[House Bill, No. 122.]
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, May 26, 1864.—Read first
and second times, placed on the calendar and ordered to printed.
[By Mr. Russell, from Committee on Judiciary.]
A. BILL
To be entitled An act to amend the army regulations with respect to
gaming by disbursing officers and others entrusted with public
funds.
1 Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do
2 enact t That the regulations for the army be so amended in para-
3 graph number eight hundred and ninety-seven, article.xl., that
4 if any disbursing officer, agent or other person entrusted with
5 public money or funds for the military service or for any dis-
6 bursements connected therewith, shall bet at cards or any gamo
7 of hazard, or be, directly or indirectly, interested in any such
8 bet, His commanding officer shall suspend his functions and
9 require him to turn over all the public funds in his keeping, and
10 shall immediately report the case to the proper bureau of the
11 War Department; and if the offence shall be proved, to the satis-
12 faction of the President, or be established by th$ finding of a
13 military court, the person so offending shall be dismissed from
14 his office or employment.
1 Sec. 2. The military courts shall have jurisdiction of such
% offences..