The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-04-05


now long absent non-commissioned Off
GERS and private soldiers have been alb
sent and the reasons of their absence.
Such reasons and time of absence shall
pc inserted In the muster rolls opposite
the names of the respective absent off,
GERS and soldiers, And the certificates,
together with the muster rolls shall be
transmitted by the mastering officer to
the adjutant general as speedily as the
distance of the place and muster will ad-
init. Any officer who knowingly makes
false muster of man or animal, or who
signs or directs or allows the signing
or any muster roll knowing the same to
contain a false muster or false state
ment as to the absence or pay of an off,
Ger or soldier, or who wrongfu1ly takes
money or other consideration on muster
ing in a regiment, company, or other or
ganization. or on signing muster rolls,
or who knowingly musters as an officer,
or soldier person who is not such Off
GER or soldier, shall be dismissed from
the service and suffer such other punish
ment as court-martial may direct.
Article 81. Every officer commanding
regiment, an Independent troop, bat
terry or company or a garrison. shall
transmit through proper channels such
returns at such periods as may be desig-
mated in regulations by the war depart
ment. Every officer whose duty 1t is to
render return of the troops under his
command or of the arms, ammunition,
clothing, funds or other property there
unto belonging and who knowingly
makes a false return thereof shall he
dismissed from the service and suffer
such other punishment as a court mar
tial may direct and any officer who
through neglect or design omits to rem
der such return shall be punished as a
court-martial may direct.
B. Desertion: Absence Without Leave.
Article So. Any person subject to
military law who deserts or attempts to
Il ,iDN +Df n che
the offense be committed in time Of war,
suffer death or such other punishment
as a court-martial may direct. and, If
the offense be committed at any other
time any punishment, excepting death,
that court-martial may direct.
Article go. ANY person subject to
military law who advises or persrades
or knowingly assists another to desert
the service of the State shall. If the o.
Tense be committed in time of war. suf-
fer death; or such other punishment as
a court-rnartial NAV direct, and, If the
offe7se he committed at any other time,
any punishment. executing death That a
court -martial may direct,
Article 60 ANY officer who. after
having discovered that a soldier in his
command is deserter from the national
guard or naval militia. retains such de-
serter in his command without inform
ing superior authority or the commander
Of the organization to which the desert
er belongs, shall he punished as court
martial NAV direct.
Article 81. ANY nerson subject to
military law who fails TO repair at TIE
fved time to the properly anpo'rted
place of duty or goes from the same
without proper leave, or absents him
self from his command, guard, quarters,
station. or camp without proper leave.
shall he punished as a court-martial
may direct.
C. Disrespect: INSTRUMENTATION:
Mutny.
Article GO Any officer who uses con-
temptuous or disrespectfu words
against the President. Vice President
the Congress of the United States, the
secretary of war, or the governor or
legislature of any state. territory or
other possession of the United States in
which he is quartered shall he dismissed
from the service or suffer such other
punishment as a court-martial may d.
rect. ANY other person subject to mill
tary law who so offends shall be pun
ished as a court martial may direct,
Article GO. Any person subject TO
military law who behaves himself with
disrespect toward his superior officer
shall he punished as court-martial
may direct.
Article 81. Any person subject to
military law who, on any pretense what
soever, strikes his superior officer or
draws or lifts up any weapon or offers
any violence against him, beirg In the
execution of his office, or wilfully DISC
beys any lawful command of his supe-
rior officer, shall suffer death or such
other punishment as court-mart1al
may direct.
Article 65. Any soldier who strikes
OR assaults, or who attempts or threat
ems TO strike or assault, or wtlfully dis
oleys the lawful order of a non-com-
missioned officer while in the execution
OF his Office, or uses threatening or in
sulting language. or behaves in an in
subordinate or disrespectful manner to-
ward a non-commissioned officer while
in the execution of his office. shall be
punished al a court-martial may direct
Article IS. ANY person subject to
military law who attempts to create
or who begins, excites. causes, or joins
in any mutiny or sedition in any com
pany, party, post, camp, detachment,
guard, or other command shall suffer
death or such other punishment as
court-marttal may direct
Article CT. Any officer or soldier who,
being present at any mutiny or sedition,
does not use his utmost endeavor to
suppress the same, or knowing or hav-
ing reason to believe that a mutiny or
sedition is to take place, does not with
out delay give INFORMATION, thereof to
his commanding officer shah suffer
death or such other punishment as a
court-martial may direct
Article 6S. All officers and non-com-
mfsSioned officers have power to part
and quell all quarrels, trays. and dis
orders among persons subject to mill
tary law and to order officers who take
part in the same into arrest, and other
persons subject to military law who
take part in the same into arrest or
confinement, as circumstances may re-
Quire, until their proper superior Off
Ger is acquainted herewith. And who
soever being so ordered, refuses to obey
such officer or commissioned officer
or draws a weapon upon 0r otherwise
threatens or does violence to him shall
be punished as q court-martial may d.
rect.
D. Arrest; Confinement
Article Go. An officer charged with
crime or with q serious offense under
these articles shall be placed in arrest
by the commanding officer, and in ex-
may be placed in confinement by the
same authority. A soldier charged with
crime or with a serious offense under
these articles shall be placed in confine-
ment, and when charged with a minor
ofense he may be placed In arrest. ANY
other person subject to military law
charged with crime or with a serious
ofense under these articles shall be
placed in confinement or in arrest, as
circumstances may require; and when
charged with minor offense such per-
son may be placed in arrest. Any per-
son placed in arrest under the provi-
S1ons of this article shall thereby be
restricted to his barracks, quarters or
tent. unless such limits shall be en-
larged by proper authority. Any officer
who breaks his arrest or who escapes
from confinement before he is set at
liberty by proper authority shall be dis
missed from the service or suffer such
other punishment ss court martial
may direct; and any other person sub
ject to military law who escapes from
confinement or who breaks his arrect