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 brought before it:—1st-Lient. Sladden, president; 1st-Lieut. Johnson, 2nd-Lieut. Lord, members. The prisoners to be acquainted and the evidences warned to attend. The commanding officer is concerned to observe the shameful conduct of several of the soldiers of the detachment. Drunkenness is a crime that he never will pass over, and to prevent as far as in him lies their disgracing themselves, and the royal and honorable corps to which they belong, by incurring the censure of Courts Martial, he directs that in future their allowance of watered spirits shall not be taken to their tents, but drank at the place where it is mixed, in the presence of the officer of the day. If this regulation shall be found insufficient he assures them that the first man who is foundguilty of drunkenness by a Court Martial shall never again receive the allowance of spirits.

Detail for duty.

Sullivan Bay, 28th December 1803.

Detail for duty only.

Sullivan Bay, 29th December 1803.

The quartermaster will immediately cause to be dug a pit, at a convenient distance from the southernmost part of the marine line, to be used by the detachment as a privy, and they are on no account to use any other. Earth is to be thrown into it every morning. The Court Martial which sat this morning will meet again to-morrow at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. The sentence of the Court Martial which sat this morning will be put in execution this evening at retreat beating.

Detail for duty.

Sullivan Bay, 30th December 1803.

The garrison Court Martial is further adjourned until eleven o'clock to-morrow, when it will again assemble as before directed. The corporal who goes with the relief will be very particular in attending to the orders which are given by the sentinels to each other, and sergeant of the guard will occasionally visit and learn from what orders they have received.

Detail for duty.