Section XXIII If Subsistence not paid to Officers or Soldiers, or cannot be remitted, Certificate transmitted to Paymaster who is immediately to make Payment thereof.
Penalty.
And where it shall happen that the Subsistance 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 soe that the Quarters cannot be or are not paid as this Act Directs And where any Horse Foote or Dragoons shall be upon their March soe that noe Subsistance can at 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 X1 Enacted That every such Officer shall before his or their Departure out of his or their Quarters where such Regiment Troope or Company shall remaine for any time whatsoever make up the Accompt as this Act Directs with every Person with whome such Regiment Troope or Company hath Quartered before he leave that Quarter and give the said Certificate by him Signed to the Partie to whome such Money is due with the Name of such Regiment Troope or Company to which he or they shall belong to the end the said Certificate may be forthwith transmitted to the PayMaster or Paymasters of His Majestyes Army who is or are hereby Required immediately to make Payment thereof to the Person or Persons to whome such Money shall be due to the end the same may be applyed to such Regiment Troope or Company respectively under Paine as is before in this Act directed for Nonpayment of Quarters
Annotations
Editorial notes
- X1
Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: further O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]