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Retiring to tent or quarters,

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Retreat, all non-commissioned officers and soldiers to retire to quarters at beating of, 22, 114 Returns, false, penalty for making,

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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,

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Staff, general, organization of, as such,

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officers of, authorized, 45, 63, 67, 74, 92, 99, 134, 150, 151, 154, 213, 214, 262, 263
clothed with brevet rank,

officers of, not to hold commissions conferring equal rank in the line,
additional officers of, authorized for a limited time,

Stores, public, taken from the enemy to be preserved,

sale, embezzlement, or misapplication of,
safe-keeping of,

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unserviceable, inspection and sale of,

Store-keepers, military, to be appointed,

number and pay of, limited,
to give security,

of ordnance, pay limited,

Stripes and lashes authorized,

abolished,

revived in case of deserters,

Striking superior officers,
Sub-legions, organization of,
Subsistence, allowance of, to officers,
to soldiers,

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rate of commutation for,
to be provided by contract,
commissary general of, authorized,

commissaries of, authorized,

assistant commissaries of, subject to do duty in Quartermaster's Depart-
ment,

for volunteers and militia, money in lieu of,

Suit to be brought when demanded,

Suits, agent of the Treasury to superintend,
Summary process against delinquents,

not to have retrospective effect on sureties,
statement of money to be rendered,

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and assistants not to deal in articles composing the

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Supplies, Public Purveyor of, to be appointed,

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and assistants, additional, may be appointed for a limited time,

Survey of the Chesapeake to be completed,

Suspension from command,

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Uniform clothing, (see clothing.)

no compensation allowed, for disbursing public money,

Traitorous or disrespectful words against Congress, &c.
Travelling allowance to discharged officers and soldiers,
Transfers of appropriations limited and restrained,
Treasury, better organization of,

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,
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Uniform of the army, President authorized to prescribe,

not allowed to engage in the service of incorporated com-
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V.

Vacancies in the army and navy to be filled,

Vice-President of the United States, penalty for speaking disrespectfully of,
Violence to persons bringing supplies to camp or garrison,

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,

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Volunteers, provision for invalids and wounded of,

to have the organization, pay, and allowances of the army of the United
States,

allowed pay for use and risk of horses,

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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-
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called out by General Gaines, Secretary of War to cause to be

paid,

States or individuals having paid

expenses or transportation of,
to be refunded,

surgeons, assistant surgeons,
quartermasters, and commis-
saries of, compensation of,

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Waste or spoil not to be coinmitted,

and sale of ammunition,

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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.

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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

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