...the duty of this officer to protect all persons in their rights, to suppress insurrection, disorder, violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers of the public peace and criminals, either through the local civil tribunals or through military commissions, which the act authorized....

...prudent. My duties are plain and marked out by the law placing me here, and confined to protecting "all persons in their rights of person and property, to suppress insurrection, disorder aud violence, and to puuish or cause to be punished all disturbers of the public peace and criminals,"...

...such officer to perform his duties and enforce his authority ; and makes it the duty of such officer to protect all persons in their rights of person and property, to suppress insnirvr tion, disorder, and violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers of the...

...they are to protect '' The third section of the bill is explicit and precise on that point. It says: It shall be the duty of each officer assigned as aforesaid to protect ollpersons in their rights of person »nd property, to suppress insurrectiou, disorder, and rioleace,...

...fourth sections of the act specify the powers and duties of district commanders, making it their duty "to suppress insurrection, disorder, and violence,...be punished, all disturbers of the public peace,'' &c., &c. The fifth section prescribes the manner in which, and the conditions upon which, the rebel...

...the duty of this officer to protect all persons in their rights, to suppress insurrection, disorder, violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all "disturbers of the public peace and criminals, either ihrour/h the local civil tribunals or through military commissions, which the act authorized....

...further enacted. That it shall be the duty of each officer aeeignud as aforesaid to protect all persone in their rights of person and property, to suppress...to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers uf the public peace and criminals, and to this end he may allow local civil tribunals to uke jurisdiction...

...his authority. Those duties and that authority, as defined by the third section of the bill, are, " intelligence of the American people, with an abiding...self-government and their continued devotion to the bo punished, all disturbers of the public peace or criminals." The power thus given to the commanding...

...military force to enable them to enforce their authority. They made it the duty of such officers ' to protect all persons in their rights of person and...' to suppress insurrection, disorder, and violence ; to punish criminals either by aid of civil tribunals or by military commissions.' They declared that...

...perform his duties and enforce his authority within the district to which he is assigned. SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of each officer assigned as aforesaid to protect ill persons in their rights of person and property, to suppress insurrection, disorder, and violence,...