Billeting Act 1679

XV. Commissioners may examine and adjust Accounts with Officers and Persons who have delivered Clothes to Soldiers hereby discharged, and deduct what shall appear due, and make Certificate thereof.

Quarters of Soldiers being first discharged; the said Accounts to be stated before disbanding, &c.

And whereas there are severall Persons that have delivered Cloathes or other Necessaries to the Souldiers (by this Act to be discharged) for which they have the severall Officers Receipts for the same but have not as yet obtained from the respective Officers Assignements upon the Paymaster Bee it further enacted That the said Commissioners or any two or more of them shall and may have power to examine adjust and make up the Accompts as well with the respective Officers as with such Person or Persons before such Officers shall receive their respective Orders and that what shall appeare to be really and bona fide due shall be deducted by the said Commissioners and distributed to such Person or Persons and make such Certificate as aforesaid of the same as if they had obtained Assignements from the respective Officers upon the Paymaster and in like manner the said Commissioners shall deduct and keepe in their hands all such summe and summes of Money as shall appeare to the said Commissioners under the hand of any Souldier to be due to his Officer and to pay the same to such Officer the Quarters of such Souldier being first paid off and discharged according to such direction onely as the Officer hath given to the Innekeeper or Landlord soe as the said Accompts betweene the Officer and Soldier be stated before the day of disbanding and soe as such deduction shall be made onely out of the Pay due to such Souldier and not out of the free guift hereby given.