Report No. 169

2.3. Each Presidency Frames its own code.-

Under the statutory sanction of these two enactments a military code was framed by the government of each presidency and put in force as regards its own troops. These codes still followed to a great extent the Articles of War then applicable to the Company's Europeans, but the only punishments awardable to Indian officers seem to have been death, dismissal, suspension and reprimand and to Indian soliders, death and corporal punishment. Transportation and imprisonment were not awardable.

(ii) The Articles of War