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Section 87. All certificates of membership of any legally
organized volunteer company of the militia shall be signed by
the commanding officer thereof, which certificates shall be is-
sued on or before the first day of April in each year, to such
persons as may then compose the uniformed and active mem-
bers of said company; every such company may receive and
have as many honorary members as it has active and uniformed
members, and no more, on payment, in advance, by each per-
son desiring to become such honorary member, of not less than
ten dollars per annum, which said money shall be received by
the commanding officer of the company, and be by him applied,
to the payment of armory rent or the purchase of uniforms for
the rank and file of. the active members of his company or to-
such purposes as may be authorized by the by-laws of said com-
pany; and the commanding officer of every company shall, on
or before the first day of June and December of every year,
render to the Adjutant General an account of the money so
received and expended by him, and every such honorary mem-
. ber shall be entitled to receive a certificate of honorary mem-
bership of the company, to be signed as aforesaid, and bearing
date at the time of its issue; which certificates of membership,
whether 'of uniformed and active members, or of honorary
members, shall exempt the person therein named from petit
jury duty for the period of one year from the date of his said
certificate; provided, he files his said certificate with the clerk
of the court before the drawing of the jury.

Section 88. In order to reward those members of the Mary-
land National Guard who volunteered for service in the Span-
ish-American War, the Commander-in-Chief shall have power,
under regulations to be prescribed by him, to issue medals of
appropriate designs to officers and enlisted men of the Mary-
land National Guard who served in either land or naval forces
furnished by Maryland during the Spanish-American War.

Section 89. No section or provision of this Act, or any part
thereof, shall be deemed to be repealed, altered or amended by
any statute passed by the Legislature, unless such statute ex-
plicitly refers to this Article as the militia law, or by its other
titles, as part of the general laws of the State, and explicitly
repeals, alters or amends the same or some part thereof.

Section 90. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the
provisions of this Article are hereby repealed.

Approved April 11th, 1916.