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

10. The National Guard of Maryland
shall consist Of that portion Of the or
ganiZed militia prescribed by the Presi-
dent to be maintained by the State of
Maryland under the provisions of the
National Defense Act and regulations
issued pursuant thereto. The organi-
cation of the National Guard, includ-
ing the composition Of all units thereof,
shall be the same as that which is or
may hereafter be prescribed for the
Regular Army, subject in time of peace
to such general exemptions as may be
authorized by the Secretary of War.
Provided, that whenever the National
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.
| IA. The National Guard Reserve shall
consist of such officers and enlisted
men as are commissioned and enlisted
therein and as are prescribed and pro-
vided for by the National Defense Act
and regulations made in pursuance
thereof. officers rendered surplus by
the disarmament of their organizations
shall be placed in the Reserve. officers
may, upon their own application, be
placed in the said Reserve.
Is. There shall be retired list ex-
clusively restricted to officers and en-
| listed men of the organized militia and
none other, to be known as the MARY
| land National Guard, Retired" and
those placed thereon shall be subject
to the same restrictions as are enjoined
by the retired list of the United States
Army in so far as the same are ap-
plicable. Any officer or enlisted man
who has reached the age of sixty-four
years shall be placed upon the retired
list and any officer or enlisted man
who has been in the active military
service of the State for period of
fifteen years may, upon application, be
relieved from active duty and placed
upon the retired list and, also, any
officer or enlisted man who from physi-
cal disability or change in residence,
after ten years active service becomes
incapable of performing his duties may
be placed upon the retired list. Pro-
vided, 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 or
sanized militia shall take and subscribe
to the following oath of office.
81, ............, do solmenly swear
that I will support and defend the
Constitution of the United States and
the Constitution of the State of Mary
land, against all enemies, foreign and
domestic; that / 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 1 make
this obligation freely, without any
mental reservation or purpose Of eva
sion, and that will well and faith
fully discharge the duties of the office
of ............ in the National Guard
of the United States and of the State
of Maryland upon which 1 am about to
enter, SO help me God"
II. All officers shall be appointed and
commissioned by the Governor and
shall not be recognized as such under
any of the provisions of this Act 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 Act; officers or enlisted men of the
National Guard; officers, active or re-
tired, reserve officers, and former Of
ficers Of the Army, Navy or Marine
Corps; enlisted men and former en-.
listed men of the Army, Navy or Ma
rine Corps who have received an hon
orable discharge therefrom, graduates
of the United States Military and Naval
Academies; and graduates Of schools,
colleges, universities and officers train
ing camps, where they have received
military instruction under the SUPER
vision Of an officer of the Regular
Army who certified their fitness for
appointment as commissioned officers;
and for the technical branches or Staff
Corps and departments, such other
civilians as may be specially qualified
for duty therein. Provided that, before
such appointment. officers shall be rec
commended as follows; Commanding
officers of units comprising a brigade
by the brigade commander; all other
officers by the commanding officers of
the respective units or chiefs of their
respective staff corps or departments.
A general officer and colonel at the
time Of appointment must be an officer
in the National Guard of the State Of
a grade of field officer, or have been
in active service in the Army, Navy
or Marine Corps or National Guard
with higher grade than captain. A
Northumberland or major of the line
at the time of appointment must have
had active service as an officer for two
years in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps
or National Guard. Provided further,