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Art. 54. All persons called to give evidence in any case
before a Court martial, who shall refuse to give evidence, shall
be punished for such refusal, at the discretion of such Court
Martial; the oath to be administered in the form following,
viz: " You swear the evidence you shall give in the. case now
hearing shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth, So help you God "
Art. 55. Every Officer commanding a regiment, troop or
company shall upon notice given to him by the Commissary of
the musters, or from one of his deputies, assemble the regi-
ment, troop or company under his command, in the next con-
venient place for their being mustered.
Art. 56. Every Colonel or other field Officer, or Officer
commanding any Corps, to which there is no field Officer, and
actually residing with it, may give furloughs to non commis-
sioned Officers and soldiers, in such numbers, and for so long
a time, as he shall judge to be most consistent with the good
of the service; but no noncommissioned Officer or soldier
shall, by leave of his Captain, or inferior officer commanding
the troop or company (his field officer not being present) be
absent above twenty days in six months, nor shall more than
two private men be absent at the same time from their troop
or Company, excepting some extraordinary occasion shall
require it, of which occasion the field Officer present with, and
commanding the regiment or independent Corps, is to be
judge.
Art. 57. At every muster the Commanding Officer of each
regiment, troop, or company then present, shall give to the
Commissary of musters certificates signed by himself, signify-
ing how long such Officers noncommissioned Officers and
Soldiers who shall not appear at the said muster have been
absent, and the reason of their absence, which reasons, and
the time of absence, shall be inserted in the muster rolls oppo-
site to the respective names of such absentees: The said certi-
ficates shall together with the muster rolls be by the said Com-
missary transmitted to the general, and to this or any future
congress of the United Colonies, or Committee appointed
thereby, within twenty days next after such muster being
taken; on failure whereof, the Commissary so offending shall
be discharged from the service.
Art. 58. Every Officer who shall be convicted before a
general Court martial of having signed false certificate, relating
to the absence of either Officer, non commissioned Officer or
private soldier, shall be cashiered.
Art. 59. Every Officer who shall knowingly make a false
muster of man or horse, and every Officer or Commissary,
who shall willingly sign, direct, or allow the signing of the
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