Chapter CCXV. to provide for the more speedy Punishment of Guerilla Marauders, and for other Purposes
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Chap. CCXV.— An Act to provide for the more speedy Punishment of Guerilla Marauders, and for other Purposes.July 2, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatSentences against guerilla marauders, who may carry into effect.1863, ch. 75, § 21.Vol. xii. p. 735. the provisions of the twenty-first section of an act entitled “An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes,” approved third March, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall apply as well to the sentences of military commissions as to those of courts-martial, and hereafter the commanding general in the field, or the commander of the department, as the case may be, shall have power to carry into execution all sentences against guerilla maraudera for robbery, arson, burglary, rape, assault with intent to commit rape, and for violation of the laws and customs of war, as well as sentences against spies, mutineers, deserters, and murderers.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* ThatOfficer ordering court-martial may remit, &c., sentence of court. every officer authorized to order a general court-martial shall have power to pardon or mitigate any punishment ordered by such court, including that of confinement in the penitentiary, except the sentence of death, or of cashiering or dismissing an officer, which sentences it shall be competent during the continuance of the present rebellion for the general commanding the army in the field, or the department commander, as the case may be, to remit or mitigate;Repeal of 1862, ch. 201, § 5.Vol. xii. p. 598. and the fifth section of the act approved July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, chapter two hundred and one, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, so far as it relates to sentences of imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* ThatSoldiers sick in hospital and discharged, but dying in hospital, &c., to be entitled to bounties. when a soldier sick in hospital shall have been discharged, or shall be discharged, from the military service, but shall be unable to leave, or to avail himself of his discharge, in consequence of sickness or of wounds, and shall subsequently die in such hospital, he shall be deemed to have died in the military service, so far as relates to bounties.
Approved, July 2, 1864.