✨ Military legal extracts
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EXTRACTS
From the 80th and 84th Clauses of the MUTINY ACT.
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Any person who shall in any part of Her Majesty's dominions, or by any means whatsoever, directly or indirectly, procure any soldier to desert, or attempt to procure or persuade any soldier to desert, and who knowing that any soldier is about to desert, shall aid or assist him in deserting, or knowing any soldier to be a deserter, shall conceal such deserter, or aid or assist such deserter in concealing himself, or aid or assist in his rescue, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both, as the Court before which such conviction shall take place may adjudge.
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Any person who shall knowingly detain, buy, exchange or receive from any soldier or deserter, or other person acting for or on his behalf, on any pretence whatsoever, or who shall solicit or entice any soldier, or shall be employed by any soldier, knowing him to be such, to sell any Arms, Ammunition, Medals for good conduct, or for distinguishing or other service, Clothes, or Military Furniture, or any Provisions, or any Sheets or other Articles used in Barracks provided under Barrack Regulations, or Regimental necessaries, or any article of Forage provided for any Horses belonging to Her Majesty's Service, or shall have in his or her possession or keeping any such Arms, Ammunition, Medals, Clothes, Furniture, Provisions, Spirits, Articles, Necessaries, or Forage, and shall not give a satisfactory account how he or she came by the same, or shall change the color of any clothes as aforesaid, shall forfeit for every such offence any sum not exceeding twenty pounds, together with the treble the value of all or any of the several articles which such offender shall so become or be possessed. And if any person having been so convicted shall afterwards be guilty of any such offence, shall for every such offence forfeit any sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds, but not less than Five Pounds, and the treble value of all or any of the several Articles of which such offender shall have so become possessed, and shall, in addition to such forfeiture, be committed to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for such term, not exceeding six calendar months, as the convicting Justice or Justices shall think fit.
NOTICE.
UNDER the existing Law, any person who shall maliciously and advisedly endeavour to seduce any person or persons serving in her Majesty's Forces by sea or land, from his or their duty and allegiance to Her Majesty, may, on being legally convicted of such offence, be sentenced to penal servitude for the term of the natural life of such person.
V. R.
Correct extracts.
DRURY W. BARNES,
Capt. 14th Regt.,
Commanding Troops.
NAPIER:—Printed for the Hawke's Bay Provincial Government, by JAMES WOOD.
Hawke's Bay Provincial Gazette 1861, No 36
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🛡️ Extracts from the Mutiny Act and notice regarding military discipline
🛡️ Defence & MilitaryMutiny Act, Military discipline, Desertion, Sedition, Military property
- Drury W. Barnes, Captain 14th Regiment, Commanding Troops