A code for the government of armies in the field as authorized by the laws and usages of war on land : printed as manuscript for the Board appointed by the Secretary of War [Special Orders, no. 399] "to propose amendments or changes in the rules and articles of war, and a code of regulations for the government of armies in the field, as authorized by the laws and usages of war" / by Francis Lieber.
- Francis Lieber
- Date:
- [1863]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A code for the government of armies in the field as authorized by the laws and usages of war on land : printed as manuscript for the Board appointed by the Secretary of War [Special Orders, no. 399] "to propose amendments or changes in the rules and articles of war, and a code of regulations for the government of armies in the field, as authorized by the laws and usages of war" / by Francis Lieber. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY OF THE ENEMY. PROTECTION OF PERSONS, AND ESPECIALLY WOMEN; OF RELIGION, THE AIM'S AND SCIENCES. PUNISHMENT OF CRIMES AGAINST THE INHABITANTS OF BOSTILE COUNTRI] § 14. A victorious army appropriates all public moi seizes all public movable property until further direction by its government, and sequesters, for its own benefit, or that of its government, all real property belonging to the hostile government or nation. § 15. A victorious army, by the martial power inherent in the same, may suspend, change, disacknowledgc, or abolish, as far as the martial power extends, the relations which arise from the services due, according to the existing laws of the invaded country, from one citizen, subject, or native of the same to another. The commander of the army must leave it to the ulti- mate treaty of peace to settle the permanency of this change. § 10. As a, general rule, the property belonging to churches, to hospitals, or other establishments of an exclu- sively charitable or eleemosynary character, to establish- ments of education, or foundations for the promotion of knowledge, whether public schools, universities, academies of learning or observatories, museums of the fine arts, or of a scientific character--such property shall not be considered by the armies of the United States, public property in the sense of paragraph 14. In exceptional cases, such as richly endowed church* convents, their property may be taxed with military con- tributions. §17. Classical works of art, noble fabrics, libraries, scientific collections, or precious instruments, such as astro- nomic telescopes, as well as hospitals, must be tenderly secured in the name of common humanity and civilization, against all avoidable injury, even when they are contained in fortified places, whilst besieged or bombarded.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21136695_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
