450 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 409

amendments Sections 58B and 58E of said Article as
enacted by Chapter, 33 of the Acts of 1941, to provide
for the removal of age restrictions for enlistment and
retirement in the organized militia of the State, and for
change in the period of enlistment therein.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General, Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 56 of Article 65 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Ed. ), title "Militia" be repealed,
and that Sections 1, 20, and 24 of said Article be repealed
and re-enacted with amendments; and that Sections 58B
and 58E of said Article as enacted by Chapter 33 of the
Acts of 1941 be repealed and re-enacted with amendments,
so as to read as follows:

1. All able-bodied male citizens of the State and all
able-bodied males of foreign birth, who have declared their
intentions to become citizens of the State, and
who are residents therein, 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; (e) 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, members of religious communities, ecclesiastical
students in the various seminaries and schools of divinity,
practicing physicians, superintendents, officers and assist-
ants of hospitals, prisons and jail; all persons actually em-
ployed 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, per-
sons 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.

20. All officers shall be appointed and commissioned
by the Governor and shall not be recognized as such under
any of the provisions of this Article unless they shall have
been selected from the following classes and shall have
taken and subscribed to the oath of office prescribed in the
preceding section of this Article; officers or enlisted men of
the National Guard; officers, active or retired, reserve offi-
cers, and former officers of the Army, Navy or Marine
Corps; enlisted men and former enlisted men of the Army,
Navy or Marine Corps who have received an honorable