6. Any officer or soldier who being present at any mutiny, does not use his utmost endeavours to suppress the same, or coming to the knowledge of any mutiny or intended mutiny, does not, without delay, give information thereof to his commanding or some superior officer, shall be punished according to the nature and degree of his offence.

7. Any officer or soldier who shall strike his superior officer, or draw, or offer to draw, or shall lift up any weapon, or offer any violence against him, being in the execution of his office, or shall disobey any lawful commands of his superior officer, shall suffer such punishment as shall be adjudged.

8. Any officer or soldier who shall desert to the enemy and afterwards be retaken, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as may be adjudged.

9. Any non-commissioned officer or soldier who shall desert, or without leave from his commanding officer absent himself from the company to which he belongs, or from any detachment of which he is one, shall be punished according to the nature of his offence.

10. Whatsoever officer or soldier shall be convicted of having advised or persuaded any other officer or soldier to desert, shall suffer such punishment as shall be adjudged.

11. All officers, of what condition soever, shall have power to part and quell all quarrels, frays, and disorders, and order offenders to be arrested and confined till their proper superior officer shall be acquainted therewith; and whosoever shall refuse to obey such officer, (though of an inferior rank) or shall draw his sword upon him, shall be punished according to the nature of his offence.

12. No officer or soldier shall use any reproachful or provoking speeches or gestures to another, nor shall presume to send a challenge to any person to fight a duel; and whosoever shall knowingly or willingly suffer any person whatsoever to go forth to fight a duel, or shall second, promote or carry any challenge, shall be deemed a principal; and whatsoever officer or soldier shall upbraid another for refusing a challenge, shall also be considered as a challenger; and all such offenders, in any of these or such like cases, shall be punished according to the nature of his offence.

13. Any officer commanding in quarters, or on a march, shall keep good order, and to the utmost of his power redress all such abuses or disorders which may be committed by any officer or soldier under his command: if upon any complaint made to him of officers or soldiers beating, or otherwise ill treating any person, or of committing any kind of a riot to the disquieting of the inhabi

tants, the said commander who shall refuse or omit to see justice done on the offender or offenders, and reparation made to the party or parties injured, as far as the offender's wages will enable him or them, shall upon due proof thereof, be punished in such manner as if he himself had committed the crimes or disorders complained of.

14. If any officer or soldier should think himself wronged by his captain or commanding officer, and shall upon application to him be refused redress, he may complain to the colonel or commanding officer of the said battalion, to obtain justice, who is hereby required to examine into the said complaint, and see that justice be done. 15. Whatsoever non-commissioned officer or soldier shall sell, or designedly, or through neglect waste the ammunition, arms, or other military stores or provisions delivered out to him to be used or employed in the service, shall, if an officer, be reduced to a private centinal, and if a private soldier, shall suffer such punishment as shall be adjudged.

16. Any non-commissioned officer or soldier who shall be found one mile from his station or the camp, without leave in writing from his commanding officer, shall suffer such punishment as shall be adjudged.

17. No officer or soldier shall be out of his quarters or camp without leave from the commanding officer, upon penalty of being punished according to the nature of his offence.

18. Every non-commissioned officer and soldier shall repair to his quarters or tent at the beating of the retreat, in default of which he shall be punished according to the nature of his offence.

19. No officer, non-commissioned officer or soldier, shall fail of repairing at the time fixed, to the place of parade or exercise or other rendezvous appointed by the commanding officer, if not prevented by sickness or some other necessity, or shall go from the said place of rendezvous or from his guard, without leave from his commanding officer, before he shall be regularly dismissed or relieved, on penalty of being punished according to the nature of his offence.

20. Whatsoever commissioned officer shall be found drunk on his guard, party, or other duty under arms, shall be cashiered for it; any non-commissioned officer or soldier so offending, shall suffer such punishment as shall be adjudged.

21. Whatsoever sentinel shall be found sleeping upon his post, or shall leave before he shall be regularly relieved, shall suffer such punishment as shall be adjudged.

22. Any person belonging to the provincial forces, who by dis

charging of fire arms, beating of drums, or by any other means whatsoever, shall occasion false alarms in camp or quarters, shall suffer such punishment as shall be adjudged.

23. Any officer or soldier who shall without urgent necessity, or without leave of his superior officer, quit his platoon or division, shall be punished according to the nature of his offence.

24. No officer or soldier shall do violence, or offer any insult or abuse to any person who shall bring provisions or other necessaries to any camp or quarters; any officer or soldier so offending, shall suffer such such punishment as shall be adjudged.

25. Whatsoever officer or soldier shall shamefully abandon his post in the time of an engagement, shall suffer death immediately. 26. Whatsoever officer or soldier shall shamefully abandon any post committed to his charge, or shall induce any other persons so to do, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be adjudged.

27. Any person of or belonging to the said forces, who shall make known the watchword 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 adjudged.

28. Whosoever of or belonging to the said forces, shall relieve the enemy with money, victuals, or ammunition, or shall knowingly harbour or protect the enemy, shall suffer such punishment as shall be adjudged.

29. Whosoever of, or belonging to the said forces, shall be convicted of holding a treacherous correspondence with, or of giving intelligence to the enemy, either directly or indirectly, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be adjudged.

30. If any officer or soldier shall leave his post or colours, at the time of an engagement, to go in search of plunder, he shall suffer such punishment as may be adjudged.

31. If any commander of any post, intrenchment, or fortress, shall be compelled by the officers or soldiers under his command to surrender it to the enemy, or abandon it, the offenders shall suffer death, or such other punishment as may be adjudged.

32. If any person shall use menacing words, signs, or gestures, in the presence of any court martial, when sitting, or shall cause any disorder or riot so as to disturb their proceedings, he shall be punished at the discretion of such court martial.

33. To the end that offenders may be brought to justice, whenever any officer or soldier shall commit a crime deserving punishment, he shall, by his commanding officer, if an officer, be put in arrest ; if a non-commissioned officer or soldier, be imprisoned till he shall

be either tried by a court martial, or shall be lawfully discharged by proper authority.

34. No officer or soldier, who shall be put in arrest or imprisonment, shall continue in his confinement more than eight days, or till such time as a court martial can be conveniently assembled.

35. No officer cominanding a guard, or provost martial, shall refuse to receive or keep any prisoner delivered into his charge by an officer belonging to the said forces; the officer, at the same time, delivering an accusation signed by himself, of the crime with which the said prisoner is charged.

36. No officer commanding a guard, or provost martial, shall presume to release any prisoner committed to his charge, without proper authority for so doing; nor shall he suffer any prisoner to escape, on the penalty of being punished for it as may be adjudged.

37. Every officer or provost martial, to whose charge any prisoner shall be committed, is hereby required, within twenty-four hours after such commitment, or as soon as he shall be relieved from his guard, to give in writing to the colonel or commanding officer of the prisoner, his name and crime, and the name of the officer who committed him, on the penalty of being punished for his ne glect as may adjudged.

38. Whatever commissioned officer shall leave his confinement before he is set at liberty by the officer who confined him, or by a superior power, shall be cashiered for it.

39. Whatsoever commissioned officer shall behave in a scandalous, infamous manner, such as is unbecoming the character of an officer and gentleman, shall be discharged from the service.

40. The officer commanding the said battalion, and every officer commanding a company not of the said battalion, shall, upon notice given to him by the commissary of musters, assemble the battalion or company, under his command, in the next convenient place for their being mustered, which shall be done of the said battalion once in six weeks at least, and of the said other forces one in ten weeks at least.

41. Every field officer or other officer, commanding any corps, and actually residing with it, may give furloughs to officers and soldiers of his corps, as he shall judge to be most consistent with the good of the service; but no officer or soldier shall be absent above twenty days in six months; nor shall more than one officer and two private men be absent at the same time from any one company, excepting some extraordinary occasion shall require it.

42. At every muster, the commanding officer of the said battalion then present, or the captain or commanding officer of the said

companies not of the battalion then present, shall give to the commissary of musters certificates of the musters signed by himself, signifying how long such officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers, who shall not appear at the said muster, have been absent, and the reason of their absence, which reason and the time of absence shall be inserted in the muster rolls, opposite to the respective names of such absentees; and the said certificate, together with the muster roll, shall be, by the said commissary, transmitted to the council of safety within twenty days next after such muster being taken, on failure whereof the commissary so offending shall be discharged from the service.

43. Every officer, who shall sign a false certificate relating to the absence of officers, or non-commissioned officers, or private soldiers, shall be cashiered.

44. Every officer who shall knowingly make a false muster of any man, and any officer or commissary, who shall sign, allow or return the muster rolls wherein such false muster is contained, knowing the the falsity thereof, shall be cashiered, and forfeit all such pay as may be due to him at the time of his conviction of such offence.

45. Any commissary, who shall take any gift or gratuity on the false mustering of the said battalion or any company, or for signing any muster roll, shall be displaced, and forfeit his pay, as in the preceding article.

46. Any officer, who shall presume to muster any person as a soldier, who at other times is accustomed to wear a livery, or who does not actually do his duty as a soldier, shall be deemed guilty of having made a false muster, and suffer accordingly.

47. The commanding officer of every corps, or of any garrison in the service aforesaid, or at any station of any of the said forces, shall in the beginning of every month, transmit to the council of safety an exact return of the state of the troops under his command, specifying the names of the officers not then residing at their posts, and the reason for and time of their absence. And whoever shall, through neglect or design, omit sending such returns, shall be punished as may be adjudged.

48. No person shall be allowed to suttle at any camp or station, or to any party or detachment of the said forces, before he shall have obtained a license from the commanding officer thereof, and shall also have subscribed these rules.

49. No suttler shall be permitted to sell any kind of liquor, or victual, or keep his house or shop open, for the entertainment of soldiers, after nine o'clock at night, or before beating the reveilles,