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guilty of Cursing or Swearing, lie shall forfeit and pay, for each and 

 every such offence, the Sum of One Shilling. 



2nd. "Any Officer or Soldier who shall refuse to obey the Lawful 

 orders of his Superior Officer, may be suspended from doing duty on 

 that day, and shall upon being convicted thereof before a Eegimental 

 Court Martial, make such concessions as said Court Martial shall 

 direct. 



3rd. "Any Officer or Soldier who shall begin, excite, cause, join in, or 

 promote any disturbance in the Battalion, Troop or Company, to which 

 he belongs, or in any other Battalion, Troop or Company, shall be cen- 

 sured according to the nature of the offence, by the judgment of a Eegi- 

 mental Court Martial. 



■ith. "Any Officer or Soldier who shall strike his Superior Officer, or 

 draw or offer to draw, or shall lift up any Weapon, or offer any Vio- 

 lence against him, being in the execution of his office, shall, upon con- 

 viction before a Eegimental Court Martial, be dismissed, and shall be 

 deemed to be thereby disgraced as unworthy the Company of Freemen. 



oth, "Any Commanding or other Officer who shall strike any person 

 when on duty, shall, upon conviction before a General Court Martial, be 

 in like manner dismissed and disgraced. 



6th. "Any Officer, non-Commissioned Officer or Soldier, who shall 

 make use of insolent, provoking or indecent language while on duty, 

 shall suffer censure or fine as shall be inflicted by a Eegimental Court 

 Martial, according to the nature of the offence. 



7th. "If any Officer or Soldier should think himself injured by his- 

 Colonel, or the Commanding Offiicer of the Battalion, and shall upon 

 due application made to him, be refused redress, he may complain to 

 the General of the Pennsylvania Associators, or to the Colonel of any 

 other Battalion, who is to summon a General Court Martial, and see 

 that justice be done. 



8th. "If any inferior Officer or Soldier shall think himself injured by 

 his Captain, or other Superior Officer in the Battalion, Troop or Com- 

 pany to which he belongs, he may complain to the Commanding Officer 

 of the Eegiment, who is to summon a Eegimental Court Martial, for the 

 doing Justice according to the Nature of the case. 



9th. "No Officer, Non-Commissioned Officer or Soldier shall fail of 

 repairing with their arms, ammunition and accoutrements upon any 

 regular alarm, or at the time fixed, to the place of parade or other ren- 

 devous appointed by the Commanding Officer, if not prevented by Sick- 

 ness or some other evident necessity, or shall go from the place of parade 

 without leave from the Commanding Officer before he shall be regularly 

 dismissed, on penalty of being fined or censured according to the nature 

 of the offence, by the sentence of a Eegimental Court Martial. But no 



