In Ireland.

field officers on actual service, not exceeding the number for which forage is allowed by his majesty's regulations, shall be quartered and billetted in the houses in which the officers and soldiers are billetted, and shall be received and provided for by the owners or occupiers thereof.*

And they and the horses belonging to the artillery or commissariat, shall be received and furnished in Ireland, at the rate of eighteen pounds of hay, and six pounds of straw per night for each horse; when the same is not provided by contract, the owners or occupiers of such houses to be paid for the same, at the rates established, or to be from time to time established, by the Lord Lieutenant, or other sufficient authority, according to the average rate of contracts for forage there.t

Except in cases of necessity, the men and their horses shall be billetted upon the same houses, and in no case less than one man shall be billetted where there are two horses, nor less than two men where there are four horses, and so in proportion for a greater number; and in every case, each man shall be billetted as near his horse as possible.‡

When the owners or occupiers of such houses have no stables, they may apply to two justices of the peace of the jurisdiction, who may order the men and their horses, or the horses only, as the case may be, to be removed and quartered on some other person or persons liable to have soldiers quartered upon them, *9 Geo. 4. c. 4. s. 56.

+ S. 57.

S. 60.

who have stables, and settle a proper allowance to be made by the applicants, and to be paid to the persons to whom such men and horses are removed, or to be applied in the furnishing of quarters for such men and horses, as the case may require and the justices may think fit.*

If any officer, military or civil, shall quarter Wives, children, any of the wives, children, men or maid ser- &c. vants of any officer or soldier, on any person liable to have soldiers quartered upon him, against his consent, if a military officer he shall, on a conviction before a general court martial, be cashiered; if a civil officer, he shall forfeit to the party aggrieved twenty shillings upon complaint and proof thereof before the next justice, to be levied by distress.†

There shall not be more billets at any time Number. ordered, than there are effective soldiers present to he quartered.‡

In Ireland, not less than two men shall be quartered in one house, except in the case of horse or dragoons.§

Any person aggrieved by the billetting of Appeal, more than an equal proportion of soldiers on him than on his neighbours, may complain, if they were not billetted by a justice, to one or more justices of the jurisdiction; and if quartered by a justice, to two or more justices of the jurisdiction, who may relieve him by ordering such and so many of the soldiers to be removed and quartered on such other persons

Extent of

as they shall think fit, who are bound to receive the same.*

No soldiers while on the march, shall be quarters. billetted above one mile from the place or

Rates of

to soldiers.

places mentioned in the route.+

Any justice, at the request of the officer or non-commissioned officer commanding the soldiers requiring quarters or billets, may, if it appear to such officer or justice that better accommodation can be thereby given to the troops, enlarge the route, and extend the quarters and billets in such manner as shall be most convenient.ţ

Every non-commissioned officer and private subsistence soldier, who shall be furnished with diet and small beer by the inn-holders or other persons on whom they are quartered and billetted, shall allow for the same, one shilling per diem, and for it shall be, furnished with one meal, i. e. a hot dinner, if required, each day, to consist of such quantity of diet and small beer as is specified by any regulations by his majesty in that behalf made, or to be made, not exceeding 14lb. of meat previous to being dressed, 1lb. of bread, 1lb. of potatoes, or other vegetables, previous to being cooked, 2 pints of small beer, and vinegar, salt, and pepper; the accounts to be rendered, and payment made according to that act.§

If the person, on whom any non-commissioned officers or soldiers are quartered, shall furnish them with candles, vinegar, and salt, * 9 Geo. 4. c. 4. s, 48, 49. § 9 Geo. 4. c.

+ S. 50.

p. 39, 45.

+ S. 65.

gratis, and allow them the use of fire, and the necessary utensils for dressing and eating their meat, in lieu of diet and small beer, after notice to the commanding officer, he shall receive from each soldier, in consideration thereof, one halfpenny per diem, to be paid and accounted for as aforesaid, and such officers and soldiers shall provide their own victuals and small beer."

The said officers and soldiers are entitled to Diet, receive such diet and small beer, at such rate, forces. marching while on the march, on the day of their arrival at the place of their final destination, and on the two following days, unless one of such two days is a market day in or within two miles of the place where they are billetted, in which case the person on whom they are billetted may discontinue such diet and small beer on and from such market day, and furnish the articles prescribed in lieu thereof.+

When any regiment, troop, company, or de tachment, is halted on the march, either for a limited or indefinite time, at any intermediate place, such officers and soldiers are entitled to receive their diet and small beer for the same time only as on arriving at the place of their final destination.‡

Unless it appear by the marching orders that they are not to halt longer than one entire day after the day of arrival, in which case, their diet and small beer shall not be discontinued, although the day after such arrival is a market

*9 Geo. 4. c. 8. s. 2. et Ib. c. 4. s. 67.

+ 9 Geo. 4. c. 8. s. 4.

+ Ib. s. 6.

Of recruiting parties.

Hay and

straw.

Stabling.

Money instead of diet.

day, but they shall be entitled to the same, at the rates aforesaid.*

Non-commissioned officers and private men recruiting and their recruits, while on march, are, for two days after their arrival at any recruiting station, entitled to the same benefits as troops upon the march; but no recruit enlisted after such two days is entitled to be so supplied with diet and small beer, except at the option of the person on whom he is quartered. But if such recruiting party, with their recruits, remove from their station, and after a time return, they and their recruits so returning, are not again entitled to the diet and small beer for such two days as aforesaid, unless the period between the time of their removal and return has excceded 28 days.†

The person on whom horses are quartered, shall provide hay and straw, and receive for the same for each horse ten-pence per diem.‡

Inn-keepers and others on whom such horses are billetted, shall receive an allowance of fourpence per week for each horse, for the use of the stable, during such time only as the horses. shall be provided with hay and straw by contract and not by such innkeepers, &c.§

If any person liable to have soldiers billetted on him, pay any money to any such officer or soldier on the march in lieu of furnishing in kind the diet and small beer to which he is en

* 9 Geo. 4. c. 8. s. 7.

+ Ib. s. 8.

Ib. s. 3. et 9 Geo. 4. c. 4. s. 56.

§ Ib. s. 58.