Year: 1866

irreyerent or unbecoming behavior during divine
service shall be punished as a general or summary
court-martial shall direct
Article 3. The punishment of death, or such
other punishment us a court-martia shall adjudge,
may be inflicted on any person in the naval
service


First. Who shall make or attempt to make, or
unite with, any mutinous assembly, or knowing
of the same, or of any intended mutiny, shall not
forthwith communicate it to his superior or COM
manding officer, or being witness to, or present
at, any mutiny, shall not do his utmost to sup
press it; -


Second. Or shall disobey the lawful orders of
his superior officer, or strike or assault, or at
tempt or threaten to strike or assault him, while
in the execution of the duties of his office;


Third. Or shall give, hold, cr entertain any in
tercourse or intelligence to or with any enemy or
rebel, without leave from the President OF the
manderin-chiet of the feet, or the commander of
squadron; or, in case of vessel acting singly,
from his commanding officer:


Fourth. Or shall desert, or entice others to de-
sert to enemy rebel;


Fifth. Or shall receive any message or letter
from any enemy or REBEL or be aware of the I'M
lawful reception of such letter message, and
fail to take the earliest opportunity to inform his
superior or commanding officer thereof;
sixth Or shall, in time OF war, desert or betray
his trust, or entice or aid Others to desert be-
tray their trust or shall sleep upon his watch, or
leave his station before regularly relieved;


Seventh. Or shall Intentionally or wilfully suffer
any vessel OF the navy to be stranded or run upon
rocks or shoals. or improperly hazarded or shall
wilfully or maliciously injure any vessel of the
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equipment, whereby the safety of the vessel shall
be hazarded, or the lives of the crew exposed TO
danger, or shall set on fire or otherwise unlaw-
fully destroy any public property not then in the
possession of an enemy, pirate, rebel


Eighth. Or shall strike, attempt to strike,
the flag to an enemy or rebel without proper au
thority, when engaged in battle shall treacher-
ously yield or puslIan mously cry for quarter;


Ninth. Or shall in time of battle display
cowardice, negligence, disaffection or withdraw
from or keep out of danger to which he should
expose himself; or shall desert his duty or sta
ton, or entice Others to do so; shall not pro-
perly observe the orders of his commanding Off
Ger and use his utmost exertions to carry them
into execution, when ordered to prepare for, join
in, or When actually engaged in battle or while in
sight of an enemy;


Tenth. Or when commanding fleet, squadron,
or vessel acting singIy shall upon the probability
of all engagement, or on sight ofany armed vessel
OF an enemy rebel, neglect to prepare and clear
his ship for action; or shall not, upon signal for
battle, his utmost exertions to join in battle,
shall fail to encourage in his own person his
inferior officers and men to fight courageousy or
shall not do his utmost to oI ertake aud capture
or d, stroy any vessel which it is his duty to en-
counter or shall not afford all practicable relief
and assistance to vessels belonging to the United
States or their allies When engaged in battle.


Article 4. Spies, and all persons who shall come
or be found in the capacity of spies, vino shall
bring deliver any seducing letter message
from an enemy or rebel, or endeavor to corrupt
any person i'll the navy to betray his trust, shall
suffer DEATH or such other punishment court
martial shall adudge.


Article .. The crime of murder, when commit
ted by an officer, seaman, marine, or other person
belonging TO any public ship or vessel OF the
United States, without the territorial jurisdiction
of the same, may be punished with death by the
sentence of a court martial.


Article +. In any where naval court-mar
tial is authorized to adjudge the punishment o.
death it may sentence the person convicted to i'm
prisOnment for life, or for stated term, at nard
labor, and such sentences OF imprisonment and
hard labor may be carried into execution in any
prison or penitentary under the control OF the
United States, or the use of which shall be allow
ed by the legislature of State; and persons con
victed by court martial and imprisoned in the
prison penitentiary of any State or Territory
Shall in ali respects be subject to the disci
pline and treatment and under the same control
convicts sentenced by the courts OF the State OIL
Territory in which such prison or penitentiary Is
situated.


Article Z. Such punishment as court martial
shall adjudge may be inflicted on any person il


First. Who shall be guilty OF cruelty, oppres
sion, or maltreatment of those subject to his
orders;


Second. Or shall be guilty of profane swearing
falsehood, drunk. nness gambling, fraud, theft, o.
any other scandalous conduct tending to the de
structiOn of good morals;


Third. Or shall quarrel with, strike, or assault
any other person in the navy, or use provoking ol
reproachful words, gestures, or menaces, or en-
deavor to foment Quarrels between other persons
in the navy, or send or accept challenge to light
duel, or act as second in duel;


Fourth Or shall treat with contempt his supe.
ror officer, disrespectful to him in languag.
or department whilst in the execution of his Off
ce; or shall join in or abet any combination to
weaken the lawful authority OF, or lessen the re-
spect due to his commanding officer;


Fifth. Or shall be negligent or careless in obey
ing orders, or culpably inefficient in the perform
ance of duty;


aid, abet, direct, or procure the making or sign
ing of any false muster, or shall execute, or at
United States, or shall waste, embezzle, frau
dulently buy, sell, or receive any ammunition,
provisions, otner public stores, or, having the
power to prevent it, snail knowingly permit such
embcZZement,


Seventh. Or shall, through inattention or neg
ligence, suffer any vessel of the navy to be strand
ed or run upon a rock or shoal, or hazarded;


Eighth. Or shall when on shore, plunder, abuse,
or maltreat any inhabitant or injure his property


Ninth. Or shall refuse or fail to use his utmost
exrrtions to detect, apprenend, and bring to
punishment all Off nders, and aid and assist all
persons appointed for the purpose;


Tentu Or shall, in time of peace, desert or at
tempt to desert, aid entice Others to desert
OF shall be- absent from his station or duty with
out leave, or after his leave shall have expired;


Eleventh. Or shall, when rated or acting as
master alarms, refuse to receive such prisoners
shall be committed to his charge, or having
received them shall suffer them to escape, or dis
mfrs them without orders from the proper au-
thority:


or vessel appointed convoy to merchant or
other vessels, fail diligently to perform his duty,
shall demand or exact any compensation for
his services, shall maltreat the officers or crew
of such merchant otner vessels;


Thirteenth. Or shall take, receive, o: permit
to he received on board the vessel to which he is
attached any goods merchandise tor freight,
sale traffic except gold, silver or jewels, tor
freight sate-keeping, OF shall demand or re-
ceive any compensation for the receipt or trans
portation of any other article than gold silver or
Jewels, without authority from the President of
the United States or the Secretary of the Navy !;


Fourteenth. Or shall violate refuse obedi-
ence to any lawful geuer i order regulation is
sued by the Secretary of the Navy.


Article 3. All offences committed by persons
belonging to the navy, which are not specified in
the foregoing articles, shall be punished as a
court-maLtial shall direct; but in no case shall
punishment by tiogging be inflicted, shall
any court martial adjudge punishment by fog
ging.


Article 9. All offences committed by persons
belonging to the navy, while on shore, snail oe
punished in the same manner as if they had been
committed at sea.


Article 10. No commander of vessel of the
navy shall infiict any other punishment upon a
commissioned or warrant officer than private
reprime nd, suspension from duty, arrest or con-
finement, neither of which shall continue longer
than ten days, except further period be neces-
sary to bring the offender to court martial; nor
shall he infict, cause permit to be inflicted
upon any petty officer or person of inferior ra-
ting, or marine, any punishment for single Of
fioE or at any time other than one of the follow
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