ARTICLE 96.

Individuals placed under guard with written charges, signed by an officer, will not be released except by the direction of the commanding officer.

ARTICLE 97.

All prisoners under guard without written charges will be released by the officer of the day, at guard mounting, unless orders to the contrary should be given by the commanding officer.

ARTICLE 98.

The arms and accoutrements of non-commissioned officers and privates in arrest under charges, will be deposited with the orderly sergeants.

ARTICLE 99.

Meetings for deliberations or discussions among any class of miltary men, having the object of conveying praise, censure, or any mark of approbation towards their superiors or others in military service; and all publications relative to transactions between officers of a private or personal nature, whether newspaper, pamphlet, or handbill, as well as all private letters or reports relative to military marches or operations during the campaign or cruise, are strictly prohibited, as being unmilitary and injurious to the public interest.

ARTICLE 100.

When an officer dies or is killed at a military station, or its vicinity, the commanding officer will report the fact to the commandant of the corps, and any officer having intelligence of the death of an officer not at a military station, will report the same, specifying the day of his decease.

ARTICLE 101,

Whenever a non-commissioned officer or private shall be recommended to be discharged in consequence of wounds or other injuries received in the service of the United States, and in the line of his duty, his commanding officer shall give him the necessary certificate in order to obtain the pension granted by law, and when a

certificate of disability is given, it shall be forwarded to the commandant of the corps for his consideration.

ARTICLE 102.

When a deserter is apprehended or surrenders himself, the officer in whose charge he is will immediately report the same to the head quarters of the corps, and to the commanding officer of the station or detachment from whence he deserted.

ARTICLE 103.

Sutlers will only be appointed by the commandant of the corps, with the previous sanction of the Secretary of the Navy. They are to assume no military authority over soldiers, but will be treated with respect, and protected in their places.

ARTICLE 104.

There shall be a tariff of prices fixed for the articles kept by the sutler, and hung up in some conspicuous place. The commanding officer may designate one or more officers to fix such tariff, but if there be no officers for that duty, he will establish the same himself. This tariff will be fixed once in two months. The advance to be charged on articles shall in no case exceed fifteen per cent. upon the wholesale market prices.

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Sutlers are not to keep or furnish ardent spirits or intoxicating liquors to any soldier, or to others for soldiers, under the penalty of being dismissed.

ARTICLE 106.

Every facility is to be afforded to the sutler in the collection of his just debts (contracted with him within the limits of this article,) for supplies furnished in conformity with these or such other regulations as may be established by proper authority.

Due bills are in no cases to be given to soldiers by sutlers.

ARTICLE 108.

For the privilege of selling granted to the sutler, he shall be held to pay, at the expiration of every three months, or oftener if necessary, at a rate not exceeding twelve cents a month for every officer and enlisted soldier serving at the post. The sum thus paid shall be accounted for (and to whom?) by the commanding officer, at the expiration of every quarter; and this fund is pledged, and will be appropriated only, to the following objects. 1. Immediate or temporary relief to indigent widows and orphans of officers and soldiers. 2. Temporary relief to indigent or disabled officers and soldiers discharged with honor from the service, under circumstances which may entitle them to it. 3. Education of soldier's children at the post school. 4. The establishment of a library, and for newspapers and periodicals for the post. 5. The maintenance of a band when authorized at the post. 6. Garden seeds. 7. Bake-house for the post.

Allowances.

ARTICLE 109.

The commanding or senior marine officer of a squadron, of which the naval commander receives pay as a commander-in-chief of a squadron, shall receive double rations, during the time when the commanding naval officer shall receive pay as the commander-in-chief of a squadron.

ARTICLE 110.

The colonel commandant or commanding officer of the marine corps, and the heads of the staff departments, shall at all times be entitled to double rations, and double rations shall be allowed to the commanding marine officer, at the navy yards, or upon the marine stations at Portsmouth, N. H., Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Norfolk, and Pensacola, to the senior marine officer of a squadron, and at such other stations, and under such other circumstances, as the President of the United States may hereafter authorize. Marine officers, entitled to receive double rations, will not forfeit such allowance by reason of absence on duty, for any period less than thirty days.

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ARTICLE 111.

Every commissioned officer of marines, commanding a company or detachment of not less than twenty-five in a company or detachment, and charged with the responsibility of clothing, arms, and accoutrements, shall be entitled to receive ten dollars per month in addition to his pay; but the clothing, arms, and accoutrements, of marines commanded by a field officer, shall be kept, issued, and accounted for by the officer next in rank to the commanding officer, provided such officer be a captain or lieutenant, and not of the staff of the corps. 4 bori, a

Accounts for medical attendance and medicines furnished to officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates, and enlisted artificers and laborers, on duty at places where medical aid is not furnished by, nor obtained from, the medical officers of the United States, and to the private servants of such officers, will state the charge for each visit, and for medicine when furnished. Accounts for officers and their servants will be paid by the officers themselves, when the amount will be refunded upon presenting the account, with a certificate that the services were rendered while he was on duty at the place, and medical attendance was not furnished by the United States.

ARTICLE $113.

A reward of thirty dollars will be paid to any person who shall apprehend or deliver a deserter to a commissioned officer, at the most convenient post or recruiting station: and the evidence of desertion, apprehension, and delivery, will be the certificate of a commissioned officer. The above reward will include the remuneration of all expenses.

ARTICLE 114.

When non-commissioned officers or privates are sent in pursuit of deserters, all necessary expenses will be paid, whether the deserter be apprehended or not, provided they do not exceed the authorized reward..

ARTICLE 115.

Captains and lieutenants may, with the consent of their immediate commanding officer, take privates to serve as waiters, when hired servants cannot be procured; but under other circumstances, noncommissioned officers or privates are not to be employed in any menial office for the private benefit of an officer or mess of officers.

ARTICLE 116.

Bands of music may be formed at head quarters, or at such other stations or posts as may be specially authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, and shall consist of such numbers, and be selected from non-commissioned officers, musicians, or privates, as he may specially sanction or direct.

ARTICLE 117.

Clerks to the commandant and staff shall receive at the rate of two dollars per week for quarters, unless a fixed compensation for the same shall be designated by law. i

CHAPTER II.

QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT.

ARTICLE 118.

The quartermaster will, under the direction of the commandant of the corps, be charged with the military and administrative details of his department.

It will be the duty of this department, under the direction of the commandant of the corps

1. To provide quarters, hospitals, and transportation for the corps; 2. To provide good and sufficient storehouses for all military supplies and provisions;

3. To purchase fuel, straw, and stationary, and have them delivered at the posts or places where they may be wanted, and issued to those entitled to them according to the regulations. 4. To purchase or hire horses, oxen, mules, and harness, wagons, carts, boats, and other vessels, with their proper equip