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WAR DEPARTMENT :: OFFICE OF THE JUDGE-ADVOCATE GENERAL

THE

MILITARY LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES

Fourth Edition, 1901

Prepared under the direction of

The Honorable ELIHU ́ROOT, Secretary of War
By Brig. Gen. GEORGE B. DAVIS, Judge-
Advocate General, United States Army

WITH SUPPLEMENT SHOWING CHANGES
TO MARCH 4, 1907, AND APPENDICES

By MAJ. JOHN BIDDLE PORTER
Judge Advocate, United States Army

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT FRINTING OFFICE

1968

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. The Executive.

II. Provisions Applicable to the Several Executive Departments..

III. The Department of War

IV. Provisions Applicable to Several Classes of Officers...

V. The Department of the Treasury-The Accounting Officers.... 72-120

VI. The Post-Office Department.....

121-126

VII. The Department of Justice-Habeas Corpus--The Court of

Claims....

VIII. The Department of the Navy-The Marine Corps....

IX. The Department of the Interior

X. The Revised Statutes-The Statutes at Large The Army

Regulations The Army Register..........

XI. The Military Establishment-General Provisions of Organiza-

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5-11

12.44
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127 158

159 165

166

12.99

... 167 182

183 204
205-207

tion .....

XII. General Officers, Aids, and Military Secretaries...

XIII. Rank and Command-Tactical and Territorial Organizations... 208-213

XIV. The Staff Departments-General Provisions-Disbursing Offi-

cers

XV. The Adjutant-General's Department.

XVI. The Inspector-General's Department..

XVII. The Judge-Advocate-General's Department

XVIII. The Quartermaster's Department..

XIX. The Subsistence Department ...

XX. The Pay Department ........

XXI. The Medical Department

XXII. The Engineer Department.

XXIII. The Ordnance Department.

XXIV. The Signal Department ...

XXV. The Record and Pension Office....

XXVI. Post and Regimental Chaplains..

XXVII. Commissioned Officers ............

XXVIII. Brevets-Medals of Honor-Certificates of Merit--Foreign Dec-

orations

XXIX. Enlisted Men

XXX. Troops of the Line....

XXXI. The Military Academy-The Service Schools..

XXXII. Contracts and Purchases.....

XXXIII. The Public Lands-Military Reservations-Military Posts..

XXXIV. The Public Property.............

XXXV. The Militia-The Militia of the District of Columbia-The Ter-

214-252

253-258

259-264

265-268

269-292

293-308

309-349

350-365

366-438

439-459

460-465

466-473

474-476

477 502

ritorial Militia...

XXXVI. Military Tribunals-Courts-Martial--Courts of Inquiry.....

XXXVII. Citizenship and Naturalization

XXXVIII. The Indians-Indian Agents-The Indian Country .

XXXIX. Employment of Military Force-(1) In Resisting Invasion;

(2) In Suppression of Insurrection; (3) In Support of the

Civil Authority

503-508

509-532

533-542

543-565

566-596

597-626

627-634

635-670

671-748

749-757

758-791

792-831

CHAPTER XL. Pensions..

XLI. The Soldiers' Home

XLII. The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers..

XLIII. The Government Hospital for the Insane..

XLIV. National Military Parks-The Yellowstone Park

XLV. National Cemeteries.

XLVI. Flag and Seal of the United States..

XLVII. The Articles of War....

APPENDICES.

I. The Geneva Convention of 1864 ..

II. Additional Articles of October 20, 1868.

III. Additional agreement of July 29, 1899, for the Adaptation of the

Rules of the Geneva Convention to Maritime Warfare..

IV. The American National Red Cross

V. The Army Reorganization Act of February 2, 1901.

VI. The Maximum Punishment Order

Page.

832-886

887-895

896-911

912-914

915-953

954-959

960-961

962-1026

1029-1034

1034-1040

1041-1043

1044-1047

1048-1066

1067-1073

VII. Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States

in the Field (General Orders, No. 100, War Department, of 1863). 1074-1095

VIII. Civil Service Rules..
1096-1116