1110 . LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 4!>0

1. All able-bodied male citizens and able-bodied males of for-
eign birth, who have declared their intentions to become citi-
zens, 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 exempted by
the laws of the LTnited States; (b) persons exempted by the
laws of Maryland; (e) the members of any regularly organ-
ized 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, members of re-
ligious communities, ecclesiastical students in the various sem-
inaries and schools of divinity, practicing physicians, superin-
tendents, officers and assistants of hospitals, prisons and jails:
all persons actually employed as teachers in any established
school, college, or university: lighthouse 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 con-
victed of infamous crimes: all such exempted persons, except
those enumerated in sub-divisions (a) and (e), shall be avail-
able for military duty in case of war, insurrection, invasion or
imminent danger thereof.

2. When the militia of this State, or a part thereof, is
called or drafted under the Constitution and laws of the
United States, the Governor shall order out for service the
Organized Militia, or such part thereof as may be necessary,
and if the number available be insufficient he shall order out
such part of the unorganized militia as he may deem necessary.

3. Whenever any portion of the militia shall be on duty
pursuant to the orders of the Governor, or shall be on duty or
ordered to assemble for duty in time of war, insurrection, in-
vasion, public danger or to aid the civil authorities on account
of any breach of the peace, tumult, riot, resistance to process
of this State, or imminent danger thereof, or for any other
cause, the Articles of War governing the Army of the L'nited
States, as well as such regulations issued thereunder, shall be
in force and regarded as part of this Article until said forces
shall be duly relieved from such duty. As to offenses commit-
ted when such Articles of War are in force, courts-martial
shall possess, in addition to the jurisdiction and power of sen-
tence and punishment therein vested to them, all additional
jurisdiction and power of sentence and punishment exercisable