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Artillery ffiall fit in courts martial, with the ohi
cits of the other corps.
Art. go. 11l crimes not capital, and all disor
ders and negie&s, which officers and folders may
be guilty of, to the prejudice of good order and
military discipline, though not mentioned in the
'articles of war, are to be taken cognizance of by
a general or regimental court martial, according
to the nature and degree of the offence, and be
punched at their discretion.
Art. 51. That no persons Shall be Sentenced by
a court-martial to fuffer death, except in the cases
^xp,effy mentioned in the foregoing articles; nor
Shall any punishment be inili&eJ at the discretion
of a court-martial, other than degrading, cashier
ing, drumming out of the army, whipping nor
exceeding Thirty-nine lashes, fine not exceeding
two months pay df the offender, imprilonment
not exceeding one month.
Art. „. The field officers of each and every
regiment are to appoint some suitable person be
longing to such regiment, to receive all such fines
as may arise within the fame, for any breach of
any of the foregoing articles, arid shall direct the
fame to be carefully and properly applied to the
relief offuch sick, wounded or necessitous soldiers,
as belong to inch regiment; and such person shall
account with such officer for all fines received,
and the application thereof.
Art. 53- All members fitting in courts-martial
shall be sworn by the Present of laid courts,
which Prefdent shall himfelf be sworn by the of
ficer in said court hext in rank:—The oath to be
administered previous to their proceeding to the
trial of any offender, in form following, viz.
" You A. B.fwear that you will well and truly
try, and impartially determine the cause of the ,ri-
Joner now to be tried, according to the rales for re
gulating the Continental army. So help you God."
Art. „. All perlons called to give evidence,
in any c de, before a court-martial, who fir ill refufe
to give evidence, shall be punilhed for such refu
sal, at the dilcretion of such court-martial: The
oath to be administered in the form following,
viz.
" Youfivear the evidence you shall give in the case
7:010 in hearing, shall be th ' +r u th, the whole truth,
and noting but the truth. , nelp you God."
Art. 55° Every officer commanding a regiment,
troop, or company, shall, upon notice given to
him by the Commissary of the musters, or from
one his deputies, assemble the regiment, tro>p,
or company under his command, in the next
convenient,place for their being mustered.
Art. 56; Every Colonel or other field officer,
or officer commanding any corps, to which there
is no field officer, and actually refilling with it,
may give furloughs to non-commissioned officers
and soldiers, in such numbers, and for so long a
time, as he shall judge to be most confident with
the good of the service; but no non-commissioned
officer or soldier shall, by leave of his Captain,
or inferior omcer, commanding the troop or com
pany (bis field officer not being present) be absent
above twenty days in hx mouths, nor shall more
than two private men be absent at the fame time
from their troop or company, excepting some
extraordinary occaffon shall require it, of wh ; ch
occasion the field officer present with, and com
manding the regiment or independent corps, is to
be judge.
Art. 57. At every muster the commanding of
ficer of each regiment, troop, or company, then
prefect, shall give to the commifiry of musters
certificates signed by himfelf, lignifying how long
luch officers, non-commissioned officers, and sol
diers, who shall not appear at the said muster,
have been ablent, andthe reafun of their absence;
which reasons, and the time of absence, shall be
infeited in the muster rolls, opposite to the refpec
rive names of such absentees : The said certifi
cates shall, together with the muster rolls, be by
the said Commifi'ary transmitted to the General,
and to this or any future Congress of the united
colonies or Committee appointed thereby, within
twenty days next after such muster being taken ;
on failure whereof the Commissary so offending,
shall 'be difeharged from the service.
Art. 58. Every officer who shall be convi&ed
before a general court-martial of having signed a
fdle certificate, relating to the absence of either
officer, non-commissioned officer, or private sol
dier, shall be cashiered.
Art. 39. Every officer who shall knowingly
jnakea falfe muster of man or horse, and every
officer or Commissary, who shall willingly sign,
direst, or allow, the figniag of the muster rolls,
wherein such falfe muster is contained, shall up
on proof made thereof, by two witnesses, before a
general court-martial, be cashiered, and moreover
forfeit till such pay as may be due to him at the
time of conviction for such offence,
Art. 60. Any commissary who shall be convict
ed of having taken any gift or gratuity on the
muttering any regiment, troop, or company, or
on the figging rhe muster rolls, shall be displa
ced from his office, and forfeit his pay, as in the
preceding article.
Art. 61. Any officer, who shall presume to
muster any perlon as a soldier, who is at other
rimes a^cußomed to wear a livery, or who does
i>ot actually do his duty as a loldier, shall be
deemed guilty of having made a falfe muster, and
shall fuller accordingly.
A,t. 62. Every officer who fnall knowingly
make a falle return tothe Commander in Chiefof
the American forces, or to any his luperior offi
cer, authorized to call for such returns, of the
Rate of the regiment, troop, company or garri
son, under his command, or of arms, ammuniti
on, eloathing, or other stores thereunto belong,
ing, shall, by a court-martial, be cashiered.
Art. 63. The commanding officer of every
regiment, troop, independa^t company or garri
son, in the service aforefaid, shall, in the begin
ring of every month remit to the Commander in
Chief of said forces an exaft return of the state of
the regiment, troop, independant company, or
garrison under his command, fpecifying the names
of the officers not then refining at their posts, and
the reason for, and time of their absence: Whoe
ver shall be convicted of having through ncgle&
or design omitted the fending luch returns, shall
be punched according to the nature of his crime,
by the judgment of a general court-martial.
Art. 64. Nofuttler shall be permitted to fell
any kind of liquors or visual, or to keep their
houles or shops open, for the entertainment of
soldiers, after nine at night, or before the beam
ing of the reveilles, or upon Sundays, during di
vine service or sermon, on the penalty of being
dihnifled from all future futtling.
Art. 6s. All officers commanding in the camp,
or in any forts, barracks, or garrisons, are hereby
required to fee that the perlons permitted to futtle,
shall supply the soldiers with good and wholesome
provisions at a reasonable price, as they shall be
answerable for their neglect.
Art. 66. No officers commanding In any camp,
garrisons, forts, or barracks, shall either theni-
Llves exaft exorbitant prices for houses or stalls,
let out to futtlers, 01 shall connive at the like ex
atlions in others, nor lay any duty or impositions
upon, or be interested in the sale of such victuals,
liquors, or other necessaries of life, which are
brought into the camp, gartifon, fort, or barracks,
for the use of the soldiers, on the penalty of being
difeharged from the feivice.
rt. 67. I hat the General, Or Commander
in Chief for the the time being, shall have full
power, of pardoning, or mitigating any of the pu
nishments ordered to be inflicted, for any of the
offences mentioned in the foregoing articles ; and
every offender convicted as aforefaid, by any re
gimental court-martial, may be pardoned, or have
bis punishment mitigated by the Colonel or officer
commanding the regiment.
Art. 68. When any commissioned officer shall
happen to die or be killed in the service of the
united colonies, the Major of the reghnent, or
the officer doing the Major's duty in his absence,
fliall immediately secure all his efteas, or equi
page then in camp or quarters ; and fliall before
the next regimental court-martial, make an inven
tory thereof, and forthwith tranfinit the fame to the
office of the Secretary of the Congress, or assem
bly of the province in which the corps is station
ed, or shall happen to be at the time of the death
of luch officer; to the end, that his executors may,
after payment of his debts in quarters, and inter
ment, receive the overplufs, if any be, to his or
their use.
Art. 69. When any non-commissioned officers,
or private loldier, shall happen to die, or be kil
led in the service of the united colonies, the then
commanding officer of the troop or company, shall
in the presence of two other commifliened officers,
take an account of whatever effects he dies poffefT
ed of, and transmit the fame, as in the case above
provided for, in order that the fame may be fe
cuted for, and paid, to their refpedive represent
atives.
By Order of /^Congress,
JOHN HANCOCK, Prefdent.
Philadelphia, June 30, 1775.
✓1 true Copy from the Minutes,
Charles Thomson, Secretary.
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LO ND O N, May 26.
THIS day the Houle of Lords was prodigi
ously crouded, expending that'the Queen
would have been present. A little before two
o'clock the Lord Chancellor came, and the House
went to prayers.
About two o'clock his Majesty was Rated on
the throne, and having lent a meffageby Sir Fran
cis Molyneux, Knight, Gentleman Usher of the
Black Rod, to the House of Commons, deliring
their attendance; the Speaker, with the House,
came up, and, previous to the royal assent being
given to any of the bills, the Speaker delivered
himfelf to the following purport:
" Sir,
" lour faithful Commons present to you three
money bills; the lirft for railing money by loans
or exchequer bills for the service of the year 1775;
the second for eftabliihing a lottery, and for pay
ing off i,occ,oocl. three per cent annuities, and
for other purposes therein mentioned; and the
other for appropriating the furpluffes of the fink
ing fund forthe service of the current year. These
are all necessary grants, but they are yet very
heavy, and are what nothing but the particular
exigences of the times could juftify in a time of
profound peace. The unhappy differences in Ame
rica have been the chief cause of this expence;
and I trust, that when the people of America fee,
in a proper light, the conduct of this country,
they will learn to pay proper obedience to the laws;
if, on the contrary, they should persist in their
resolutions, and that if the sword mus be drawn,
your faithful Commons will do every thing in
their power to maintain and lupport the supremacy
of this legioatuie. A great part of the session has
been taken up in determining complaints refpe&-
ing controverted elections. I cannot but admire
the wisdom of the fall Parliament in enacting that
law; neither can 1 withhold the praise justly due
to the Committees, who have adted so much to
the fatisfa&ton of the public, and so fully i n dii
charge of their own consciences. On the whole,
Sir, I make no doubt but you will faithfully ap
ply the money thus granted to the purposes for
which it was appropriated."
His Majesty gave the royal aflent to eight pub
lic, and nine private bills, among which were the
following :
I he Bill tor granting to his Majesty a certain
film out of the hiking fund, and for applying
certain monies theiein mentioned for the lervice
of the present year.
The Bill to explain and amend an a<Rto esta
blish a fund for defraying the administration of
justice, and Support of the civil government of
Quebec.
I he Bill for the encouragement of the fisheries
carried on from Great-Britain, ligand, and the
British dewaions in Europe#
I be Bill for redeeming 1,000,000 of the capi
tal Rock of the three per cent, annuities in tire
manner and terms therein mentioned; and for
eftabliihing a lottery.
The ^ll'lfor giving a public reward to such
person or persons as shall difeovera northern pas
sage from Europe to the wefhand southern ocean
of America.
The Bill to amend an a& to enable the Speaker
of the House of Commons to issue his warrants
to make out new writs for the choice of mem
bers to serve in Parliament, in the room of such
members as shall die during the recess.
The Bill for fettling Buckingham-house on the
Queen, in lieu of Somerset-house.
The Bill to enlarge the term of letters patent
granted to William Clockworthy for the sole use
of a difeovery of certain materials for the mak
ing of Porcelain. Also to several private Bills.
After which his Majelty made the following
most gracious Speech to both Houles of Parlia
ment, viz.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
T CANNO T, injustice to you, forbear to express
Amy entire fatisfa&ion in ydur condufi during the
course of this important session.
You have maintained, with a firm and fleaf reso
lution the rights of my crown, and the authority of
Parliament, which I /ball ever cenfder as infepa
rabhe. You have protected and promoted the cc?n
mercial enter fs of my kingdoms; and you have, at
the fame time give?: convincing proof's of your readi
nf (as far as the Conflitution will allow you) to
gratify the wifoes, and remove the apprehenfons of
my JubjeAs in America ; and I am jerfuaded that
the mos salutary effeds mtf, in the end, refultfrom
measures formed and conducted onftcb principles.
The late mark of your affeflionate attachment t,
me, and to the Qteen, and the zeal and unanimity
which accompanied it, demand my particular thanks.
I have the fatisfaCion to acquaint you, that as
well from the ge serai difroftions of other powers, as
from the solemn affuran es which J have received,
I have great rgafn to expert the continuance of peace:
Nothing, on my part, conJiJlent with the mainte
nance of the honor and interest of my kingdoms, fall
be wanting to secure the public tranquility.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
It gives me much concern, that the unhappy dif
turbanecs in some of my Colonies have obliged me to
propose to you an augmentation of my army, and
have prevented me from completing the intended re
durtion of the eftablifoment of my naval forces. I
cannot fufficient'y thank you for the,chearfulnefs and
public Jpirit with which you have granted the fug
plies for the several services of the current year.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I have nothing to desire of you, but to ufeyour
bsf endeavours to preserve and to cultivate, in your
several Counties, the fame regard for public order,
and the fame difeernment of their true interests, which
have in these times distinguished the character of my
faithful and beloved people; and the continuance of
which cannot fail to render them happy at home,
and rjperted abroad.
Then the I,ord Chancellor, by his Majesty's
command, said,
" My Lords and Gentlemen,
" It is his Majesty's royal will and pleasure,
that this Parliament be prorogued to Thursday,
the twenty-seventh day of July next, to be then
here held; and this Parliament is accordingly
prorogued to Thursday the twenty-seventh day
of July next."
The following is his Majesty's most gracious
answer to the address of condolance of the House of
Commons, on the death of the Queen of Denmark:
“ That he returns his thanks to that House,
for the concern they have expressed for the great
loss which has happened in his family by the death
of his lifter the Queen of Denmark."
Extras of a letter from Montego-Bay, to a Plan
ter at Jamaica.
“ There is ver, bad news arrived from the Coafl
&f Cuba. Two Cpanifb Guarda Coftas have taken
ail the vessels on the coafl belonging to this place and
St. Anne's ; not one of the Commanders of wh;ch
mode any reffiance, except Captain Watkins of this
place, who fought near two hours. The Spaniards
put the wounded men into a long boat, which is
arrived here."
CAMBRIDGE, %) 6.
The following Addresses have been presented
to his Excellency General Washington and the
Honorable Major General Lee.
To His Excellency
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq;
General and Commander in Chief of the Conti
nental Army.
May it please your Excellency,
TH E Congress of the Massachusetts Colony,
impiefTed with every lentiment of gratitude
and refpe&, beg leave to congratulateyou on your
fate arrival, and to wish you all imaginable hap
piness and success in the execution of the impor
tant duties of your elevated station. While we
applaud that attention to the public good, mani
fefted in yeur appointment, we equally admire
that dihnterefted virtue, and distinguished patriot
ism, which aloae could call you from those enjoy
ments of dom^ftic life, which a sublime and manly
taste, joined with a mod affluent fortune, can af
ford, to hazard your life, and t® endure the fa
tigues of war, in the defence of the rights of man
kind, and the good of your country.
The laudable zeal for the common cause of
America, and companion for the diffreffes of this
Colony, exh bited by the great dispatch made in
your journey hither, fully juftify the universal fa
tisfadion we have, with plealure, observed on this
occasion ; and are promising presages that thegreat
expectations formed from your peifonal charader,
and military abilities, are well founded.
We wish you may have found such regularity
and difciplioo already established in the army, as
may be agreeable to your expectation. The hur
ry with which it was necessarily colle&ed, and
the many diladvantages, arising from a suspension
of government, under which we have railed, and
endeavoured to regulate the forces of this Colony,
have rendered it a work of time. And though in
a great measure effected, the completion of so
difficult and at the fame time so necessary a taflc
is referred to your Excellency; and we doubt
not will be properly corfidered and attended to.
We would dot prefund to piefcribe to yorir
Excellency, but supposing you would choose to
be informed of the general character of the Sol
diers who compole this army, beg leave to repre
lent, that the greatest part of them have not be
fore seen service. And although naturally brave,
and of good understanding, yet for want of expe
rience in military life, have but little knowledge of
divers things most essential to the preservation of
health, and even of life. The Youth in the ar
my are not poffefled of the absolute necessity of
cleanliness in their dress, and lodging, continual
exercise. and ftri& temperance, to preserve then!
front diseases frequently prevailing in Camps;
especially among thole, whe from their childhood
have been used to a laborious life.
We beg leave to assure you, that this Congress
Will, at all times, be ready to attend to such rc
quifition^ as you may have occasion to make to
us; and to contribute all the aid in our power, to
the Cause of America, and your happiness and
e " e ' ' n 'he difeharge of the duties of your exalted
office.
We most fervently implore Almighty GOD,
that the Bleliings of Divine Providence may rest
on you: That your head may be covered in the
day of battle: That every necessary assistance may
be afforded; and that you may be long continued
in Life and Health, a Blefling to Mankind.
His Excellency's A NSWE R.
Gentlemen,
fO UR kind congratulations on my appointment and
arrival, demand my warmeji acknowledgements,
and will ever be retained in grateful remembrance.
In exchanging the enjoyments of domeflic life for the
duties of my present honorable, but arduous Ration, 1
only emulate the virtue and public Jpirit of the whole
Province of Massachusetts-Bay, which, with a firm
nejs and patriotism without example in modern hijiory,
has facrijiced all the comforts official and political iije,
in fu/port of the rights of mankind, andthe welfare of
our common country. My ki^hef ambition is to be the
bafly infrument of vindicating those rights, and to fee
this devoted province again refiored to Peace, Liberty
and Safety.
The fort ffeace of time which has elapsed since my
arrival, does not permit me to decide upon the fate of
the army. The course of human affairs forbids an ex
portation, that Troops formed under such circuufances,
fould at once pofefs the order, regularity and discipling.
of Veterans.—Whatever deficiences there may be, will.
I doubt not, soon be made up by the artivity and zeal
of the Officers, and the docility and obedience of the
Men. T hefe qualities united with their natural bra
very and foirit, will afford a happy preface rs fuccejs,
and put a final period to those dfrefes which now over
whelm this once happy country.
I mos fncerely thank,ou. Gentlemen, for,our decla
rations of readiness at all times to affiji me in the dis
charge of the duties of m,falien: They are so compli
cated and extended, that I jhall need the affiance of
every good man, and lover of bis country ; I therefore
rejofe the utmef confidence in,our aids. In return for
,our affectionate wi/hes to myfelf, permit me to fay,
that l earnefl, implore that Divine Being, in wboje
bands are all human events, to make,ou and your con
fituents as diflinguijbed in private and public happi
ness, as you have been by mi^iferial opprefion, by
private ana public distress.
GEO. WASHINGTON.
V, the Honourable CHARLES LE E, Es qj
Major-General of the Continental Armv.
SIR,
THE Congress of the Massachusetts Colony,
poiTefl'ed of the fullest evidence of your
attachment to the rights of mankind, and regard
to the dittreifes which America in general, and
this Colony in particular, are involved in, by
the impolitic, wickedand tyrannic sy stem, adopt
ed by administration, and pursued with relent
less and savage fury, do, with pleasure, embrace
this opportunity to exprefi the great fatisfa&ion
and gratitude they feel on your appointment as
a Major General in the American army.
We sincerely congratulate you on your fafe
arrival here, and with you all possible happiness
and success in the execution of so important *
trust. We admire and refpedl the character of
a man who, disregarding the allurements of
profit and diftindion hs merits might procure,
engages in the cause of mankind, in defence of
the injured, and relief of the oppressed. From
ycur character, from your great abilities and mi
litary experience, united with these ofthe Com
mander in chief, under the smiles of providenc,
we flatter ourselves with the profpea of difci
plinc and order, success and victory.
Be assured, Sir, that it will give us great:
pleasure to be able to contribute to your happi
ness. May the favours and blessings of Heaven
attend you. May divine providence guard and
protect you, conduct you in the paths of honour
and virtue, grant you the reward of the brave
and virtuous, the applauses of mankind, and
the approbationofyourownconfcier.ee, and eter
nal happiness hereafter
His Honour's Answer.
To the Gentlemen of the Provincial Congress
of Massachusetts.
Gentlemen,
ff 01HING can be so flattering to me as the good
opinion and approbation of the Delegates of ajree
and uncorrupt people. I was educated in tie bigbf
reverence Jor the rights of mankind, and have acqut
rea b, a long acquaintance a n:f particular regard for
the people cj America. You may depend therefore,
Gentlemen, on m, zeal and int-gi Ry —I can pro
mijeyou nothing j, om my debilities. God ellmighty grant
us success equal to the righttoufnefs o) the cause. I
thankyou, Gentlemen, for an address w!icb docs me
Jo much honour, and Jball labour to deserve it.
'1 he following isthought to contain a true ac
count of the loss of the enemy, including those woo
died of their wounds, taken June zgth, 1775.
Return of the killed at Charleftown the 17th of June,
taken from an orderly ferjein* in Bolton.
Commilhon Officers, 92. Scijeants ioz, Corpo
rals 100, Rank and File 753. Total <4 killed,
1047. Wounded 445. Total of killed and wound
ed 1492,
N E W-Y O R K, fib 13.
Tire following/ is the most arcus ate hit ot the kil
led and wounded officers that hitfuit^ has been col
lected.
KILLED; Lieut. John Brueie, of the 14th regi
ment. Col. Abercrotube, of z'd. Lout. Bard,
of 35th. Capt. Dutton, of 38th. Luut. Gould,
and Lieut. Hillard, of 47th. M-jot Vojbaiw.,
Capt. Addison, Cagt Davidfen, no Capt. tmi.f,
us ^zd. Li^ut. Dwh,np!v, 01 G;U. wM . i^uGt^ng