Executive Order 2043

Template:Potus-eo Under authority of an Act of Congress approved September 27, 1890 (26 Stat., 491), the following limits of punishment of enlisted men and general prisoners are established:

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1. In case of surrender:

   (a)	When the deserter surrenders himself after an absence of not more than 30 days, 1 year.
   (b)	When the surrender is made after an absence of more than 30 days, 18 months.

2. In case of apprehension:

   (a)	When at the time of desertion the deserter shall not have been more than 6 months in the service, 18 months.
   (b)	When he shall have been more than 6 months in the service, 2½ years.

3. The foregoing limitations are subject to the modification that the punishment for desertion when joined in by two or more soldiers in the execution of a conspiracy, or for desertion in the presence of an outbreak of Indians or of an unlawful assemblage which the troops may be opposing, shall not exceed dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances due and to become due, and confinement at hard labor for five years.
   
   

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Except as otherwise indicated herein, punishments for the offenses hereinafter described shall not exceed the limits prescribed in the following table:

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This order, which will take the place of existing orders establishing limits of punishment, shall become operative in the United States, in Porto Rico, the Canal Zone, and in occupied territory in Mexico, on October 1, 1914, and elsewhere within the jurisdiction of the United States on November 1, 1914.

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September 5, 1914.

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Notes

Supersedes:

• Executive Order 980, November 25, 1908;
• Executive Order 1173, March 3, 1910;
• Executive Order 1333, April 14, 1911;

Superseded by:

• Executive Order 2498, December 15, 1916

See Related:

• Executive Order of March 26, 1901;
• Executive Order 330-B, June 12, 1905;
• Executive Order 3367, December 10, 1920;
• Executive Order 4773, November 29, 1927

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