Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-07-03

proper Division Provost Marshal, whose duty 1t shall be, without unnecessary delay, to forward the same to the Provost Marshal General; and the latter shall file said schedule in his office.
 6.-Any Provost Marshal charged with the i'm pressment of property, shall take therefor, from the person authorized to receive the same, triph cate receipts, one to be forwarded to the Pro- vost Marshal General, one to the proper Division Provost Marshal, and other to be retained by the officer charged with the impressment. And the person from whom the impressment was made, must be furnished, by the officer who made the same, with duplicate receipts for the property so taken.
 Tt shall be the duty of each Parish and County Provost Marshal to forward to the proper division Provost Marshal all captured property us far IS practicable, and to take his receipt therefor in duplicate, and forward one of the same to the Provost Marshal General, retaining the other himself.
 8.-All captured property received by q divis- ion Provost Marshal, shall be safely and securely kept by him subject to the orders of the Provost Marshal General.
 9.--It shall be the duty of each division Pro- vost Marshal, to fix and publish tariff of prices for his district, subject to the approval of the Provost Marshal General.
 10-With a view to the speedy transmission of orders or dispatches, each Parish and County Provost Marshal will be required, at all times, to keep at his immediate command two well mounted cxpressInen, for that purpose and when dispatches are required to be carried greater distance than through one county, they will be carried by the most direct route from one Parish or county Provost Marshal to another, and it is made the duty of Parish or County Provost Mar shals to forward, without any delay whatever, all dispatches, bearing the proper official indossement of tie officer sending them.
 n--It shall be the duty of every Provost Marshall upon receiving dispatches, to endorse thereon the date, and hour of their reception, and I. II h.,
 l2.-All persons charged with minor offences will be tried and punished by Parish and County Provost Marshals; but if a prisoner be charged with offence of a graveor serious character, he will be sent by the Parish Or County Pro- yost Marshal, to the proper Division Provost Mar. shal for trial, who, if necessary, will send him to to the Provost Marshal General.
 13.--It shall be the duty of all Provost Mar shals, to use all possible exertions by purchase, if in the hands of friends, and by sesure if i'll the hands of enemies, of all arms and munitions of war-giying, when the purchase is made, dup- cate receipts, describing the property seized, the amount agreed to be paid for the same, and taht it was for the use and benefit of the Confederate States, ard make weekly reports thereof to the Provost Marshal General.
 14.-In all cases of purely civil transactions between citizens, the several Provost Marshals will be careful not to interfere
 l5.-The Provost Marshals and assistants will carefully avoid permitting their office to be made use of, in orner to gratify malicious yindic- tive feelings, and n all cases that may be brought before them if the charge made shall appear to have been made without reasonable grounds, and at the same time, prompted by feelings of ma lice or desire of Private Revenge, they will punish the person making the charge.
 I6-No accusation should be acted on unless it appears from the evidence that it iscontrary to the Law and there is probability of supporting it. All charges should be sworn to when made by q private individual
 l7.--Al trials should be prompt and speedy, and the punishment commensurate with the of fence, the accused must, however, be allowed a fair and impartial trial. Reasonable time must be granted him to obtain the attendance or obtain the testimony of material witnesses, but technicalites and frivolous delays must in no event, be tolera- ted.
 18.-An enumeration of offences and punish ments cannot here be made in detail-the officers must be governed by the military law, but certain specific offences, are here enumerated such az, maraudng, theft, furnishing the enemy with sup plies subsistence and information in relation to our army, imprressment without authority, acting as seies-these offences are punishable by death
 l9.--Open violation of public Order inter ference with the rights and privileges of the citizens other than such as are, for the time being, taken away from them by the operation of the mar tial Iew, must Dc put down and punished N ell hazards and promptly, the citizens must be secured iii the peaceful andquet enjoyment of their homes.
 20.-On the trial of a case no material evidence must be excluded. on mere technical grounds.
 2l.--Any commissioned officer violating the law CT these regulations will be immediately arrested, an examination will be had-the testi mOny will be taken down, and full record will be forwarded to this office, in order that the same may be submitted to the Major General Command ing, and the offender be punished, according to his deserts.
 22.-Ohicers or others connected with this Pro vost Marshals department, violating any of it's rules or regulations, will be severely punished, their conduct immediately made known to the Major General commanding, that he may deal with them as their conduct may deserve.
 23.--In all cases that may be brought be fore the Division Provost Marshas and tried by them, where the charges and finding might be punished with death, no attempt shall be made to carry any sentence into execution by them, but the prisoner must be securely detained in custody, and a full record of the proceedings and evidence shall be transmitted as promptly possible to this office, that the same may be laid before the Major General commanding for his action in the premises.
 . 24.--In addition to the above enumeratedss ssregu- latious, the several Provost Malshals, will be further governed by all orders, heretofore or here after, to be issued by the Major General com, manding, in relation to ther duties, printed copies of which orders will be forwarded to them soon as possible
 25.-All captains of independent companies, organized under Mai. Gen. Hindman's general order No. F, elected by said companies, will immediately report such organization to the office of the Provost Marshal General, ill order that the officers elected by said companies may be com missoned by the Mai. Gen.. Commandn9 Said report shall state the date and place of said organ izaton, the number, ages and names of the persons composing the same. Said report to be sworn to before justice of the peace, by said captain.
 26.-It is hereby required of the captain of each independent company to make out q muster roll in duplicate of all the members ot his com. pany in alphabetical order, said roll to be pre- pared on the day of its organization, and showing each mans name, rank, age, residence, by whom enlisted, when and where enlisted and to be certi ted to by such captain one of the duplicates to be forwarded to the Provost Marshal General at Little Rock the other retained by himself
 27. When, atter the first organization, recruits are added to company, the captain will keep a rolk of such upon which their names will be en- tered as above required, except that they will not be entered alphabetically, but in the order of date; the date of enrolment of each recruit being noted opposite his name, in the column of dates.
 28.-At the end of each month, Q copy of the roll of recruits who have joined during that month, must be certified to by the captain, and forwarded Rock.
 29-The caption of the muster roll will be word ed thus: q Muster roll of Capt. Inde- pendent Company No. -, raised in
 County or parish,) under Maj. Gen' Hindman s