Officers com. manding in gar.

not to exact ex

orbitant prices

for houses, &c.

visions, or other articles, at a reasonable price, as they shall be answerable for their neglect.

ART. 31. No officer commanding in any of the garrisons, forts, or barracks, of the United States, shall risons, forts, &c. exact exorbitant prices for houses or stalls let out to suttlers, or connive at the like exactions in others; nor, let out to sutiers, by his own authority, and for his private advantage, nor be interested lay any duty or imposition upon, or be interested in, the tuals, liquors.&c. sale of any victuals, liquors, or other necessaries of life, on penalty of being discharged, brought into the garrison, fort, or barracks, for the use of the soldiers, on the penalty of being discharged from the service.

in the sale of vic

Commanding of

good order, re

ART. 32. Every officer commanding in quarters, ficers, to keep garrisons, or on the march, shall keep good order, and, dress abuses, and to the utmost of his power, redress all abuses or disorsee reparation ders, which may be committed by any officer or soldier made to the parties injured, &c. under his command. If, upon complaint made to him, of officers or soldiers beating, or otherwise ill treating, any person, of disturbing fairs or markets, or of committing any kinds of riots, to the disquieting of the citi zens of the United States, he, the said commander, who shall refuse or omit to see justice done to the offender or offenders, and reparation made to the party or parties injured, as far as part of the offender's pay shall enable him or them, shall, upon proof thereof, be cashiered, or otherwise punished, as a general court-martial shall direct.

When any com

or soldier is ac

tal crime, or of

mitted any of

perty of citizens,

manding officers,

&c. to use their

to deliver the ac

ART. 33. When any commissioned officer or soldier missioned officer shall be accused of a capital crime, or of having used cused of a capi violence, or committed any offence, against the persons having com- or property of any citizen of any of the United States, fence against the such as is punishable by the known laws of the land, the persons or pro- commanding officer, and officers of every regiment, &c. the con- troop, or company, to which the person or persons so &c. are required, accused shall belong, are hereby required, upon appliupon application, cation duly made by, or in behalf of, the party or parutmost endeavors ties injured, to use their utmost endeavors to deliver eused to the civil over such accused person or persons, to the civil magistrate, and likewise to be aiding and assisting to the officers of justice in apprehending and securing the person or persons so accused, in order to bring him or them to If any command-trial. If any commanding officer or officers shall wilneglects or re. fully neglect, or shall refuse, upon the application aforeover the accused, said, to deliver over such accused person or persons to &c, he is to be the civil magistrates, or to be aiding and assisting to the officers of justice in apprehending such person or persons, the officer or officers, so offending, shall be cashiered.

magistrate, &c.

ing officer, &c.

fuses to deliver

cashiered.

If any officer

colonel, &c. and,

is refused redress,

to the general,

ART. 34. If any officer shall think himself wronged by his colonel, or the commanding officer of the regi-think himself ment, and shall, upon due application being made to wronged by his him, be refused redress, he may complain to the general, upon application, commanding in the state or territory where such regi- he may complain ment shall be stationed, in order to obtain justice; who who is to exa-" is hereby required to examine into the said complaint. complaint, &c. and take proper measures for redressing the wrong complained of, and transmit, as soon as possible, to the department of war, a true state of such complaint, with the proceedings had thereon.

mine into the

officer or soldier

captain, . he

the commanding

required to sum. mon a regimental court martial;

pear vexatious,

ART. 35. If any inferior, officer or soldier shall if any inferior think himself wronged by his captain, or other officer, think himself he is to complain thereof to the commanding officer of wronged by his the regiment, who is hereby required to sum non a regi- is to complain to mental court-martial, for the doing justice to the com- officer of the replainant; from which regimental court martial, either ginent, who is party may, if he thinks himself still aggrieved. appeal to a general court-martial. But if, upon a second hear- appeal. &e. ing, the appeal shall appear vexatious and groundless, If the appeal ap the person, so appealing, shall be punished at the discre- the person ap tion of the said court-martial. ART. 36. Any commissioned officer, storekeeper. Commissioned of or commissary, who shall be convicted, at a general ficers, store keepcourt-martial, of having sold, without a proper order for of having sold that purpose, embezzled, misapplied, or wilfully, or through neglect, suffered any of the provisions, forage; arms, clothing, ammunition, or other military stores, belonging to the United States, to be spoiled or damaged, shall, at his own expense, make good the loss or good the loss, for damage, and shall, moreover, forfeit all his pay, and be' dismissed from the service.

pealing nay be punished, e.

ers, &e convicted

without a proper

order Re. any

provisions, for age, ar ns, &c.

negligently

su fered any of

them to be spoil

ed. &c. to make

feit pay, &c.

soi

ART. 37. Any non-commissioned officer or soldier Non-commissionwho shall be convicted. at a regimental court-martial.victed of of having sold, or designedly, or through neglect, having sold or wasted the ammunition delivered out to him, to be em- tie, to be punished. ployed in the service of the United States, shall be punished, at the discretion of such court.

wisted ammuni

ed officers or

of having sold,

clothes, e. to

ART. 38. Every non-commissioned officer or soldier Non-commissionwho shall be convicted, before a court-martial, of having soldiers convicted sold, lost, or spoiled, through neglect, his horse, arms. lost or spoiled. clothes, or accoutrements, shall undergo such weekly their horses arms, stoppages (not exceeding the half of his pay as such undergo we-klv court-martial shall judge sufficient for repairing the stoppages of loss or damage; and shall suffer confinement, or such other corporeal punishment as his crime shall deserve. ART. 39. Every officer who shall be convicted, be

&c.

pay,

of embezzlement

ed to them for

men. &c to be

Officers convicted fore a court-martial, of having embezzled or misapplied or misapplication any money, with which he may have been intrusted for of money intrust the payment of the men under his command, or for enthe payment of listing men into the service, or for other purposes, if a cashiered, and commissioned officer, shall be cashiered, and compelled fund; if non- to refund the money; if a non-commissioned officer, shall commissioned of be reduced to the ranks, be put under stoppages until the money be made good, and suffer such corporeal punishment as such court-martial shall direct.

compelled to re

ficers, to be re

duced, &c.

Every captain of

pany accountable

coutrements, &c.

ART. 40. Every captain of a troop, or company, is a troop or com charged with the arms, accoutrements, ammunition, for the arms, ae- clothing, or other warlike stores, belonging to the troop belonging to the or company under his command, which he is to be accompany or countable for to his colonel, in case of their being lost, spoiled, or damaged, not by unavoidable accidents, or on actual service.

troop, &c.

Non-commission

ed officers and

soldiers found one

ART. 41. All non-commissioned officers and soldiers who shall be found one mile from the camp without mile from camp leave, in writing, from their commanding officer, shall writing, &c. to suffer such punishment as shall be inflicted upon them Suffer punish by the sentence of a court martial.

without leave in

ment, &c.

No officer or sol

quarters, &c.

ART. 42. No officer or soldier shall lie out of his dier to lie out of quarters, garrison, or camp, without leave from his suwithout leave, perior officer, upon penalty of being punished, according to the nature of his offence, by the sentence of a courtmartial.

&c.

Non-commission

ed officers and

ART. 43. Every non commissioned officer and solsoldiers to retire dier shall retire to his quarters or tent at the beating of to their tents at the retreat; in default of which he shall be punished acthe retreat. &c. cording to the nature of his offence.

the beat ng of

No officer or sol

pairing to the place of

nor leave it be

fore bein g regu

ART. 44. No officer, non-commissioned officer, or dier to fail in re-soldier, shall fail in repairing, at the time fixed, to the If not prevent place of parade, of exercise, or other rendezvous, apby sickness, &e, pointed by his commanding officer, if not prevented by sickness, or some other evident necessity; or shall go larly dismissed, from the said place of rendezvous, without leave from his commanding officer, before he shall be regularly dismissed or relieved, on the penalty of being punished, according to the nature of his offence, by the sentence of a court-martial.

&c.

Any commission

drunk on guard,

ART. 45. Any commissioned officer who shall be ed officer found found drunk on his guard, party, or other duty, shall be &c. to be cashier cashiered. Any non-commissioned, officer or soldier sa &c. in that ease, offending, shall suffer such corporeal punishment as to suffer or shall be inflicted by the sentence of a court-martial.

ART. 46. Any centinel who shall be found sleeping upon his post, or shall leave it before he shall be regular

İy relieved, shall suffer death, or such other punishment posts, &e to suf as shall be inflicted by the sentence of a court martial, fer death, &c.

another to do his

be excused, but

ART. 47. No soldier belonging to any regiment. No soldier to hire troop, or company, shall hire another to do his duty for duty for him, or him, or be excused from duty, but in cases of sickness. in cases of sickdisability, or leave of absence; and every such soldier ness, &c. found guilty of hiring his duty, as also the party so hired to do another's duty, shall be punished, at the discretion of a regimental court-martial.

Non-commission.

niving at hiring

duced, and com⋅

ART. 48. And every non-commissioned officer con-ed officers conniving at such hiring of duty aforesaid, shall be reduced; of duty, to be re and every commissioned officer, knowing and allowing missioned offisuch ill practices in the service, shall be punished by and allowing it, the judgment of a general court-martial.

cers, knowing

to be punished,

&c.

occasions false alarms in camp,

death, or other

ART. 49. Any officer belonging to the service of Any officer who the United States, who, by discharging of fire arms, drawing of swords, beating of drums, or by any other &e, to suffer means whatsoever, shall occasion false alarms in camp, punishment. garrison, or quarters, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a general court-martial.

diers, without ur

ART. 50. Any officer or soldier who shall, without offers or solurgent necessity, or without the leave of his superior gent necessity or officer. quit his guard, platoon, or division, shall be leave quitting punished, according to the nature of his offence, by the punished, &c. sentence of a court-martial.

guard, &c. to be

diers not to do

provisions to

ART. 51. No officer or soldier shall do violence to Officers and solany person who brings provisions or other necessaries violence to perto the camp, garrison, or quarters, of the forces of the Sons bringing United States. employed in any parts out of the said camp. &c. out of states, upon pain of death, or such other punishment as a pain of death,&c. court-martial shall direct.

the U. States, on

diers who misbe

way. &c. to suf

ART. 52. Any officer or soldier, who shall misbe- Officers or solhave himself before the enemy, run away, or shamefully have before the abandon any fort, post, or guard, which he or they may enemy, run abe commanded to defend, or speak words inducing fer death, or other punish others to do the like; or shall cast away his arms and ment, &c. ammunition, or who shall quit his post or colors to plunder and pillage, every such offender, being duly convicted thereof, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a general court-martial.

ART. 53. Any person belonging to the armies of the United States, who shall make known the watch word to any person who is not entitled to receive it, according to the rules and discipline of war, or shall sume to give a parole or watch word, different from

pre

Persons belong making known co suffer

ing to the armies

the watch word,

death, or other punishment.

diers to behave

ters. &c. and

by order of the

chiet &c. to be

what he received, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a general court-martial.

Officers and sol- ART. 54. All officers and soldiers are to behave orderly in quar- themselves orderly in quarters, and on their march; such as commit and whosoever shall commit any waste or spoil, either waste, &c. unless in walks of trees, parks, warrens, fish ponds, houses, commander-in- or gardens, cornfields, enclosures of meadows, or shall punished, &c. maliciously destroy any property whatsoever, belonging to the inhabitants, of the United States, unless by order of the then commander-in-chief of the armies of the said states, shall (besides such penalties as they are liable to by law) be punished, according to the nature and degree of the offence, by the judgment of a regimental or general court-martial.

Whosoever, in foreign parts, forces a safe guard, is to suffer death.

Whosoever re

with money,

ART. 55. Whosoever, belonging to the armies of the United States, employed in foreign parts, shall force a safe guard, shall suffer death.

ART. 56. Whosoever shall relieve the enemy with lieves the enemy money, victuals, or ammunition, or shall knowingly vietuals. e. is harbor or protect an enemy, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a court-martial.

to suffer death, or other punish

ment, &c.

Death, or other punishment, &c.

respondence

ART 57. Whosoever shall be convicted of holding for holding cor- correspondence with, or giving intelligence to, the enewith, or giving my, either directly or indirectly, shall suffer death, or intelligence to such other punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a court-martial.

the enemy, &c.

Public stores taken in the ene

to be secured for

ART. 58. All public stores taken in the enemy's my's camp, &c. camp, towns, forts, or magazines, whether of artillery, the service of ammunition, clothing, forage, or provisions, shall be sethe U., States, &c. cured for the service of the United States; for the neglect of which the commanding officer is to be answerable.

Death, &c. for

the officers and

garrison, &c. compelling a commander to give up to the enemy, &c.

ART. 59. If any commander of any garrison, forsoldiers of any trees, or post, shall be compelled, by the officers and soldiers under his command. to give up to the enemy, or to abandon it, the commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers or soldiers, who shall be convicted of having so offended, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be inflicted upon them by the sentence of a court-martial.

Sutlers, and re

orders, &c.

ART. 60. All sutlers and retainers to the camp, and tailers subject to all persons whatsoever, serving with the armies of the United States in the field, though not enlisted soldiers, are to be subject to orders, according to the rules and discipline of war.