shall be utterly disabled to have or hold any military employment in his Majesty's service, upon a certificate thereof being transmitted to the Commander-in-Chief in America; unless the said conviction shall be reversed upon an appeal brought within six months in the proper court for hearing appeals against convicting by Justices of the Peace: and in case any person shall find himself aggrieved in that such Constable, Tithingman, Magistrate, or other Civil Officer, shall have quartered or billeted in or upon 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 Village, Town, Township, City, District, or other place, where such Soldiers are quartered; such Justice or Justices has or 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.

VI. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That no Justice or Justices of the Peace, having or executing any Military Office or Commission in his Majesty's Regular Forces in America, may, during the continuance of this Act, directly or indirectly, act or be concerned in the quartering, billeting, or appointing any Quarters for any Soldier or Soldiers, according to the disposition made for quartering of any Soldier or Soldiers by virtue of this Act, (except where there shall be no other Justice or Justices of the Peace, 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.

VII. Provided nevertheless, and it is hereby enacted, That the Officers and Soldiers so quartered and billeted as aforesaid, except such as shall be quartered in the Barracks and hired uninhabited Houses or other Buildings as aforesaid,) shall be received, and furnished with Diet, Small Beer, Cider or Rum, mixed with Water, by the owners of the Inns, Livery Stables, Ale-Houses, Victualling-Houses, and other Houses in which they are allowed to be quartered and billeted by this Act, paying and allowing for the same the several rates hereinafter mentioned, to be payable out of the Subsistence money, for Diet and Small Beer, Cider or Rum, mixed with Water.

VIII. Provided always, That in case any Inn-holder or other person, on whom any Non-Commission Officers or Private Men shall be quartered, by virtue of this Act, in any of his Majesty's Dominions in America, (except on a march, or employed in recruiting, and likewise except the Recruits by them raised, for the space of seven days at most, for such Non-Commission Officers and Soldiers who are recruiting, and Recruits by them raised,) shall be desirous to furnish such Non-Commission Officers or Soldiers with Candles, Vinegar and Salt, and with Small Beer or Cider, not exceeding five pints, or half a pint of Rum, mixed with a quart of Water, for each man per diem, gratis; and allow to such Non-Commission Officers or Soldiers the use of fire, and the necessary Utensils for dressing and eating their meat, and shall give notice of such his desire to the Commanding Officer, and shall furnish and allow the same accordingly; then, and in every such case, the Non-Commission Officers and Soldiers so quartered shall provide their own Victuals; and the officer to whom it belongs to receive, or that actually does receive, the pay and subsistence of such Non-Commission Officers and Soldiers, shall pay the several sums hereinafter mentioned, to be payable out of the Subsistence Money for Diet and Small Beer, to the Non-Commission Officers and Soldiers aforesaid, and not to the Inn-holder or other person on whom such Non-Commission Officers and Soldiers are quartered, any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

IX. And whereas, there are several Barracks in several places in his Majesty's said Dominions in America, or some of them, provided by the Colonies, for the lodging and covering of Soldiers, in lieu of Quarters, for the ease and convenience, as well of the inhabitants of and in such Colonies as of the Soldiers, It is hereby further enacted, That all such Officers and Soldiers so put and placed in such Barracks, or in hired uninhabited Houses, Out-Houses, Barns, or other Buildings, shall, from time to time, be furnished and supplied there by the persons to be authorized or appointed for that purpose by the Governour and Council of each respective Province, or upon neglect or refusal of such Governour and Council, in any Province, then by two or more Justices of the Peace residing in or near such place, with Fire, Candles, Vinegar and Salt, Bedding, Utensils for dressing their Victuals, and Small Beer or Cider, not exceeding five pints, or half a pint of Rum, mixed with a quart of Water, to each man, without paying any thing for the same.

X. And that the several persons who shall so take, hire, and fit up, as aforesaid, such uninhabited Houses, Out-Houses, Barns, or other Buildings, for the reception of the Officers and Soldiers, and who shall so furnish the same, and also the said Barracks, with Fire, Candles, Vinegar, and Salt, Bedding, Utensils for dressing Victuals, and Small Beer, Cider, or Rum, as aforesaid, may be reimbursed and paid all such charges and expenses they shall be put to therein, Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the respective Provinces shall pay unto such person or persons all such sum or sums of money so by them paid, laid out, or expended, for the taking, hiring, and fitting up such uninhabited Houses, Out-Houses, Barns, or other Buildings, and for furnishing the Officers and Soldiers therein, and in the Barracks, with Fire, Candles, Vinegar, and Salt, Bedding, Utensils for dressing Victuals, and Small Beer, Cider, or Rum, as aforesaid; and such sum or sums are hereby required to be raised in such manner as the publick charges for the Provinces respectively are raised.

XI. Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any Officer within his Majesty's said. Dominions in America, 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.

XII. And whereas, some doubts may arise, whether Commanding Officers of any Regiment or Company within his Majesty's said Dominions in America may exchange any men quartered in any Village, Town, Township, City, District, or place, in his Majesty's said Dominions in America, with another man quartered in the same place, for the benefit of the service, Be it declared and enacted by the authority aforesaid, That such exchange, as above mentioned, may be made by such Commanding Officers respectively, provided the number of men do not exceed the number at that time billeted on such House or Houses; and the Constables, Tithingmen, Magistrates, and other chief Officers of the Villages, Towns, Townships, Cities, Districts, or other places where any Regiment or Company shall be quartered, are hereby required to billet such men so exchanged accordingly.

XIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any Constable, Tithingman, Magistrate, or other chief Officer or person whatsoever, who, by virtue or colour of this Act, shall quarter or billet, or be employed in quartering or billeting any Officers or Soldiers within his Majesty's said Dominions in America, shall neglect or refuse for the space of two hours to quarter or billet such Officers or Soldiers, when thereunto required, in such manner as is by this Act directed, provided sufficient notice be given before the arrival of such Forces; 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 what soever 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 within his Majesty's Dominions in America, liable by this Act to have any Officer or Soldier billeted or quartered on him or her, shall refuse to receive or victual any such Officer or Soldier so quartered or billeted upon him or her, as aforesaid; or in case any person or persons shall refuse to furnish or allow, according to the directions of this Act, the several things herein before directed to be furnished or allowed to Officers and Soldiers, so quartered or billeted on him or her, or in the Barracks, and hired uninhabited Houses, Out-Houses, Barns, or other Buildings, as aforesaid, at the rate hereinafter mentioned, and shall be thereof convicted before one of the Magistrates of any one of the suprerme, chief, or princi-