Clause 27

Every person subject to military law who being under arrest or confinement, or in prison or otherwise in lawful custody, escapes, or attempts to escape, 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.