ARTICLE VII. The following substitutions for punishments named in Article II. of this order are authorized at the discretion of the court: Two days' confinement at hard labor for one dollar forfeiture; one day's solitary confinement on bread and water diet for two days' confinement at hard labor or for one dollar forfeiture; provided that a non-commissioned officer not sentenced to reduction shall not be subject to confinement; and provided that solitary confinement shall not exceed fourteen days at one time, nor be repeated until fourteen days have elapsed, and shall not exceed eighty-four days in one year. Whenever the limit herein prescribed for an offence or offences may be brought within the punishing power of inferior courts-martial, as defined by the 83d Article of War, by substitution of punishment under the provisions of this article, the said courts have jurisdiction of such offence or offences. ARTICLE VIII. Non-commissioned officers above the rank of corporal shall not, if they object thereto, be brought to trial before regimental, garrison, or summary courts-martial without the authority of the officer competent to order their trial by general court-martial; nor shall sergeants of the post non-commissioned staff or hospital stewards be reduced, but they may be dishonorably discharged whenever reduction is included in the limit of punishment. U. S. SIGNAL AND TELEGRAPH CODE. (Authorized by G. O. No. 59, A. G. O., June 28, 1889.) ALPHABET. A ·- F ·-· K -·- P ····· U ··- B -··· G - -· L ---- Q ··-· V ···- C ·· · H ···· M - - R · ·· W ·- - D -·· I ·· N -· S ··· X ·-·· E · J -·-· O · T - Y ·· ·· Z ··· · & · ··· NUMERALS. 1 ·- -· 3 ···- -· 5 - - - 7 - -·· 9 -··- 2 ··-·· 4 ····- 6 ····· 8 -···· 0 ---- PUNCTUATION MARKS. Comma ·-·- Interrogation -··-· Parenthesis Pn Semicolon Si Quotation Qn Brackets Br Colon Ko Paragraph - - - - Dollar mark Sx Period ··- -·· Exclamation - - - · Dash Dx Hyphen Hx Underline Ux NOTE.--A fraction is made by inserting a dot between the numerator and denominator: Example, ⅞ - -·· · -···· SIGNALS AND ABBREVIATIONS.