Mutiny Act 1692

XXII. Officers receiving Subsistence Money to give Notice thereof to Innkeepers, &c.

Innkeepers to inform Officers of Accounts, &c. to be paid out of Subsistence Money; The Rates; Remedy against Officer not paying; Where they have no Subsistence Money, &c. the Officer to sign the Account, and the Paymaster of the Army to pay it; Penalty.

And that the Quarters both of Officers and Soldiers may hereafter be duely paid and satisfied and their Majesties [X1 Duty] of Excise [X2 the] better answered Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid That from and after the Tenth day of March which shall be in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety two every Officer or Officers to whom it belongs to receive or that does actually receive the Pay or Subsistence money either for a whole Regiment or particular Troops or Companies or otherwise shall immediately upon each receipt of every particular Sume which shall from time to time be paid returned or come to his or their hands on account of Pay or Subsistence give publick notice thereof to all persons keeping Inns or other places where Officers or Soldiers are quartered by virtue of this Act and shall alsoe appoint the said Inn keepers and others to repair to their quarters att such times as they shall appoint for the distribution and payment of the said Pay or Subsistence money to the Officers and Soldiers which shall be within Foure days att furthest after the receipt of the same as aforesaid And the said Innkeepers and others shall then and there accquaint such Officer or Officers with the accompts or debts (if any shall be) between them and the Officers and Soldiers so quartered in their respective Houses which Accompts the said Officer or Officers are hereby required to accept of and immediately pay the same before any part of the said Pay or Subsistence be distributed either to the Officers or Soldiers. Provided the said Accompts exceed not for a Commission Officer of Horse being under the degree of a Captain for such Officers Diet and Small Beer and Hay and Straw for his Horse per diem Two shillings Nor for one Commission Officer of Dragoons being under the degree of a Captaine for such Officers Diet and Small Beer and Hay and Straw for his Horse per diem One shilling six pence Nor for one Commission Officer of Foot under the degree of a Captain for such Officers Diet and Small Beer per diem One shilling and if such Officer shall have Horse or Horses for each such Horse or Horses per diem Six pence Nor for one Light Horsemans Diet and Small Beer and Hay and Straw for his Horse per diem One shilling Nor for one Dragoons Diet and Small Beer and Hay and Straw for his Horse per diem Nine pence Nor for one Foot Soldiers Diet and Small Beer per diem Foure pence And if any Officer or Officers as aforesaid shall not give notice as aforesaid and shall not immediately upon the produceing such Accompts stated satisfie content and pay the same upon Complaint and Oath made thereof by any two credible Witnesses att the next Quarter Sessions for the County or City where such Quarters were (which Oath the Justices of Peace att such Sessions are hereby required and authorized to administer) the Pay-master or Pay-masters of Their Majesties Forces are hereby required and authorized upon Certificate of the said Justices (before whom such Oath was made of the sums due upon such Accompts and the Persons to whom the same is oweing to satisfie and pay the said sums out of the Arears due to the said Officer or Officers upon Penalty that such Pay-master or Pay-masters shall forfeit and lose their respective place or places as Pay-master or Paymasters and be disabled from holding the same for the future And in case there shall be no Arrear due to the said Officer or Officers then the said Pay-master or Pay-masters are hereby required and authorized to deduct the sums he or they shall pay pursuant to the Certificate of the said Justices out of the next Pay or Subsistence money of the Regiment to which such Officer or Officers shall belong and such Officer or Officers shall for such their Offence or for neglecting to give notice of the receipt of such Pay or Subsistence money as aforesaid be deemed and taken and are hereby declared [X3 to be] ipso facto cashiered And where it shall happen that the Subsistence due to any Officer or Soldier shall by reason of any Accident not be paid to such Officer or Soldier or such Officer or Soldier shall neglect to pay the same so that the Quarters cannot be or are not paid as this Act directs And where any Horse Foot or Dragoons shall be upon there march so that no Subsistence can att present be remitted unto them to make payment as this Act directs or they shall neglect to pay the same in every such case it is hereby further enacted That every such Officer shall before his or their departure out of his or their Quarters where such Regiment Troop or Company shall remain for any time whatsoever make upp the Accompt as this Act directs with every Person with whom such Regiment Troop or Company hath quartered before he leave that Quarter and give the said Certificate by him signed to the Party to whom such money is due with the name of such Regiment Troop or Company to which he or they shall belong to the end the said Certificate may be forthwith transmitted to the Pay-master or Pay-masters of His Majesties Army who is or are hereby required imediately to make payment thereof to the Person or Persons to whom such money shall be due to the end the same may be applied to such Regiment Troop or Company respectively under pain as is before in this Act directed for Non-payment of Quarters.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: duties O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X2 be, in King's Printer's Copy.

X3 O. omits.