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Soldiers not to be billetted

above One Mile from the Places mentioned in the Route.

For the more

of soldiers on

the Borders of Counties.

quartered upon such other Person or Persons as he or they shall see Cause, and such other Person or Persons shall be obliged to receive such Soldiers accordingly.

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L. And as very great Detriment and Inconvenience arise to 'the Service from the dispersing and billetting of Soldiers when on a March at a great Distance from the Place or Places where they are meant to be quartered, and contrary to the true Intent ' and Meaning of the said last-recited Act, and by reason of which they are placed wide of their intended Route for the next Day's March;' Be it therefore enacted, That at no Time when Troops are on a March shall any of them be billetted above One Mile from the Place or Places mentioned in the Route.

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LI. And Whereas Soldiers are often billetted and quartered on the March unequally, and to the Prejudice of some of His Majesty's Subjects, by reason that the Places mentioned in the Route are on the Borders of Counties, and that the Keepers of Houses in which Soldiers may be quartered being out of the • Parish or Place mentioned in the Route, although in the im<mediate Vicinity thereof, refuse to receive such Soldiers upon Billets granted by the Constables, Tithingmen, Headboroughs, or other Persons of such Places to whom the quartering of Soldiers belongs;' For Remedy whereof, be it enacted, That equal billetting in any such Case it shall be lawful for the Constable, Tithingman, Headborough, or other Person to whom the quartering of Soldiers Place mentioned in any Route on the Border of any County any shall belong, and he and they is and are hereby required to quarter and billet all Soldiers and their Horses on their March in a just and equal Proportion upon the Keepers of all Houses within One Mile of the Place mentionéd in any such Route, although some of such Houses may be in the adjoining County, in like Manner in every respect as if such Houses were locally situate within such Place; and all Powers, Authorities, Clauses, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Provisions in this Act contained, in relation to the billetting and quartering of Soldiers, shall extend and be applied to all Billets so granted, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes, and in like Manner in every respect, as if such Houses were locally situate within the Place mentioned in the Route: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to authorize or empower any Constable, Tithingman, Headborough, or other Person, to billet or quarter Soldiers out of the County to which they belong, in any Case in which any Constable, Tithingman, or Headborough, or other Person of the adjoining County, shall be present, and undertake to billet and quarter the due Proportion of Men in such adjoining County.

Lord Lieutenant to

LII. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor for the Time being appoint a Per- of Ireland to depute, by Warrant under his Hand and Seal, some proper Person to sign Routes for the marching of any of His Majesty's Forces in Ireland, in the Name of such Lord Lieutenant or Chief Governor.

son to sign Routes.

No Justice having any Military Office to be concerned

LIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That no Justice or Justices of the Peace having or executing any Military Office or Commission in any Part of the United Kingdom shall and may, during the Continuance of this Act, directly or indirectly

be

be concerned in the quartering, billetting, or appointing any Quar- in billetting his ters for any Soldier or Soldiers in the Regiment, Troop, or Com- Soldiers. pany under the immediate Command or Commands of such Justice or Justices, according to the Dispositions made for quartering of any Soldier or Soldiers by virtue of this Act; but that all Warrants, Acts, Matters, or Things executed or appointed by such Justice or Justices of the Peace for or concerning the same, shall be void; any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

High Constable, &c. may issue Precepts for billetting Foot Guards

in Westminster,

LIV. And be it further enacted and declared, That whenever any Order shall issue for the quartering or billetting the Officers or Soldiers of His Majesty's Regiments of Foot Guards within the Cities and Liberties of Westminster, and Places adjacent, lying in the County of Middlesex, and in the County of Surrey, and in the Borough of Southwark in the said County of Surrey, the High &c. Constables shall deliver out Precepts to the several Petty Constables, Headboroughs, or Tithingmen of each Parish, Ward, Hamlet, and District within their respective Divisions, to billet and quarter such Officers and Soldiers of His Majesty's Regiments of Foot Guards on such Houses only as by this Act is limited within their respective Parishes, Hamlets, or Districts; and such Petty Constables, Headboroughs, and Tithingmen shall, in pursuance thereof, billet and quarter every such Officer and Soldier in such Houses so subjected thereto by this Act equally and proportionally, according to the Number of such Officers and Soldiers so to be billetted and quartered, and of the Houses so subjected to receive them; and such Officers and Soldiers of the Foot Guards shall be quartered within the said City and Liberties of Westminster, and Places adjacent, lying in the said County of Middlesex (except the City of London), and in the County of Surrey, and in the said Borough of Southwark in the said County of Surrey, in the same Manner and under the same Regulations as in other Parts of England, in all Cases for which particular Provision is not made by this Act.

Constables, &c. in Westminster and Surrey to deliver at Quar

ter Sessions

LV. And for the better preventing Abuses in billetting and quartering such Officers and Soldiers in the said City and Liberties of Westminster, and Parts adjacent, lying in the said County of Middlesex, and in the said County of Surrey, and in the said Borough of Southwark in the said County of Surrey; Be it enacted, That the Petty Constables, Headboroughs, and Tithingmen of their respective Parishes, Wards, Hamlets, and Districts within the same, shall at every General Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said City and Liberties of Westminster, in the said County of Middlesex, and the said County of Surrey, Lists of Houses and the said Borough of Southwark in the said County of Surrey, subject to rerespectively, make and deliver to the Justices then in open ceive Soldiers, Sessions assembled, upon Oath, which Oath they the said Justices &c. in their are hereby authorized and required to administer, true Lists signed respective Diviby them respectively of all such Houses, together with the Number of all such Persons respectively inhabiting the same, within his or their Parish, Ward, Hamlet, or District respectively, as are subject and liable by this Act to receive such Officers and Soldiers, together with the Names and Rank of all such Officers and Soldiers as are quartered and billetted in each House respectively;

and

sions;

to be inspected without Fee.

Copies of such Lists to be wrote by the Clerk at 2d. per Sheet, containing 150 Words. Penalty on Default.

Penalty on giving defective Lists.

How to be levied.

Officers, Men, and Horses, belonging to the Horse or Dragoons, and also Bât and Baggage Horses, &c.

how to be quar

tered, &c.

and such Lists shall remain with the Clerks of the Peace of the said City and Liberties of Westminster, the said County of Middlesex, the said County of Surrey, and the said Borough of Southwark in the said County of Surrey, respectively, to the Intent that all and every Person and Persons may be at liberty to inspect the same without any Fee or Reward; and such Clerk shall forthwith from time to time make and deliver to every or any Person or Persons who shall require the same, true Copies of all and every or any such Lists, upon being paid Two Pence a Sheet for each and every such Copy so taken, each Sheet to be computed at and contain One hundred and fifty Words; and if Default or Neglect shall be made by any Petty Constable, Headborough, or Tithingman of any such Parish, Ward, Hamlet, or District, in the delivering such Lists to the Justices at their Quarter Sessions as aforesaid; or if he or they shall so deliver or cause to be delivered in any false or defective List, not including and specifying therein all and every such House and Houses so liable by this Act to receive such Officers and Soldiers, or the Names and Rank of all such Officers and Soldiers as are quartered and billetted in each House respectively; such Petty Constable, Headborough, and Tithingman, or any of them so offending therein, shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of Five Pounds, to the Use of the Poor of such respective Parishes, Wards, Hamlets, and Districts; to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Offender's Goods and Chattels, by Warrant or Warrants under the Hand and Seal or Hands and Seals of One or more of His Majesty's Justice or Justices of the Peace for the City and Liberties of Westminster, for the said County of Middlesex, and for the said County of Surrey, and for the said Borough of Southwark in the said County of Surrey, respectively (which Warrant or Warrants the said Justice or Justices is and are hereby empowered and required to make and issue); and for Want of sufficient Distress to be found for that Purpose, the said Justice or Justices is and are hereby empowered and required, by Warrant or Warrants under his or their Hand and Seal or Hands and Seals, to commit the Person or Persons so offending to the Common Gaol of the said City of Westminster, the said County of Middlesex, the said County of Surrey, or the said Borough of Southwark in the said County of Surrey, there to remain for any Time to be limited by such Justice or Justices, not exceeding Three Month; nor less than One Month, without Bail or Mainprize.

LVI. And be it further enacted, That the Officers, Men, and Horses belonging to His Majesty's Horse or Dragoons, and also all Bât and Baggage Horses belonging to any of His Majesty's other Forces, and also the Horses belonging to Staff and Field Officers in His Majesty's Forces when upon actual Service, not exceeding for each Officer the Number for which Forage is or shall be allowed by His Majesty's Regulations, shall and may be quartered and billetted in the Inns, Livery Stables, Alehouses, Victualling Houses, and other Houses in which Officers and Soldiers are by this Act allowed to be quartered and billetted, and that they shall be received and furnished by the Owners or Occupiers of such Inns, Livery Stables, Alehouses, Victualling Houses, and other Houses in which they are so allowed to be

quartered

quartered and billetted, with Diet and Small Beer, and with Stables and Hay and Straw for such Horses, paying and allowing for the same the several Rates that are or shall be established by any Act or Acts in force in that respect.

Artillery or

Horses, &c. how to be quartered in

Ireland.

LVII. And be it further enacted, That all Horses of Officers Horses belongand, Men belonging to His Majesty's Horse, Dragoons, Artillery ing to the Horse or Commissariat, and also all Bat and Baggage Horses belonging or Dragoons, to any of His Majesty's other Forces, and also the Horses belong- Commissariat, ing to Staff and Field Officers in His Majesty's Forces when and also Bât upon actual Service, not exceeding for each Officer the Number and Baggage for which Forage is or shall be allowed by His Majesty's Regulations, shall and may be quartered and billetted in Ireland in the Inns, Livery Stables, Alehouses, Victualling Houses, and other Houses in which Officers and Soldiers are by this Act allowed to be quartered and billetted; and that they shall be received and furnished by the Owners or Occupiers of such Inns, Livery Stables, Alehouses, Victualling Houses, and other Houses in which they are allowed to be so quartered and billetted, with Stables, and also with Hay and Straw for such Horses, at the Rate of Eighteen Pounds of Hay and Six Pounds of Straw each Horse per Night, in Cases in which Hay and Straw shall not be supplied by Contract for such Horses, such Owners or Occupiers being paid for the same the several Rates that are or shall be established by the Lord Lieutenant or other sufficient Authority from Time to Time, the same to be regulated by the average Rate of Contracts for Forage in Ireland.

When Horses are provided with Hay and tract, an AlStraw by Con

lowance shall

be paid to the

Dragoons, &c. quartered on Persons who

LVIII. And Whereas Innkeepers or others on whom such Horses as before recited may have been billetted, have here'tofore received an Allowance of Four Pence per Week for each 'such Horse for the Use of the Stable, when the Forage has been 'furnished by Contract;' Be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act the said Allowance of Four Pence per Week shall continue to be paid only during the Time when such Horses shall be provided with Hay and Straw by Contract, and not by such Innkeepers or other Owners or Occupiers as aforsesaid. LIX. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That when any of His Majesty's Horse or Dragoons, or any other Horses as Innkeeper. aforesaid, shall be quartered or billetted upon the Owner or Owners, Occupier or Occupiers of any Alehouse, Victualling House, or other House in which Officers or Soldiers may be quartered by virtue of this Act, who have no Stables; then and in such Case, and upon Complaint made by any Person or Persons having no Stables to Two or more Justices of the Peace of the Division, City, or Liberty where such Horse or Dragoons or other &c. Horses shall be so quartered and billetted, and upon his or their making such Allowance, in lieu of his or their quartering such Horse or Dragoons or other Horses, as such Justice shall think reasonable, it shall and may be lawful for such Justices to order the Men and their Horses, or such Horses only, as the Case may be, to be removed and quartered upon some other Person or Persons who by this Act are liable to have Officers and Soldiers quartered and billetted upon them, who have Stables, and to order and settle a proper Allowance to be made by the Person or Persons having no Stables, in lieu of his or their quartering such Horse or

Dragoons

have no Stables, may be removed to those who have Stables,

Dragoons, &c.

and their Horses, to be billetted in the same Houses.

Manner of

and Horses.

Dragoons or other Horses so to be removed as aforesaid; and also to order and direct that such Allowance shall be paid by the Person or Persons from whom such Men and Horses shall be removed, to or amongst the Person or Persons to whom such Men and Horses shall be so removed as aforesaid, or be applied in the furnishing of Quarters for the Reception of such Men and Horses, as the Case may require, and as such Justices shall think fit.

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LX. And Whereas great Inconveniences have arisen and may arise in such Places where Horse or Dragoons are or may be quartered, by the billetting of the Men and their Horses at 'different Houses, and often at great Distances from one another, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act;' Be it therefore enacted, That in all Places where Horse or Dragoons shall be quartered or billetted in pursuance of this Act, for the future, the Men and their Horses shall be billetted in One and the same House (except in case of Necessity); and that in no other Case whatsoever there be less than One Man billetted where there shall be One or Two Horses, nor less than Two Men where there shall be Four Horses, and so in proportion for a greater Number; and in such Case each Man shall be billetted as near his Horse as possible.

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LXI. And Whereas some Doubts have arisen whether Commanding Officers of any Regiment, Troop, or Company may exchange any Men or Horses quartered in any Town or Place, with another Man or Horse quartered in the same Place, for the Benefit of the Service;' Be it declared and enacted, That changing Men such Exchange as above mentioned may be made by such Commanding Officer respectively, provided the Number of Men and Horses do not exceed the Number at that Time billetted on such House or Houses; and the Constables, Tithingmen, Headboroughs, and other Chief Officers and Magistrates of the Cities, Towns, and Villages, or other Places where any Regiment, Troop, or Company shall be quartered, are hereby required to billet such Men and Horses so exchanged accordingly.

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LXII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That if any Officer shall take or cause to be taken, or knowingly suffer to be taken, any Money of any Person for excusing the quartering of Officers or Soldiers, or any of them, in any House allowed by this Act, every such Officer shall be cashiered, and be incapable of serving in any Military Employment whatsoever.

LXIII. And be it further enacted, That if any High Constable, Constable, Beadle, or other Officer or Person whomsoever, who by virtue or colour of this Act shall quarter or billet, or be employed in quartering or billetting any Officers or Soldiers in any Part of the United Kingdom, shall neglect or refuse to quarter or billet any Officer or Soldier on Duty, when thereunto required, in such Manner as is by this Act directed, provided sufficient Notice be given before the Arrival of such Troops; or shall receive, demand, contract, or agree for any Sum or Sums of Money, or any Reward whatsoever, for or on account of excusing, or in order to excuse any Person or Persons whomsoever from quartering or receiving into his, her, or their House or Houses any such Officer or Soldier; or in case any Victualler, or any other Person liable by this Act to have any Officer or Soldier

billetted

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