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SUBORDINATES COMPELLING COMMANDEB TO STJRRENDEB. 



Art. 76. If any ccramancler of any garrison, fort, post, camp, 

 guard, or other command is compelled by the ofiicers or sol- 

 diers under his command to give it up to the enemy or to aban- 

 don it, the officers or soldiers so offending shall suffer death 

 or such other punishent as a court-martial may direct. 



II4PK0PER USE OF C0U2?TESSIC-H. 



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Art. 77. Any person subject to military law who makes 

 known the parole or countersign to any person not entitled to 

 receive it according to the rules and discipline of war, or gives 

 a parole or countersign different from that which he receives, 

 shall, if the offense be committed in time of war, suffer death 

 or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct. 



rOaCING A SAFEGUARD. 



Art. 78. Any person subject to military law who, in time of 

 war, forces a safeguard shall suffer death or such other pun- 

 ishment as a court-martial may direct. 



CAPTURED PROPERTY TO BE SECURED FOR PUBLIC SERVICE. 



Art. 79. All public property taken from the enemy is the 

 property of the United States and shall be secured for the 

 service of the United States, and any person subject to mili- 

 tary law who neglects to secure such property or is guilty of 

 wrongful appropriation thereof shall be punished as a court- 

 martial may direct. 



DEALING IN CAPTURED OR ABANDONED PROPERTY. 



Art. so. Any person subject to military law who buys, sells, 

 trades, or in any way deals in or disposes of captured or aban- 

 doned property, whereby he shall receive or expect any profit, 

 benefit, or advantage to himself or to any other person di- 

 rectly or indirectly connected with himself, or who fails when- 

 ever such property comes into his possession or custody or 

 within his control to give notice thereof to the proper author- 

 ity and to turn over such property to the proper authority 



