The Laws for the Government of the Massachusetts Militia: As Amended by Chapter 266, Acts of 1867Wright & Potter, 1867 - 92 pages |
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absence actual service adjutant adjutant-general aforesaid ammunition appear appointed armory arms artillery belonging brigade captain cashiered cers certified clerk commander-in-chief commanding officer commissioned officer committed Commonwealth COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS complaint corps court of inquiry court-martial detachment discharge division election encampment enlistment enrolled equipments eral evidence exceeding excuse exempted false forfeit furnished garrison hundred dollars issued judge-advocate justice manding martial mayor and aldermen ment military duty militia muster muster-rolls non-commissioned officer notified oath offence offi officer commanding officer or private officer or soldier officers and soldiers pany parade Penalty perform person Pick president proceedings prosecuted punished quartermaster quartermaster-general rank receive record regiment or battalion regiments and battalions roster SECT section one hundred selectmen sentence sioned officers staff officers suffer death sutlers therein thereof tial tion transmit trial troop or company uniforms unless volunteer company volunteer militia witnesses
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Page 86 - ... neither will you disclose or discover the vote or opinion of any particular member of the court-martial, unless required to give evidence thereof, as a witness, by a court of justice, in a due course of law. So help you God.
Page 82 - Any person belonging to the continental army, who shall make known the watch-word to any person who is not entitled to receive it, according to the rules and discipline of war, or shall presume to give a parole, or watch-word, different from what he received, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a general court-martial.
Page 81 - States, who, by discharging of firearms, drawing of swords, beating of drums, or by any other means whatsoever, shall occasion false alarms in camp, garrison, or quarters, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a general court-martial.
Page 74 - No enlisted man, duly sworn, shall be discharged from the service without a discharge in writing, signed by a field officer of the regiment to which he belongs, or by the commanding officer when no field officer is present...
Page 83 - ART. 57. Whosoever shall be convicted of holding correspondence with, or giving intelligence to, the enemy, either directly or indirectly, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a general court-martial.
Page 24 - I, AB do solemnly swear, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and will support the constitution thereof. So help me God.
Page 24 - I do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich; and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge all the duties incumbent on me as , according to the best of my abilities and understanding agreeably to the Constitution and laws of the United States.
Page 76 - ... reputed a deserter and suffering accordingly.* And in case any officer shall knowingly receive and entertain such noncommissioned officer or soldier, or shall not, after his being discovered to be a deserter, immediately confine him and give notice thereof to the corps in which he last served, the said officer shall, by a court-martial, be cashiered.
Page 78 - Any soldier who so offends shall incur the penalties provided in the preceding article; and all moneys forfeited for such offenses shall be applied as therein provided. ART. 54. Every officer commanding in quarters, garrison, or on the march, shall keep good order, and, to the utmost of his power, redress all abuses or disorders which may be committed by any officer or soldier under his command...
Page 79 - The general shall examine into said complaint and take proper measures for redressing the wrong complained of; and he shall, as soon as possible, transmit to the Department of War a true statement of such complaint, with the proceedings had thereon.