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and one part taken with another, & the whole of the Stat & the Arts of War considered as one code it will follow that no man can be tried by a Cot M: who is not in pay or mustered.
Now the offence charge on Mr. Thomas before the Cot M. was (ungentlemanlike behaviour in presenting a certain bill &c but it is in proof that Mr. Thomas was not at that time either mustered or in pay and therefore, if my construction of the Mutiny Act & Arts be right he was not [answerable? amenable?] to any Court Martial, and this fact Mr. Bristow had peculiar opportunities of knowing. If being Resident at Lucknow for 16 months, and he did not know that the Company’s office, who