Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-07-22
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS


10 per cent. Of his pay during this
enlistment, and for each three-year
term of enlistment served thereafter
an increase of 10 per cent. will be
granted, until 40 per cent. is reached
provided, that any man who served in
the Army or Navy of the United States
during the World War shall receive
credit for all former military service
in computing the foregoing rates of
percentage of pay increase.
And provided further, that all en-
listed men who qualify, as prescribed
by the Governor, in small arms prac-
tice and who shall be present at the
annual inspection of his organization
next succeeding said qualification,
shall be paid the following increase
in the pay of their respective grades
for a period of one year beginning on
January first following such qualifica-
ton: Experts, 20 per cent; sharp
shooters, Is per cent; marksmen, 10
per cent.
For all purposes Of this section, Off
GERS and enlisted men of the organ
lied militia who entered the military
or naval service of the United States
in the Spanish-American or subsequent
wars shall be entitled to credit for
the time served in such service as if
the service had been rendered in the
organized militia.
The provisions of this section not
to apply when the troops re called or
drafted into the service of e United
States.
80. The separate organizations in
the City of Baltimore known as the
Veteran Corps of the Fifth Regiment,
Infantry, M N. G., and Old Guard,
NJ. N. G., respectively, shall be en-
titled to all rights and privileges con-
ferred by this Article except that said
organizations shall not be entitled to
the privileges of retirement or to be
placed on reserve list nor to wear
uniform not distinctive from the ac-
tive military forces of the State; nor
to share any appropriation made for
the support of the militia, unless said
organizations are called for service by
the Governor in case of emergency to
aid the organized militia in quelling
Instruction, invasion, riot or breach
of peace; when so called upon the
members of said organizations shall
first sign, execute and deliver through
their commanding officers to the officer
commanding the units of the organized
militia to whom ordered to report, a
form of enlistment to be prescribed by
the Governor, for term not to exceed
ninety days at one time, and if the
services of such organizations shall
not be required for the full term of
their enlistment they shall be dis
charged by the Governor. If called
into the service of the State, the mem
bers of said organizations shall be
equipped and paid by the State and
shall, in so fer as applicable, be con
sidered a part of the organized militia
of the State.
81. No body of men other than the
regularly organized units of the mi
litia and the troops of the United
States, except such military organiZa-
tons as are now in existence, shall as
sociate themselves together as a mill
tary company or organization or pa
rade in public as a military company
or organization, in any city or town
in this State, except by permission
of the Governor.
No armed military force from an
other State, Territory or District, shall
be permitted to enter the State for the
purpose Of doing military duty therein,
without the permission of the Governor
unless such force is actually under the
authority of the War Department.
go. The Governor may, upon the rec
ommendation Of their commanding Off
GERS, approved by the Ranking Line Of
ficer, confer breyet commissions upon
officers of the organized militia of a
grade next higher than the regular
commission held by them. The Gov
ernor may also confer upon officers of
the organized militia, brevet commits
sions of a grade equal to the highest
grade in which they previously served
in the organized militia, or in the
Army of the United States. Breyet
commissions shall carry with them
only such privileges or rights as are
allowed in like cases in the military
service of the United States.
SO. To promote efficiency and as re-
ward for continuous service the Gov
ernor shall have the power, under reg
ulations to be prescribed by him, to
issue service medals of appropriate de-
signs to officers and enlisted men Of
the organized militia of the State, who
shall complete ten or more years of
continuous service. Appropriate rib
bon badges may be issued by the State
to represent any medal issued or au-
thorized and the wearing of such badge
as a part of the uniform is authorized
"a. In order to reward those citizens
of Maryland who volunteered in the