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 ADVISING OS AIDING ANOTSEa TO DESEKT. 



Art. 59. Any person subject to military law who advises or 

 persuades or knowingly assists another to desert the service of 

 the United States shall, if the offense be committed in time of 

 war, suffer death, or such other punishment as a court-martial 

 may direct, and if the offense be committed at any other time 

 any punishment, excepting death, that a court-martial may 

 direct. 



ENTEETAINING A DESERTER. 



Abt. 60. Any officer who, after having discovered that a sol- 

 dier in his command is a deserter from the military or naval 

 service or from the Marine Corps, retains such deserter in his 

 command without informing superior authority or the com- 

 mander of the organization to which the deserter belongs, 

 shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. 



ABSENCE WITH0T7T LEAVE. 



Art. 61. Any person subject to military law Vv^ho fails to 

 repair at the fixed time to the properly appointed place of 

 duty, or goes from the same without proper leave, or absents 

 himself from his command, guard, quarters, station, or camp 

 without proper leave, shall be punished as a court-martial may 

 direct. 



DISRESPECT TOWARD THE PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT, CON- 

 GRESS, SECRETARY OF WAR, GOVERNORS, LEGISLATURES. 



Art. 62. Any officer v/ho uses contemptuous or disrespectful 

 words against the President, Vice President, the Congress of 

 the United States, the Secretary of War, or the governor or 

 legislature of any State, Territory, or other possession of the 

 United States in which he is quartered shall be dismissed from 

 the service or suffer such other punishment as a court-martial 

 may direct. Any other person subject to military law who so 

 offends shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. 



DISRESPECT TOWARD SUPERIOR OFFICERS. 



Art. 63. Any persooi subject to military law who behaves 

 himself with disrespect tov.-ard his superior officer shall be 

 punished as a court-martial may direct. 



