any challenge, shall be deemed as a principal; and whatsoever officer or soldier shall upbraid another for refusing a challenge, shall also be considered as a challenger; and all such offenders, in any of these, or such like cases, shall be punished at the discretion of a General Court-Martial.

Article 12. Every officer commanding in quarters, or on a march, shall keep good order, and, to the utmost of his power, redress all such abuses or disorders as may be committed by any officer or soldier under his command. If, upon any complaint being made to him of officers or soldiers beating, or otherwise ill-treating any person, or of committing any kind of riot, to the disquieting of the inhabitants of this Continent, he, the said commander, who shall refuse or omit to see justice done on the offender or offenders, and reparation made to the party or parties injured, as far as the offender’s wages shall enable him or them, shall, upon due proof thereof, be punished as ordered by a General Court-Martial, in such manner as if he himself had committed the crimes or disorders complained of.

Article 13. If any officer shall think himself wronged by his Colonel, or the commanding officer of the regiment, and shall, upon due application made to him, be refused to be redressed, he may complain to the Commander-in-Chief of the said forces, in order to obtain justice, who is hereby required to examine into said complaint and see that justice be done.

Article 14. If any inferior 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 hereby 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.

Article 15. 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 this Province. And all commissioned officers found guilty, by a General Court-Martial, of embezzling the same, or any of them, shall forfeit all his pay, be ipso facto cashiered, and deemed unfit for further service as an officer. And all non-commissioned officers and soldiers convicted before a Regimental Court-Martial of stealing or embezzling the same, if a non-commissioned officer, shall be reduced to the ranks, and punished with whipping, not less than fifteen nor more than thirty-nine lashes, at the discretion of the Court-Martial; if a private soldier, with the same punishment.

Article 16. 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 Province, 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.

Article 17. All commissioned officers found guilty by a General Court-Martial of any fraud or embezzlement, shall forfeit all his pay, be ipso facto cashiered, and deemed unfit for further service as an officer.

Article 18. All non-commissioned officers and soldiers convicted before a Regimental Court-Martial of stealing, embezzling, or destroying ammunition, provisions, tools, or anything belonging to the publick stores,–if a non-commissioned officer, to be reduced to the ranks, and punished with whipping, not less than fifteen nor more than thirty-nine lashes, at the discretion of the Court-Martial; if a private soldier, with the same corporal punishment.

Article 19. All non-commissioned officers and soldiers who shall be found one mile from the camp, without leave in writing from their commanding officer, shall suffer such punishment as shall be inflicted on him, or them, by the sentence of a Regimental Court-Martial.

Article 20. 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.

Article 21. No officer or soldier shall lie out of his quarters, or camp, without leave from the commanding officer of the regiment, upon penalty, if an officer, of being mulcted one month’s pay for the first offence, and cashiered for the second; if a non-commissioned officer, or solidier, of being confined seven days on bread and water for the first offence, and the same punishment, and a forfeiture of a week’s pay for the second.

Article 22. 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.

Article 23. Whatsoever commissioned officer shall be found drunk on his guard, party, or other duty under arms, shall be cashiered with infamy; any non-commissioned officer or soldier so offending, shall be sentenced to be whipped not less than twenty nor more than thirty-nine lashes, according to the nature of the offence.

Article 24. Whatsoever officer or soldier, placed as a sentinel, shall be found sleeping upon his post, or shall leave it before he shall be regularly relieved,—if a commissioned officer, shall be cashiered with infamy; if a non-commissioned officer or soldier, shall be sentenced to be whipped, not less than twenty, nor more than thirty-nine lashes, according to the nature of the offence.

Article 25. Any person belonging to the said troops, 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.

Article 26. Any officer or soldier, who, without urgent necessity, or without leave of his superior officer, shall quit his platoon or division, shall be punished according to the nature of his offence, by the sentence of a Regimental Court-Martial.

Article 27. If any officer or soldier shall leave his post or colours in time of an engagement, to go in search of plunder, he shall, if a commissioned officer, be cashiered with infamy, and forfeit all share of plunder; if a non-commissioned officer or soldier, be whipped, not less than twenty, nor more than thirty-nine lashes, according to the nature of the offence, and forfeit all share of plunder taken from the enemy.

Article 28. 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 forces of this Province; 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.

Article 29. Whatsoever officer or soldier shall misbehave himself before the enemy, or shamefully abandon any post committed to his charge, or shall speak words inducing others to do the like, shall suffer death immediately.

Article 30. In all cases where a commissioned officer is cashiered for cowardice or fraud, it be added in the punishment, that the crime, name, and place of abode, and punishment of the delinquent be published in the newspapers of this Province; after which it shall be deemed scandalous in any officer to associate with him.

Article 31. Any person belonging to the said troops, 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 watch-word different from what he received, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a General Court-Martial.

Article 32. All persons convicted of holding a treacherous correspondence with, or giving intelligence to the enemy, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as a General Court-Martial shall think proper.

Article 33. Whosoever, belonging to the troops of this Province, 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.

Article 34. If any commander of any post, intrenchment, or fortress, shall be compelled by the officers or soldier