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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
Art. 1st. If any field or other commissioned
officer, at any regimental,
battalion or company meeting, or on any other occasion,
when the regiment, battalion or company to which he may belong,
or in which he holds a command, is paraded, shall misbehave, demean
himself, or appear in an unofficer like manner, he shall, for
such offence, be cashiered or punished by fine, at the discretion of
a
brigade or regimental court-martial, (as the case may require,) in
any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than five dollars;
that for offences against the militia law of this state, all company
commissioned officers shall be tried by a regimental court-martial,
but in cases of cashiering they may have an appeal to a brigade
court-martial; all field and staff officers shall be tried by a brigade
court-martial, and all general officers shall be tried by a division
or a general court-martial; and that the proceedings of every court-martial
in case of cashiering shall be transmitted to the commander
in chief, for his approbation or disapprobation; and if any non-commissioned
officer, private or musician shall, at the time of parading
the company to which he belongs, appear drunk or disobey orders,
or use any reproachful, insulting or abusive language to his officers,
or any of them, or shall quarrel himself or promote any quarrel
among his fellow soldiers, he may be disarmed and put under guard
by order of the commanding officer present, until the company is
dismissed, and shall be fined at the discretion of the company court-martial
in any sum not exceeding ten dollars, nor less than fifty
cents; Provided, that if on field days any non-commissioned officer,
private or musician, shall use any reproachful or insulting language
to the commanding officer, oppose his orders, or promote an opposition
to such orders among his follow soldiers, he shall be tried by
a court-martial chosen by the commanding officer, consisting of
three commissioned officers attached to the regiment or extra battalion
to which such offender or offenders belong, and he or they
shall be fined at the discretion of said court, in a sum not exceeding
twenty-five dollars, nor less than one dollar. |
1811.
CHAP. 182.
Improper conduct
of officers on parade,
how to be
punished. Punishment
of non-commissioned
officers,
privates, &c.
Proviso. |
Art. 2d. If the commanding officer of any
regiment, battalion or
extra battalion, shall neglect or refuse to give orders for assembly
his regiment, battalion or extra battalion, at the times which may
be appointed under this act, at the direction of the inspector of the
brigade to which he belongs, when the inspector is thereto commanded
by his commanding officer, or in case of an invasion or
threatened invasion, or insurrection or threatened insurrection of
the state, therein he shall be cashiered or punished by fine not exceeding
five hundred dollars, at the discretion of a brigade court
martial; and if the commanding officer of any company shall on any
such occasion neglect or refuse to give orders for assembling the
company to which he belongs, or any part thereof, at the direction
of the commanding officer of the regiment, battalion or extra battalion
to which such company belongs, he shall be cashiered or punished
by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, at the discretion
of a regimental court martial; and a non-commissioned officer offending
in such case shall be fined, at the discretion of a company
court-martial, in any sum not exceeding twenty dollars. |
Penalty on officers
neglecting to give
orders for assembling
regiments,
battalions, &c. |
