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 A. D. 1759. Anno tricefimo tertio Georgii II. C. 8.' 423 vrhatfocver, without theConfent of the Occupier; nor fhall any more Billets <it any Tinie- be ori^? dcred, than there are efFciSlive Marines prefent to be quartered ; and iF.ariy Conftab'Ie, Tyth-ingman, or fuch lik€ Officer or Magiftrate as afore faid, Ihall prefumcto quarter or billet any fuch Officer or Pxivate Man in any fuch .private Houfe, without theConfent of the Occupier; in fuch Cafe fuch Occupier fhall have his or their Remedy at Law againft fuch Magiftrate or Officer, for the Damage that fuch Occupier fhall fuftain thereby; and if any Marine Officer fhall take upon him to quarter Penalty on Officers qwr- Private Men, otherwife than is limited and allowed by this Adl:, or fhall ufe or offer any Menace ter.ng Private Men Con- or Com pulfion to any Mayors, Conftables, or other Civil Officers before-mentioned, tending to '"''y*-** *^'^ ■^^> ^^• deter and difcourage any of them from performing any Part of their Duty hereby required or ap- pointed ; fuch Marine Officer fhall for every fuch Offence (being thereof convi(5led before any two or more of the next Juftices of the Peace of the County, by the Oath of two credible WitneiTes) be deemed and taken to be ipfo faSio cafhiered, and fliall be utterly difabled to have or hold any Mi-' litary Imployment within this Kingdom, or in his Majefty's Service ; provided the faid Conviction bue affirmed at the next Quarter-Seffions of the Peace of the faid County, and a Certificate thereof be tranfmitted to the Judge Advocate, who is hereby obliged to certify the fame to the next Court- martial ; and in cafe any Perfon fl^iall find himfelf aggrieved, in that fuch Conftable, Tythingman Perfons apgrieved by be- or Headborough, Chief Officer or Magiflrate (fuch Chief. Officer or Magiftrate not being a Juftice '"s q"a""ed on, m.y of the Peace) has quartered or billeted in his Houfe a greater Number of Marines than he ought to "iT^'irreneve"/, ''' bear in Proportion to his Neighbours ; and fhall complain thereof to one or more Juftice or Juftices of the Peace of the Divifion, City or Liberty where fuch Marines are quartered ; or in cafe fuch Chief Officer or Magiftrate fliall be a Juftice of the Peace, then on Complaint made to two or more Juftices of the Peace of fuch Divifion, City or Liberty, fuch Juftice or Juftices refpeftively fhall have, and is or are hereby declared to have Power to relieve fuch Perfon, by ordering fuch and fo many of the faid Marines to be removed, and quartered upon fuch other Perfon or Perfons as they fhall fee Caufe; and fuch other Perfon or Perfons fhall be obliged to receive fuch Marines accordingly. XV^II. Provided neverthelefs, and it is hereby enadted, That the Marine Officers and Private Officers and Marines to Men {o quartered and billeted as aforefaid, fhall be received and furnifhed with Diet and Small Beer be iumifted at the Rates by the Owners of the Inns, Livery Stables, Alehoufes, Victualling houf s, and the Houfes of Sel- p^^'J^lj^" lers of Wine, by Retail, to be drank in their own Houfes or Places thereunto belonging, and other Houfes in which they are allowed to be quartered and billeted by this A£c ; paying and allowing for the fame the feveral Rates herein after-mentioned to be payable out of the Subfiftence-money for Diet and Small Beer. XV in. Provided always. That in cafe any Innholder or other Perfon on whom any Non-com- What Innholders may ■ miffion Officers or Private Men fhall be quartered by virtue of this A61 (except on a March, or im- ^^''"'^ ^e" quartered on ■ ployed in Recruiting; and likewife except the Recruits by them raifed, for the Space of leven Days ^^^' infle*d of Meat. at moft, for fuch Non-commiffion Officers and Private Men who are recruiting, and Recruits by them raifed) ftiall be defirous to furnifli fuch Non-commiffion Officers or Private Men with Candles, Dian, gratis, and allow to fuch Non-commiffion Officers or Private Men the life of Fire, and the neceflary Utenfils for dreffing and eating their Meat, and fhall give Notice of fuch his Defive to the ! Commanding Officer, and fhall furnifh and allow the fame accordingly ; then and in fuch Cafe the • Officer to whom it belongs to receive, or who fliall actually receive the Pay and Subfiftence of fuch payable out of the Subfiftence-money for Diet and Small Beer, to the Non-commiffion Officers and Private Men aforefaid, and not to the Innholder or other Perfon on whom fuch Non-commiffion '; Officers and Private Men are quartered ; any Thing herein contained to contrary notwithftanding. XIX. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Marine Officer Penalty on taking Mo- fhall tak«, or caufe to be taken, or knov/ingly fuftcr to be taken, any Money of any Perfon for ex- "^^y tocxcufe any I'euon . cufing the quartering of Officers or Private Men or any of them, in any Houfe allowed by this ^"^"^ quartering. Aft, every fuch Officer fhall be caftiiered, and be incapable of ferving in any Military Imployment whatfoever. XX. And whereas it may be for the Bei^fit of the Service, for the Commanding Officer to have a Power to exchange the Billets or Qiiarters of Marines quartered in the fame Town or Place ; Be it therefore enadted by the Authority aforefaid. That the Commanding Officer of Marines in Commancing Offirf r ■ any Town or Place where fuch Marine Forces are quartered, ftall, ar.d he is hereby declared to have ""v exchange Mirines Power, from time to time, to exchange any Marine or Marines quartered in fuch Town or Place, '" ^heir Quancu. . for any other Marine or Marir.es quartered in the fame Town or Place ; provided the Number of Men do not exceed the Number at that Time billeted on fuch Houfes refpeclively, where fuch Men fhall be exchanged; and the Conftables, Tythingmen, Headboroughs, and other Chief Officers Conftables tobiiktthe and Magiftrates of the Cities, Towns and Villages, or other Places where any of the faij Marine fame accordingly. Forces fhall be quartered, are hereby required to billet fuch Men fo exchanged accordingly. XXI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid,. Hiat from and after the twenty-fifth '^° Payma'^er, .-Vc. to Day of March one thoufand fev.en hundred and fixty, no Paymafter, or other Officer or Perfon ["J ^'"'^'°"' °"^ "^ whatfoever, fhall receive any Fees, or make any Dedudtions whatfoever out of the Pay of any Ma- McnTpa^: ^'^"'^ line, either Officer or Private Man in his Majefty's Service, or.from their Agents, which fhall ' grow due from and after the faid twenty-fifth Day of March one thoufand fevcn hundred and fixty ; other i
 * Vinegar and Salt, and with either Small Beer or Cyder, not exceeding five Pints for each Man per
 * Non-commimon Officers and Private Men fo quartered fhall provide their own Victuals ; and the
 * Non-commiffion Officeis and Private Men, fhall pay the feveral Sums herein after mentioned to be