relieved, shall suffer such punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a General Court-Martial.

ART. XXII. Any person belonging to the Continental 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. XXIII. 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. XXIV. 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 Continental 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. XXV. 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. XXVI. Any person belonging to the Continental 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. XXVII. Whosoever, belonging to the Continental 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. XXVIII. Whosoever, belonging to the Continental 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. XXIX. 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 United Colonies.

ART. XXX. 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 the said Court-Martial shall be ordered.

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

ART. XXXIII. 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 witnesss, 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. XXXIV. 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. XXXV. All the Members of a Court-Martial are to behave with calmness, decency, and impartiality and in giving of their votes, are to begin with the youngest or lowest in commission.

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

ART. XXXVIII. 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. XXXIX. Every Officer commanding in any Fort, Castle, or Barrack, 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.

ART. XL. 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 proceeding, on the penalty of being punished at the discretion of the said Court-Martial.

ART. XLI. 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.

ART. XLII. 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.

ART. XLIII. No Officer commanding a Guard or Provost-Marshal, shall refuse to receive or keep any prisoner committed to his charge by an Officer belonging to the Continental Forces; which Officer shall, at the same time, deliver an account in writing, signed by himself, of the crime with which the said prisoner is charged.

ART. XLIV. No Officer commanding a Guard or Provost-Marshal, 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 by the sentence of a General Court-Martial.

ART. XLV. Every Officer or Provost-Marshal, to whose charge prisoners 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 of the Regiment to whom the prisoner belongs, (where the prisoner is confined upon the guard belonging to the said Regiment, and that his offence only relates to the neglect of duty in his own Corps,) or to the Commander-in-Chief, their names, their crimes, and the names of the Officers who committed them, on the penalty of being punished for his disobedience or neglect, at the discretion of a General Court-Martial.

ART. XLVI. And if any Officer under arrest shall leave his confinement before he is set at liberty by the Officer who confined him, or by a superiour power, he shall be cashiered for it.

ART. XLVII. Whatsoever Commissioned Officer shall be convicted before a General Court-Martial of behaving in a scandalous, infamous manner, such as is unbecoming the character of an Officer and a Gentleman, shall be discharged from the service.