militia.
Such enrollment shall state the name, residence, age and occu-
pation of the persons enrolled, and their previous or existing
military or naval service. Three copies shall be made thereof:
one shall be retained by the enrollment officer, one filed with
the clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, or with the
clerk of the Circuit Court for the county in which the enroll-
ment is made, and the original in the office of the Adjutant
General. If the Governor so direct, such enrollment shall
show separately all the seafaring men of whatever calling or
occupation; all men engaged in the navigation of the rivers
and other waters of the State, or in the construction and man-
agement of ships and crafts, together with ship owners,
and their employees, yacht owners, members of yacht clubs and
all other associations for aquatic pursuits.

Section V. The officer making the enrollment shall at the
time of making same serve a notice of such enrollment upon
each person enrolled by delivering such notice to him or leaving
it with some person of suitable age and discretion at his place
of residence. All persons claiming exemption must within fif-
teen days after receiving such notice file a written statement
of such exemption, verified by affidavits, in the office of the
clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, or in the office
of the clerk of the Circuit Court of the county in which the