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oflficer or soldier shall be obliged to attend to learn the Military Exercise 

 more than once in a week. 



10th. "Any Officer or Soldier found Drunk when under Arms, shall be 

 suspended from doing [duty in the Battalion, Company or Troop on that 

 day, and be fined or censured, at the discretion of a Regimental Court 

 Martial. 



11th. "Whatever Sentinel shall be found sleeping upon his po.st, or 

 shall leave it before he is regularly relieved, shall suffer such penalty or 

 digrace as shall be ordered by a Regimental Court Martial. 



12th. " Whatever Commissioned Officer shall be convicted before a 

 General Court Martial, of behaving in a scandalous or infamous manner 

 unbecoming the Character of an Officer and a Gentleman, shall be dis- 

 missed from the association with disgrace. 



13th. "Every non-Commissioned Officer or Soldier who shall be con- 

 victed at a Regimental Court Martial of having sold, carelessly lost, 

 wilfully spoiled or wasted, or having offered for sale any ammunition, 

 arms or accoutrements belonging to this Province, shall be dismissed 

 such Battalion, Troop or Company, as an unworthy member and be 

 prosecuted as the law directs. 



l-lth. "All disorders and neglects which Officers and Soldiers may be 

 guilty of, to the prejudice of the good order and Military discipline of 

 the Association of this Colony, are to be taken cognizance of by a 

 General or Regimental Coiirt Martial, according to the nature and degree 

 of the Offence, and be censured at their discretion. 



15th. " That on the first Meeting of every Battalion, after subscribing 

 these articles of association, and from thence forward on the first 

 meeting of every Battalion after the third Monday in September an- 

 nually, there be chosen two Persons, such as are entitled to Vote for 

 Members of Assembly, 'out of each Company in the respective Bat- 

 talions, by the non-Commissioned officers and privates, whose duty and 

 office shall be for the year following, to set and join with the officers 

 in Court Martial, which persons so chosen shall be styled Court Martial 

 Men. 



16th. "Every General Court Martial shall consist of thirteen Members, 

 Six of whom shall be Commission'd Officers under the Rank of a Field 

 Officer and Six Court Martial Men, who shall be drawn by lott out of 

 the whole number, and these twelve are to choose a president, who shall 

 be a field Officer and have a Casting Voice. 



17th. "Every Regimental Court Martial shall be composed of Seven 

 Members, three Officers, three Court Martial Men and a President, who 

 is to be a Captain, and to be chosen by the Six, and also to have a Cast- 

 ing Voice. 



18th. "In all Courts Martial not less than two-thirds of the members 



