Chapter 81. To amend the fiftieth article of war
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CHAP. 81.— An Act To amend the fiftieth article of war. February 28, 1919.[[H. R. 13037](/us/bill/65/hr/13037).][[Public, No. 311](/us/pl/65/311).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That article fifty of sectionArmy.Articles of War.Amendment to Article 50.Vol. 39, p. 658, amended. thirteen hundred and forty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the Act entitled “ An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes, ” approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
" “Art. 50. Mitigation or remission of sentences.— The powerMitigation or remission of sentences, by authority ordering. to order the execution of the sentence adjudged by a court-martial shall be held to include, inter alia, the power to mitigate or remit the whole or any part of the sentence. “Any unexecuted portion of a sentence adjudged by a court-martialUnexecuted portions. may be mitigated or remitted by the military authority competent to appoint, for the command, exclusive of penitentiaries and the United1212 States Disciplinary Barracks, in which the person under sentence is held, a court of the kind that imposed the sentence, and the sameRestrictions. power may be exercised by superior military authority; but no sentence approved or confirmed by the President shall be remitted or mitigated by any other authority, and no approved sentence of loss of files by an officer shall be remitted or mitigated by any authority*Ante*, p. 882.Delegation of authority to commanding general In the field, etc. inferior to the President, except as provided in the fifty-second article.
“When empowered by the President so to do, the commanding general of the Army in the field or the commanding general of the territorial department or division may mitigate or remit, and order executed as mitigated or remitted, any sentence which under these articles requires the confirmation of the President before the same may be executed. Uncollected forfeitures.“The power of remission and mitigation shall extend to all uncollected forfeitures adjudged by sentence of a court-martial.
” " Approved, February 28, 1919.