ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 347

"Militia," is hereby enacted, said new Article comprising 73
sections to be numbered 1 to 73, inclusive, and to read as fol-
lows:

1. All able-bodied male citizens and able-bodied males of
foreign birth, who have declared their intentions to become
citizens, and who are more than 18 and less than 45 years of
age, and who are residents of this State, shall constitute the
militia, subject to the following exemptions: (a) persons ex-
empted by the laws of the United States; (b) persons ex-
empted 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,
practicing physicians, superintendents, officers and assistants
of hospitals, prisons and jails; all persons actually employed
as teachers in any public school, college or university; light-
house keepers, 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 sub-
divisions (a) and (e), shall be available for military duty in
case of war, insurrection, invasion . or imminent danger
thereof.

2. Whenever the Governor shall deem it necessary, he
may order an enrollment to be made by officers designated by
him of all persons liable to services in the militia. Such en-
rollment shall state the name, residence, age and occupation
of the persons enrolled, and their previous or existing mili-
tary 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
enrollment is made, and the original in the office of the
Adjutant General. If the Governor so direct, such enroll-
ment 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 management of ships and crafts, together with ship own-
ers, and their employees, yacht owners, members of yacht
clubs and all other associations for aquatic purposes.