Chap. 1.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 306 of the Code of Virginia

as heretofore amended. —

Approved January 16, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three hundred and six of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 306. The organization, armament and discipline of the Virginia
militia or volunteers shall be the same as that which is now or may
hereafter be prescribed’ for the tegular and volunteer armies of the
United States, and the governor is hereby authorized to promulgate and
put into effect such rules and regulations as he may deem advisable in
order to make the organization, armament and discipline of the State
militia, or volunteers, accord with those prescribed by law for the regu-
lar and volunteer armies of the United States; provided, that in time .
of peace, the minimum number of enlisted men in each company, troop,
battery, signal corps, engineer corps and hospital corps shall be the
same as that prescribed by the president of the United States for the
militia of the several States.

2. All laws in conflict with this act are, to that extent, hereby re-
pealed.

3. An emergency existing on account of the statute heretofore enacted
by the congress of the United States, this act shall take effect from its
passage.