Note 26 — Chapter XXVI
Reading edition
Vide, General Order under Evans.
“G. O., Head Quarters, San Sebastian,
“September 2, 1835.
* * * “All provosts and their assistants are empowered to inflict summary punishment on the breech to the amount of twenty-four lashes, according to the degree of the offence, on soldiers and followers of the army committing offences against discipline, plundering, drunkenness, violence, and, in short, everything tending to the subversion of good order in the army. The provost must either witness the offence himself or have it from the evidence of competent eye witnesses; the punishment in every case to be inflicted on the spot or near the same.”