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must ao-ree in every sentence for inflicting penalties, or for disgracing 

 any Associator, otherwise be shall be acquitted. 



19th. "The President of each and every Court Martial, whether Regi- 

 mental or General, shall require all witnesses in order to trial of offend- 

 ers to declare on their Honor, that what they give in as evidence is the 

 truth, and the Members of all Courts Martial shall make a declaration 

 to the President, and the President to the next rank, upon their Honor, 

 that they will give Judgment with impartiality. 



20th. "All non-Commission'd Officers, Drummers, Fifers, or others, that 

 shall be employed and receive pay in any of the Battalions, Companies 

 or Troops, shall subscribe these rules and Regulations, and be subject 

 to such fines, to be deducted from their pay, and to such pentals as a 

 Regimental Court Martial shall think proper, upon being convicted of 

 having transgressed any of these regulations. 



21st. "All Associators called as Witnesses in any case before a Court 

 Martial, who shall refuse to attend and give evidence, shall be censured 

 or fined, at the discretion of the Court Martial. 



22nd. "No Officer or Soldier being charged with transgressing these 

 Rules, shall be suffered to do duty in the Regiment, Company or Troop 

 to which he belongs, until he has had his Trial by a Court Martial; and 

 every person so charged, shall be tried as soon as a Court Martial can 

 be conveniently assembled. 



23rd. "The Officers and soldiers of every Company of Artillery, or 

 other Company, Troop or Party, that is or shall be annexed to any Bat- 

 tallion, shall be subject to the command of the Colonel or Commanding 

 Officer of said Battalion, and the Officers shall sit as members of Courts 

 Martial in the same manner as the officers of any other Company. 



2'lth. "No Penalty shall be inflicted at the discretion of a Court Mar- 

 tial, other than degrading, cashiering or fining, the fines for the Officers 

 not to exceed three pounds, and the fine for a Non-Commissioned Officer 

 or Soldier, not to exceed twelve Shillings for one fault. 



25th. "The Field Officers of each and every Battalion shall appoint a 

 Person to receive such fines as may arise within the same, for breach of 

 any of these articles, and shall direct those fines to be carefully and 

 properly applied to the relief of the Sick, wounded, or necessitous Sol- 

 diers belonging to that Battalion, and such person shall account with the 

 Field Officers for all fines received, and the application thereof. 



26th. "The General or Commander-in-Chief of this Association, for the 

 time being, shall have full power of pardoning or mitigating any censures 

 or penalties ordered to be inflicted for the breach of any of these articles 

 by any General Court Martial ; and every offender convicted as aforesaid, 

 by any Regimental Court Martial, may be pardoned, or have his penalties 

 mitigated by the Colonel or Commanding Officer of the Battalion, except- 



