A catechism and hand-book on regimental standing orders

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W. Thacker, 1852 - 288 pagina's
 

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Pagina 158 - ... the justice shall at the time of the conviction appoint, it shall be lawful for the convicting justice (unless where otherwise specially directed) to commit the offender to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour...
Pagina 118 - ... direct that the offender shall be kept in solitary confinement for any portion or portions of such imprisonment, or of such imprisonment with hard labour, not exceeding one month at any one time, and not exceeding three months in any one year, as to the court in its discretion shall seem meet.
Pagina 176 - Meal in each Day, the Meal to consist of such Quantities of Diet and Small Beer as may be fixed by Her Majesty's Regulations, not exceeding One Pound and a Quarter of Meat previously to being dressed, One Pound of Bread, One Pound of Potatoes or other Vegetables, and Two Pints of Small Beer...
Pagina 164 - All crimes not capital, and all disorders and neglects, which officers and soldiers may be guilty of. to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, though not mentioned in the foregoing Articles of War. are to be taken cognizance of by a general, or a regimental, garrison, or field officers' ' court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, and punished at the discretion of such court.8 ART.
Pagina 162 - No person shall be liable to be tried and punished by a general court-martial for any offence which shall appear to have been committed more than two years before the issuing of the order for such trial, unless the person, by reason of having absented himself, or some other manifest impediment, shall not have been amenable to justice within that period.
Pagina 158 - Offence shall be committed, a reasonable Cause to suspect that any Person has in his or her Possession, or on his or her Premises, any Property of the Description herein-before described...
Pagina 135 - If any officer shall think himself wronged by his Colonel, or the commanding officer of the regiment, and shall, upon due application...
Pagina 137 - ... have less effect in preventing crimes and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.
Pagina 172 - Book the name of every soldier who, in consequence of misconduct, shall have been subjected to any punishment beyond six days' drill, or seven days' confinement to barracks ; and the commission of every offence which shall impose upon the Commanding Officer the necessity of recording the soldier's name in the Regimental Defaulters' Book, shall render the man ineligible for this reward for two years from that date; 'and, if he be already in possession of this distinction, shall deprive him of his...
Pagina 196 - No soldier shall be discharged for the loss of an eye only, whether it be the right or the left ; but if a soldier shall have lost one eye by a wound in action, or by the effects of service, and shall receive other wounds or injuries in action, or be otherwise so disabled as to render his discharge necessary, the loss of an eye may be taken into consideration in fixing the pension at such a rate as his combined wounds or disabilities may entitle him to receive.

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