Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-03-12

Socu lhe LnaAllnun NUMBER prescribed by law.
when such consolidation is made, the regi-
mental officers shall be reduced in proportion
to the reduction in the number of companies.
Sect. 20. And be it further enacted. that
whenever regiment is reduced below the
minimum number allowed by law, no officers
shall be appointed in such regiment beyond
those necessary, for the command of such re-
duced Humber.
Sect. 81. And be it further enacted, that
so much of the fifth section of the act an
proved seventeenth July, eighteen hundred
and siXty-two, entitled San act to amend an
act calling forth the militia to execute the laws
Of the Union," and so forth, as requires the
approval of the president to carry into execu-
ton the sentence of court martial, be and
the same is hereby repealed, as far as relates
to carrying into execution the sentence of any
court martial against any person convicted as
spy or deserter, or of mutiny or murder;
and hereafter sentences in punishment Of
these offences may be carried into execution
upon the approval of the commanding gen.
eral in the field.
Sect %. And be it further enacted, that
courts martial shall have power to SEN
tence officers who shall absent themselves
from their commands without leave, to be re-
luced to the ranks to serve three years or
during the war.
Sect. %. And be it further enacted, that the
clothes, arms, military outfits, and accoutre-
ments furnished by the United States to any
soldier, shall not be sold, bartered, exchang-
ed, pledged loaned, or given away and no
person not a soldier, or duly authorized Off
Ger of the United States who has DOS session
of any STOCKHOLDERS, arms, military outfits, or
accoutrements, furnished as aforesaid, and
which have been the subject of any such sale,
barter, exchange, pledge, loan, or gift, shall
have any right, title, or interest therein; but
the same may be seized and taken wherever
found, by any officer of the United States,
civil or military, and shall thereupon be de-
llvered to any quartermaster, or other officer
authorized to receive the same; and the pos
session of any such clothes, arms, military
outfits, or accoutrements, by any person, not
soldier or officer of the United States, shall
be prma facie evidence of such a sale, bar
ter, exchange, pledge, loan, or gift, as afore-
said.
Sect. "a. And be it further enacted, that
every person not subject to the rules and art
lcles OF war who shall procure or entice, or
attempt to procure or entice, soldier in the
service of the United States to desert; or who
shall harbor, conceal, or give employment to
deserter, or carry him away, or aid in carry
ing him away, knowing him to be such; or
who shall purchase from any soldier his arms,
equipments, ammunition, uniform, clothing,
or any part thereof; and any captain or COM
handing officer of any ship or vessel, or any
superintendent or conductor of any railroad,
or any other public conveyance, carrying
away any such soldier as one of his crew or
otherwise, knowing him to have deserted, or
shall refuse to deliver him up to the orders of
his commanding officer, shall, upon legal CON
VictiOD. he fined at tho iii sprotion IF oOurt
having cognizance of the same, in any sum
not exceeding five hundred dollars, and he
shall be imprisoned not exceeding two years
nor less than six months.
Sect %. And be it further enacted, that if
any person shall resist any draft of men en-
rolled under this act into the service of the
United States, or shall counsel or aid any
person to resist any such draft; or shall as
sault or obstruct any officer in making such
draft or i'll the performance of any service in
relation thereto or shall counsel any person
to assault or obstruct any such officer, or
shall counsel any drafted men not to appear
at the place of rendezvous, or wilfully dis
suade them from the performance of military
duty as required by law, such person shall be
subject to summary arrest by the provost mar
shai, and he shall be forthwith delivered to
the civil authorities, and, upon conviction
thereof be punished by fine not exceeding
five hundred dollars, or by Imprisonment not
exceeding two years, or by both of said pun
ishments.
Sect. 26. And be it further enacted, that
Immediately after the passage of this act, the
president shall issue his proclamation declar-
ing that all soldiers now absent from their reg.
lments without leave may return within a
time specified to such place or places as lie
may indicate in his proclamation, and be re-
stored to their respective regiments without
punishment, except the forfeiture of their pay
and allowances during their absence; and all
deserters who shall not return within the time
so specified by the president shall, upon being
arrested, be punished as the law provides.
Sect. 81. And be it further enacted, that
dispositions of witnesses residing beyond the
limits of the state, territory, or Edistrict in
which military courts shall be ordered to sit,
may be taken in cases not capital by either
party, and read in evidence; provided the
same shall be taken upon reasonable notice to
the opposite party, and duly authenticated.
Sect. 2S. And be it further enacted, that
the Judge advocate shall have power to ap-
point reporter, whose duty it shall be to re-
cord the proceedings of and testimony taken
before military courts instead of the judge adj
vocate; and such reporter may take down
such proceedings and testimony in the first in
stance in shorthand. The reporter shall be
sworn or affirmed faithfully to perform his
duty before entering upon it,
Sect. 30. And be it further enacted, that the
court shall, for reasonable cause, grant
continuance to either party for such time and
as often as shall appear to be just: Provided,
That if the prisoner be in close confinement,
the trial shall not be delayed for period lon
ger than sixty days.
Sect. 80. And be it further enacted, that
in time of war, Instruction, or rebellion,
murder, assault and battery with into to kill,
manslaughter, mayhem, wounding by shoot
ing or stabbing with an intent to commit MUIR
der, robbery, arson, burglary, rape, assault
and battery with an intent to commit rape,
and larceny, shall be punishable by the sem
tence of general court martial or military
commission, when committed by persons who
are in the military service of the United
States, and subject to the articles of war; and
the punishments for such offences shall never
be less than those inflicted by the laws of the
state, territory, or district in which they may
have been committed.
Sect. 81. And be it further enacted, that
any officer absent from duty with leave, ex-
cept for sickness or wounds, shall, during his
absence, receive half of the pay and allowan-
ces prescribed by law, and no more; and any
officer absent without leave shall, in addition
to the penalties prescribed by law or court
martial, forfeit all pay or allowances during
such absence.
Sect. 80. And be it further enacted, that the
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