When charges are preferred against an enlisted man for offences cognizable by inferior courts-martial, they will be laid before the post commander, who, if he thinks that the accused should be tried, will cause him to be brought before the summary court. Here he will be arraigned and allowed to plead, according to the practice of courts-martial. If an accused neither demands a removal of his case to a regimental or garrison court-martial; nor, being a non-commissioned officer above the rank of corporal, objects to trial by inferior court-martial; nor objects to be tried by the officer second in rank on the ground of his being the accuser; nor pleads guilty, witnesses will be sworn and evidence received, the accused being permitted to testify in his own behalf and make a statement; but the evidence and statement will not be recorded. When the summary court shall have arrived at a finding and judgment, the summary court record book, with the entries therein made in accordance with the headings of its columns, will be laid before the post commander for his action, which also will be entered in the record book, dated and signed. When a case is heard by the post commander, the proceedings will be recorded in the same book. No other record of the proceedings will be kept, and trials by summary court will not be published in orders. When a post commander sits as a summary court, no approval of the sentence is required by law, but he should sign the sentence as post commander and date his signature. RECORD OF SUMMARY COURT AT....................... ---+---------+---------+--------------+--------+------------+ No.| Name, | Article | Synopsis of |Finding.| No. of | | rank, | of War |specification.| | previous | |company, |Violated.| | |convictions.| | and | | | | | |regiment.| | | | | | | | | | | ---+---------+---------+--------------+--------+------------+ [Part 2 of Table.] ---------+---------- Sentence,|Action of with |commanding signature| officer, of trial|with date officer.| and |signature. ---------+---------- LIST OF PRESCRIBED PUNISHMENTS FOR ENLISTED MEN. ARTICLE I. In all cases of desertion the sentence may include dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of pay and allowances. Subject to the modifications authorized in Section 3 of this article the limit of the term of confinement (at hard labor) for desertion shall be as follows: SECTION 1. In case of surrender-- (_a_) When the deserter surrenders himself after an absence of not more than thirty days, one year. (_b_) When the surrender is made after an absence of more than thirty days, eighteen months. SEC. 2. In case of apprehension--