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against the responsible parties. The assessment of damages 

 made by such board shall be subject to the approval of the 

 commanding officer, and in the amount approved by him shall 

 be stopped against the pay of the offenders. And the order 

 of suci commanding officer directing stoppages herein author- 

 ized slmll be conclusive on any disbursing officer for the pay- 

 ment by him to the injured parties of the stoppages so or- 

 dered. 



When the offenders can not be ascertained but the organi- 

 zation a- detachment to which they belong is known, stop- 

 pages to the amount of damages inflicted may be made and 

 assessed in such proportiton as may be deemed just upon the 

 individual members thereof who are shown to have been p^'es- 

 ent with ;uch organization or detachment at the time the dam- 

 ages com>lained of were inflicted, as determined by the ap- 

 proved fiidings of the board. 



AUaEST OF DESERTERS BY CIVIL OFFICIALS. 



Aet. 108. It shall be lawful for any civil officer having au- 

 thority uncer the laws of the United States, or of any State, 

 Territory, District, or possession of the United States, to 

 arrest offerders, summarily to arrest a deserter from the 

 military service of the United States and deliver him into the 

 custody of tie military authorities of the United States. 



S)LDIERS TO MAKE GOOD TIME LOST. 



Aet. 107. Ivery soldier who in an existing or subsequent 

 enlistment de;erts the service of the United States or with- 

 out proper aithority absents himself from his organization, 

 station, or duV for more than one day, or who is confined for 

 more than oneday under sentehce, or while awaiting trial and 

 disposition of his case, if the trial results in conviction, or 

 through the iitemperate use of drugs or alcoholic liquor, or 

 through diseas' or injury the result of his own misconduct, 

 renders himsel! unable for more than one day to perform 

 duty, shall be lable to serve, after his return to a full-duty 

 status, for such period as shall, with the time he may have 

 served prior to luch desertion, unauthorized absence, confinv» 



