Executive Order 2043

Under authority of an Act of Congress approved September 27, 1890 (26 Stat., 491), the following limits of punishment of enlisted men and general prisoners are established:

 In case of surrender: In case of apprehension: The foregoing limitations are subject to the modification that the punishment for desertion when joined in by two or more soldiers in the execution of a conspiracy, or for desertion in the presence of ail outbreak of Indians or of an unlawful assemblage which the troops may be opposing, shall not exceed dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances due and to become due, and confinement at hard labor for five years.


 * Except as otherwise indicated herein, punishments for the offenses hereinafter described shall not exceed the limits prescribed in the following table:

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 * This order, which will take the place of existing orders establishing limits of punishment, shall become operative in the United States, in Porto Rico, the Canal Zone, and in occupied territory in Mexico, on October 1, 1914, and elsewhere within the jurisdiction of the United States on November 1, 1914.

, September 5, 1914. [2206114, A. G. O.]