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B05153 Act against false musters and free quarters, and anent due paying of their Majesties forces. At Edinburgh, the ninth of May 1693. Scotland. Parliament. Committee of Estates. 1693 (1693) Wing S1025B; ESTC R183849 7,853 6

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shall attend any Officer as a Servant in the absence of the said Officer from his Quarters or shall Muster any person by a wrong Name the said Officer Commissary or Muster-master shall be punished as in the case of false Musters And it is further Statute and Ordained that no Pay-master of the Army Commissary or Muster-master or their Deputs and Servants shall receive any Fees or make any Deductions whatsomever out of the Pay of any Officer or Souldier other then the usual Deductions for Cloathing under the Pain of being punished as in the case of false Musters and it is Declared that the Pay-master of the Army Commissary or Muster-master shall be lyable to the same Pain and Punishment in case of Contravention by their Deputs and Servants as if they had done it themselves and as the Officers and Souldiers should be effectually payed and not defrauded of their due Pay so it is just and reasonable that they pay the Countrey and not be allowed to exact free Quarter where they come Therefore and for freeing the Country of other Abuses and Disorders in use to be Committed by the Souldiers The King and Queens Majesties and the Estates of Parliament Ratifies Approves and Confirms an Act of Privy Council of the date the fourteenth day of February last one thousand six hundred ninety three anent the Ordering of the payment of Provisions for the Forces and Redressing Abuses committed by them in the whole Heads Tenors and Contents thereof and Ordains the same to take full effect and to be put to further execution of the which Act the Tenor follows William and Mary by the Grace of GOD King and Queen of Great-Brittain France and Ireland Defenders of the Faith To Macers of Our Privy Council Messengers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally specially Constitute Greeting Forasmuch as by divers Laws and Acts of Parliament made by Our Royal Predecessors all free Quartering of Souldiers in transient or local Quarters and all Localities for furnishing or carrying Corn Straw Hay or Grass to Souldiers Horses is expresly Prohibited and Discharged and by an Establishment under Our Royal Hand there being Measures laid down and Fonds appropriat for the exact and punctual payment of the standing Forces and Garisons within this Our antient Kingdom and a Commissary appointed for making due and regular Provisions of Corn Straw and Grass for the Horses and Dragoons presently under Our Pay and in Our Service within this Our antient Kingdom by ready Money or otherwise as he can best Bargain with any of Our Leidges for their Corn Straw and Grass Whereby the Abuses heretofore done and committed upon any of Our Leidges by the Illegal exacting Locality or free Quarter may be Remeeded and Prevented and all Mens meat and Horse-meat furnished to any Officers or Souldiers in Our Service within this Our antient Kingdom duely payed And We considering how necessary it is that all Our good Subjects should know by whom and in what manner they are to be payed for all Provisions of Corn Straw and Grass for Horses and Meat and Drink to be furnished to Our Officers and Souldiers by them or any of them and that all Officers and Souldiers within this Our said antient Kingdom may govern and regulat themselves and the Troops under their Command accordingly as they will be answerable We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council Require and Command the Commissary-General appointed and received by the Lords of Our Thesaury to make due and timeous Provisions of Oats Straw and Grass for all Horse and Dragoons at present under Our Pay and in Our Service within this Our antient Kingdom in their respective transient and local Quarters And that the same may be more orderly and effectually done We Require and Command all Our Officers who command the said Troops to give timely Notice to the said Commissary of their Removal to and from local Quarters and of the Rout appointed for their March in transient Quarters that Provisions may be ready accordingly And in case any Parties be called to March upon sudden Commands which may not be fit to impart to the Commissary Then We with Advice foresaid strictly Charge and Require the Commanders of the several Parties to buy with ready Money the Oats Straw and Grass necessary for their Horses as any other of Our Leidges is in use to do and what he shall depurse or expend thereon We hereby Require and Command Our said Commissary to refound and repay the same And We with Advice of Our Privy Council do hereby Require and Command Our Commissary-General by himself or fit Persons imployed and intrusted by him to attend at the Magazines which shall be provided for Our Troops at their respective Quarters two Hours each Day viz. betwixt ten and twelve in the Forenoon at the least to attend the two Hours above-named upon one or moe days of each Week such as shall be particularly agreed upon betwixt the Commissary and the Officers to the effect the Provisions may be given out by the Commissary and received by the Officers or Souldiers timeously and without Disorder or Confusion and hereby all Officers and Souldiers are peremptorly Prohibited and Discharged to offer any Injury or Abuse to Our said Commissary or his Deputs as they will be answerable at their highest Peril And sicklike We with Advice foresaid peremptorly Require and Command the Officer Commanding in Cheif in any place of local or transient Quarters to see the whole Meat and Drink furnished to the Souldiers and Officers under his Command by the Land-Lords of their Quarters exactly and compleatly payed at the ordinary Rates of the Countrey And in case there shall be any Exaction or Discharge of free Quarters extorted or Abatement exacted below the ordinary Rates or any other Abuse Committed We with Advice foresaid Require and Command the Commanding-Officer there for the time to make payment by ready Money for the whole Souldiers and Officers on the place in their local Quarters once every Week at farthest and transient Quarters before removeal if they stay a shorter time than a Week under the pain of Casheiring and breaking the said Commanding Officer upon Complaint of his transgressing the Premisses to be made the Party injured to Our Privy Council or to the Sheriff or his Deput Bailie of Regality or his Deput Stewart of the Stewartry or his Deput or any two Commissioners of Supply of the Bounds and Shire where the saids Abuses and Injuries are done and committed whom or either of whom We with Advice foresaid Require and Command to receive the saids Complaints and transmit the same to the Clerks of Our Privy Council within ten days after any such Complaints shall be made to them under the pain of being lyable to repair the Party injured themselves and which Complaints We with Advice foresaid appoint to be pursued by our Advocat and Sollicitor upon the publick Charge And in case any privat Party shall think
fit to pursue the samine themselves We hereby Require and Command the Expences that shall be laid out by them In Prosecution thereof to be Repayed and Reimbursed to them by the Lords of Our Thesaury al 's well as the Expences to be laid out by Our Sollicitor all which are to be retained and deduced by the saids Lords of Our Thesaury out of the Officers Pay against whom the said Complaint is made and verified And in case any inferiour Officer in Transient or Local Quarters shall Transgress any of the Premisses We hereby Require and Command the commanding Officer upon Complaint made to him and proven instantly to pay the Complainer what shall be due to him and if the Person complained on be an uncommissionat Officer the said Commander is instantly to break and Casheir him and if he be a Commissionat-officer who shall so Transgress We with Advice foresaid Require the said Commanding-officer to Suspend him in the mean time and immediatly to Represent the same to Our Privy Council that they may give Orders for Breaking and Casheiring the Officer transgressing providing the Complaints for not payment of Local-quarters or committing any of the Abuses foresaid therein be made to the said Commanding-officer within eight days after a weeks Quarters are resting or any other Abuses committed and in Transient-quarters before the Parties removeal with certification if payment be not craved or Complaints made within the time foresaid the Commanding-officer shall be free but prejudice to the Land-lords and others to seek their Payment and Reparation from the Persons Debitors therein or Committers thereof by all other legal means and it shall be sufficient evidence that the Commanding-officer has been complained to and required to make payment of Provisions furnished to Souldiers Men and Horses under his Command or redress Abuses committed by them if the same be made to him in presence of a Magistrat within Burgh a Justice of Peace or two Witnesses And We with Advice foresaid do Declare that no Discharges shall be sufficient for exonering the Souldiers and Officers and instructing the payment of their Quarters unless they be Subscribed by the Master of the Ground or his Chamberlain or the Officer of the Ground before two Witnesses or a Magistrat within Burgh And for preventing of a common Abuse done and committed upon our Leiges by Souldiers and Officers in their marches Pressing and Seasing upon Horses for their own privat Use and Service We with Advice foresaid do strictly Prohibit and Discharge all pressing or seasing upon Horses by any Officer or Souldier for their own particular and privat Service under the pain of a moneths Pay to be retained upon complaint to be made and instructed as aforesaid off the Officer who commands and where Horses are necessary for carrying Artillary Amunition or Provision or any other use of the Army in the Towns or in the Countrey that the same be imployed and made use of by order of the Commander of the Party and of the Magistrats of the Burghs jointly If the Horses be furnished within Burgh And by the said Commander and any one of the Commissioners of Supply within the Shire where the Horses are furnished and made use of in Landwart And We with Advice foresaid conform to the third Act Parliament One Thousand six Hundred and Eightie one ordain that there be payed for each day that the saids Horses shall Travel three shilling Scots for each two miles to the Man and Horse and each day that they do not Travel six shilling Scots to the Man and as much for the Horse the Man being obliged to provide himself and the Horse which shall be payed by the Magistrats of the Burgh if the Horses be taken within a Town or if in the Countrey by the Collector of the Supply in the Shire who are to be Repayed thereof or to have the same allowed to them by the Receiver-general And that the Horses necessary to be made use of and imployed for the Service and use of our Forces above expressed may be the more Regularly and Equally proportioned and provided We with Advice foresaid Require and Command the Magistrats within Burghs and Commissioners of Supply and Justices of Peace in Landwart to cause provide from time to time a competent number of Horses within their respective Bounds for the Service of our Forces and uses foresaids as they will be answerable at their Peril And We with Advice foresaid Prohibit and Discharge any Officer or Soldier to Sease upon or Press any Horses without the concourse of the Persons above-named or to detain them longer than one days March at farthest but to restore and give back the saids Horses imployed in the manner foresaid in good case under the pain of a months Pay to be retained in manner foresaid off the Officer who shall be found to contraveen the Premisses besides the payment of the Price of the Horse to the Furnisher as the same shall be instructed before the Bailies within Burgh Sheriffs Stewarts Bailies of Regalities or Deputs or Justices of Peace in the Countrey And to the end Our Royal Pleasure in the Premisses may be made publick and known OUR WILL IS and We Charge you strictly and Command that incontinent these Our Letters seen ye pass to the Merkat Cross of Edinburgh and all other Mercat Crosses of the Head-burghs of this Kingdom al 's well Royalty as Regalitie and Stewartrie and other places needful and there in Our Name and Authority by open Proclamation make publication of the Premisses And likewise that all Our Forces as well as our Leidges may have notice hereof We do Require and Command these presents to be publictly read at the Head of every Troop and Company of our standing Forces that none may pretend ignorance Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the fourteenth day of February and of Our Reign the fourth year one thousand six hundred and ninety three With this Addition that in the case of either local or transient Quarters if any Officer or Souldier shall not make due payment conform to the said Act of Privy Council of what they take on in their Quarters or shall commit any Abuses in their Quarters it shall be lawful and leisum to the Land-lord upon whom the Souldier was quartered to instruct before a Justice of Peace or a Commissioner of Excise and Assessment Magistrat of Burgh or the next Neighbouring Heretor by Witness or the Oath of the Party lesed what was taken on by the Officers or Souldiers or what Damages were done by them in their Quarters which being instructed and liquidat as said is the Justice of Peace and Commissioner of Excise and Assessment Magistrat of Burgh or the Neighbouring Heretor before whom the Value of the said Quartering or Damage shall be instructed liquidat shall be holden obliged to give the Land-lord upon whom the Officer or Souldier were quartered a Declaration bearing the value of the Quartering and Damages sustained And Ordains the Collector of the Shire to give Allowance of the same to the Land-lord out of the fore-end of his Cess or Excise that the Collector of the Shire shall have allowance thereof from the General Receiver And in case the Land-lord be a Tennent or other person that is neither lyable for Cess or Excise In this Case the Heretor of the Ground shall have allowance of the same out of the fore-end of his Cess or Excise due and payable by him to the effect that the Tennent may get payment thereof And Ordains the Collectors of the Cess and Excise to give allowance to the Land-lord or Heretor of the Ground of the Sum that shall be contained in the said Declaration out of the fore-end of the Land-lord or Heretors Cess or Excise and the Collectors are appointed to give account thereof to the General Commissary or pay-master of the Army that he may retain the same off the fore-end of the Officer or Soldiers Pay And it is hereby declared that if the Officer first applyed to as is appointed by the foresaid Proclamation shall not give Redress then the Officers Pay shall be lyable as well as the Souldiers Pay and the Collector and General Receiver shall give allowance accordingly and the Collector and General Receiver are ordained to give the said allowance under the pain of Deprivation by and attour the resounding of the Damage of the Partie lesed And Ordains this Act to be publickly read upon the head of every Regiment Troop or Company every time the same is mustered that due Obedience may be given thereto Extracted forth of the Records of Parliament by TARBAT Cls. Registri God save King VVilliam and Queen Mary Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to their most Excellent Majesties Anno 1693.