defraud the United States, or willfully to conceal
such money or other property, deliver or cause to
be delivered to any other person having authority to
receive the same any amount of such money or other
public property less than that for which he shall
receive a certificate or receipt; any person in said
forces or service who is or shall be authorized to
make or deliver any certificate, voucher, or receipt,
or other paper certifying the receipt of arms, ammunition,
provisions, clothing, or other public property so
used or to be used, who shall make or deliver the
same to any person without having full knowledge
of the truth of the facts stated therein, and with
intent to cheat, defraud, or injure the United States;
any person in said forces or service who shall knowingly
purchase or receive, in pledge for any obligation
or indebtedness, from any soldier, officer, or other
person called into or employed in said forces or service,
any arms, equipments, ammunition, clothes, or military
stores, or other public property, such soldier,
officer, or other person not having the lawful right
to pledge or sell the same, shall be deemed guilty
of a criminal offense, and shall be subject to the
rules and regulations made for the government of
the military and naval forces of the United States,
and of the militia when called into and employed in
the actual service of the United States in time of
war, and to the provisions of this act. And
every person so offending may be arrested and held
for trial by a court-martial, and if found guilty shall
be punished by fine and imprisonment, or such other
punishment as the court-martial may adjudge, save
the punishment of death.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any person heretofore called or hereafter to be called into or employed in such forces or service who shall commit any violation of this act, and shall afterwards receive his discharge or be dismissed from the service, shall, notwithstanding such discharge or dismissal, continue to be liable to be arrested and held for trial and sentence by a court-martial in the same manner and to the same extent as if he had not received such discharge or been dismissed.
* * * * *
By order of the Secretary of War:
E.D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, May 29, 1866.
The President with profound sorrow announces to the
people of the United
States the death of Winfield Scott, the late Lieutenant-General
of the
Army. On the day which may be appointed for his
funeral the several
Executive Departments of the Government will be closed.
The heads of the War and Navy Departments will respectively give orders for paying appropriate honors to the memory of the deceased.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
[From the Daily National Intelligencer, June 6, 1866.]
ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S OFFICE,