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ing only where such censures or penalties are directed as satisfaction for 

 injuries received by one Officer or Soldier from another. 



27th. "Any Officer, Non-Commissioned Officer, or other person, who 

 having subscribed these articles, shall refuse to make such concessions, 

 pay such fines, or in other matter refuse to comply with the judgment of 

 any Court Martial, shall be dismissed the service, and held up to the 

 publick as unfriendly to the liberties of America. 



28th. "Upon the determination of any point by a liegimental Court 

 Martial, if the Officer or Soldier concerned on either side, thinks himself 

 still aggrieved, he may appeal to a General Court Martial ; but, if upon 

 second hearing, the appeal appears groundless and vexatious, the person 

 so appealing shall be censured, at the discretion of the General Court 

 Martial. 



29th. " Upon the death, resignation, promotion, or other removal of an 

 Officer from any Battalion, Troop, or Company, (except field Officers,) 

 or any Court Martial Men, such vacancy is to be filled bv the Person or 

 persons such Troop or Compan}^ shall elect. 



80th, "No Officer or soldier shall be tried a second time for the same 

 Offence, except in case of appeal. 



31st. "All Officers and Soldiers of every Battalion, Troop, Company, 

 or party of Associators, who shall be called by the Assembly, or Com- 

 mittee of Safety in recess of Assembly, into actual servce, and be on pay, 

 shall, when acting by themselves, or in conjunction with the Continental 

 Forces, be subject to all the rules and articles made by the Honourable 

 Congress for the Government of the Continental Troops. 



32nd. "No Commissioned, non-commissioned Officer or private, shall 

 withdraw himself from the company to which he belongs, without a 

 discharge from the Commanding Officer of the Battalion, nor shall such 

 person be received into any other company without such discharge. 



"In Testimony of our approbation and consent to be governed by the 

 above regulations, which have been deliberately read to, or carefully 

 perused by us, we have hereunto set our hands." 



The Articles of Recommendation emanating from the Continental 

 Congress were, on August 26, 1776, adopted by the Council of Safety in 

 the following form : 



''Rules for Establishing Rank or Precedence amongst the Penmylvania 



Associators. 



"The Committee of Safety appointed by the Assembly of the Province 

 of Pennsylvania, being desirous of performing the important duties of 

 their station in the most satisfactory manner to the Public, beg leave to 

 lay before them certain resolves of the Honorable Continental Congress, 

 dated the 18th July, which have already been published, but it is appre- 



