Persons aggrieved by being quartered on may complain to any Justice, and be relieved. Regulations for quartering Soldiers in Mayors, Constables, or other Civil Officers before mentioned, tending to deter and discourage any of them from performing any Part of their Duty hereby required or appointed; such Military Officer shall for every such Offence (being thereof convicted before any Two or more of the Justices of the Peace of the County, by the Oath of Two credible Witnesses,) be deemed and taken to be ipso facto cashiered, and shall be utterly disabled to have or hold any Military Employment within this Kingdom or in His Majesty's Service; provided the said Conviction be affirmed at the next Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the said County, and a Certificate thereof to be transmitted to the Judge Advocate in London, who is hereby obliged to certify the same to the Commander in Chief and Secretary at War; and in case any Person shall find himself aggrieved, in that such Constable, Tithingman, or Headborough, Chief Officer or Magistrate, (such Chief Officer or Magistrate not being a Justice of the Peace) has quartered or billetted in his House a greater Number of Soldiers than he ought to bear in proportion to his Neighbours, and shall complain thereof to One or more Justice or Justices of the Peace of the Division, City, or Liberty where such Soldiers are quartered; or in case such Chief Officer or Magistrate shall be a Justice of the Peace, then on Complaint made to Two or more Justices of the Peace of such Division, City, or Liberty, such Justices respectively shall have and have hereby Power to relieve such Person, by ordering such and so many of the Soldiers to be removed, and quartered upon such other Person or Persons as they shall see Cause, and such other Person or Persons shall be obliged to receive such Soldiers accordingly. • XLIX. And Whereas by an Act passed in Ireland in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, intituled An Act to prevent 'the Disorders that may happen by the marching of Soldiers and 'providing Carriages for the Baggage of Soldiers on their March, it was amongst other things enacted and declared, that no Of'ficer, Soldier or Trooper in the Army, nor the Servant of any Officer, nor any Attendant on the Train of Artillery, nor any Yeoman of the Guard of Battle Axes, nor any Officer commanding the said Yeoman, nor any Servant of any such Officer, should at any Time thereafter have, receive, or be allowed any Quarters in any Part of Ireland, save only during such Time as he or they should be and remain in some Sea-port Town in order to be transported, or during such Time as there should be any Commotion in any Part of Ireland, by reason of which Emergency the Army or any considerable Part thereof should be commanded to march from any Part of Ireland to another, or during such Time or Times as he or they should be on their March as aforesaid: And Whereas the Barracks of Ireland are not at present sufficient to lodge all the Forces upon its Mili< tary Establishment: And Whereas it may be necessary to station Part of the Troops in Places where there are not Barracks, or not sufficient Barracks, to hold them;' Be it enacted, and it is hereby declared and agreed, That it shall and may be lawful, notwithstanding the said recited Act, to and for the Constables and other Chief Officers and Magistrates of Cities, Towns, Villages, and other Places in Ireland, and in their Default or Ab sence sence for any One Justice of the Peace inhabiting in or near any such City, Town, Village, or Place, and for no others, and such Constables and other Chief Magistrates as aforesaid, or in their Default, such Justice of the Peace as aforesaid, are hereby required to quarter and billet the Officers and Soldiers in His Majesty's Service in Inns, Livery Stables, Alehouses, and the Houses of Sellers of Wine by Retail, to be drank in their own Houses or Places thereunto belonging, and all Houses of Persons selling Brandy, Strong Waters, Cider, or Metheglin by Retail; and where there shall not be found sufficient Room in such Houses, then in such Manner as has been heretofore customary, taking care not to billet less than Two Men in any One House, except only in case of billetting Horse or Dragoons in manner hereinafter mentioned; nor shall any Billets at any Time be ordered for more than the Number of effective Soldiers present to be quartered; all which Billets, when made out by such Chief Magistrates or Constables, or Justice of the Peace, as the Case may be, shall be delivered into the Hands of the Staff Officer employed, or of the Commanding Officer present; and if any Constable or other Chief Officer or Magistrate as aforesaid shall presume to quarter or billet any such Officer or Soldier in any House not within the Meaning of this Act, without the Consent of the Owner or Occupier thereof, then such Owner or Occupier shall have his or their Remedy in Law against such Magistrate or Officer for the Damage that such Owner or Occupier shall sustain thereby; and such Constable, Chief Officer, or Magistrate, being duly convicted of such Offence by Indictment, shall be imprisoned for the Space of One Calendar Month; and if any Military Officer shall take upon him to quarter Soldiers otherwise than is limited and allowed by this Act, or shall use or offer any Menace or Compulsion to or upon any Mayor, Constable, or other Chief Officer before mentioned, tending to deter or discourage any of them from performing any Part of their Duty hereby required or appointed, or to induce any of them to do any thing contrary to their said Duty, such Military Officer shall for every such Offence, being thereof convicted before any Two or more Justices of the Peace of the County, by Oath of Two credible Witnesses, be deemed and taken to be ipso facto cashiered, and shall be utterly disabled to have or hold any Military Employment whatsoever; provided the said Conviction be affirmed at the next Assizes or Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the said County, or County of a City or Town, and a Certificate thereof be transmitted to the Secretary at War; and in case any Person shall find himself aggrieved, in that such Constable, Chief Officer, or Magistrate, not being a Justice of the Peace, has quartered or billetted in his House a greater Number of Soldiers than he ought to bear in proportion to his Neighbours, and shall complain thereof to One or more Justice or Justices of the Peace of the Division, City, or Liberty where such Soldiers are quartered, or in case such Chief Officer or Magistrate shall be a Justice of the Peace, then on Complaint made to Two or more Justices of the Peace of such Division, City, or Liberty, such Justice or Justices respectively shall have, and have hereby Power to relieve such Person, by ordering such and so many of the Soldiers to be removed and C 4 quartered Soldiers not to be billetted from the Places mentioned in the Route. 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. L. And as very great Detriment and Inconvenience arise to 'the Service from the dispersing and billetting of Soldiers when above One Mile 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. 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, For the more of soldiers on the Borders of Counties. Lord Lieutenant to appoint a Person to sign Routes. No Justice having any Military Office to be concerned Headborough, or other Person to whom the quartering of Soldiers in any Place mentioned in any Route on the Border of any County 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 mentioned 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. LII. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor for the Time being 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. 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 ble, &c. may in Westminster, &c. LIV. And be it further enacted and declared, That whenever High Consta 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 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 Quarter 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 |