missary of musters, certificates, &c., signifying how long officers not appearing have been absent, and the reason of it. Commanding officers of troops or companies to give certificates of the absence of privates, &c. The certificates, &c., to be remitted to the department of war, &c. 14. Officers convicted of having signed false certificates, &c., to be cashiered. 15. Officers making false musters, or signing false muster rolls, &c., to be cashiered and disabled to hold any office, &c. 16. Commissaries of musters, &c., convicted of taking money, or other gratification, on mustering, or signing muster rolls, to be displaced, &c. 17. Officers mustering persons as soldiers, who are not soldiers, deemed guilty of a false muster, &c. 18. Officers making false returns to the department of war, &c., to be cashiered. 19. Commanding officers of regiments, &c., to remit in the beginning of every month, to the department of war, an exact return of the regiment, &c., specifying the names of officers absent, &c. Officers neglecting to send returns, to be punished, &c. 20. Officers and soldiers convicted of desertion, &c., to suffer death or other punishment, &c. 21. Non-commissioned officers or soldiers absenting themselves without leave, to be punished, &c. 22. Non-commissioned officers or soldiers not to enlist in any other regiment, &c., without a regular discharge, &c. Officers knowingly receiving deserters, &c., or not giving notice, &c., to be cashiered. 23. Officers or soldiers persuading others to desert, to suffer death or other punishment, &c. 24. Officers or soldiers using reproachful or provoking speeches, &c., to be put in arrest, or confined, &c. 25. Officers and soldiers neither to send nor accept challenges, on pain of being cashiered, or of suffering corporeal punishment, &c. 26. Officers commanding guards, knowingly suffering persons to go forth to fight duels, to be punished as challengers; and seconds, &c., to be deemed principals, &c. Every officer commanding an army, regiment, &c., knowing to a challenge being given, &c., to arrest and bring offenders to a trial, &c. 27. All officers have power to quell quarrels, frays, &c. Whoever refuses to obey, &c., to be punished, &c. 28. Officers or soldiers upbraiding another for refusing a challenge, to be punished as challengers, &c. 29. Sutlers not permitted to sell liquors, &c., after nine at night, nor before beating of reveille, nor on Sundays during divine service, &c. 30. Commanding officers to see that sutlers supply the soldiers with wholesome provisions, &c. 31. Officers commanding in garrisons, forts, &c., not to exact exorbitant prices for houses, &c., let out to sutlers, nor be interested in the sale of victuals, liquors, &c., on penalty of being discharged. 32. Commanding officers to keep good order, redress abuses, and see reparation made to the parties injured, &c. 33. When any commissioned officer or soldier is accused of a capital crime, or of having committed any offence against the persons or property of citizens, &c., the commanding officers, &c., are required upon application, &c., to use their utmost endeavors to deliver the accused to the civil magistrate, &c. If any commanding officer, &c., neglects or refuses to deliver over the accused, &c., he is to be cashiered. 34. If any officer think himself wronged by his colonel, &c., and, upon application, is refused redress, he may complain to the general, who is to examine into the complaint, &c. 35. If any inferior officer or soldier think himself wronged by his captain, &c., he is to complain to the commanding officer of the regiment, who is required to summon a regimental court-martial, appeal, &c. If the appeal appear vexatious, the person appealing may be punished, &c. 36. Commissioned officers, storekeepers, &c., convicted of having sold without a proper order, &c., any provisions, forage, arms, &c., or negligently suffered any of them to be spoiled,

&c., to make good the loss, forfeit pay, &c. 37. Non-commissioned officers or soldiers convicted of having sold or wasted ammunition, &c., to be punished. 38. Non-commissioned officers or soldiers convicted of having sold, lost, or spoiled their horses, arms, clothes, &c., to undergo weekly stoppages of pay, &c. 39. Officers convicted of embezzlement or misapplication of money entrusted to them for the payment of men, &c., to be cashiered, and compelled to refund; if non-commissioned officers, to be reduced, &c. 40. Every captain of a troop or company accountable for the arms, accoutrements, &c., belonging to the company or troop, &c. 41. Non-commissioned officers and soldiers found one mile from camp without leave in writing, &c., to suffer punishment, &c. 42. No officer or soldier to lie out of quarters, &c., without leave, &c. 43. Non-commissioned officers and soldiers to retire to their tents at the beating of the retreat, &c. 44. No officer or soldier to fail in repairing to the place of parade, if not prevented by sickness, &c., nor leave it before being regularly dismissed, &c. 45. Any commissioned officer found drunk on guard, &c., to be cashiered; and soldiers, &c., in that case, to suffer corporeal punishment, &c. 46. Sentinels sleeping on their posts, &c., to suffer death, &c. 47. No soldier to hire another to do his duty for him, or be excused but in cases of sickness, &c. 48. Noncommissioned officers conniving at hiring of duty, to be reduced, and commissioned officers, knowing and allowing it, to be punished, &c. 49. Any officer who occasions false alarms in camp, &c., to suffer death, or other punishment. 50. Officers or soldiers, without urgent necessity or leave, quitting guard, &c., to be punished, &c. 51. Officers and soldiers not to do violence to persons bringing provisions to camp, &c., out of the United States, on pain of death, &c. 52. Officers or soldiers who misbehave before the enemy, run away, &c., to suffer death, or other punishment, &c. 53. Persons belonging to the armies making known the watchword, &c., to suffer death, or other punishment. 54. Officers and soldiers to behave orderly in quarters, &c., and such as commit waste, &c., unless by order of the commander-in-chief, &c., to be punished, &c. 55. Whosoever, in foreign parts, forces a safeguard, is to suffer death. 56. Whosoever relieves the enemy with money, victuals, &c., is to suffer death, or other punishment, &c. 57. Death, or other punishment, &c., for holding correspondence with or giving intelligence to the enemy, &c. 58. Public stores taken in the enemy's camp, &c., to be secured for the service of the United States, &c. 59. Death, &c., for the officers and soldiers of any garrison, &c., compelling a commander to give up to the enemy, &c. 60. Sutlers and retainers subject to orders, &c. 61. Officers having brevets or commissions of a prior date to those of the regiment in which they serve, may take place, &c., according to the ranks given them, &c. 62. If, upon marches, &c., different corps happen to join, &c., the officer highest in rank, &c., to command, unless, &c. 63. Engineers not to assume, nor be subject to, any duty beyond the line of their immediate profession, except, &c. 64. General courts-martial may consist of any number of commissioned officers, from 5 to 13, &c. 65. General officers, or colonels, commanding, &c., may appoint general courts-martial, &c. No sentence of a courtmartial to be carried into execution until the proceedings have been laid before the officer ordering it, &c. No sentence of a general court-martial, in time of peace, extending to loss of life, &c., or which, in peace or war, respects a general officer, to be carried into execution until the proceedings have been laid before the President, &c. 66. Officers commanding regiments or corps, my appoint courts-martial, &c., for offences not capital. Officers commanding gar

risons, &c., may assemble courts-martial, &c. 67. No garrison or regimental e art martial empowered to try capital cases, &c. 68. Whenever convenient, &... the officers of marines shall be associated with officers of the land force, for bling courts martial, &c. 69. The judge-advocate, &c., to prosecute in the name of the United States, but shall consider himself counsel for the prisoner, so far, &c. The judge advocate to administer an oath to each member of the eurt, &c. Form of the oath. The President of the court to administer an oath to the judge advocate. Form of the judge-advocate's oath. 70. When a pria ner, from obstinacy, de, stand- mute, &c., the court may proceed to trial, &c. 71. When a member is challenged by a prisoner, he must state the cause, &c. 7: Members to behave with decency; and the youngest in commission to vote first. 7. Witnesses to be examined on oath. Form of the oath of a witness. 74. In cases not espital, &c., depositions may be taken, and read, &c., provided the prosecutor and accused are present, &c. 75. No officer to be tried but by a general court martial, &e. No proceedings except between eight and three, unless, &c. 76. No person to use menacing words or gestures, &c., in presence of a ex urt martial, &c. 77. When an officer is charged with a crime, he is to be arrested, deprived of his sword, &c. 7%. Non-commissioned officers and solders charged with crimes to be enfined until tried, &c. 79. Officers and solders in arrest not to ecntinue in enfinement more than eight days, &c. 80. No ver emmanding a guard, &c., to refuse to receive a prisoner, provided, &c. $1. Noofrer commanding a guard, &c., to release any person committed to his charge, de ×2. Officers to whom prisoners are committed, to make report, &c., within twenty-f- ur hours, of their names, crimes, &c. ×3. Commissioned officers e av sted, de, of conduct unbecoming an officer, &c., to be dismissed, &c. ×4. In cases where a eurt martial suspends an officer from command, they are em✯ wered to suspend his pay and emoluments, &c. 85. Where a commissioned eer in cashiered for cowardice or fraud, the crime, name, &e, of the delinquent, t be published, in the newspapers, &c. 56. Where the number of officers 10 tale 1 rate to form a general court martial, the emmanding officer of the ieta- hment, &c., to report to the e mmanding officer of the department, &c. 47 No person to be sentenced to death, but by the concurrence of two thirds f the members of a general ecurt martial, &c., nor more than fifty lashes to **, N› person hable to be tried and punished by a general courtmart ai for any offence committed more than two years before, unless, &c. མས་ཚོད་གས A. er authorized to order a general court mart al, empowered to pardon or mitigate any punishment, &c., except, &c. The colonel, &c., of a regi ment of garrien, de, may pardon or mitigate, de 90. Julge advocates, &c., të transmet, as expeditiously as possible, the original proece lings and senten es of general ecurts martial to the secretary of war, in whose offee they to preserved The party tried by a general ecurt martial entitled to a the sentence, &c. 91 Where the general, de, may order a e art of in the court to epost of not exceeding three, and a julge advocate, aw ・m, đe. Courts of inquiry to have the same p wers as e urts summa witnesses, de, but are not to give an spin on unless ape fergured, de 92 Proceedings of courts of inquiry t he authenticated by the signatures of the ree rder and president, &c., and may be adn tted na evidence by e urts martial in cases not capital, &c., provided, de Courts of inquiry jr hibuted unless directed by the President, de 9.3 The inige advorate â, taiminister an oath to the members Form of the ath The pre

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sident of the court to administer an oath to the judge-advocate. Form of judge-advocate's oath. Witnesses to take the oath, &c. 94. When a commissioned officer dies, &c., the major of the regiment, &c., is immediately to secure all his effects, &c., make an inventory, and transmit it to the war department, &c. 95. When a non-commissioned officer or soldier dies, &c., the commanding officer of the troop, &c., is to take an account of what effects he died possessed of, &c., and transmit it to the department of war, &c., and the effects to be accounted for, &c. In case officers authorized to take care of the effects of deceased officers and soldiers have occasion to leave the regiment, &c., they are to deposit the effects in the hands of the commanding officer, &c. 96. Officers, &c., in the corps of engineers, &c., to be governed by the preceding rules, &c. 97. Officers and soldiers of any troops, militia or others, being mustered, &c., when acting with regular forces, to be governed by these rules and articles, subject to be tried by courts-martial, &c., save that the courts are to be composed of militia officers. 98. Officers serving by commission from the authority of any particular state, when employed in conjunction with the regular forces, to take rank next after all officers of like grade in the regular forces, &c. 99. All crimes not capital, and all disorders and neglects, &c., though not mentioned in the preceding articles, to be taken cognizance of by courts-martial. 100. The President empowered to prescribe the uniform of the army. 101. The foregoing articles to be read and published once in every six months, to every garrison or regiment, &c. SEC. 2. In time of war, aliens found lurking about fortifications or the encampments of the armies, to suffer death, &c. SEC. 3. Rules and regulations by which the armies have been heretofore governed, to be henceforth void, &c., except, &c.

That, from and after the passing of this act, the following shall be the rules and articles by which the armies of the United States shall be governed:

ARTICLE 1. Every officer now in the army of the United States shall, in six months from the passing of this act, and every officer who shall hereafter be appointed shall, before he enters on the duties of his office, subscribe these rules and regulations.

ART. 2. It is earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers diligently to attend divine service; and all officers who shall behave indecently or irreverently at any place of divine worship shall, if commissioned officers, be brought before a general courtmartial, there to be publicly and severely reprimanded by the president; if non-commissioned officers or soldiers, every person so offending shall, for his first offence, forfeit one-sixth of a dollar, to be deducted out of his next pay; for the second offence, he shall not only forfeit a like sum, but be confined twenty-four hours; and for every like offence, shall suffer and pay in like manner; which money, so forfeited, shall be applied, by the

captain or senior officer of the troop or company, to the use of the sick soldiers of the company or troop to which the offender belong.

ART. 3. Any non-commissioned officer or soldier who shall use any profane oath or execration, shall incur the penalties expressed in the foregoing article; and a commissioned officer shall forfeit and pay, for each and every such offence, one dollar, to be applied as in the preceding article.

ART. 4. Every chaplain commissioned in the army or armies of the United States, who shall absent himself from the duties assigned him, excepting in cases of sickness or leave of absence.) shail, on conviction thereof before a court-martial, be fined not exceeding one month's pay, besides the loss of his pay during h.s absence; or be discharged, as the said court-martial shall judge proper.

ART. 5. Any officer or soldier who shall use contemptuous or disrespectful words against the President of the United States, against the Vice-President thereof, against the Congress of the United States, or against the Chief Magistrate or Legislature of any of the United States in which he may be quartered, if a commissioned officer, shall be cashiered, or otherwise punished, as a court-martial shall direct; if a non-commissioned officer or soldier, he shall suffer such punishment as shall be inflicted on bm by the sentence of a court-martial.

ART 6 Any officer or soldier who shall behave himself with enten.pt or disrespect toward his commanding officer, shall be punished, according to the nature of his offence, by the judg ment of a court-martial.

ART 7 Any officer or soldier who shall begin, excite, cause, or join in any mutiny or sedition, in any troop or company in the service of the United States, or in any party, post, detachment, or guard, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as by a court-martial shall be inflicted.

ART. Any officer, non-commissioned officer, or soldier, who, being present at any mutiny or sedition, does not use his utmost endeavor to suppress the same, or, coming to the knowledge of any intended mutiny, does not, without delay, give information thereof to his commanding officer, shall be punished by the settence of a court-martial with death, or otherwise, according to the nature of his offence.