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The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions,

CHAPTER VI
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The president of the court shall be the general having the highest rank of all, and should there be more than one having equal rank, the president shall be elected from among them by absolute majority of votes.
Article XXVIII.

The superior court shall have jurisdiction in all cases affecting the higher commandants, the commandants of Zones and all officers of the rank of major or higher.
Article XXIX.

Commit Military Crimes: 1st.

Those who fail to grant the necessary protection to foreigners, both in their persons and property, and those who similarly fail to afford protection to hospitals and ambulances, including persons and effects which may be found in possession of one or the other, and those engaged in the service of the same, provided always they commit no hostile act.2d.Those who fail in the respect due to the lives, money and jewels of enemies who lay down their arms, and of prisoners of war.3d.Filipinos who place themselves in the service of the enemy acting as spies or disclosing to them secrets of war and the plans of revolutionary positions and fortifications, and those who present themselves under a flag of truce without justifying properly their office and their personality; and 4th, those who fail to recognize a flag of truce duly accredited in the forms, prescribed by international law.
Will Commit also Military Crimes: 1st.

Those who conspire against the unity of the revolutionists, provoking rivalry between chiefs and forming divisions and armed bands.2d.Those who solicit contributions without authority of the government and misappropriate the public funds.3d.Those who desert to the enemy, or are guilty of cowardice in the presence of the enemy, being armed; and, 4th, those who seize the property of any person who has done no wrong to the revolution, violate women and assassinate or inflict serious wounds on unarmed persons and commit robberies or arson.
Article XXX.


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