Congressional Serial Set, Issue 3077U.S. Government Printing Office, 1893 - United States Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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Page 217 - 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 214 - Any officer, non-commissioned officer, or soldier, who, being present at any mutiny or sedition, does not use his utmost endeavor to suppress the same, or, coming to the knowledge of any intended mutiny, does not, without delay, give information thereof to his commanding officer, shall be punished by the sentence of a court-martial with death, or otherwise, according to the nature of his offence.
Page 222 - All laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed.
Page 706 - A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre.
Page 220 - Military offenses under the statute law must be tried in the manner therein directed ; but military offenses which do not come within the statute must be tried and punished under the common law of war. The character of the courts which exercise these jurisdictions depends upon the local laws of each particular country. In the armies of the United States the first is exercised by courts-martial ; while cases which do not come within the " Rules and Articles of War," or the jurisdiction conferred by...
Page 215 - ART. 81. Relieving, Corresponding With, or Aiding the Enemy. Whosoever relieves or attempts to relieve the enemy with arms, ammunition, supplies, money, or other thing, or knowingly harbors or protects or holds correspondence with or gives intelligence to the enemy, either directly or indirectly, shall suffer death or such other punishment as a court-martial or military commission may direct.
Page 364 - For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia...
Page 218 - Act, if not inconsistent with the context, the expression " on active service " as applied to a person subject to military law means whenever he is attached -to or forms part of a force which is engaged in operations against the enemy or is engaged in military operations in a country or place wholly or partly occupied by an enemy, or is in military occupation of any foreign country.
Page 260 - For the construction of buildings at, and the enlargement of such military posts as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary...
Page 213 - Any officer or soldier who behaves himself with disrespect toward his commanding officer shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. ART. 21. Any officer or soldier who, on any pretense whatsoever, strikes his superior officer, or draws or lifts up any weapon, or offers any violence against him, being in the execution of his office, or disobeys any lawful command of his superior officer, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as a courtmartial may direct.