Offenses.

UNDER ARTICLE 4-Continued.

Unlawfully setting on fire or destroying public property not in possession of pirate, enemy, or rebel.

Limit of punishment.

Officer: Dismissal and imprisonment at hard labor for twenty years.

Enlisted man: Imprisonment for twenty years at hard labor and dishonorable discharge.

Maliciously or willfully injuring any vessel of the Navy or any part of her tackle, armament, or equipment, whereby the safety of the vessel is hazarded, or lives of crew exposed to danger.

UNDER ARTICLE 6.

Enlisted man: Confinement for two years and dishonorable discharge.

Officer: Dismissal and imprisonment at hard labor for fifteen years.

Enlisted man: Imprisonment for fifteen years at hard labor and dishonorable discharge.

Offenses.

Limit of punishment.

UNDER ARTICLE 8-Continued.

Endeavoring to foment quarrels between other persons in the Navy.

Officer: To lose five numbers.

Enlisted man: Confinement for three months.

Treating his superior officer with contempt, or being disrespectful to him in language or deportment while in the execution of his office.

To join in or abet any combination to weaken lawful authority of, or lessen the respect due to, his commanding officer.

Uttering seditious or mutinous words.

Negligent or careless in obeying orders.

Culpably inefficient in the performance of duty.

Not using his best exertions to prevent the unlawful destruction of public property by others.

Through inattention or negligence suffering a vessel of the Navy to be stranded, or run upon a rock or shoal, or hazarded.

When attached to any vessel appointed as convoy to any merchant or other vessel, fails diligently to perform his duty, or demands or exacts any compensation for his services, or maltreats the officers or crew of such merchant or other vessel.

Taking, receiving, or permitting to be received on board the vessel to which he is attached any goods, merchandise, for freight, sale, or traffic, except gold, silver, or jewels for freight or safekeeping, or demanding or receiving any compensation for the receipt or transportation of any other article than gold, silver, or jewels without authority from the President or the Secretary of the Navy.

Knowingly making, signing, or aiding, abetting, directing, or procuring the making or signing of any false muster.

Wasting any ammunition, provisions, or other public property, or having power to prevent it knowingly permits such waste.

When on shore, plundering, abusing, or maltreating any inhabitant or injuring his property by means of

1. Manslaughter.

2. Assault with intent to kill.

Enlisted man: Confinement for one year and dishonorable discharge.

Officer: Dismissal.

Enlisted man: Confinement for one year and dishonorable discharge.

Officer: Dismissal.

Enlisted man: Confinement for two years and dishonorable discharge.

Officer: Dismissal.

Enlisted man: Confinement for two years and dishonorable discharge.

Officer: To lose ten numbers.

Enlisted man: Confinement for six months.

Officer: Dismissal.

Enlisted man: Confinement for six months and dishonorable discharge.

Officer: Dismissal.

Enlisted man: Confinement for two years and dishonorable discharge.

Officer: Dismissal.

Enlisted man: Confinement for two years and dishonorable discharge.

Officer: Dismissal.

Officer: Dismissal.

Officer: Dismissal and imprisonment for five years. Enlisted man: Confinement for five years and dishonorable discharge.

Officer: Dismissal.

Enlisted man: Confinement for two years and dishonorable discharge.

1. Officer: Dismissal and imprisonment at hard labor for ten years.

Enlisted man: Imprisonment at hard labor for ten years and dishonorable discharge.

2. Officer: Dismissal and imprisonment at hard labor for five years.

Enlisted man: Imprisonment at hard labor for five years and dishonorable discharge.

Offenses.

UNDER ARTICLE 8-Continued.

Desertion-Continued.

When joined in by two or more men in the execution of a conspiracy, or for desertion in the presence of any unlawful assemblage which the naval forces may be opposing. Aiding or enticing others to desert.

Receiving or entertaining any deserter from any other vessel of the Navy, knowing him to be such, and not with all convenient speed giving notice of such deserter to the commander of the vessel to which he belongs or to the commanderin-chief or to the commander of the squadron.

UNDER ARTICLE 9.

Absent from command without leave.

UNDER ARTICLE 11.

Procuring stores or other articles or supplies for and disposing thereof to officers and enlisted men on vessels of the Navy, or at any yard or naval station, for his own account or benefit.

UNDER ARTICLE 14.

Presenting or causing to be presented to any person in the civil, military, or naval service for approval or payment any claim against the United States, or any officer thereof, knowing said claim to be false or fraudulent.

Entering into any agreement or conspiracy to defraud the United States by obtaining or aiding others to obtain the allowance of any false or fraudulent claim.

Making or using, or procuring or advising the making or using of any writing, or other paper, knowing the same to contain any false or fraudulent statemeut, for the purpose of obtaining or aiding others to obtain the approval, allowance, or payment of any claim against the United States or against any officer thereof.

Making or procuring or advising the making of any oath to any fact or to any writing or other paper, knowing such oath to be false, for the purpose of obtaining or aiding others to obtain the approval, allowance, or payment of any claim against the United States or any officer thereof.

Forging or counterfeiting, or procuring or advising the forging or counterfeiting of any signature upon any writing or other paper, or using or procuring, or advising the using of any such signature knowing it to be forged or counterfeited, for the purpose of obtaining or aiding others to obtain the approval, allowance, or payment of any claim against the United States or any officer thereof.

Limit of punishment.

Officer: Dismissal and imprisonment for five years. Enlisted man: Confinement for five years and dishonorable discharge.

Officer: Dismissal and imprisonment for four

years.

Enlisted man: Confinement for one year and dishonorable discharge.

Officer: Dismissal.

Officer: Dismissal.

Enlisted man: Confinement for six months and dishonorable discharge.

Officer: Dismissal.

Enlisted man: Confinement for one year and dishonorable discharge.

Officer: Dismissal and imprisonment for five years. Enlisted man: Confinement for five years and dishonorable discharge.

Officer: Dismissal and imprisonment for five years. Enlisted man: Confinement for five years and dishonorable discharge.

Officer: Dismissal and imprisonment for five years.

Enlisted man: Confinement for five years and dishonorable discharge.

Officer: Dismissal and imprisonment for five years.

Enlisted man: Confinement for five years and dishonorable discharge.

Officer: Dismissal and imprisonment for five

years.

Enlisted man: Confinement for five years and dishonorable discharge.