Arson of armory, arsenal, &c. Arson of vessel of war. Sec. 14 jurisdiction, willfully and maliciously burns any dwellingmansion-house, or any store, barn, stable, or other building, any dwelling or mansion-house, shall suffer death. SEC. 5386. Every person who, in any of the places mention preceding section, maliciously sets fire to, or burns, any arsena magazine, rope-walk, ship-house, warehouse, block-house, or ba any store-house, barn, or stable, not parcel of a dwelling-hous other building not mentioned in such section, or any vessel begun to be built, or repairing, or any light-house, or beaco timber, cables, rigging, or other materials for building, repairi ting out vessels, or any pile of wood, boards, or other lumbe military, naval, or victualing stores, arms, or other munition shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dol by imprisonment at hard labor not more than ten years. SEC. 5387. Every person who maliciously sets on fire, or otherwise destroys, any vessel of war of the United States, aflo high seas, or in any arm of the sea, or in any river, haven, cree or bay within the admiralty jurisdiction of the United States, of the jurisdiction of any particular State, shall suffer death. ARTICLES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE NAV Art. 13. Receiving articles for freight. 14. False muster. 15. Waste of public property, &c. 17. Refusing to apprehend offender 9. Officers absent without leave may be 10. Desertion by resignation. 11. Dealing in supplies on private accou 12. Importing dutiable goods in public v 13. Distilled spirits only as medical stor 14. Certain crimes of fraud against th States. 15, 16, and 17, under PRIZE. 18. Returning fugitives from service. 4. Property of deceased persons. 6. Accounts of men sent from the s 7. Inspection of provisions. 9. Attendance at final payment of t 10. Articles for the government of t Punishment for offending aga article. 21. Authority of officers after loss of vess 22. Offenses not specified. 23. Offenses committed on shore. 24. Punishments by order of commander. 25. Punishment by officer temporarily co Title 15, Chap. 10. SEC. 1624. The Navy of the United States shall be governed Articles estab. following articles: lished. Commander's vision and cor. rection. ARTICLE 1. The commanders of all fleets, squadrons, naval sta duty of super- and vessels belonging to the Navy, are required to show in them a good example of virtue, honor, patriotism, and subordination; vigilant in inspecting the conduct of all persons who are placed their command; to guard against and suppress all dissolute and im practices, and to correct, according to the laws and regulations Navy, all persons who are guilty of them; and any such comm 15 who offends against this article shall be punished as a court-martial may ART. 2. The commanders of vessels and naval stations to which chap- Divine service. Irreverent behavior. ART. 3. Any irreverent or unbecoming behavior during divine service shall be punished as a general or summary court-martial may direct. ART. 4. The punishment of death, or such other punishment as a court-martial may adjudge, may be inflicted on any person in the naval ishable by death. service First. Who makes, or attempts to make, or unites with any mutiny or mutinous assembly, or, being witness to or present at any mutiny, does not do his utmost to suppress it; or, knowing of any mutinous assembly or of any intended mutiny, does not immediately communicate his knowledge to his superior or commanding officer; Second. Or disobeys the lawful orders of his superior officer; Offenses pun Mutiny. Disobedience of orders. Striking supe Third. Or strikes or assaults, or attempts or threatens to strike or assault, his superior officer while in the execution of the duties of his rior officer. office; Fourth. Or gives any intelligence to, or holds or entertains any inter- Intercourse course with, an enemy or rebel, without leave from the President, the with an enemy. Secretary of the Navy, the commander-in-chief of the fleet, the commander of the squadron, or, in case of a vessel acting singly, from his commanding officer; Fifth. Or receives any message or letter from an enemy or rebel, or, Messages from being aware of the unlawful reception of such message or letter, fails an enemy. to take the earliest opportunity to inform his superior or commanding officer thereof; Sixth. Or, in time of war, deserts or entices others to desert; [See §§ 1996-1998, CITIZENSHIP ;] Seventh. Or, in time of war, deserts or betrays his trust, or entices or aids others to desert or betray their trust; Desertion in time of war. Deserting trust. Sleeping on Ninth. Or leaves his station before being regularly relieved; watch. Leaving sta tion. vessel. Tenth. Or intentionally or willfully suffers any vessel of the Navy to Willful strandbe stranded, or run upon rocks or shoals, or improperly hazarded; or ing or injury of maliciously or willfully injures any vessel of the Navy, or any part of her tackle, armament, or equipment, whereby the safety of the vessel is hazarded or the lives of the crew exposed to danger; Eleventh. Or unlawfully sets on fire, or otherwise unlawfully destroys, Unlawful any public property not at the time in possession of an enemy, pirate, struction of pubor rebel; lic property. Twelfth. Or strikes or attempts to strike the flag to an enemy or rebel, Striking flag without proper authority, or, when engaged in battle, treacherously or treacherously yields or pusillanimously cries for quarters; Thirteenth. Or, in time of battle, displays cowardice, negligence, or disaffection, or withdraws from or keeps out of danger to which he should expose himself; yielding. de Cowardice in battle. Deserting duty in battle. Fourteenth. Or, in time of battle, deserts his duty or station, or entices others to do so; Fifteenth. Or does not properly observe the orders of his commanding, Neglecting orofficer, and use his utmost exertions to carry them into execution, wheu for battle. ordered to prepare for or join in, or when actually engaged in, battle, or while in sight of an enemy; ders to prepare Sixteenth. Or, being in command of a fleet, squadron, or vessel acting Neglecting to singly, neglects, when an engagement is probable, or when an armed clear for action. vessel of an enemy or rebel is in sight, to prepare and clear his ship or ships for action; Seventeenth. Or does not, upon signal for battle, use his utmost exertions to join in battle; Eighteenth. Or fails to encourage, in his own person, his inferior cers and men to fight courageously; Neglecting to join on signal for battle. offi Nineteenth. Or does not do his utmost to overtake and capture or destroy any vessel which it is his duty to encounter; Failing to encourage the men to fight. Failing to seek encounter. Failing to afford relief in battle. Spies. Murder. Twentieth. Or does not afford all practicable relief and ass vessels belonging to the United States or their allies when e battle.. ART. 5. All persons who, in time of war, or of rebellion ag supreme authority of the United States, come or are found in city of spies, or who bring or deliver any seducing letter or mes au enemy or rebel, or endeavor to corrupt any person in the betray his trust, shall suffer death, or such other punishment a martial may adjudge. ART. 6. If any person belonging to any public vessel of th States commits the crime of murder without the territorial ju thereof, he may be tried by court-martial and punished with d Imprisonment ART. 7. A naval court-martial may adjudge the punishme in a penitentiary. prisonment for life, or for a stated term, at hard labor, in any c it is authorized to adjudge the punishment of death; and such of imprisonment and hard labor may be carried into executio prison or penitentiary under the control of the United States, the United States may be allowed, by the legislature of any use; and persons so imprisoned in the prison or penitentia State or Territory shall be subject, in all respects, to the same and treatment as convicts sentenced by the courts of the State tory in which the same may be situated. Offenses punishable at discreART. 8. Such punishment as a court-martial may adjudge m tion of court-mar- flicted on any person in the Navy tial. Profanity, falsehood, &c. Cruelty. Quarreling. Fomenting quarrels. Duels. Contempt o f First. Who is guilty of profane swearing, falsehood, drun gambling, fraud, theft, or any other scandalous conduct tendi destruction of good morals; Second. Or is guilty of cruelty toward, or oppression or maltı of, any person subject to his orders; Third. Or quarrels with, strikes, or assaults, or uses prov reproachful words, gestures, or menaces toward, any person Navy; Fourth. Or endeavors to foment quarrels between other perso Navy; Fifth. Or sends or accepts a challenge to fight a duel or second in a duel; Sixth. Or treats his superior officer with contempt, or is disre superior officer. to him in language or deportment, while in the execution of hi Combinations Seventh. Or joins in or abets any combination to weaken th against superior officer. authority of, or lessen the respect due to, his commanding offic Eighth. Or utters any seditious or mutinous words; Mutinous words. Neglect of orders. Preventing destruction of public property. Negligent stranding. Negligence in convoy service. Receiving articles for freight. False muster. Waste of pub. lic property, &c. Plundering on shore. Refusing to ap Ninth. Or is negligent or careless in obeying orders, or culpabl cient in the performance of duty; Tenth. Or does not use his best exertions to prevent the u destruction of public property by others; Eleventh. Or, through inattention or negligence, suffers any v the Navy to be stranded, or run upon a rock or shoal, or hazard Twelfth. Or, when attached to any vessel appointed as convoy merchant or other vessels, fails diligently to perform his duty, or d or exacts any compensation for his services, or maltreats the off crews of such merchant or other vessels; Thirteenth. Or takes, receives, or permits to be received, on bo vessel to which he is attached, any goods or merchandise, for sale, or traffic, except gold, silver, or jewels, for freight or safe-ke or demands or receives any compensation for the receipt or tran tion of any other article than gold, silver, or jewels, without au from the President or Secretary of the Navy; Fourteenth. Or knowingly makes or signs, or aids, abets, dire procures the making or signing of, any false muster; Fifteenth. Or wastes any ammunition, provisions, or other publi erty, or, having power to prevent it, knowingly permits such wa Sixteenth. Or, when on shore, plunders, abuses, or maltreats a habitant, or injures his property in any way; Seventeenth. Or refuses, or fails to use, his utmost exertions to prehend offend- apprehend, and bring to punishment all offenders, or to aid all p appointed for that purpose; ers. Refusing to receive prisoners. Eighteenth. Or, when rated or acting as master-at-arms, ref receive such prisoners as may be committed to his charge, or, 17 received them, suffers them to escape, or dismisses them without orders Twentieth. Or violates or refuses obedience to any lawful general Twenty-first. Or, in time of peace, deserts or attempts to desert, or aids and entices others to desert; [See §§ 1996-1998, CITIZENSHIP ] Twenty-second. Or receives or entertains any deserter from any other vessel of the Navy, knowing him to be such, and does not, with all convenient speed, give notice of such deserter to the commander of the vessel to which he belongs, or to the commander-in-chief, or to the commander of the squadron. ART. 9. Any officer who absents himself from his command without leave may, by the sentence of a court-martial, be reduced to the rating of an ordinary seaman. Officer absent without leave may be reduced. Desertion ART. 10. Any commissioned officer of the Navy or Marine Corps who, having tendered his resignation, quits his post or proper duties without resignation. leave, and with intent to remain permanently absent therefrom, prior to due notice of the acceptance of such resignation, shall be deemed and punished as a deserter. by ART. 11. No person in the naval service shall procure stores or other Dealing in suparticles or supplies for, and dispose thereof to, the officers or enlisted plies on private men on vessels of the Navy, or at navy-yards or naval stations, for his own account or benefit. account. ART. 12. No person connected with the Navy shall, under any pre-Importing du tense, import in a public vessel any article which is liable to the pay-public vessels. tiable goods in ment of duty. ART. 13. Distilled spirits shall be admitted on board of vessels of war Distilled spirits only upon the order and under the control of the medical officers of such only as medical vessels, and to be used only for medical purposes. stores. ART. 14. Fine and imprisonment, or such other punishment as a court- Certain crimes martial may adjudge, shall be inflicted upon any person in the naval of fraud against service of the United States- Who presents or causes to be presented to any person in the civil, military, or naval service thereof, for approval or payment, any claim against the United States or any officer thereof, knowing such claim to be false or fraudulent; or the United States. Presenting false claims. Agreement to obtain payment Who enters into any agreement or conspiracy to defraud the United States by obtaining, or aiding others to obtain, the allowance or pay- of false claims. ment of any false or fraudulent claim; or Who, for the purpose of obtaining, or aiding others to obtain, the approval, allowance, or payment of any claim against the United States or against any officer thereof, makes or uses, or procures or advises the making or use of, any writing, or other paper, knowing the same to contain any false or fraudulent statement; or False papers. Who, for the purpose of obtaining, or aiding others to obtain, the Perjury. approval, allowance, or payment of any claim against the United States or any officer thereof, makes, or procures or advises the making of, any oath to any fact or to any writing or other paper, knowing such oath to be false; or Who, for the purpose of obtaining, or aiding others to obtain, the Forgery. approval, allowance, or payment of any claim against the United States or any officer thereof, forges or counterfeits, or procures or advises the forging or counterfeiting of, any signature upon any writing or other paper, or uses, or procures or advises the use of, any such signature, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited; or Who, having charge, possession, custody, or control of any money or Delivering less other property of the United States, furnished or intended for the naval property than receipt calls for. service thereof, knowingly delivers, or causes to be delivered, to any person having authority to receive the same, any amount thereof less than that for which he receives a certificate or receipt; or truth of. Who, being authorized to make or deliver any paper certifying the Giving receipts receipt of any money or other property of the United States, furnished without knowing or intended for the naval service thereof, makes, or delivers to any person, such writing, without having full knowledge of the truth of the statements therein contained, and with intent to defraud the United States; or 2 NL Stealing, wrong. 18 Who steals, embezzles, knowingly and willfully misapprop fully selling, &c. plies to his own use or benefit, or wrongfully and knowingly s poses of any ordnance, arms, equipments, ammunition, clothi tence stores, money or other property of the United States, fu intended for the military or naval service thereof; or Buying public Who knowingly purchases, or receives in pledge for any military or indebtedness, from any other person who is a part of or en said service, any ordnance, arms, equipments, ammunition, subsistence stores, or other property of the United States, s person not having lawful right to sell or pledge the same; or Who executes, attempts, or countenances any other fraud a United States. erty. prop Returning fugitives from service. Enlisting serters, minors, &c. And if any person, being guilty of any of the offenses des this article while in the naval service, receives his discharge, missed from the service, he shall continue to be liable to b and held for trial and sentence by a court-martial, in the sam and to the same extent as if he had not received such disel been dismissed. [See Articles 15, 16, and 17 under PRIZE. ] ART. 18. If any officer or person in the naval service emplo the forces under his command for the purpose of returning any from service or labor, he shall be dismissed from the service. de- ART. 19. Any officer who knowingly enlists into the nava any deserter from the naval or military service of the United any insane or intoxicated person, or any minor between the ag teen and eighteen years, without the consent of his parents ian, or any minor under the age of sixteen years, shall be dish dismissed from the service of the United States. [See §§ 1 SEAMEN, NAVY.] Duties of com ART. 20. Every commanding officer of a vessel in the Navy sl manding officers. the following rules: Men received on board. gers. First. Whenever a man enters on board, the commanding offi cause an accurate entry to be made in the ship's books, sho name, the date, place, and term of his enlistment, the place from which he was received on board, his rating, his descriptive age, place of birth, and citizenship, with such remarks as may sary. List of officers, Second. He shall, before sailing, transmit to the Secretary men, and passen- Navy a complete list of the rated men under his command, shov particulars set forth in rule one, and a list of officers and pas showing the date of their entering. And he shall cause simila be made out on the first day of every third month and transm the Secretary of the Navy as opportunities occur, accounting the any casualty which may have happened since the last list. Deaths and desertions. Property of deceased persons. Accounts men received. of Third. He shall cause to be accurately minuted on the ship the names of any persons dying or deserting, and the times a such death or desertion occurs. Fourth. In case of the death of any officer, man, or passenger vessel, he shall take care that the paymaster secures all the p of the deceased, for the benefit of his legal representatives. Fifth. He shall not receive on board any man transferred from a vessel or station to him, unless such man is furnished with an a signed by the captain and paymaster of the vessel or station fron he came, specifying the date of his entry on said vessel or at s tion, the period and term of his service, the sums paid him, the due him, the quality in which he was rated, and his descriptive Sixth. He shall, whenever officers or men are sent from his s sent from whatever cause, take care that each man is furnished with a co the ship. statement of his account, specifying the date of his enlistme period and term of his service, and his descriptive list. Said a shall be signed by the commanding officer and paymaster. Accounts men o f Inspection of provisions. Health of crew. Seventh. He shall cause frequent inspections to be made into t dition of the provisions on his ship, and use every precaution fo preservation. Eighth. He shall frequently consult with the surgeon in regard sanitary condition of his crew, and shall use all proper means serve their health. And he shall cause a convenient place to apart for sick or disabled men, to which he shall have them rer with their hammocks and bedding, when the surgeon so advise shall direct that some of the crew attend them and keep the place |