NAM.1988-06-31-1

Mutiny Act Papers 1877-1878 Bound volume, 1877-1878. Collection of mainly printed papers relating to the Select Committee on the Mutiny and Marine Mutiny Acts, established 11 Apr 1878, report printed, 26 Jul 1878. Collected by Col The Hon Arthur Frederick Stanley, Secretary of State for War (later the 16th Earl of Derby), 1878-1879. Associated with the British Army and the Royal Marines. Including: memoranda produced for the committee (some by Henry Thring and 'C M C') on military law, courts martial, forfeitures and stoppages, desertion and the mutiny act and terms of service in the Auxiliary Forces. Also included are draft Mutiny Acts, April 1877, Army Discipline and Regulation Acts, April and December 1878 and Enlistment Act, August 1878 and memoranda on a Military Code, July 1877-November 1878.