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who take part in the same into arrest, and other persons 

 subject to military law who take part in the same into 

 arrest or confinement, as circumstances may require, until 

 their proper superior officer is acquainted therewith. And 

 whosoever, being so ordered, refuses to obey such officer or 

 noncommissioned officer or draws a weapon upon or otherwise 

 threatens or does violence to him shall be punished as a 

 court-martial may direct. 



AUREST OS CONPZNEHSHT OF ACCUSED PEZISONS. 



Aet. 69. An officer charged with crime or with a serious 

 offense under these articles shall be placed in arrest by the 

 commanding officer, and in exceptional cases an officer so 

 charged may be placed in confinement by the same authority. 

 A soldier charged with crime or with a serious offense under 

 these articles shall be placed in confinement, and when 

 charged with a minor offense he may be placed in arrest. 

 Any other person subject to military law charged with crime 

 or with a serious offense under these articles shall be placed 

 in confinement or in arrest, as circumstances may require; 

 and when charged with a minor offense such person may be 

 placed in arrest. Any person placed in arrest under the pro- 

 visions of this article shall thereby be restricted to his bar- 

 racks, quarters, or tent, unless such limits shall be enlarged 

 by proper authority. Any officer who breaks his arrest or 

 who escapes from confinement before he is set at liberty by 

 proper authority shall be dismissed from the service or suffer 

 such other punishment as a court-martial may direct; and 

 any other person subject to military law vvho escapes from 

 confinement or who breaks his arrest before he is set at 

 liberty by proper authority shall be punished as a court- 

 martial may direct. 



INVESTIGATION OF AND ACTION UPON CHARGES. 



Aet. 70. No person put in arrest shall be continued in con- 

 finement more than eight days, or until such time ns a court- 

 martial can be assembled. When any person is put In arrest 

 for the purpose of trial, except fit reiriote uiiliijjry post> or 

 stations, the officer hy whose order he is arrestoii shall S4w 



