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Chapter 59—National Guard, Organization and Maintenance, § 3, in State of Oklahoma Session Laws of 1907-1908 (1908).

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  • 1908
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"Sec. 3. The governor of the state shall be the commander-in-chief of the militia, and as such shall have supreme command of the military forces of the state while in the service of the state, or until they are ordered and accepted into the service of the United States. While in the service of the state, he shall have power at any time to muster out any militia organization of the state, and he may discharge any enlisted man, and he may cause to be mustered out and discharged any commissioned officers who shall wilfully [sic] neglect the duties of his office, or shall fail to properly account for public property or money in his possession, as such officer. The resignation of officers of the organized militia shall be accepted by his order before they can be discharged from the military service of the state. No armed military force from another state or territory shall be permitted to enter the state without his permission unless such military force be a part of the United States Army, or is acting under the authority of the United States. No independent military organization, except as a corps of cadets at the educational institution, shall be permitted to bear arms with first securing the permission of the commander-in-chief."

1908, OK, State of Oklahoma Session Laws of 1907-1908, Ch. 59, § 3


State of Oklahoma Session Laws of 1907-1908 Passed at the First Session of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Oklahoma Convened at Guthrie, the Second Day of December, A. D. 1907 (Guthrie, OK: Oklahoma Printing Co., 1908), 562. Chapter 59—National Guard, Organization and Maintenance, Article 1—An Act to Provide for the Organization, Discipline and Regulation of the Oklahoma National Guard, § 3. H. B. No. 353. Approved May 22, 1908.