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 ji6 C. 3. Anno quarto Georgii III. A. D. 1763. Week for each private Soldier of his Majefty's three Regiments of Foot Guards-j and fix Shillings per Week to each Serjeant ; four Shillings and fix Pence per Week to each Corporal and Drummer j and three Shillings per Week to each Foot Soldier of any other Regiment or Independent Compa- ny ; and at the End of every two Months to account for one Shilling per Week to each Serjeant, and two Pence per Week to each Corporal and Drummer, and fix Pence per Week to each Foot Soldier; the faid one Shilling per "Week, two Pence per Week, and fix Pence per Week, beingthe Remainder of the Subfiftence of each Serjeant, Corporal, Drummer, and Foot Soldier ; then, upon Proof thereof before a Court-martial as aforefaid, to be. for that Purpofe held and fummoned by his Majefty's Order, every fuch Paymaster, Agent, Clerk, or Officer fo offending, fliall be difcharged from his Employment, and fha.ll forfeit to the Informer, upon Conviction before the faid Court, one hundred Pounds, to be levied as aforefaid ; and the Informer, if a Soldier (if he demands it J fhall be, and he is hereby difcharged from any further Service ; any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding : And the commanding Officers of the three Regiments of Foot Guards are hereby impowered, if they judge it necefTary for the Good of the Service, to make the fame Stop- pages of one Shilling per Week from each Serjeant, two Pence per Week from each Corporal and' Drummer, and fix Pence per Week from each Foot Soldier; and at the End of every two Months to account for the faid one Shilling per Week to each Serjeant, and two Pence per Week to each Corporal and Drummer, and fix Pence per Week to each Foot Soldier, in the fame Manner as is hereby directed for the Marching Regiments. Penalty on Agents difo- XIX. And for the better Execution hereof, and that a true and regular Account may be kept and keying' of Orders, rendered by the Agents of the feveral Regiments, and Independent Troops and Companies, the faid Agents are hereby required and directed to obferve fuch Orders and Directions as fhall, from lime to Time, be given by his Majefty, under his Sign Manual, or by the Lord Treafurer, or Commif- iioners of the Treafury for the Time being ; and if any Agent fhall refufe or neglect to obferve and' comply with fuch Orders and Directions, he fhall be difcharged from his Office, and be utterly dif- ahled to have or hold any fuch Office in his Majefty's Service. Surgeon, &c within ten XX. And it is hereby enacted, That the Surgeon, or his Mate, fhall, within the Cities of Lon- Miies of London, &c to don and Wejlminjler, and ten Miles of the fame, certify upon Oath to the Mufter-mafter, thaf certify who are fids, j he .hath actually feen fuch Perfon as he certifies to be fick ; and fuch commanding Officer fhall alfo certify the Names of fuch others, as fhall be employed in railing Recruits ; and if fuch Certificate and commanding Officer, fhall prove falfe, upon Conviction thereof, before a Court-martial, the Officer figning fuch Certifi— who are employed in cate fl^ii f u ff e r fuch Penalties, and in fuch manner, as is declared and inflicted by this Act upon rarfmg Recruits. thofe who ftall makfi fa j fe Mufters. and the CommhTary of the Mufters is hereby direfted to infert in the Docket annexed to the Mufter-roll, the Place where, and the precife Day when, every Mufter- roll is taken. Penalty on officer muf- XXI. And it is enacted, That if any Officer or CommifTary fhall mufter any Perfon by a wrong N"me S Perf0n! by Wr °" e Narae knowingly, upon Conviction thereof before a General Court-martial, the faid Officer or Com- rnflary fhall fuffer fuch Penalties, and in fuch Manner, as is directed and inflicted by this Act upon- thofe who fhall make falfe Mufters. XXII. ' And whereas by the Petition of Right, in the third Year of King Charles the Firft, it is. '' enacted and declared, That the People of this Land are not by the Laws to be burthened with the ' fojourning of Soldiers againft their Wills- ; and by aClaufe in an Act of Parliament made in the one f of two hundred and fix thoufand four hundred fixty-two Pounds feventeen Shillings and three ' Quality, or Profeffion whatfoever, without his Confent;- and that it fhall and may be lawful for ' any Subject, Sojourner, or Inhabitant, to refufe to quarter any Soldier or Soldiers, notwithftand- ' ing any Demand or Warrant, or Biiletting whatfoever : But forafmuch as at this Time, and during ' the Continuance of this Act, there is and may be Occafion for the marching and quartering of Re- Confhbles, &c. to ouar- Authority aforefaid, That for and during the Continuance of this Act, and no longer, it fliall and; tcr Officers and Men in may be lawful to and for the Conftables, Tythingmen, Headboroughs, and other chief Officers and Inns, Alehoufes, &c. Magiftrates of Cities, Towns, and Villages, and other Places, within England, (Vales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and in their Default or Abfence, for any one Juftice of the Peace inhabiting in or near any fuch City, Town, Village, or Place, and for no others ; and fuch Con- ftables, and other Civil Magiftrates as aforefaid, are hereby required to quarter and billet the Officers and Soldiers in his Majefty's Service, in Inns, Livery Stables, Ale-houfes, Vidtualling-houfes, and the Houfes of Sellers of Wine by Retail to be drank in their own Houfes, or Places thereunto be- longing, other than and except Perfons who keep Taverns only, being Freemen of the Company of Vintners of the City of London, who were admitted to their Freedom before the fifth Day of "July one thoufand feven hundred and fifty-feven, or who fince have or fhall hereafter be admitted to their • ' Freedom of the faid Company, in Right of Patrimony or Apprenticefhip,. notwithstanding fuch Per- fons who keep Taverns only have taken out victualling Licences ; and all Houfes of Perfons felling But in no Diftillers Brandy, Strong Waters, Cyder, or Metheglin, by Retail, to be drank in Houfes, other than and Houf's, or shopkeepers, except the Houfe or Houfes of any Diftillers, who keep Houfes or Places of diftilling Brandy and 01 in any private Houfes. Strong
 * and thirtieth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, for granting a Supply to his Majefty
 * Pence, for paying and difbanding the Forces, it is declared and enacted, That no Officer, Civil or
 * Military, nor other Perfon whatfoever, fhould, from thenceforth, prefume to place, quarter, -or-
 * billet, any Soldier or Soldiers upon any Subject or Inhabitant of this Realm, of any Degree,,
 * giments, Troops, and Companies, in feveral Parts of this Kingdom ;' Be it further enacted by the,