Report of the Acting Judge-Advocate-General to the Secretary of War for the Year ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 - Judge advocates |
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Absence without leave accouterments Acquittals acting judge-advocate Advocate amended annual report arrest by civil article of war Assault with intent August 31 Barracks Camp Capt Carrying concealed weapons Cavalry cent civil authorities clerks commanding officer commissioned officer committed confinement Corps court-martial discipline dishonorable discharge Disobeying noncommissioned officer Disrespect ending August 31 ending June 30 enlisted men tried following table forfeiture Fort Leavenworth garrison courts-martial Government property guardhouse hard labor headquarters honor increase Indecent Infantry inferior courts inferior courts-martial Insubordinate conduct judge JUDGE-ADVOCATE-GENERAL June 30 jurisdiction Larceny Lieut limits of punishment liquor martial ment military prison months noncommissioned officer number of desertions number of trials offenses previous convictions Quitting guard recommended records revision Secretary Secretary of War sentence sentinel Sixty-second article soldier Statutes submit summary court superior officer Thirty-eighth article thirty-second article Thirty-third article tion total number trials by inferior trials by summary U. S. ARMY United violation
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Page 12 - Any officer or soldier who, being present at any mutiny or sedition, does not use his utmost endeavor to suppress the same, or having knowledge of any intended mutiny or sedition . does not. without delay, give information thereof to his commanding officer, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct.
Page 32 - States, are hereby placed under the control of the government of said islands to be administered for the benefit of the inhabitants thereof, except as provided in this act.
Page 32 - Any alien, of the age of twenty-one years and upward who has enlisted, or may enlist, in the armies of the United States, either the regular or the volunteer forces, and has been, or may be hereafter, honorably discharged, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States...
Page 31 - When any person is put in arrest for the purpose of trial, except at remote military posts or stations, the officer by whose order he is arrested shall see that a copy of the charges on which he is to be tried is served upon him within eight...
Page 3 - Who knowingly purchases or receives in pledge for any obligation or indebtedness from any soldier, officer, or other person...
Page 13 - ... on account of disease resulting from his own intemperate use of drugs or alcoholic liquors or other misconduct...
Page 15 - Any person who in time of war shall be found lurking or acting as a spy in or about any of the fortifications, posts, quarters, or encampments of any of the armies of the United States, or elsewhere, shall be tried by a general court-martial or by a military commission, and shall, on conviction thereof, suffer death.
Page 19 - There exists no law or body of authoritative rules of action between hostile armies, except that branch of the law of nature and nations which is called the law and usages of war on land.