EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR, 637

Section XXIII. At any time upon the report of and rec-
ommendation of the Brigade Commander, that any company or
separate organization is not up to the proper standard of num-
bers (minimum of forty), efficiency or discipline, the Com-
mander-in-Chief may, in his discretion, muster out of service
such company or separate organization so reported inefficient,
and thereupon the commissions of all the officers of such, com-
pany or separate organization shall be vacated; and at any
time upon the report and recommendation of the Adjutant
General, after an inspection by him ordered or made of any
division of the Naval Brigade, that such division so inspected
is not up to the proper standard of efficiency or discipline, the
Commander-in-Chief may, in his discretion, muster out of the
service such division so reported inefficient, and thereupon the
commissions of all officers of such division shall be vacated.

Section XXIV. That thereafter commissioned officers of
the National Guard shall be selected from the following classes
and none other: First, officers or enlisted men of the National
Guard recommended by the commanding officers of their sev-
eral independent battalions, regiments, and higher units; sec-
ond, officers on the reserve or Unassigned list of the National
Guard; third, officers, active or retired, and ex-officers of the
United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps; and, fourth,
graduates of the United States Military and Naval Acade-
mies and graduates of schools, colleges, and universities where
military science is taught under the supervision of an officer
of the Regular Army:

Provided, that officers of corps, departments and independ-
ent companies and the commanding officers of independent
battalions and of regiments shall be appointed upon the rec-
ommendation of the Commander of the Brigade to which they
are attached, and provided, that Brigadier-Generals shall be
appointed upon the recommendation of the field officers of their
respective brigades, and provided further that no person shall
be commissioned unless he possesses the additional require-
ments herein prescribed, for the particular office to which he is
to be commissioned. A Brigadier-General and a Colonel of a
Regiment at the time of his appointment must be an officer in
the National Guard of this State, of the grade of field officer,
or have been in active service in the Army or Marine Corps
of the United States as a field officer. A Lieutenant-Colonel
and Major of the line at the time of his appointment must be
an officer in active service, and for two successive years imme-