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lar Army, subject in time of peace to such general exceptions
as may be authorized by the Secretary of War. Provided,
that whenever the Xational Guard has been called or drafted
by the President, the Governor shall have the power to increase
the force and to organize such units as the exigencies of the
emergency in his judgment, may require.

14. The National Guard Reserve shall consist of such offi-
cers and enlisted men as are commissioned and enlisted therein
and as are prescribed and provided for by the National De-
fense Act and regulations made in pursuance thereof. Officers
rendered surplus by the disbandment of their organizations
shall be placed in the Reserve. Officers may, upon their own
application, be placed in the said Reserve.

15. There shall be a retired list exclusively restricted to
officers and enlisted men of the organized militia and none
other, to be known as the "Maryland National Guard, Retired,"
and those placed thereon shall be subject to the same restric-
tions as are enjoined by the retired lists of the United States
Army in so far as the same are applicable. Any officer or
enlisted man who has readied the age of sixtv-four vears shall

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be placed upon the retired list and any officer or enlisted man
who has been in the active military service of the State for a
period of fifteen years may, upon application, be relieved from
active duty and placed upon the retired list and, also, any offi-
cer or enlisted man who from physical disability or change in
residence, after ten years' active service becomes incapable of
performing his duties may be placed upon the retired list.
Provided, that an enlisted man who has completed twenty-five
years active service, may be retired in the grade of Second
Lieutenant.

16. Commissioned officers of the organized militia shall
take and subscribe to the following oath of office:

"I, ..................... do solmenly swear that I will

support and defend the Constitution of the L^nited States and
the Constitution of the State of Maryland, against all enemies,
foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance
to the same; that I will obey the orders of the President of the
United States and of the Governor of the State of Maryland;
that I make this obligation freely, without any mental
reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and
faithfully discharge the duties of the office of..............