and shall, upon due application made to him, be refused to be redressed, he may complain to the General, or Commander-in-Chief of the Rhode-Island Forces, in order to obtain justice, who is hereby required to examine into said complaint and see that justice be done.

ART. XIII. If any inferiour Officer or Soldier shall think himself wronged by his Captain, or other Officer commanding the Troop or Company to which he belongs, he is to complain thereof to the Commanding Officer of the Regiment, who is here by required to summon a Regimental Court-Martial for the doing justice to the complainant, from which Regimental Court-Martial either party may, if he thinks himself still aggrieved, appeal to a General Court-Martial; but if, upon a second hearing, the appeal shall appear to be vexatious and groundless, the person so appealing shall be punished at the discretion of the General Court-Martial.

ART. XIV. Whatsoever Non-Commissioned Officer or Soldier shall be convicted at a Regimental Court-Martial of having sold, or designedly, or through neglect, wasted the Ammunition, Arms, or Provisions, or other Military Stores delivered out to him to be employed in the service of this Colony, shall, if an Officer, be reduced to a Private Sentinel; and if a Private Soldier, shall suffer such punishment as shall be ordered by a Regimental Court-Martial.

ART. XV. All Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers shall be allowed the limits of one mile from the place of encampment, unless the Commander-in-Chief shall think proper to mark out shorter limitations. Every Officer or Soldier found without those limits, without leave in writing, shall suffer such punishment as shall be inflicted by a Regimental Court-Martial.

ART. XVI. No Officer or Soldier shall lie out of his quarters or camp without leave from the Commanding Officer of the Regiment, upon penalty of being punished according to the nature of his offence, by order of a Regimental Court-Martial.

ART. XVII. Every Non-Commissioned Officer and Soldier shall retire 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, by order of the Commanding Officer.

ART. XVIII. 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 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.

ART. XIX. 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 ordered by the sentence of a Regimental Court-Martial.

ART. XX. Whatsoever Sentinel 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.

ART. XXI. Any person belonging to the Rhode-Island Army, who, by discharging 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 ordered by the sentence of a General Court-Martial.

ART. XXII. 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.

ART. XXI. No Officer or Soldier shall do violence, or offer any insult or abuse to any person who shall bring provisions or other necessaries to the camp or quarters of the Rhode-Island Army; any Officer or Soldier so offending, shall, upon complaint being made to the Commanding Officer, suffer such punishment as shall be ordered by a Regimental Court-Martial.

ART. XXIV. Whatsoever 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.

ART. XXV. Any person belonging to the Rhode-Island 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 the sentence of a General Court-Martial.

ART. XXVI. Whosoever, belonging to the Rhode-Island Army, shall relieve the enemy with Money, Victuals, or Ammunition, or shall knowingly harbour or protect an enemy, shall suffer such punishment as by a General Court-Martial shall be ordered.

ART. XXVII. Whosoever belonging to the Rhode-Island Army, shall be convicted of holding correspondence with, or of giving intelligence to the enemy, either directly or indirectly, shall suffer such punishment as by a General Court-Martial shall be ordered.

ART. XXVIII. All Publick Stores, taken in the enemy’s camp or magazines, whether of Artillery, Ammunition, Clothing, or Provisions, shall be secured for the use of the Colony of Rhode-Island.

ART. XXIX. 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.

ART. XXX. If any Commander of any Post, Intrenchment, or Fortress, shall be compelled by the Officers or Soldiers under his command, to give it up to the enemy, or to abandon it, the Commissioned Officer, Non-Commissioned Officers, or Soldiers, who shall be convicted of having so offended, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as may be inflicted upon them by the sentence of a General Court-Martial.

ART. XXXI. All Sutlers and Retailers to a camp, and all persons whatsoever serving with the Rhode-Island Army in the field, though not enlisted Soldiers, are to be subject to the Articles, Rules, and Regulations of the Rhode-Island Army.

ART. XXXII. No General Court-Martial shall consist of a less number than thirteen, none of which shall be under the degree of a Commissioned Officer, and the President shall be 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.

ART. XXXIII. 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 their ranks according to their commissions, by which they are mustered in the said Corps.

ART. XXXIV. 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.

ART. XXXV. No Field-Officer shall be tried by any person under the degree of a Captain; nor shall any proceedings or trials 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.

ART. XXXVI. 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 corporal punishments for small offences, and shall give judgment by the majority of voices; but no sentence shall he executed till the Commanding Officer (not being a member of the Court-Martial) shall have confirmed the same.

ART. XXXVII. No Regimental Court-Martial shall consist of less than five Officers, excepting in cases where 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.

ART. XXXVIII. Every Officer commanding any Fort,