Clause 36

wilfully demands any carriages, animals, vessels, food, forage or stores which are not actually required for the purposes authorised by this Act;

fails to comply with the provisions of this Act relating to the impressment of carriages as regards the payment of sums due for carriages or as regards the weighing of the load;

constrains any carriage, animal, or vessel furnished in pursuance of the provisions of this Act relating to the impressment of carriages to travel against the will of the person in charge thereof beyond the proper distance, or to carry against the will of such person any greater weight than he is required by the said provisions to carry;

does not discharge as speedily as practicable any carriage, animal or vessel, furnished in pursuance of the provisions of this Act relating to the impressment of carriages;

compels the person in charge of any such carriage, animal or vessel, or permits him to be compelled, to take thereon any baggage or stores not entitled to be carried, or, except where the carriage or animal is furnished upon a requisition of emergency, to take thereon any soldier or servant (except such as are sick), or any woman or person;

ill-treats or permits such person in charge to be ill-treated;

uses or offers any menace to or compulsion on any civil officer to make him provide any carriage, animal, vessel, food, forage or stores which he is not bound in pursuance of this Act relating to the impressment of carriages to provide, or tending to deter or discourage him from performing any part of his duty in relation to the providing of carriages, animals, vessels, food, forage or stores, or tending to induce him to do anything contrary to his said duty; or

forces any carriage, animal, vessel, food, forage or stores from the owner thereof,shall be liable on conviction by court-martial, if an officer, to be cashiered, or to suffer such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned, and if a soldier, to suffer imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.