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muster rolls, wherein such false muster is contained, shall upon
proof made thereof, by two witnesses before a general Court
martial be cashiered, and moreover forfeit all such pay as may
be due to him at the time of conviction for such Offence.
Art. 60. Any Commissary who shall be convicted of having
taken any gift or gratuity on the mustering any regiment,
troop or company, or on the signing the muster rolls, shall be
displaced from his Office, and forfeit his pay, as in the pre-
ceding article.
Art. 61. Any Officer who shall presume to muster any
person as a soldier, who is at other times accustomed to wear
a livery, or who does not actually do his duty as a Soldier shall
be deemed guilty of having made a false muster, and shall
suffer accordingly.
Art. 62. Every Officer who shall knowingly make a false
return to the Commander in Chief of the American forces, or
to any, his superior Officers, authorised to call for such returns,
of the State of the regiment, troop, company or garrison under
his command, or of arms, ammunition, clothing or other Stores
thereunto belonging, shall by a Court martial be cashiered.
Art. 63. The Commanding Officer of every regiment,
troop, independent company, or garrison, in the service afore-
said shall in the beginning of every month, remit to the Com-
mander in Chief of said forces an exact return of the State of
the regiment, troop independent Company or garrison under
his command specifying the names of the Officers, not then
residing at their posts, and the reason for, and the time of
their absence: Whoever shall be convicted of having through
neglect or design omitted the sending such returns, shall be
punished according to the nature of his crime, by the judgment
of a general Court martial.
Art. 64. No sutler shall be permitted to sell any kind of
liquors or victual, or to keep their houses or shops open for
the entertainment of soldiers after nine at night, or before the
beating of the reveilles, or upon Sundays, during divine Ser-
vice or Sermon, on the penalty of being dismissed from all
future suttling.
Art. 65. All Officers commanding in the Camp, or in any
forts, barracks or garrisons, are hereby required to see that
the persons permitted to suttle shall supply the soldiers with
good and wholesome provisions at a reasonable price, as they
shall be answerable for their neglect.
Art. 66. No officers commanding in any Camp, garrisons,
forts or barracks shall either themselves exact exorbitant prices
for either houses or stalls, let out to suttlers, or shall connive
at the like exactions in others, nor lay any duty or impositions
upon, or be interested in the sale of such victuals, liquors or
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