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Except as in this Article otherwise provided, officers and
enlisted men shall receive the same per diem pay, including
longevity and allowance, as officers and enlisted men of
the Regular Army of like grade and length of service; pro-
vided that nothing in this section shall be construed as au-
thorizing the Banking Line Officer to draw any salary except
that authorized and provided in the Budget.

In addition to pay, each enlisted man shall receive rations,
or commutation thereof, as prescribed by the Governor.

Officers, warrant officers and enlisted men who are full
time employees of the Military Department shall be entitled
to receive the same pay, including longevity pay, subsistence
and allowances as are authorized for persons of correspond-
ing grades and length of service in the Regular Army.

Each enlisted man, who has served a full three-year term
of enlistment and who re-enlists within ninety days after the
expiration of his previous enlistment, shall receive an in-
crease of 10 per cent, of his pay during this enlistment, and
for each three years of enlistment served thereafter an in-
crease of 10 per cent, shall be granted; not to exceed forty
per cent.

Each enlisted man who qualifies as prescribed by the
Governor, in small arms practice or as proficient in the
various duties of the branch or arm to which he belongs, shall
be paid the following increase in pay of their respective
grades for a period of one year beginning on January first
following such qualification: Experts, 20 per cent.; sharp-
shooters, gunners, drivers, and medical, first class, 15 per
cent; marksmen, gunners, drivers, and medical, second class,
10 per cent.

For all purposes of this section, officers and enlisted men
of the Organized Militia, who entered 'the military or naval
service of the United States in the Spanish-American or sub-
sequent wars, shall be entitled to credit for the time served
in such service as if the service had been rendered in the
Organized Militia.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1949.

Approved March 31, 1949.

CHAPTER 132
(House Bill 69)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 34
of Article 65 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939
Edition), title "Militia", authorizing the payment of rent,