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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Boston report on a British Parliament bill passed this session to extend the Mutiny and Desertion Act to the American colonies, allowing quartering of soldiers in barracks, public houses, and private homes if needed, and requiring justices to provide carriages for military transport at fixed rates.
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And it has been passed this session of Parliament for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and a bill hath been brought in for extending the mutiny act to the Colonies, by which Bill it is proposed that it shall and may be lawful to and for the constables, tithing men, magistrates and other civil officers of villages, towns, townships, cities, districts and other places within his Majesty's dominions in America, and in default or absence of any one Justice of the Peace inhabiting in or near any such village, &c. and for no others, to quarter and billet the officers and soldiers in his Majesty's service, in the barracks provided for that purpose, or in public houses, or in houses licenced for retailing, and in case there should not be sufficient room therein, then, and in no other case, it shall and may be lawful for any or more of his Majesty's Justices in or near the said villages, &c. and they are thereby required to billet the residue, in such manner as hath hitherto been practised to billet, his Majesty's forces in his Majesty's dominions in America."
It is proposed also by the said Bill, that the justices within or near the said villages, &c. shall upon the requisition of the General or the commanding officer there, be obliged to procure carriages and able drivers for the transporting arms and baggage, the prices whereof are to be fixed by the said Bill, and provision is therein made that the driver shall be paid from day to day agreeable to the rates therein established.
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Boston
Event Date
May 27
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A bill has been brought in Parliament to extend the mutiny act to the colonies, proposing that civil officers quarter and billet soldiers in barracks, public houses, or private homes if necessary, and that justices provide carriages and drivers for transporting arms and baggage at fixed rates upon requisition by military officers.