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6. Any officer or soldier who being present at any mutiny, does
not use his utmost endeavours to suppress the same, or coining to
the knowledge of any mutiny or intended mutiny, does not, with-
out delay, give information thereof to his commanding or some su-
perior officer, shall be punished according to the nature and degree
of his offence.

7. Any officer or soldier who shall strike his superior officer, or
draw, or offer to draw, or shall lift up any weapon, or offer any vio-
lence against him, being in the execution of his office, or shall diso-
bey any lawful commands of his superior officer, shall suffer such
punishment as shall be adjudged.

8. Any officer or soldier who shall desert to the enemy and af-
terwards be retaken, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as
may be adjudged.

9. Any non-commissioned officer or soldier who shall desert, or
without leave from his commanding officer absent himself from
the company to which he belongs, or from any detachment of which
he is one, shall be punished according to the nature of his offence.

10. Whatsoever officer or soldier shall be convicted of having
advised or persuaded any other officer or soldier to desert, shall
suffer such punishment as shall be adjudged.

11. All officers, of what condition soever, shall have power to
part and quell all quarrels, frays, and disorders, and order offenders
to be arrested and confined till their proper superior officer shall be
acquainted therewith; and whosoever shall refuse to obey such offi-
cer, (though of an inferior rank) or shall draw his sword upon him,
shall be punished according to the nature of his offence.

12. No officer or soldier shall use any reproachful or provoking
speeches or gestures to another, nor shall presume to send a chal-
lenge to any person to fight a duel; and whosoever shall knowing-
ly or willingly suffer any person whatsoever to go forth to fight a
duel, or shall second, promote or carry any challenge, shall be deem-
ed a principal; and whatsoever officer or soldier shall upbraid an-
other for refusing a challenge, shall also be considered as a challen-
ger; and all such offenders, in any of these or such like cases, shall
be punished according to the nature of his offence.

13. Any 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 which may be committed by any officer or sol-
dier under his command: if upon any complaint made to him of
officers or soldiers beating, or otherwise ill treating any person, or
of committing any kind of a riot to the disquieting of the inhabi-