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 63 STAT.] 81ST CONG. , 1eT SESS.-CH. 393-AUG. 4, 1949 539 (d) solitary confinement not exceeding seven days; (e) deprivation of liberty on shore for a period not exceeding thirty days; (f) forfeiture of two days' pay for each day of unauthorized absence not in excess of five days; and (g) extra police duties. No other punishment shall be imposed except by sentence of a court- martial. All punishments inflicted by a commanding officer or by his order, except reprimand, shall be entered upon the log of the vessel or unit concerned. § 562. Deck courts: authority to convene; composition; punish- ments; effective date of sentence (a) Deck courts, consisting of one commissioned officer, may be ordered upon enlisted persons in the service under his command by the commanding officer of any vessel or unit, if the comanding officer is a commissioned officer, for the trial of minor offenses; and said courts shall, under regulations approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, be governed in their organization and procedure substan- tially in accordance with deck courts of the Navy. (b) Deck courts may sentence enlisted persons to either a part or the whole, as may be appropriate, of any one of the following punish- ments, namely:, (1) confinement not exceeding twenty days; (2) solitary confinement not exceeding twenty days; (3) solitary confinement not exceeding twenty days, on bread and water, or on diminished rations; (4) reduction to next inferior rating; (5) deprivation of liberty on shore for a period not exceeding two months; and (6) extra police duties not to exceed three months and loss of pay not to exceed twenty days. Extra police duties and loss of pay within the limits prescribed may be added to any one of the first five punishments enumerated above. (c) No sentence of a deck court shall be carried into effect until approved by the officer ordering the court or his successor in office. § 563. Summary courts-martial: authority to convene; composi- tion; punishments; effective date of sentence (a) Summary courts-martial, consisting of three commissioned officers not below the grade of ensign as members and of a recorder, may be ordered upon enlisted persons in the service under his com- mand by the commanding officer of any vessel or unit, if the com- manding officer is a commissioned officer, for the trial of offenses which such commanding officer deems deserving of greater punishment than he or a deck court may inflict, but not sufficient to require trial by general courts-martial. Such courts-martial shall, under regulations approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, be governed in their organization and procedure substantially in accordance with summary courts-martial of the Navy. (b) Summary courts-martial may sentence enlisted persons to either a part or the whole, as may be appropriate, of any one of the following punishments, namely: (1) discharge from the service with a bad conduct discharge, but the sentence shall not be carried into effect in a foreign country; (2) confinement not exceeding two months;

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