RIGHTS OF PENSIONERS AND SURRENDER OF PENSIONS. SEC. 4820. The fact that one to whom a pension has been granted for wounds or disability received in the military service has not contributed to the funds of the Soldiers' Home shall not preclude him from admission thereto. But all such pensioners shall surrender their pensions to the Soldiers' Home during the time they remain therein and voluntarily receive its benefits. 3 Mar., 1851, c. 25, s. 5, v. 9, p. 596. 3 Mar., 1859, c. 83, s. 6, v. 11, p. 434. WHAT PERSONS ARE ENTITLED TO BENEFITS OF SOLDIERS' HOME. SEC. 4821. The following persons, members of the Soldiers' Home, according to section forty-eight hundred and fourteen, shall be entitled to the rights and benefits herein conferred, and no others: First. Every soldier of the Army of the United States who has served, or may serve, honestly and faithfully twenty years in the same. Second. Every soldier and every discharged soldier, whether regular or volunteer, who has suffered, or may suffer, by reason of disease or wounds incurred in the service and in the line of his duty, rendering him incapable of further military service, if such disability was not occasioned by his own misconduct. Third. The invalid and disabled soldiers, whether regulars or volunteers, of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve and of all subsequent wars. 3 Mar., 1851, c. 25, s. 4, v. 9, p. 596. WHO ARE EXCLUDED. SEC. 4822. The benefits of the Soldiers' Home shall not be extended to any soldier in the regular or volunteer service, convicted of felony or other disgraceful or infamous crimes of a civil nature after his admission into the service of the United States; nor shall any one who has been a deserter, mutineer, or habitual drunkard be received, without such evidence of subsequent service, good con duct, and reformation of character, as is satisfactory to the commissioners. 3 Mar., 1851, c. 25, s. 6, v. 9, p. 596. DISCHARGE. SEC. 4823. Any soldier admitted into the Soldiers' Home for disability who recovers his health, so as to become fit again for military service, if under fifty years of age, shall be discharged. 3 Mar., 1851, c. 25, s. 5, v. 9, p. 596. INMATES SUBJECT TO ARTICLES OF WAR. SEC. 4824. All persons admitted into the Soldiers' Home shall be subject to the Rules and Articles of War in the same manner as soldiers in the Army. 3 Mar., 1859, c. 83, s. 7, v. 11, p. 434. TITLE LXX. CRIMES. CHAPTER SEVEN. CRIMES AGAINST THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE AND CIVIL RIGHTS OF CITIZENS. UNLAWFUL PRESENCE OF TROOPS AT ELECTIONS. SEC. 5528. Every officer of the Army or Navy, or other person in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States, who orders, brings, keeps, or has under his authority or control, any troops or armed men at any place where a general or special election is held in any State, unless such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States or to keep the peace at the polls, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, and suffer imprisonment at hard labor not less than three months nor more than five years. [See § 2002.] 25 Feb., 1865, c. 52, s. 1, v. 13, p. 437. [SEC. 2002. No military or naval officer, or other person engaged in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States, shall order, bring, keep, or have under his authority or control, any troops or armed men at the place where any general or special election is held in any State, unless it be necessary to repel the armed enemies of the United States, or to keep the peace at the polls.] [See §§ 5528, 5529, 5532.] 25 Feb., 1865, c. 52, s. 1, v. 13, p. 437. [SEC. 2003. No officer of the Army or Navy of the United States shall prescribe or fix, by proclamation, order, or otherwise, the qualifications of voters in any State, or in any manner interfere with the freedom of any election in any State, or with the exercise of the free right of suffrage in any State.] [See §§ 5530-5532.] 25 Feb., 1865, c. 52, s. 1, v. 13, p. 437. [That no money appropriated in this act is appropriated or shall be paid for the subsistence, equipment, transportation, or compensation of any portion of the Army of the United States to be used as a police force to keep the peace at the polls at any election held within any State.-Act of Congress approved June 23, 1879.] 23 June, 1879, c. 35, s. 6, v. 21, p. 35. INTIMIDATION OF VOTERS BY OFFICERS, ETC., OF ARMY OR NAVY. SEC. 5529. Every officer or other person in the military or naval service who, by force, threat, intimidation, order, advice, or otherwise, prevents, or attempts to prevent, any qualified voter of any State from freely exercising the right of suffrage at any general or special election in such State, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, and imprisoned at hard labor not more than five years. [See § 2003.] 25 Feb., 1865, c. 52, s. 1, v. 13, p. 437. OFFICERS OF ARMY OR NAVY PRESCRIBING QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS. SEC. 5530. Every officer of the Army or Navy who prescribes or fixes, or attempts to prescribe or fix, whether by proclamation, order, or otherwise, the qualifications of voters at any election in any State, shall be punished as provided in the preceding section. [See § 2003.] 25 Feb., 1865, c. 52, s. 1, v. 13, p. 437. OFFICERS, ETC., OF ARMY OR NAVY INTERFERING WITH OFFICER OF ELECTION, ETC. SEC. 5531. Every officer or other person in the military or naval service who, by force, threat, intimidation, order, or otherwise, compels, or attempts to compel, any officer holding an election in any State to receive a vote from a person not legally qualified to vote, or who imposes, or attempts to impose, any regulations for conducting any general or special election in a State different from those prescribed by law, or who interferes in any manner with any officer of an election in the discharge of his duty, shall be punished as provided in section fifty-five hundred and twenty-nine. 25 Feb., 1865, c. 52, s. 2, v. 13, p. 437. DISQUALIFICATION FOR HOLDING OFFICE. SEC. 5532. Every person convicted of any of the offenses specified in the five preceding sections, shall, in addition to the punishments therein severally prescribed, be disqualified from holding any office of honor, profit, or trust under the United States; but nothing in those sections shall be construed to prevent any officer, soldier, sailor, or marine from exercising the right of suffrage in any election district to which he may belong, if otherwise qualified according to the laws of the State in which he offers to vote. 25 Feb., 1865, c. 52, ss. 1, 2, v. 13, p. 437. [ARMY AS POSSE COMITATUS. From and after the passage of this act it shall not be lawful to employ any part of the Army of the United States, as a posse comitatus, or otherwise, for the purpose of executing the laws, except in such cases and under such circumstances as such employment of said force may be expressly authorized by the Constitution or by act of Congress; and no money appropriated by this act shall be used to pay any of the expenses incurred in the employment of any troops in violation of this section, and any person wilfully violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars or imprisonment not exceeding two years or by both such fine and imprisonment.-Act of Congress approved June 18, 1878.] 18 June, 1878, c. 263, s. 15, v. 20, p. 152. The provisions of the Constitution and acts of Congress understood as intended to be excepted from the operation of the above section authorizing the employment of the military forces for the purpose of executing the laws, are as follows: Section 4, Article 4 of the Constitution; Titles XXIV, XXVI, XXVIII, XXXII, LXVII, LXIX, LXXII, Revised Statutes. TITLE LXXIV. REPEAL PROVISIONS. REPEAL OF ACTS EMBRACED IN REVISION. SEC. 5596. All acts of Congress passed prior to said first day of December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, any portion of which is embraced in any section of said revision, are hereby repealed, and the section applicable thereto shall be in force in lieu thereof; all parts of such acts not contained in such revision, having been repealed or superseded by subsequent acts, or not being general and permanent in their nature: Provided, That the incorporation into said revision of any general and permanent provision, taken from an act making appropriations, or from an act containing other provisions of a private, local, or temporary character, shall not repeal, or in any way affect any appropriation, or any provision of a private, local, or temporary character, contained in any of said acts, but the same shall remain in force; and all acts of Congress passed prior to said last-named day no part of which are embraced in said revision, shall not be affected or changed by its enactment. U. S. v. Jordan, 2 Low., 537. ACTS PASSED SINCE DECEMBER 1, 1873, NOT AFFECTED. SEC. 5601. The enactment of the said revision is not to affect or repeal any act of Congress passed since the 1st day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and all acts passed since that date are to have full effect as if passed after the enact ment of this revision, and so far as such acts vary from, or conflict with any provisions contained in said revision, they are to have effect as subsequent statutes, and as repealing any portion of the revision inconsistent therewith. 18 Feb., 1875, c. 84, v. 18, p. 329. 3 Mar., 1875, c. 130, s. 9, v. 18, p. 401. [COMMISSIONER TO PREPARE NEW EDITION OF REVISED STATUTES. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one person, learned in the law, as a commissioner, for the purpose of preparing and publishing a new edition of the first volume of the Revised Statutes of the United States. SEC. 2. That in performing this duty, said commissioner shall be required to incorporate into the text of the Revised Statutes as published in the year anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventyfive, under the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventyfour, all the amendments which have been made in the revision so published since the first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and all that shall be made up to the close of the present session of Congress, with marginal references to such amendatory acts, and to all the decisions of the several courts of the United States (as far as the same may have been published), which may have been made subsequent to those already cited in the margin of the present revision, and may include also citations to such judicial decisions of the various State courts as he may deem important; and he shall also make marginal references to the various statutes passed by Congress since the first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, not expressly therein declared to be amendments to the Revised Statutes, but which, in the opinion of said commissioner, may in any manner affect or modify any of the provisions of the said Revised Statutes, or any of the amendments thereto, indicating in such marginal notes by a difference in type the references to statutes of this kind, and he shall revise the indexes and incorporate therein references to the additions herein required. SEC. 4. That said new edition shall be completed in manuscript by said commissioner by the first day of January anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and by him presented to the Secretary of State for his examination and approval, who is hereby required to examine and compare the same, as amended, with all the amendatory acts, and, within two months after having been submitted to him, and when the same shall be completed, the said Secretary shall duly certify the same under the seal of the Secretary of State, and when printed and promulgated as herein provided the printed volume shall be legal [and conclusive] evidence of the laws [and treaties] therein contained, in all the courts of the United States, and of the several States and Territories, [but shall not preclude reference to, nor control, in case of any discrepancy, the effect |