The present allocation of troops to compose the Maryland National
Guard, under the provisions of the National Defense Act, is as follows;
State Staff Corps and Departments:

Adjutant General's Department.
Inspector General's Department. *
i Judge Advocate General's Department.

Quartermaster Corps.
Ordnance Department.
Medical Department.

Division Troops:

1 Infantry Brigade, to consist of Brigade Headquarters; two

regiments, infantry.

I Field Artillery Battalion (75....mm).
1 Divisional Air Service.
I Headquarters, Medical Regiment.
I Hospital Battalion Headquarters.
1 Sanitary Company.
1 Ambulance Company (M. D.).
1 Hospital Company.
1 Veterinary Company.
1 Medical Laboratory Section.
1 Medical Supply Section.

CORPS TROOPS.One Auxiliary Engineer Battalion.
ARMY CORPS.Three Coast Artillery Companies.

This department is co-operating with the War Records Commission
in assisting the Commission to make their records complete for publi-
cation by the official service records of the men from Maryland in the
World War as furnished, the War and Navy Departments and the U.
8. Marine Corps, and from such other authentic sources that are
available to this Department.

Numerous requests are received for the service records of men who
served in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War,
the Civil War, Spanish-American War and the World War. Every
request is complied with, without charge, if the record is available in
the D partment, and when not available the applicant is advised of the
best authentic source to seek the same. Only in respect to the records
pertaining to the Revolutionary, War of 1812, and Mexican Wars are
our records rather incomplete and the incompleteness is solely due to
the methods used in those days of making and preserving records.

MILITIA LAW OF MARYLAND

The National Defense Act required all States to make their military
laws conform with the provisions of the Act, in so far as any State
law might nave been in conflict or might have been deficient as to cer-
tain mandatory features of the Act, to entitle any State to participate'
in the Federal appropriations for arming, equipping and training the
National Guard.

Accordingly, Article 65, P. G. L., Md., was repealed and re-enacted
by the Legislature at its January (1922) session in which certain
provisions of the National Defense Act have been incorporated as the
law of the State, thereby conforming to the Act.

It was also found desirable to provide for the functioning of the
ranking line officer of the National Guard on active duty pay status