Retiring to tent or quarters, 47, 49, 58, 63, 81, 91, 102, 157, 159, 169 232 179 132 20, 30, 113 20, 113 17, 111 17, 111 27, 36, 119 165 165 189 189 27, 36, 119 23, 116 185, 198, 206 Retreat, all non-commissioned officers and soldiers to retire to quarters at beating of, 22, 114 Returns, false, penalty for making, general courts-martial, how to be acted upon, Sentinels sleeping on post, Selling, embezzling, or misapplying military stores, losing or spoiling horses, arms, clothing, or accoutrements, or wasting ammunition by non-commissioned officers or soldiers, Staff, general, organization of, as such, Page. 155, 190 172 291 22, 114 270 123 23, 115 177 164, 187, 200, 263 officers of, authorized, 45, 63, 67, 74, 92, 99, 134, 150, 151, 154, 213, 214, 262, 263 officers of, not to hold commissions conferring equal rank in the line, Stores, public, taken from the enemy to be preserved, sale, embezzlement, or misapplication of, unserviceable, inspection and sale of, Store-keepers, military, to be appointed, number and pay of, limited, of ordnance, pay limited, Stripes and lashes authorized, abolished, revived in case of deserters, Striking superior officers, 164, 165 286 286 43, 49, 59, 64, 67, 81, 84, 90, 100, 125, 126, 183, 264 43, 49, 59, 64, 91, 100, 125, 126, 183 rate of commutation for, commissaries of, authorized, assistant commissaries of, subject to do duty in Quartermaster's Depart- for volunteers and militia, money in lieu of, Suit to be brought when demanded, Suits, agent of the Treasury to superintend, not to have retrospective effect on sureties, and assistants not to deal in articles composing the ration, 202 214, 224, 263 214 287 223 209 209 210 130 57 Supplies, Public Purveyor of, to be appointed, and assistants, additional, may be appointed for a limited time, Survey of the Chesapeake to be completed, Suspension from command, 172 commanding officers not to be in any manner interested in the sale of articles by, 19, 112 Uniform clothing, (see clothing.) no compensation allowed, for disbursing public money, Traitorous or disrespectful words against Congress, &c. agent of, to be appointed, to superintend suits against debtors, Trials not to take place à second time for the same offence, persons not liable to, for offences of more than two years' standing, U. Uniform of the army, President authorized to prescribe, not allowed to engage in the service of incorporated com- 267 268 14 95, 104, 137, 160 V. Vacancies in the army and navy to be filled, Vice-President of the United States, penalty for speaking disrespectfully of, to superiors on duty, penalty for offering, Vessels, public armed, President authorized to complete, and steamboats on northern lakes and rivers, President to purchase, charter, arm, &c., steamboats and merchant, Volunteers, President authorized to accept the services of, exempt from militia duty, to serve twelve months, Volunteers, provision for invalids and wounded of, to have the organization, pay, and allowances of the army of the United allowed pay for use and risk of horses, of a company of, money in lieu of subsistence and forage for, and militia, Secretary of War to refund to the Governors of States and in- called out by General Gaines, Secretary of War to cause to be paid, States or individuals having paid expenses or transportation of, surgeons, assistant surgeons, Page. 281 282 282 282 285 285 285 287 292 293 293 293 Waste or spoil not to be coinmitted, and sale of ammunition, Watchword, imparting, to persons not entitled to it, or giving a wrong one, 56, 68, 103, 136, 159, 184, 284 185, 197 43, 60, 66, 102, 136, 159, 187, 205 MILITARY LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. CHAPTER 1. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. ARTICLE I. SECTION 1. 1. All legislative powers herein granted, shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. SECTION 2. 1. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states; and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature. 1 2. No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen. 3. Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons. The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of |