Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1805-10-28

PRESIDENT.
Major General Ichabod Goodwin.
MEMBERS.
Brigadier General Abel Wood
Brigadlcr General Nathaniel c. Allen,
Colonel David Payfon,
Colonel James Jones,
Colonel John Lord,
Colonel Samuel Thatcher,
Colonel James Merrill,
Major John Moore,
Major Eli Wefon,
Major Ifaac Gage,
Major Mofes Lyman,
Major John Maicy.
Major Dudley Hubbard, Jude Adv9cate.
The PreGdent, Members, and Judge Adj
vocate being fworn The Court proceed to
the Trial Of Lieutenant Colonel JEREMIAH
WARDwELL, who appears before the Court,
and the feveral charges are read 10 him
which are contained in the following.
COMPLAINT
70 HT5 Excsf2ency CALEB STRONG, Eta.
G0UrH2r and Commander III CbieF of tbe
Militia Of ne Commonwealth sf Magaeb-
frs.
THE Sublcribers. OGicers Of the Fir{f
Regiment Fria Brigade, and Tenth Divi.
iion Of the Militia Of fail Commons ealth
RESPECTFULLY complain TO your ExceHencv
againlt jeremiah Ward well, ela LII. Col.
Go mmandant Of laid Regiment:
"ARTICLE /. FOR unoAicer and ungen-
tlemanhke conduit, in converting his Of
fee ae liz. Col Commandant Of Iaid Re-
Gimcnt, which lhould be an Office Of honor
and rcfpe6tabiity into IN office If emolu
ment, by a.king and receiving, at fundry
times, certain fums of slonev fer obtaining
difcharges for a number Of the Officers of
his fad Regiment, ard tcr rcfufng 70 afih
them u obtaining the ld,ne, (otherwile than
furniihing blank and giving his afent TO
their requef,) without fee
ART. H. For writing three requsfts
for discharges Tor Capt. joins Walker, 1t
Lemuel Smith and Enfgn Jonathan Allen,
all of his faid Regiment, and fgnlng their
names 70 the fanet where and IN the man
ner the faid Walker, Smith and Allen.
fhould have wrote their own names, and
for aking the faid Walker, Smith and Al
len, for doing faid bufnefs and obtaining
their dfcharges, the FUN Of Ten Dallas.
8 ART. Ill. For unofhcerlikc conduct
al the lniPedion Of major part Of faid
Regiment at Penoblcot, on the sth day Of
O6e, 1903, in appointing Simeon Parker,
the Sergeant Major Of faid Regiment, to do
the duty Of Adjutant at faid infp pe6ion, and
ordering him to do the fame, to the dill1on-
or Of the Platoon Officers there prefcn;,
and contrary to the fifth lection Of the Mi
litia act, pafed the twenty-fecond day Of
June, 1903, eftablithing the rank Of tAdiu-
tants as Lieutenants and FOR giving the
laid Scargeant- Major written infructions
to oficiate as Adjutaut at the infpection Of
Captains Foyd's, Aliens and Blacks Com
Panies, at Sedgwick. on the tenth day Of
October laf, derogatory 70 the honor aad
dignity Of thofe Officers who{e duty requi-
red their attendance az fad infpeaon,
and contrary to the faid fifth fiction Of the
Militia Aa paded the twenry-fecond Of
June, T703..
ART. ". For unolicer argentiemari-
IKE conduct alter Capt. tloyd had tet;lcd
the rank between Capt. Allen and Capt
Black Of faid Regiment, at the inlpeaion
Of Capts. Eloyds, Aliens aad Blacks Com
paries at Sedgwick, On the tenth day Of
Oaober laf, BY lot in conformity to and
by the authority Of tie tweaty-ninth feaicn
Of the Militia Aa pahed the twenty-fecond
Of June, 1893 and after he, the faid
Colonel, had been Informed thar Capt,
Allen had obtained the rank Of Capt Black
by laid lot, for faying {" had he" (the faid
Colene) "been prelent' (meaning at the
infpeaion.( chat he would not have fuf-
fered Capt, Allen 10 have taken the rank Of
Can't. Black !" being fubveriive Of coniti-
tuition and laws Of iaid Commonwealth and
all military order.
CART. Y. Tor unohccrli-c conduit at
the cl, 6ticn Of Co9pany Officers at Sedg-
wick On the hrt day Of May, 1904, At
rt,.~L I'll. ~, y, I'll C-lpprT -rP{II el for