AN ACT to authorize volunteer fire companies and associations,
subject to the approval of the Governor and the Adjutant
General of the State, to constitute themselves County
Guards of the county in which they may he serving; to pro-
vide rules and regulations governing the duties of such
County Guards, and subjecting such Guards to the militia
laws of the State.
CHAPTER 26.

AN ACT to add nine additional sections to Article 65 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Militia." as said Arti-
cle was repeated and re-enacted by Chapter 311 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1916, said addi-
tional sections to follow immediately after Section 00 of said
Article, and to be numbered, respectively, Sections 91, 92,
93, 94. 95, 96. 97, 98 and 99, the same "providing for the
organization, duties and maintenance of the Maryland State
Guard.
CHAPTER 33

AN ACT providing for the assignment of able-bodied male per-
sons. between the ages of 18 and 50 years, inelusive, not
regularly and continously employed. to work in occupa-
tions carried on by the State, the Counties or the City of
Baltimore, or by private employers, whenever, because of a
state of war, the Governor determines such assignments to
be necessary for the protection and welfare of the State, and
finds such occupation essential for the protection and wel-
fare of the State and the United States, and that the same
can not be carried on as the protection and welfare of the
people of this State and of the United States require with-
out resort to this Act, no person to be assigned to any work
he is not physically able to do; and providing the procedure
and the means and for rules and regulations for carrying
this Act into effect, and for compensation to persons so as-
signed to work, for the period of such assignments, and
penalties for non-compliance with the Act.

CHAPTER 40.

AN ACT to add two additional sections to Article 33 of the An-
notated Code of Maryland, title "Elections," sub-title
"Registration," said additional sections to follow immedi-