Section 34
SEC. 34. For the purpose of determining the fitness of applicants for commission in the National Guard units about to be formed, the Commander in Chief may appoint a board of four officers, one of whom shall be a medical officer, whose duty it shall be to proceed to the locality where the unit is to be formed and ascertain the fitness and general efficiency of those who offer themselves or who are suggested to the board as suitable for commissioned officers and make a report of the result of their observation and examination through the adjutant-general to the Commander in Chief.