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provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in office; and any officer of the army who shall transmit, convey, or obey any orders or instructions so issued, contrary to the provisions of this section, knowing that such orders were so issued, shall be liable to imprisonment for not less than two or more than twenty years, upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction. . . . . . . . . . Approved March 2, 1867. By order of the Secretary of War, E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant-General. Official: ——, Assistant Adjutant-General. General Emory not only called the attention of respondent to this order, but to the fact that it was in conformity with a section contained in an appropriation act passed by Congress. Respondent, after reading the order, observed, This is not in accordance with the Constitution of the United States, which makes me Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, nor with the language of the commission which you hold. Ge