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fons to whom the fame is owing) to pay the faid fums out 

 of the arrears due to the faid officer, upon pain of fuch 

 paymaiter forfeiting his place, and being incapacitated from 

 holding it again. The adt tlien itates what courfe is to be 

 purfued if there be no arrears due, or no fubfiUcnce-money 

 remitted, and is diredlory of the courfe to be purfued by 

 the pavmafter. 



By i. 49. The commanding officer may exchange any 

 men or liorfes quartered in any place with another man or 

 horfe quartered in the fame place, provided the number of 

 men and horfes do not exceed the number at that time bd- 

 leted on fuch houfe. 



By f. 47. And where any horfe or dragoon (hall be 

 quartered upon any perfon who hnth no ftables, upon his 

 complaint to two juttices of the divifion, &c. and his making 

 fuch allowance as fuch jultices (hall think reafonable, they 

 may order the men and their horfes, or the horfes only, as the 

 cafe may be, to be removed and quartered upon fome other 

 perfon who hath ftables, and may order and fettle a proper 

 allowance to be made by the perfon having no ftables, in 

 lien of his quartering fuch horfe or dragoons, and order pay- 

 ment thereof to the perfon to whom the removal is made, 

 for or to be applied for the furnifhing of quarters for fuch 

 men and their horfes. 



By 49 Geo. III. c. 37. It is enafted that every non-com- 

 miffioned officer and private foldier who ftiall be furniftied 

 with diet and fmall beer by the perfons on whom they 

 are quartered, fliall pay for the fame is. /^d. per day, in 

 like manner as by the firft adl is enafted as to the 7^/. 

 per day. 



By f. 2. Where the innholder, &c. furnifties certain 

 articles in lieu of diet and fmall beer, as in the former aft 

 mentioned, he ftiall have one halfpenny /i<t day for each non- 

 commiffioned officer, &c. 



Byf. 3. IS. 3</. per diy is to be paid for each horfe, in- 

 ilead of 6{/. per day. 



By f. 4. The provifions in the former aft relating to 

 the dieting on a march or recruiting are repealed. 



By f. 5. All non-commiffioned officei-s and foldiers 

 fhall receive their diet and fmall beer at the above rates while 

 on the march and on the day of arrival at the place of their 

 final deftination, and on the two fubfequent days, unlefs 

 either of the two be a market day for the place where 

 billeted, or within two miles thereof ; in which cafe the 

 innkeeper, &c. ftiall difcontinue on and from fuch market- 

 day the diet and fmall beer, and furnifti in lieu thereof the ar- 

 ticles in the faid former aft fpecified, and at the rate in this 

 aft prefcribed. 



By f. 6. If any perfon liable to have foldiers quartered 

 on liim ftiall pay any fum to any non-commiffioned officer or 

 foldier on the march in heu of the diet and fmall beer, he 

 may be proceeded againft and fined as if he had refufed 

 to furnifti according to the former aft the things to be 

 furniftied to non-commiffioned officers and foldiers fo quar- 

 tered as aforefaid. 



By f. 7. The provifions of f.5. are extended to halting on 

 a march. 



By f. 8. But if the halt be for longer than one day, 

 and the day after the arrival be market-day as aforefaid, 

 there is to be no difcontinuance of diet and fmall beer. 



By f. 9. Non-commiflioned officers and private men em- 

 ployed in recruiting, and the recruits by them raifed, ftiall, 

 while on the march, and for two days after the day of their 

 arrival at any recruiting ftation, be entitled to the fame bene- 

 fits as before provided for troops on the march ; but no re- 

 cruit enlifted after the two days fubfequent to the arrival of 

 the party at their recruiting ftation, ffiall be entitled to be 

 fupplied with diet and fmall beer at the rate hercin-before 



prefcribed, except at the option of the party where quartered. 

 Provided that in cale any recruiting party, with the recruit, 

 by tlvm raifed, fhall remove from their Itation, and after a 

 time (hall return to the fame place, they and the recruits 

 (hall not be agair entitled to the diet and fmall beer for two 

 days, unlefs the time of abfence exceeded 20 days. Tliii 

 aft to continue to 25th March 18 10. 



Byf. 52. Anyjuftice within his county, ccc. may com- 

 mand any conftable or other officer who ftiall billet any fol- 

 diers, to give an account in writing to him of the number of 

 officers and foldiers billeted by them, and the names of the 

 perlons on whom quartered, and an account of the place 

 where they dwell, and of their (igns, if any. See Mak- 

 TiAL La-w, and Soldiers. 



But by the jo G. III. c. 96. f. I. it is enafted, that after 

 the 25th of June i8io, every non-commiffioned officer and 

 private foldier who ffiall be furniffied with diet and fmall 

 beer within the parts of the united kingdom mentioned in 

 the 50 G. III. c. 28. by the innholders or other perfons oa 

 whom fuch non-commiffioned officers or private lbldier» 

 ffiall be quartered and billetted by virtue of the faid aft, 

 fliall pay and allow for the fame, the fum of eight -pence 

 per diem inftead of one ffiilliug and four-pence per diem, as in 

 the faid aft fpecilied ; and that for fuch allowance of eight- 

 pence, the innkeeper or other perfon ffiall furniffi one meal ; 

 videlicet, a hot dinner if required in each day to each non- 

 commiflioned officer, trumpeter, drummer, and private 

 foldier quartered and billetted on him, to confift of fuch 

 quantities of diet and fmall beer as fliall be fpecified and fixed 

 in and by any regulations made or to be made from time to 

 time by his majefty in that behalf, but not to exceed one 

 pound and a quarter of meat previous to being drefled, one 

 pound of bread, one pound of potatoes or other vegetables 

 previous to being cooked, and two pints of fmall beer, and 

 vinegar, fait, and pepper. 



And by f. 2. of the fame aft, the mutiny aft, and the faid 

 50 G. III. c. 28. ffiall be applied for the enforcing fuch re- 

 gulations as to the diet of foldiers and the payment of and 

 accounting for the allowances for the fame. 



Quartering of Traitors, in Law. See Tjieason. 



Quartering, in the Sea Language. When a ffiip under 

 fail goes at large, neither by a wind nor before a wind, but, 

 as it were, betwixt both, ffie is faid to go quartering. 



The term is alfo uled when a ffiip fails with quarter-winds. 



Quartering the Men, the difpofing of the ffiip's com- 

 pany at the time of an engagement in fuch a manner, that 

 each may readily know where his ftation is, and what he is 

 to do : as, fome to the mafter, for the management of the 

 fails ; fome to affift the gunners to traverfe the ordnance ; 

 fome for plying the enemy with fmall ffiot ; fome to fill pow. 

 der in the powder-room ; others to carry it from thence to 

 the gunners in cartridges, &c. 



The number of men appointed to manage the artillery is 

 always in proportion to the nature of the guns, and the num. 

 ber and condition of the ffiip's crew. They are in general 

 as follow, when the ffiip is well manned, fo as to fight both 

 fides at once occafionally : 



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