Show headquarters department OF THE E eis Vis MISSOURI souni ST sr LOUIS mo april 16 1866 GENERA GENEI hal tAt ORDERS no 49 40 J the tho following owing extract from the act of congress ress approved march ad 1863 entitled an act an fn m relation to harboring or concealing desert ers era 11 is hereby published for the information ana and aud guidance of all concerned in in ment cut ent i seua section 21 24 and be it further enacted enacted that y every person not 5 subject to the rules and articles of war who shall procuro or entice a soldier in the service of the united states to desert or who shall harbor conceal or giveen m ent to a deserter or carry him away or ll 11 aid ald d ayi in n carrying him away knowing him to be such or who shall purchase from any soldier his arms equipments ammunition uniform clothing or any part thereof and any captain or commanding officer of any ship or vessel or any superintendent or conductor of any rail rall road or any other public conveyance carrying away any such soldier as one of hi his crew or otherwise knowing him to have deserted or shall refuse to deliver him up urs to the orders of his commanding officer shall shail upon legal conviction vic tion be fined at the discretion of any court haying having cognizance of the sanie same in any sum not elcee exceeding ding five hundred dollars and he shall be imprisoned not exceeding two years yeara nor less than six months commanding officers of posts and detach ments in command will circulate this order among the inhabitants by command of MAJOR GENERAL ro POPE piu rim I 1 JOHN P sherbourne i I 1 assistant adjutant generia generals Gene rid ia official gilr am OEO F r PRICE Asil assistant stant adjutant general district of utah |