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or fhall conceal or connive at any mutinous or feditious practices, or fhall treat with contempt his fuperior, being in the execution of his of fice; or being witness to any mutiny or fedition, fhall not do his utmost to suppress it, he shall be punished at the difcretion of a court martial.

Art. XIV. No officer or private in the navy, Disobedi- fhall disobey the lawful orders of his fuperior ence of officer, or strike him, or draw, or offer to draw, orders & or raise any weapon against him, while in the a fuperior execution of the duties of his office, on pain officer. of death, or fuch other punishment as a court martial shall inflict.

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Art. XV. No person in the navy shall quarrel with any other person in the navy, nor use provoking or reproachful words, geftures, or menaces, on pain of fuch punishment as a court martial fhall adjudge.

Art. XVI. If any perfon in the navy shall deDeferti- fert to an enemy or rebel, he shall suffer death.

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Art. XVII. If any perfon in the navy shall defert, or shall entice others to defert, he shall fuffer death, or fuch other punishment as a court martial shall adjudge; and if any officer, or other perfon belonging to the navy, fhall receive or entertain any deferter from any other veffel of the navy, knowing him to be such, and fhall not, with all convenient speed, give notice of fuch deferter to the commander of the veffel to which he belongs, or to the commander in chief, or to the commander of the fquadron, he fhall, on conviction thereof, be cashiered, or be punished at the discretion of Offences a court martial. All offences committed by commit perfons belonging to the navy while on fhore, thall be punished in the fame manner as if they had been committed at sea.

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Art. XVIII. If any person in the navy fhall Frauds knowingly make or fign, or shall aid, abet, di- against rect, or procure the making or figning of any ted States false muster, or fhall execute, or attempt, or countenance any fraud against the United States, he shall, on conviction, be cafhiered and rendered forever incapable of any future employment in the service of the United States, and fhall forfeit all the pay and fubfiftence due him, and fuffer fuch other punishment as a court martial fhall inflict.

Art. XIX. If any officer, or other person in Improper the navy, fhall, through intention, negligence, navigaor any other fault, fuffer any veffel of the navy tion of to be stranded, or run upon rocks or fhoals, or veftel«. hazarded, he fhall fuffer fuch punishment as a court martial fhall adjudge.

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Art. XX. If any perfon in the navy fhall fleep Negliupon his watch, or negligently perform the gence in duty affigned him, or leave his ftation before the perregularly relieved, he fhall fuffer death, or fuch punishment as a court martial shall adjudge; or &c. if the offender be a private, he may, at the dif cretion of the captain, be put in irons, or flogged not exceeding twelve lafhes.

Art. XXI. The crime of murder, when committed by any officer, feaman, or marine, be- Murder. longing to any public fhip or veffel of the United States, without the territorial jurifdiction of the fame, may be punished with death by the fentence of a court martial.

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Art. XXII. The officers and privates of every fhip or veffel, appointed as convoy to mer- relation chant or other veffels, fhall diligently and faith- to convoy. fully discharge the duties of their appointment, nor fhall they demand or exact any compensation for their fervices, nor maltreat any of the

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officers or crews of fuch merchant or other veffels, on pain of making fuch reparation as a court of admiralty may award, and of fuffering fuch further punishment as a court martial shall adjudge.

Art. XXIII. If any commander or other offiPenalty cer fhall receive or permit to be received, on on receiv- board his veffel, any goods or merchandize, ing mer- other than for the fole use of his veffel, except on board. gold, filver, or jewels, and except the goods or merchandize of veffels which may be in diftrefs, or fhipwrecked, or in imminent danger of being fhipwrecked, in order to preferve them for their owner, without orders from the Prefident of the United States or the Navy Department, he fhall, on conviction thereof, be cafhiered, and be incapacitated forever afterwards, for any place or office in the navy.

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Art. XXIV. If any perfon in the navy fhall Wale. waste, embezzle, or fraudulently buy, fell, or ment, &c. receive any ammunition, provifions, or other of public public stores; or if any officer or other perfon property. fhall, knowingly, permit through defign, negli

gence, or inattention, any fuch wafte, embezzlement, fale or receipt, every fuch perfon fhall forfeit all the pay and fubfiftence then due him, and fuffer fuch further punishment as a court martial fhall direct.

Art. XXV. If any perfon in the navy fhall unlawfully fet fire to or burn any kind of public property, not then in the poffeffion of an enemy, pirate, or rebel, he shall fuffer death: And if any perfon fhall, in any other manner, deftroy fuch property, or shall not use his best exertions to prevent the deftruction thereof by others, he fhall be punished at the difcretion of a court martial.

Art. XXVI. Any theft not exceeding twenty Theft. dollars may be punished at the difcretion of the captain, and above that fum, as a court martial fhall direct.

Art. XXVII. If any person in the navy fhall, Offences when on shore, plunder, abuse, or maltreat any against inhabitant, or injure his property in any way, thore. people on he fhall suffer fuch punishment as a court mar

tial fhall adjudge.

Art. XXVIII. Every perfon in the navy shall Detection use his utmost exertions to detect, apprehend, and apand bring to punishment all offenders, and fhall, prehenat all times, aid and affift all perfons appointed fenders. for this purpose, on pain of fuch punishment as a court martial fhall adjudge.

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Art. XXIX. Each commanding officer fhall, Mufter whenever a feaman enters on board, cause an ac- rolls and curate entry to be made in the ship's books, of his hips name, time, and term of his fervice; and before books. failing transmit to the Secretary of the Navy, a complete lift or mufter roll of the officers and men under his command, with the date of their entering, time and terms of their fervice annexed; and fhall caufe fimilar lifts to be made out on the first day of every second month, to be tranfmitted to the Secretary of the Navy, as opportunities fhall occur; accounting in such lifts or mufter rolls, for any cafualties which may have taken place fince the last lift or mufter roll. He shall cause to be accurately minuted on the ship's books, the names of, and times at which any death or desertion may occur; and in cafe of death, fhall take care that the purfer fecure all the property of the deceafed for the benefit of

his legal representative or representatives. He Infpecfhall caufe frequent inspections to be made into tion of the condition of the provifions, and ufe every proviCons precaution for its prefervation. He fhall, when

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ever he orders officers and men to take charge and men of a prize, and proceed to the United States, datached and whenever officers or men are fent from his fhip to be hip for whatever caufe, take care that each man furnished be furnished with a complete statement of his with cer- account, fpecifying the date of his enlistment, tain state- and the period and terms of his service; which account fhall be figned by the commanding officer and purfer. He fhall cause the rules for the be hung government of the navy to be hung up in some public part of the fhip, and read once a month to his fhip's company. He fhall cause a convenient place to be fet apart for fick or difabled men, to which he fhall have them removed, with their hammocks and bedding, when the furgeon shall so advise, and fhall direct that some of the crew attend them and keep the place clean; and if neceffary, shall direct that cradles, and buckets with covers, be made for their use: And when his crew is finally paid off, he fhall attend in person, or appoint a proper officer, to fee that justice be done to the men, and to the United States, in the fettlement of the accounts: Any commanding officer, offending herein, fhall be punished at the discretion of a court martial.

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Art. XXX. No commanding officer fhall, of his own authority, discharge a commiffioned or ment of warrant officer, nor ftrike, nor punish him otherwife than by fufpenfion or confinement, nor shall he, of his own authority, inflict a punishment on any private beyond twelve lafhes with a cat-ofnine-tails, nor fhall he fuffer any wired, or other than a plain cat-of-nine-tails, to be used on board his fhip; nor shall any officer who may command by accident, or in the absence of the commanding officer (except fuch commander be abfent for a time by leave) order or inflict any other punishment than confinement, for which he fhall ac

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