...bill or otherwise. Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to revise so much of the rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States as relates to the punishment of offences therein mentioned, and that they have leave...

...Sin: In answer to your inquiry respecting a commutation of the punishment provided by the 87th section of the rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States, the following opinion, founded on the practice of other armies, and on the practice...

...Representatives informed the Senate that the House have passed a bill, entitled "An act for establishing rules and articles for the government of the Armies of the United States,-' in which they desire the concurrence of the Senate. The bill was read, and ordered to the second reading....

...Sim: In answer to your inquiry respecting a commutation of the punishment provided by the 87th section of the rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States, the following opinion, founded on the practice of other armies, and on the practice...

...the hands of any superior, some additional legislation seems indispensable. I allude to a revision of the "rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States," and particularly the 45th, 65th, 66th, 67th, and 99th of those articles, all respecting...

...hands o^f any \ superior, some additional legislation seems indis- j pcnsable. I allude to a revision of the rules and | articles for the government of the armies of the : United States, particularly the forty-fifth, sixtyfifth, sixty-sixth, sixty-seventh, and ninety-ninth...

...crime, which, by the laws of war, is punishable with an ignominious death. Article one hundred and one of the rules and articles for the government of the armies of the the United States, provides " that, in time of war, all persons not citizens of, or owing allegiance...

...Army, as they existed under the Confederation and before we had a President. In 1806, Congress revised the rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States, in an act containing more than a hundred distinct articles, which, with few variations, are now the law,...

...will duly administer justice, without partiality, favor, or affection, according to the provisions of the rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States, and if any doubt should arise, not explained by said articles, then according to...

...will duly administer justice, without partiality, favor, or affection, according to the provisions of the rules and articles for the government of the armies of the TTiiited States, and if any doubt should arise, not explained by said articles, then according...