Service, not exceeding for each Officer the Number for which Forage is or shall be allowed by His Majesty's Regulations, in Victualling Houses and other Houses specified in this Act (taking care in Ireland not to billet less than Two Men in any One House, except only in case of billetting Cavalry as specially provided); and that they shall be received by the Occupiers of such Houses in which they are so allowed to be billetted, and be furnished by such Victuallers with proper Accommodation in such Houses, or if any Victualler shall not have sufficient Accommodation in the House upon which a Soldier is billetted, then in some good and sufficient Quarters to be provided by such Victualler in the immediate Neighbourhood, and in England with Diet and Small Beer, and with Stables, Hay, and Straw for such Horses as aforesaid, paying and allowing for the same the several Rates herein-after provided; and at no Time when Troops are on a March shall any of them, whether Infantry or Cavalry, be billetted above One Mile from the Place mentioned in the Route; and in all Places where Cavalry shall be billetted in pursuance of this Act, the Men and their Horses shall be billetted in one and the same House, except in case of Necessity; and in no other Case whatsoever shall 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 no Case shall a Man and his Horse be billetted at a greater Distance from each other than One hundred Yards; and the Constables are hereby required to 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 mentioned in the 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; provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend to authorize any Constable to billet Soldiers out of the County to which such Constable belongs, when the Constable of the adjoining County shall be present and undertake to billet the due Proportion of Men in such adjoining County; and no more Billets shall at any Time be ordered than there are effective Soldiers and Horses present to be billetted; all which Billets, when made out by such Constables, shall be delivered into the Hands of the Commanding Officer present; and if any Person shall find himself aggrieved by having an undue Proportion of Soldiers billetted in his House, and shall prefer his Complaint, if against a Constable or other Person not being a Justice, to One or more Justices, and if against a Justice, then to Two or more Justices, within whose Jurisdiction such Soldiers are billetted, such Justices respectively shall have Power to order such of the Soldiers to be removed, and to be billetted upon other Persons, as they shall see Cause; and when any of His Majesty's Cavalry or any Horses as aforesaid shall be billetted upon the Occupiers of Houses in which Officers or Soldiers may be quartered by virtue of this Act, who shall have no Stables, then and in such Case, upon the written Requisition of the Commanding Officer of the Regiment, Troop, or Detachment, the Constable is hereby required to billet the Men and their Horses, or Horses only, upon some other Per son Penalties upon Civil Subjects offending against the Laws relating to Billets and Carriages. son or Persons who have Stables by this Act liable to have Officers and Soldiers billetted upon them; and upon Complaint being made by the Person or Persons to whose House or Stables the said Men and Horses shall have been so removed to Two or more Justices within whose Jurisdiction such Men or Horses shall be so billetted, it shall be lawful for such Justices to order a proper Allowance to be paid by the Persons relieved to the Persons receiving such Men and Horses, or to be applied in the furnishing the requisite Accommodation; and Commanding Officers may exchange any Man or Horse billetted in any Place with another Man or Horse billetted in the same Place, for the Benefit of the Service, provided the Number of Men and Horses do not exceed the Number at that Time billetted on such Houses; and the Constables are hereby required to billet such Men and Horses so exchanged accordingly; and it shall be lawful for any Justice, at the Request of any Officer or Non-commissioned Officer commanding any Soldiers requiring Billets, to extend any Routes or enlarge the District within which Billets shall be required, in such Manner as shall appear to be most convenient to the Troops; provided that, to prevent or punish all Abuses in billetting Soldiers, it shall be lawful for any Justice within his Jurisdiction, by Warrant or Order under his Hand, to require any Constable to give him an Account in Writing of the Number of Officers and Soldiers who shall be quartered by such Constable, together with the Names of the Persons upon whom such Officers and Soldiers are billetted, stating the Street or Place where such Persons dwell, and the Sign, if any, belonging to those Houses; and it shall be lawful to billet Officers and Soldiers in Scotland according to the Provisions of the Laws in force in Scotland at the Time of its Union with England; and no Officer shall be obliged to pay for his Lodging where he shall be regularly billetted, except in the Suburbs of Edinburgh. any LXIII. And be it enacted, That if any Constable or other Person, who by virtue of this Act shall be employed in billetting any Officers or Soldiers in any Part of the United Kingdom, shall presume to billet any such Officer or Soldier in House not within the Meaning of this Act, without the Consent of the Owner or Occupier thereof; or shall neglect or refuse to 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, or agree for any Money or Reward whatsoever, in order to excuse any Person from receiving such Officer or Soldier; or shall quarter any of the Wives, Children, Men or Maid Servants of any Officer or Soldier in any such Houses, against the Consent of the Occupiers; or shall neglect or refuse to execute such Warrants of the Justices as shall be directed to him for providing Carriages, Horses, or Vessels, or shall demand more than the legal Rates for the same; or if any Person appointed by such Constable to provide Carriages, Horses, or Vessels shall do any Act or Thing by which the Execution of such Warrants shall be hindered; or if any Constable shall neglect to deliver in to the Justices at Quarter Sessions Lists of Officers and Soldiers of the Foot Guards quartered according to the Provisions of this Act, or or shall cause to be delivered defective Lists of the same; or if any Person, liable by this Act to have any Officer or Soldier quartered upon him, shall refuse to receive and to afford proper Accommodation or Diet in the House of such Person in which he is quartered, and to furnish the several Things directed to be furnished to Officers and Soldiers, or shall neglect or refuse to furnish good and sufficient Stables, together with good and sufficient Hay and Straw for each Horse, at the Rate established by any Act in force in that respect; or if any Innkeeper or Victualler not having good and sufficient Stables shall refuse to pay over to the Person or Persons who may provide Stabling such Allowance by way of Compensation as shall be directed by any Justice of the Peace, or shall pay any Sum or Sums of Money to any Soldier on the March in lieu of furnishing in Kind the Diet and Small Beer to which such Soldier is entitled; such Constable, Victualler, or other Person respectively shall forfeit for every such Offence, Neglect, or Refusal any Sum not exceeding Five Pounds nor less than Forty Shillings. CAP. VII. An Act to repeal, at the Period within mentioned, so much of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An 5 G. 3. c. 25. 'Act to alter certain Rates of Postage, and to amend, explain, and enlarge several Provisions in an Act made in the Ninth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, and in other Acts relating to the Revenue of 'the Post Office, His Majesty's Postmaster General was authorized to take and receive certain Rates of Postage in the said Act specified for the Postage and Conveyance of Letters and 'Packets within the British Dominions in America: And whereas 'the said Rates have been collected in the British Colonies and Provinces in North America by His Majesty's Postmaster Gene'ral or his Deputies, and the Surplus thereof, after Payment of 'the Charges of Collection and Management, have been remitted 'to the General Post Office in London, as Part of the General 'Revenue of the Post Office: And whereas it is expedient that 'henceforward the British Colonies and Provinces in His Majesty's Dominions in North America having local and inde'pendent Legislatures should be enabled by the Authority of 'such Legislatures to levy, for the Inland Postage of Letters and 'Packets within such Colonies and Provinces, such Rates as to 'the said Legislatures shall seem meet, and also to make such Regulations for the Management of the Post Office within such ' respective Provinces and Colonies, by His Majesty's Postmaster 6 6 General After His Majesty's Consent shall be signified to Acts of the • General or his Deputies, as to such Legislatures may seem ex'pedient; and that the surplus Revenue arising from the Collection of such Rates should be applied and appropriated for the Use and Benefit of such respective Colonies and Provinces :' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after His Majesty's Consent shall in the usual Form be signified by the Governors or Deputy Governors of His Majesty's Colonies or ProLegislatures of vinces in North America to Bills or Acts of the Legislatures of the Provinces of such respective Colonies or Provinces, authorizing the demanding North America, and taking within such respective Colonies or Provinces, by His authorizing cer- Majesty's Postmaster General or his Deputy or Deputies, the like Rates of Postage as are authorized to be received and taken by the said recited Act of the Fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, or such other Rates of Postage as in and by such Bills or Acts respectively may be mentioned and authorized to be received and taken, and for making such Regulations for the Management of the Post Office within such Colonies and Provinces, by His Majesty's Postmaster General or his Deputies, as shall be therein directed, then the said Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, so far as the said Act authorizes the Demand and Receipt of any Rates for the Inland Carriage and Conveyance of Letters and Packets within such Colonies or Provinces respectively, shall thenceforth be absolutely repealed, and be no longer of any Effect. tain Rates of Postage to be taken therein, the Provisions of the recited Act as to the Collection of Postage within such Provinces shall be repealed. Appropriation of Inland Rates of Postage in the North American Pro vinces. Act may be altered. II. And be it further enacted, That from and after His Majesty's Consent shall be so signified to such Bills or Acts of Colonial or Provincial Legislatures as herein-before mentioned, all the Revenue which may arise from the Collection of the Rates of Inland Postage within the said respective Colonies or Provinces (after deducting the Expences of Collection, and of the Establishment and Management of the Post Office within and throughout the said respective Colonies or Provinces under the Direction of His Majesty's Postmaster General or his Deputies,) shall and may, instead of being remitted as heretofore to the General Post Office in London, as Part of the general Revenue of the Post Office, be appropriated, applied, and distributed to and among the said respective Colonies and Provinces in proportion to the gross Amount of the Rates and Duties of Postage which shall be raised, collected, and received within each and every such respective Colonies or Provinces, unless and until the said Colonies or Provinces shall, by Bills or Acts of their respective Legislatures to which His Majesty's Consent shall in the usual Form be signified, unite and agree in directing any other Mode in which such Surplus shall be applied and disposed of. III. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be altered, varied, or repealed by any Act or Acts to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. САР. 6 An Act to amend an Act passed in the last Session, for con- HEREAS by an Act passed in the last Session of Parlia WE ment, intituled An Act for consolidating and amending the 3 & 4 W. 4. 'Laws relative to Jurors and Juries in Ireland, it is amongst other c. 91. Things enacted, that the Justices assembled at every October 'General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden in each 'Division of each County at large, and the Justices for and in 'each County of a City and County of a Town, in Ireland, shall, at a Sessions to be holden at October in every Year, fix a Place 'within such Division and within such Counties of Cities and 'Counties of Towns respectively, and also a Time not less than Two nor more than Three Calendar Months after the First Day ' of such General or Quarter Sessions, for holding a Special Ses'sions, for the Purpose of examining the Lists of Jurors in the said Act mentioned, pursuant to the Provisions thereof therein' after contained: And whereas the Periods so prescribed for the holding of such Special Sessions have been found inconvenient, by reason of their approaching so nearly to the End of the current Year as not to leave convenient Time for the making out of the Jurors Book for the next ensuing Year, and it is there'fore expedient to alter the same;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the Justices assembled at any October General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden in each Division of each County at large and each County of a City and County of a Town in Ireland shall fix a Place within such Cities and Counties of Towns respectively, and also a Time, not less than One Lunar Month nor more than Six Weeks after the First Day of such October General or Quarter Sessions, for holding a Special Sessions for the Purpose of examining the List of Jurors, as by the said Act directed; and that the several Provisions and Clauses of the said recited Act relating to the Special Sessions thereby directed to be fixed at the October Sessions shall be extended and applied to and be in force with respect to the Special Sessions hereby required to be fixed. II. And whereas, in consequence of the Difficulty which in 'certain Instances has been found to exist since the passing of 'the said recited Act in making up the List of Jurors before the First Day of January in the present Year, the Jurors Book by the 'said Act prescribed has not been made up in sufficient Time to 'be delivered to the Sheriff or other proper Officer, so as to be brought into use on the said First Day of January, as is by the 'said recited Act provided, and Jurors have therefore in those 'Cases been necessarily returned and impannelled in the Mode usually practised before the passing of the said recited Act: And whereas it is expedient to prevent any Doubts with respect to the Validity of such Proceedings;' be it therefore declared and Justices to fix a Where Jurors Book is not completed, the Jurors according to the Form in use before the recited Act to Return of be deemed law ful. |