Billeting Act 1679

XIII. If Money due for quartering Officers, &c. cannot be paid, Commissioners to give a like Debenture on the Treasury, with Interest at £8 per Cent. payable Quarterly.

And in case the persons to whome money shall be due for Quartering of Officers or Souldiers or any of them cannot be paid at the time of stateing the Accounts of the Debts due to such Persons by reason of the deficiency of advance of Money by Loane as aforesaid the said Commissioners or any one or more of them are hereby authorized and required to give to every of the said Persons or any other by them or any of them sufficiently entrusted a like Certificate or Debenter under their or any of their Hands and Seales directed to the Lord Treasurer or Lords Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being who shall thereupon by vertue of this Act without any Privy Seale or other Warrant give or cause to be given to such Person or Persons an Order for the Payment of the summe soe certifyed together with Interest for the same after the rate of Eight pounds per Centum per Annum to be paid Quarterly from the day of the date of such Order untill the payment of the Money due thereupon.