ARTICLE 123. Sentences of general courts-martial not to be executed till duly confirmed 124. PAGE 285 .. 285 detachment general courts-martial not to be executed .. till duly approved and confirmed 125. Commissioned officers convicted by general courts-martial may be reduced in rank or imprisoned, but not otherwise suspended from duty or pay 285 *126. Powers of general, district, or garrison courts-martial as to im prisonment 286 *127. Sentences of district or garrison courts-martial not to be executed 128. Powers of district courts-martial on warrant officers Powers of general, district, or garrison courts-martial as to stop- 287 288 133. As to stoppages for making away with medals 288 134. As to remission of stoppages by the Commander-in-Chief 288 288 138. 142. *136. Regimental courts-martial not to try for desertion or for absence without leave exceeding 21 days, unless permission is granted .. *137. Power to reduce non-commissioned officers 139. As to terms and places of imprisonment *140. Regimental courts-martial not to try grave offences Commutation of a sentence of death 143. Trial by courts-martial of civil offences in our dominions beyond seas, other than the East Indies, where there is no civil judi 145. out of our dominions MIXTURE OF OFFICERS. 291 292 292 146. Of marine officers with officers of the land forces, &c. *154. Previous convictions may be brought in evidence 157. Report of proceedings of general, district, and garrison courts Prosecutor or witness for prosecution not to act as Judge Advocate 298 298 161. Penalty on disturbance of proceedings 298 ARTICLE 162. Conduct in court and order of voting .. 163. No person to be tried twice for the same offence; no second revision PAGE 299 allowed.. 299 PROVOST MARSHALS. 165. For inspection of wounded officers *166. Previous to discharge of soldiers 167. On absence of soldiers for twenty-one days 300 301 302 179. Stoppage of rations, &c., in cases of misconduct on board ship 305 184. Late East India Company's service and Indian army 185. Provincial officers, North America :::::: 189. No person to be liable to punishment extending to life or limb or penal servitude, except for crimes expressly declared to be so punishable 307 308 308 308 309 310 *Notice of the law against seducing persons in Her Majesty's forces from their duty, or inciting them to mutiny 310 NOTE. The articles marked with an asterisk (*) are to be read aloud to the troops once in three months. VICTORIA R. RULES AND ARTICLES FOR THE BETTER GOVERNMENT OF OUR ARMY (FOR 1873-4). SECTION I. DUTIES AND LIABILITIES. MUSTERS.1 1. MUSTERS shall be taken of our regiments of life guards, horse guards, and foot guards, twice at least in every year, at such times as shall be appointed, and agreeably to the forms heretofore used; musters of every other corps in our army shall be taken according to such regulations as we may think fit to establish in relation thereto; no officer or soldier or other person liable to be mustered shall be absent from such musters without the leave of the proper authorities. REGIMENTAL PAY OF OFFICERS.2 or who 2. REGIMENTAL pay shall not be issued to any officer who shall absent himself without leave, or shall overstay the period for which leave of absence may have been granted him; shall not on promotion; exchange; or removal to another regiment; or on appointment from the half to the full pay; join within two months the corps to which he may have been so appointed; or who shall not, on his first appointment in the army, join as directed in orders from our adjutant general; unless a satisfactory explanation shall have been given through his colonel or commanding officer, and shall have been notified by our Commander-in-Chief to our Secretary of State for War. CONCEALMENT BY RECRUIT ON ENLISTMENT.3 3. ANY recruit who shall have enlisted into and been attested for our army or our Indian forces, and who shall be discovered to be incapable of active service by reason of any infirmity concealed or not declared by such recruit at the time of his attestation, 1 Art. 28 of 1717; and see 26 Geo. III. c. 104, s. 14. The frauds in this system formerly in force are adverted to, Vol. I. p. 123, and Vol. II. p. 8. 2 The Crown has always exercised the most absolute control over the pay of the Army. 3 First inserted in 1860. may be transferred to any garrison, or veteran or invalid battalion or company, notwithstanding he shall have enlisted for any particular regiment or corps, and shall be entitled to receive such proportion or residue of bounty only as our Secretary of State for War may allow, instead of the bounty to which such recruit would have been otherwise entitled. CONCEALMENT ON RE-ENLISTMENT.1 *4. IF any person discharged from our army for disability, misconduct, or for any other cause, shall subsequently re-enter the army, and shall, at the time of his being attested, conceal the fact, or misrepresent the cause of his former discharge; he shall neither be allowed to reckon his past service, nor to receive any pension, if again discharged for disability. FURLOUGHS.2 *5. COMMANDING officers of regiments in Great Britain and Ireland are authorized to grant furloughs to soldiers, subject to the control of the general officers under whose command the regiments may be serving; but these indulgences are not to be granted during the seasons for reviews, field exercise, and inspections; viz. between the tenth day of March and twenty-fifth day of October in each year; except under peculiar and urgent circumstances; the number of soldiers to whom furloughs may be granted, between the twenty-fifth day of October and tenth day of March following, is to be regulated according to the general order which may be issued on that head; and when any soldier on furlough shall be detained by sickness or other casualty beyond the time therein limited, any military officer, not below the rank of captain, or any adjutant of regular militia, or when there is not any such officer within a convenient distance, then any justice, may grant an extension of such furlough for a period not exceeding one month, notifying the same to the commanding officer of the corps to which the man belongs, or to the agent of the regiment. SUTTLING.3 6. NO suttler shall be permitted to sell any kind of liquors or victuals or to keep his house or shop open for the entertainment of soldiers, after nine o'clock at night, or before the beating of the reveilles, nor shall he be permitted to sell liquors of any sort during such time or times as he shall be forbidden so to do by the officer commanding the troops in the barracks to which the canteen belongs; ——— nor 1 In 1830 as 113th Article. 2 Art. 25 of 1717. In 1748 the C. O. could give furloughs at two men per Company. 3 Art. 29 of 1717; and see sec. 8 (Art. 2) of Art. of 1748. on the penalty but all officers, upon Sundays during Divine service or sermon; of being dismissed from all future suttling; soldiers, and suttlers shall have full liberty to bring into any of our forts or garrisons any quantity or species of provisions, eatable or drinkable, except where any contracts are entered into by us, or by our order, for furnishing such provisions; (this exception extends only to the species of provisions so contracted for ;) and all officers commanding in our forts, barracks, or garrisons, are required to see, as they shall be answerable to us for their neglect, that the persons permitted to suttle, supply the soldier with good and wholesome provisions, at the market price. CRYING DOWN CREDIT.1 7. THE commanding officer of every corps shall, upon its first coming to any place where it is to remain in quarters, cause public proclamation to be made that if the landlords or other inhabitants suffer the soldiers to contract debts, such debts will not be discharged;- the said commanding officer refusing or neglecting so to do shall be suspended for three months, during which time his whole pay shall be applied to the discharging of such debts as shall have been contracted by the soldiers under his command beyond the amount of their daily subsistence; if there be any overplus remaining it may be returned to him: if after public proclamation made as above directed the inhabitants shall notwithstanding suffer the soldiers to contract debts with them, it will be at their own peril, the officers not being obliged to discharge such debts. BILLETS.2 *8. IF any complaint shall be made against any officer or soldier of ill-treatment of landlords by violence, extortion, or making disturbances in billets, the officer commanding shall, after proof of the justice of the complaint, cause reparation to be made, either by causing the offender to be tried for the offence, or by making compensation in money, to the extent of stopping half the offender's pay daily until the demand be satisfied or full reparation be made; and if such commanding officer shall refuse or neglect to cause such reparation to be made he shall be deemed equally culpable as the actual offender; and if the officer or soldier shall protest against such summary proceeding of his commanding officer, the matter shall The original order for this is to be found in the W. O. Mis. Bk. (517, 1 See also 4 W. & M. c. 13, s. 22, and 8 & 9 Will. III. c. 13, s. 4; also Vol. and Chap. VII. par. 42. ante. This (8) was Article 33 of 1717. |