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SATURDAY, November 24, 1787. GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE . • . * .* , . : ; . , OR ■ * t • ***•*>,,*. INDEPENDENT REGISTER. FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JUR Y, to remain inviolate forever. ConfotuUtn of Gtorgia. • 'AUGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E, SMITH, Printer to the State ; EJfays, Articles of Intelligence > Advertijements , &c. will be gratefully received , and every kind of Printing performed. An A& To regulate the Militia of thii State , and lor other Purpofcs therein men tioned. (Concludedfrom our lajl.) Art . 4 th. Any non-commissioned officer or private militia tnan, who shall desert, or without leave from his commanding officer absent him felf from the company, guard or de tachment to which he belongs, shall, upon convi&ion thereof, be punished according to the nature of his offence, at the dilcretion of a court-martial. Art . stb. Whatsoever officer or private shall be convi&ed of having advised or persuaded any other officer or private to desert, shall luffer such punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a court-martial. Art.bth . Any officer commanding in quarters or on a march, shall keep good order, and to the utmost of his power redress all such abuses or dis orders, which may be committed by any officer or private under his com mand ; if upon complaint made to him of officers, non-commissioned officers orj privates, beating, or other wise ill treating any person, or of committing any kind of riot to the disquieting Os any of the inhabitants of the State, he the faidcommander, who shall refufe to have justice done on the offender or offenders, and re paration made to the party or parties injured, shall, on due proof thereof, be punished as ordered by a general court-martial, in such manner as if he himfelf had committed the crimes Or disorders complained of. ' Art* 7 th . Any officer, non-com missioned officer or private, 1 who shall think himfelf aggrieved by his Captain, or other officer command ing' the company to which be be longs, may complain thereof to the commanding officer of his regiment, who is hereby required to funimon a regimental court-martial* for doing justice to the complainant, from which regimental'court-martial, ei ther party may, if he thinks himfelf still aggrieved, appeal to a general court-martial* but if upon a second hearing the appeal (hall appear to be vexatious and groundless, the person To appealing Shall be puniShed at the discretion of a general court martial,. Art. Xtb. W hatever officer, non commissioned officer or private, ffial) be convidted of .having fold, or de lignedly, or through negledl wafted the arms, ammunition, provisions, or other military Stores delivered out to him to be employed in the service of the State, Shall fuffer such punish ment as Shall be ordered by the ten : fence of a general court-martial. Art, 9 th. No non-commissioned ; officer or private Shall be out of his quarters or camp without leave from the commanding officer of the regi ment to which he belongs, under penalty of being puniShed according to the nature of his offence, by the sentence of a regimental court mar tial. * Art . 10 th. Every non-commif Sioned officer and private lhall repair to his company parade at the hour of roll-calling, in default of which he Shall be puniShed according to the nature of his offence, by the order of a regimental court-martial. Art, nth, Whatsoever commif- Sioned officer Shall be found drunk on his guard, party, or other duty, Shall becaffiiered for and rendered incapable of holding any military commission: Anvnon commissioned officer or private so offending, Shall fuffer such : punishment as Shall be ordered by the sentence of a regimen tal court-martial. ' Art. 1 2tht Whatsoever centtnel Shall be found Sleeping upon his post, or leave it before he is regularly re lieved, Shall fuffer such punishment as Shall be ordered by the sentence of a general court martial* Art . 13 th. Any officer, non-conf miffioned officer or private* who, by difcharging'bf fire arms* beating of drums| or by any other mesms what* foeveri Shall occasion falfo alarms, Shall fuffer such puniShmenr as Shall be ordered by the sentence of a ge* neral or regimental court-martial* 4rt . 14 tb\ Whatsoever officer or THE private Shall Shamefully abandon any post committed to his charge, or Shall force or induce others lo to do in the time of action, or in the face cf an enemy, Shall be puniShed at the dis cretion of a general or regimental court-martial. Art- \sth. Whatsoever officer or private Shall be convidted of holding correlpondence with, or of giving intelligence to the enemy, either di re&ly or indirpdtly, Shall fuffer or such other punishment as by the sentence of a general court-martial Shall be directed Art. 1 6th. No general court-mar tial Shall consist of a less number than nine, or of a greater than thirteen, none of whom Shall be under the rank of a commissioned officer, and the president Shall be a field officer; and the president of every court martial, y nether general or regimen tal, Shall have power to administer an oath to every witness, in order to the trial of offenders; and the mem bers of al) courts martial Shall be duly sworn by the president, and the next in rank of the court-martial, Shall administer an oath to the pre sident. , Art. ijtb. No field officer Shall be tried by any officer under the de gree of a Captain, except in cases where a Sufficient number of Captains cannot be had. Art. 1 sth. The commissioned of ficers of eyery regiment, may, by the appointment of their Colonel or commanding officer, hold regimental fourts-martial for trial of all such matters as Shall come before them, but do sentence of such courts Shall be carried into execution, until the Colonel or commanding officer of the regiment Shall have confirmed the fame. -1 Art * 19 th. Fvery officer command ing 4wy>detachment or party, where the carps under his command con sists of detachments from different regiments, may, where there is a Sufficient- number of officers for the purpose, assemble courts-martial for tbt trial of offenders, in the fame £No. X-Xi.J