REPORT OF THE JUDGE-ADVOCATE-GENERAL.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the annual report of the JudgeAdvocate-General's Department for the year ending June 30, 1900. Commissioned officers tried by general court-martial:

Regulars: (convicted 7; acquitted 2; sentence or acquittal disapproved 2). Volunteers: (convicted 19; acquitted 3; sentence or acquittal disapproved 2).

Cadets tried by general court-martial (convicted)

Enlisted men tried by general court-martial:

11

24

4

Regulars (convicted 4984; acquitted 376; sentence or acquittal disapproved 64).

5424

Volunteers (convicted 1036; acquitted 123; sentence or acquittal disapproved 35).

1194

Civilians tried by general court-martial:

Those serving with the Army in the field (convicted 13; acquitted 2)...
Discharged men held as general prisoners (convicted 4)..
Tried under Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Articles of War

15

4

4

Total trials by general court-martial

6680

The following table shows, approximately, the number of convictions in the Regular Army of different offences by general courtsmartial during the year ending June 30, 1900:

Assaulting superior officer.

Disobeying superior officer..

Disrespectful or threatening language to superior officer..

Twenty-second Article of War:

Inciting mutiny.

Joining in mutiny..........

11

30

19

1

2

3

58

72

330

22

Twenty-fourth Article of War:

Disobeying a commissioned officer quelling a fray

Disobeying noncommissioned officer quelling a fray

Disobeying noncommissioned officer when ordered into arrest.
Drawing weapon upon noncommissioned officer quelling a fray.
Resisting commissioned officer quelling a fray .

Resisting noncommissioned officer quelling a fray

Thirty-first Article of War:

Lying out of camp or quarters. Thirty-second Article of War:

Absence without leave..

Thirty-third Article of War:

Failure to attend drill, roll call, etc..

Leaving ranks without permission.

Misbehavior before the enemy.

Quitting post to plunder and pillage.

Forty-seventh Article of War:

Desertion....

Fiftieth Article of War:

Enlisting without a discharge

Fifty-fifth Article of War:

Disorderly in quarters

Fifty-sixth Article of War:

Robbery of person bringing provisions..

Fifty-eighth Article of War:

Aiding and abetting robbery

Assault and robbery

Assault with intent to kill

Assault and battery with intent to commit rape.
Assisting in hiding stolen goods

Burglary.

Larceny

Manslaughter

Murder.

Rape

Robbery.

Sixtieth Article of War:

Embezzlement .

Larceny.

Sixty-first Article of War:

Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman..

Sixty-second Article of War:

Absence without leave, not chargeable under the thirty-second article of War

86

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