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LAWS OF MARYLAND

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accompanied by [her father, husband, adult brother or
adult son] HIS OR HER PARENT, SPOUSE, ADULT SIBLING, OR
ADULT OFFSPRING.

[[SECTION 5. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That
Sections 1, 5, 24, and 62 of Article 65 — Militia, of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement Volume and
1974 Supplement) be and they are hereby repealed and
re—enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article 65 — Militia

1.

All able—bodied [male] citizens of the State and all
able—bodied [males] PERSONS 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: (1)
persons exempted by the laws of the United States; (2)
persons exempted by the laws of Maryland; (3) the members
of any regularly organized fire or police department in
any city, village or town; (4) 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 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;
(5) 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 as enumerated in items (1) and
(2) shall be available for military duty in case of war,
insurrection, invasion or imminent danger thereof.
Whenever the masculine gender is used in this article, it
is to be understood as including [any female citizens of
this State who voluntarily enlist in the organized
militia] THE FEMININE GENDER.

5.

The militia of this State [shall be] IS divided into
two classes: The organized militia and the unorganized
militia. The organized militia of the State [shall
consist] CONSISTS of officers appointed and commissioned
by the Governor, and of [such] THOSE able—bodied [male]
citizens of the State, and [such] THOSE able—bodied
[males] PERSONS of foreign birth [as] WHO have declared
their intentions to become citizens of the State,