contributing member of not less than ten dollars per annum, which money shall be paid into the company treasury and be applied to the purchase of uniforms for the rank and file of the active members of the company, or to such purposes as may be authorized by such company.
Certificates to contributing members.
4915. Certificate of contributing members. Each contributing member of every legally organized company shall be entitled to receive from the commanding officer thereof a certificate of membership, which certificate shall exempt the holder thereof from jury duty.
Organizations may own personal property. 4916. May own personal property. Organizations of the National Guard shall have the right to own and keep personal property, which shall belong to and be under the control of the active members thereof; and the commanding officer of any organization may recover for its use any debts or effects belonging to it, or damages for injury to such property, action for such recovery to be brought in the name of the commanding officer thereof before any court of justice within the State, and no suit or complaint pending in his name shall be abated by his ceasing to be commanding officer of the organization; but upon motion of the commander succeeding him such commander shall be admitted to prosecute the suit or complaint in like manner and with like effect as if it had been originally commenced by him.
Rules and regulations prescribed by companies. 4917. Companies may make rules and regulations. Each company or division of the National Guard shall have power to prescribe such rules and regulations for its government as they may think proper, and fix such fines for absence from parades and drills as may be reasonable and not inconsistent with the laws relating to the National Guard and the regulations prescribed therefor by the commander in chief. A copy of such constitution and by-laws shall be filed in the Adjutant General’s office.
{{c|XII. Active—Naval.
Organization of naval malitia 4918. Performs same duty as land forces. The naval militia Organization of shall be organized on the basis provided in section four thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight of this chapter. Officers and enlisted men of the naval militia may be required to perform the same duty in each year as the land forces, except that duty, in whole or in part, may in the discretion of the commander in chief be performed afloat.
System of discipline. 4919. System of discipline. The system of discipline shall con- form generally to that of the Navy of the United States and as closely to that of the land forces of this State as the difference in the two services will allow.
