1822 - Edocs

Indecent behavior
Compel attendance
Witness failin.
Attachment
Adjournment
ins. Penalty
Forms not expres-
Scd
Independent companies
and corps
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such appointment. And any person behaving in an indecent,
provoking or riotous manner, before the court,
when sitting, shall be fined at the discretion of the court,
not less than four nor more than ten dollars. The president
of any court martial or any general or field officer
shall have power to issue summons to compel the attendance
of witnesses, which said summons may be executed
by such person as the general or field officer shall appoint
or by the provost martial, under the direction of the
court—and if any witness after being summoned, shall fail
to attend the said court at the time and place mentioned
in the summons, he shall be fined by the said court, if no
reasonable excuse for such absence can be assigned, in a
sum not exceeding five dollars, at the discretion of the
court. The court may moreover award an attachment to
compel the attendance of such witnesses, and the said fine
shall be collected and accounted for, and appropriated in
the same manner, as other militia fines. All courts mar-
tial shall have power to adjourn from time to time, if it
be necessary for them so to do : Provided, that such adjournment
shall not be for a longer period than thirty
days
32. Be itfurther enacted, That, on the refusal or neglect
of the judge advocate, faithfully to perform such duties,
as are by this act assigned him, he shall be fined at
the discretion of a court martial, not exceeding fifty dol-
lars.
33. Be it further enacted, That the necessary forms of
courts martial which may not be expressed in this act,
shall be such as are established by the articles of war.
34. Be it. further enacted, That, when in the opinion of
the commander in chief, such corps can be conveniently
raised and equipped, independent troops of horse, and
companies of artillery, grenadiers, light infantry and riflemen
may be formed. And the said companies or corps
shall choose their own officers, and be armed and wear
such uniform as the officers of such companies or a majority
of them shall direct. And individuals composing
light companies shall not be subject to fines for not attending
muster in their former companies. After an independent
company is formed agreeably to law, no person
belonging to such company shall be permitted to join any
other company so long as he resides within the bounds of
the regiment, battalion or light company to which he belongs,
unless after six months notice, to the commanding
officer of such company, of his intentions to withdraw
from such company, or without the permission of the individuals
composing the same : Provided however, that
no person shall enroll himself in any light infantry or rifle
company out of the bounds of the battalion to which he
belongs. All artillery companies hereafter to be raised