[Copy] Copy certify'd of the proceedings of the General Court Martial held at Spring Garden by order of the Major Lewis Toward 11^th may 1798 Spring Garden Rendezvous — 11^th May 1798 At a General Court - Martial convened on the reference to the order of Major Lewis Toward for the Trial of such prisoners as should be brought before them Capt Mitchell, President Lieut Smiths Lieut Boyde Lieut Mecklenburg Ensign Hall The Court being duly Sworn proceeded 1. the trial of John Evean of Cap^tn Sims Company Charged with desertion from [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] of the year 1795.— The Prisoner pleads Guilty — The Court finds the Prisoner guilty of the Charge exhibited against him and sentences him under the 1^st Article of the Sixth Section of the rules and articles of War, and the Seventeenth Section of the act of Congress [undecipherable] an act to ascertain and fix the Military Establishment of the United States to receive one hundred lashes, and to be returned to [undecipherable] for and serving such [undecipherable] as shall with the times he may have already [undecipherable] to his [undecipherable] amount to the full time of his enlistment— John Lynch Charged with desertion from Ensign [undecipherable] Law on the 10^th [undecipherable: Feb?] 1794 — Pleads Guilty— The Court finds the Prisoner guilty of the Charge exhibited against him, and sentences him under the 1^st article of the Sixth Section, of the rules and articles of