Every commissioned officer of the Kansas national guard shall provide himself or herself with a suitable uniform, arms and equipments within sixty days from date of the commission; but every noncommissioned officer, musician and private shall be furnished with a uniform, arms and equipments free of expense, as hereinafter provided. The uniforms of the Kansas national guard shall conform as nearly as practicable to the undress uniform adopted for the army of the United States, and the governor shall make requisition on the secretary of war against the allotment to the state of Kansas by the general government to provide arms and equipment for the militia, from time to time, as uniforms may be required for the purposes provided in this act; and the military board shall prescribe the rules and regulations under which said uniforms and equipment shall be issued to and used by the Kansas national guard.