Article 16th. No Officer or Soldier shall be out of his quarters, or camp, without leave from the Commanding Officers of his Regiment, upon penalty of being punished according to the nature of his offence, by order of a Regimental Court Martial.

Article 17th. Every Non-Commissioned Officer and Soldier shall retire to his quarters or tent at the beating the retreat; in default of which, he shall be punished according to the nature of his offence, by order of the Commanding Officer.

Article 18th. No Officer, Non-Commissioned Officer, or Soldier, shall fail of repairing at the time fixed, to the place of parade, of exercise, or other rendezvous, appointed by the Commanding Officer, if not prevented by sickness, or some other evident 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, by the sentence of a Regimental Court Martial.

Article 19th. Whatsoever Commissioned Officer shall be found drunk upon 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 ordered by the sentence of a Regimental Court Martial.

Article 20th. Whatever Centinel shall be found sleeping upon his post, or shall leave it before he shall be regularly relieved, shall suffer such punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a General Court Martial.

Article 21st. Any person belonging to the Massachusetts Army, who, by discharging of Fire-Arms, beating of Drums, or by any other means whatever, shall occasion false alarms in camp or in quarters, shall suffer such punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a General Court Martial.

Article 22d. Any Officer or Soldier who shall, without urgent necessity, or without leave of his Superiour Officer, quit his platoon or division, shall be punished according to the nature of his offence, by the sentence of a Regimental Court Martial.

Article 23d. No Officer or Soldier shall do violence, or suffer any insult or abuse to any person who shall bring provisions or other necessaries to the camp or quarters of the Massachusetts Army; any Officer of Soldier so offending, shall, upon complaint beings made to the Commanding Officer, suffer such punishment as shall be ordered by a Regimental Court Martial.

Article 24th. Whatever Officer or Soldier shall shamefully abandon any post committed to his charge, or shall speak words inducing others to do the like in time of an engagement, shall suffer death immediately.

Article 25th. Any person belonging to the Massachusetts Army, 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 watchword different from what he received, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be ordered by a General Court Martial.

Article 26th. Whosoever, belonging to the Massachusetts Army, shall relieve the enemy with Money, Victuals, or Ammunition, or shall knowingly harbour and protect an enemy, shall suffer such punishment as by a General Court Martial shall be ordered.

Article 27th. Whosoever, belonging to the Massachusetts Army, shall be convicted of holding correspondence with, or giving intelligence to the enemy, either directly or indirectly, shall suffer such punishment as by a General Court Martial shall be ordered.

Article 28th. All Publick Stores taken in an enemy's camp, whether of Artillery, Ammunition, Clothing, or Provisions, shall be secured for the use of the Massachusetts Colony.

Article 29th. If any Officer or Soldier shall leave his post or colours in time of an engagement, to go in search of plunder, he shall, upon being convicted thereof before a General Court Martial, suffer such punishment as by said Court Martial shall be ordered.

Article 30th. If any Commander of any Post, Intrenchment, or Fortess, shall be compelled by the Officers or Soldiers, under his command, to give it up to the enemy or to abandon it, the Commissioned Officers or Soldiers who shall be convicted of having so offended shall suffer death, or such other punishment as may be inflicted on them by the sentence of a General Court Martial.

Article 31st. All sellers and retailers to a camp, and all persons whatsoever serving with the Massachusetts Army in the field, though not entitled Soldiers, are to be subject to the Articles, Rules, and Regulations of the Massachusetts Army.

Article 32d. No General Court Martial shall consist of a less number than thirteen, none of which shall be under the degree of a Field Officer; and the President of each and every Court Martial, whether General or Regimental, shall have power to administer an oath to every witness in order to the trial of offenders; and the Members of all Courts Martial shall be duly sworn by the President, and the next in rank on the Court Martial shall administer the oath to the President.

Article 33d. The Members both of General and Regimental Courts Martial shall, when belonging to different Corps, take the same rank which they hold in the Army; but when Courts Martial shall be composed of Officers of one Corps, they shall take rank according to their commissions, by which they are mustered in the said Corps.

Article 34th. All the Members of a Court Martial are to behave with calmness, decency, and impartiality, and in the giving of their votes, are to begin with the youngest or lowest in commission.

Article 35th. No Field Officers shall be tried by any person under the degree of a Captain; nor shall any proceeding or trial be carried on excepting between the hours of eight in the morning and three in the afternoon, except in cases which require an immediate example.

Article 36th. The Commissioned Officers of every Regiment may, by the appointment of their Colonel or Commanding Officer, hold Regimental Courts Martial for the inquiring into such disputes or criminal matters as may come before them, and for the inflicting corporeal punishments for small offences, and shall give judgment by the majority of voices; but no sentence shall be executed until the Commanding Officer, (not being a Member of the Court Martial) shall have confirmed the same.

Article 37th. No Regimental Court Martial shall consist of less than five Officers, excepting in case when that number cannot be conveniently assembled, when three may be sufficient, who are likewise to determine upon the sentence by the majority of voices, which sentence is to be confirmed by the Commanding Officer, not being a member of the Court Martial.

Article 38th. Any Officer commanding in Forts, Castles, or Barracks, or elsewhere, where the Corps under his command consists of detachments from different Regiments, or of independent Companies, may assemble Courts Martial for the trial of offenders in the same manner as if they were Regimental, whose sentence is not to be executed till it shall be confirmed by the said Commanding Officer.

Article 39th. No person whatsoever shall use menacing words, signs, or gestures, in the presence of a Court Martial then sitting, or shall cause any disorder or riot, so as to disturb their proceedings, on penalty of being punished at the discretion of said Court Martial.

Article 40th. 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.

Article 41st. 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.

Article 42d. No Officer commanding a Guard or a Provost Martial, shall refuse to receive or keep any prisoner committed to his charge by any Officer belonging to the Massachusetts Forces; which Officer shall, at the same time, deliver an account in writing, signed by himself, of the crimes with which the said prisoner is charged.

Article 43d. No Officer commanding a Guard or Provost Martial shall presume to release any prisoner committed to his charge, without proper authority for so doing;