Article V.
Executive Department
Section 19.
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The present Militia Officers shall be continued, and Vacancies supplied by appointment of the Governour, with the advice of the Privy Council, on recommendations from the respective County Courts; but the Governor and Council shall have a power of suspending any Officer, and ordering a Court Martial on Complaint of misbehaviour or inability, or to supply Vacancies of Officers happening when in actual service. The Governor may embody the Militia, with the advice of the Privy Council; and, when embodied, shall alone have the direction of the Militia under the laws of the Country.