Executive Order 1173

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The Executive order dated November 25, 1908, establishing limits of punishment for enlisted men of the Army, under Act of Congress approved September 27, 1890, which order was published in General Orders No. 204, War Department, December 15, 1908, is amended by adding thereto maximum limits for certain offenses committed by military prisoners held in confinement under sentences involving dishonorable discharge, as follows:

Offenses. Limits of punishment.
Under 62d Article of War.
(a)Attempt to escape…
Six months' confinement at hard labor.
(b)Conspiring with others to escape……
Six months' confinement at hard labor.
(c)Escape from sentry or guard or from place of confinement while on parole.
One year's confinement at hard labor.
Signature of William Howard Taft
Wm. H. Taft
The White House,
March 3, 1910.

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