Military catechism and handbook [&c.] revised by J.H. Stocqueler

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Seite 253 - Act, and is in the following terms : •I, AB, do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to her Majesty, Queen Victoria...
Seite 104 - ... 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.
Seite 129 - ... 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...
Seite 144 - 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...
Seite 131 - 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.
Seite 129 - 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...
Seite 261 - ... it must equally be considered a splendid performance ; and for the present we have no hesitation in saying that it is by far the best representation of Homer's Iliad in the English language.
Seite 131 - 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.
Seite 116 - If any officer shall think himself wronged by his Colonel, or the commanding officer of the regiment, and shall, upon due application...
Seite 106 - Eighty-four Days in any One Year, with Intervals between the Periods of Solitary Confinement of not less Duration than such Periods, and...

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