Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1863-02-27


may direct the consolidation of the COM
panies of such regiment; Prouided, That
no company so formed shall exceed the
maximum number prescribed by Law
When such consolidation is made, the re,
gimental officers shall be reduced in pro-
} portion to the reduction in the number
} of companies.
Sec. 20. And be II further enacted,
} That whenever it is reduced below the mi
J nimum number allowed by law, no Off
} GERS shall be appointed in such regiment
beyond those necessary for the command
, Of such reduced number.
Sec. 81. and be It further enacted,
That SO much of the fifth section of the
, act approved, seventeenth July, eighteen
hundred and sixty-two, entitled a" An act
to amend an act calling forth the militia
to execute the laws of the Union" and
50 forth, as requires the approval of the
President TO carry into execution the SEN
tence of court. martial, be, and the
same is hereby repealed, as far as relates
to carrying into execution the sentence
of any court-martal against any person
convicted as a spy or deserter, or of mu-
tiny or murder, and hereafter sentences
} in punishment of these offences may be
carried into execution upon the approval
of the commanding general in the field
Sec. %. And be ii further enacted,
That cOurts-martial shall have power to
sentence officers who shall absent them
} selves from their commands without leave
| to be reduced to the ranks to serve three
years or during the war.
Sec %. And be II further enacted,
t That the clothes, arms, military outfits
and accoutrements furnished by the Unit
ed States to any soldier shall not be sold
battered, exchanged, pledged, loaned OF
: given away; and no person, not sol.
, der or duly authorized officer of the
, United States, who has possession of any
: such clothes, arms, military outfits or &C
5 coutrements furnished as aforesaid, and
: which have been the subjects of any
t such sale, barter, exchange, pledge, loan
0 or gift, shall have any right, title or in.
= terest therein; but the same may b.
!, seized and taken wherever found by an,
d officer of the United States, civil or mi
l. litary, and shall thereupon be delivere,
e to any quartermaster or other officer au
!, thorized to receive the same; and th
G possession Of any such clothes, arms, mi
litary outfits or accoutrements, by an
person not soldier or officer of tn,
f United States, shall be prin,a facje evi
v deuce of such sale, barter, exchange
3 pledge, loan or gift, as aforesaid.
: Sec. "a. And be IL further enacted
t That every person, not subject to tn,
a rules and articles of war, who shall pro
: cure or entice, or attempt to procure OF
e entice, soldier in the service of the Unit
: ed States to desert; or who shall harbor
/; conceal, or give employment to desert
: or, or carry him away, or aid in carrying
e him away, knowing him to be such; or
d who shall purchase from any soldier biz
arms, equipments, ammunition, uniform
C clothing, or any part thereof, and any
: captain or commanding officer of any
b ship or vessel, or any superintendent OF
r conductor of any railroad, or any Other
c public conveyance. carrying away any
0 such soldier as one of his crew or other
i. wise knowing him to have deserted, OIL
r shall refuse to deliver him up to the or
e ders of his commanding officer, shall, up
:, on legal conviction, be fined, at the dis
= erection Of any court having cognizanct
r of the same, in any sum not exceeding
!, five hundred dollars, and he shall be i'm
}, prisoned not exceeding two years nor lesi
J, than six months.
y Sec rs. And be ii further enacted
That if any person shall resist any draf
, Of men enrolled under this act into th,
: service Of the United States, or shall
0 counsel or aid any person to resist AM
!, such draft, or shall assault or obstruc
d any officer in making such draft, or il
c the performance of any service relating
n thereto. or shall counsel any person t
IF assault or obstruct any such officer OF
/. shall counsel any drafted men not to ap
d pear at the place Of rendezvous, or vii
d fully dissuade them from the perform
o ance Of military duty as prescribed BY
law, such person shall be subject TO sum
mary arrest by the Provost Marshal, ant
a kept in confinement until the draft i
: completed, after which he shall be de
liyered to tho civil authorities, and upol
!. conviction thereof be punished by fin
, not exceeding five hundred dollars, Q
/ by imprisonment not exceeding two years
n or by both of said punishmcnts
1t Sec. 20. And be IL further enacted
T. That Immediately after the passage {
70 this act the President shall issue his pre-
Ie clamation, declaring that all soldiers mo-
l. absent from their regiments without pei
l. mission may return, within time speci
e fed, to such place or places as he ma
t, indicate in his proclamation, and be re
t, stored to their respective regiments with
T. out punishment, except the forfeiture o
n their pay and allowances during their alb
J. sence; and all deserters who shall not re
ID turn within the time so specified by tn
President shall, upon being arrested, b
!, punished as the law provides.
- Co OF lad he ~ further eau,lolI