Mutiny Act 1690

XXII. Officers receiving Pay or Subsistence Money for a Regiment to give Notice thereof to Innkeepers, &c.

Innkeepers to attend and inform such Officers of Accounts and Debts owing to them by Soldiers, &c; Proviso respecting the Extent of such Accounts.; Such Officers not giving Notice.; Paymaster upon Certificate to pay such Debts out of Arrears of Pay due to such Officer; Penalty.; If no Arrears, then out of next Pay or Subsistence Money.; Officer not giving Notice cashiered.

And that the Quarters both of Officers and Soldiers may hereafter be duly Paid and Satisfied and Their Majesties Dutyes of Excise the better answered Bee it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the Twentyeth day of December which shall be in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred and ninety every Officer or Officers to whome it belongs to receive or that does actually receive the Pay or Subsistance Money either for a whole Regiment or particular Troops or Companies or otherwise shall immediately upon each Receipt of every particular Summe which shall from time to time be Paid Returned or Come to his or their Hands on account of Pay or Subsistance give publicke Notice thereof to all Persons keeping Inns or other Places where Officers and Soldiers are quartered by vertue of this Act and shall alsoe appoint the said Inn keepers and others to repaire to their Quarters at such times as they shall appoint for the distribution and payment of the said Pay or Subsistance Money to the Officers and Soldiers which shall be within Foure dayes at farthest after the receipt of the same as aforesaid And the said In keepers and others shall then and there acquaint such Officer or Officers with the Accompts or Debts (if any shall be) betweene them and the Officers and Souldiers soe quartered in their respective Houses Which Accompts the said Officer or Officers are hereby reqúired to accept of and im[m]ediately pay the same before any part of the said Pay or Subsistance be distributed either to the Officers or Soldiers Provided the said Accompts exceede not for a Commission Officer of Horse being under the degree of a Captaine for such Officers Dyet and Small Beere and Hay and Straw for his Horse per Die[e] Two shillings Nor for one Commission Officer of Dragoons being under the degree of a Captaine for such Officers Dyet and Small Beere and Hay and Straw for his Horse per Diem One shilling six pence Nor for one Commission Officer of Foote under the degree of a Captaine for such Officers Diet and Small Beere per Die[e] One shilling And if such Officer shall have Horse or Horses for each such Horse or Horses per Die[e] Six pence Nor for one Light Horsemans Dyet and Small Beere and Hay and Straw for his Horse per Die[e]; [X1 One Shilling Nor for one Dragoons Diet and Small Beere and Hay and Straw for his Horse per Die[e]] Nine pence Nor for one Foote Soldiers Diet and Small Beere per Die[e]; 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 thereof made by any Two Credible Witnesses at the next Quarter Sessions for the County or City where such Quarters were (which Oath the Justices of the Peace at such Sessions are hereby Required and Authorized to Administer) the Pay Master or Pay Masters of Their Majestyes Forces are hereby Required and Authorized upon Certificate of the said Justices (before whome such Oath was made) of the Summes due upon such Accompts and the Persons to whome the same is oweing to Satisfie and Pay the said Summes out of the Arreares due to the said Officer or Officers [X2 upon Penaltie that such Paymaster or Paymasters shall forfeit and lose their respective Place or Places as Pay-Master or Pay Masters and be disabled from holding the same for the future] And in case there shall be noe Arreare due to the said Officer or Officers Then the said Paymaster or Paymasters are hereby Required and Authorized to deduct the Sum[m]s 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 Subsistance Money as aforesaid be deemed and taken and are hereby declared ipso facto Cashiered

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.

X2 annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule.