{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1696/section-IV",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1696/section-IV.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/8-9/13",
  "legislation_title": "Mutiny Act 1696",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1696",
  "path": "section/IV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "IV",
  "heading": "Officers Commanding in Chief, within 24 Hours after coming into Quarters, to publish Allowance to Soldiers over Pay; and that no Shopkeeper is to trust Private Soldier without Leave from such Officer, on Penalty of losing Debt.",
  "text": "Officer neglecting, &c. liable to the Debt of Soldier.\nAnd for the better and more certaine Payment of Quarters be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Officer co[m]manding in Chief shall (within Twenty foure Hours after his coming into any Quarters where any Horse Foot or Dragoons under such Officer are to be quartered) by Sound of Trumpett or Beat of Drum in the Markett or other Publick Places of any City Towne or Village make Publication how much shall be allowed every Soldier to be trusted above such part of his Pay directed by Act of Parliament to be allowed for Diet Hay and Straw and also shall make Publication that no Shopkeeper shall trust any Private Soldier for any other Goods or Co[m]modities whatsoever without Leave first hadd from the Officer then co[m]manding in Chiefe under his Hand in Writing upon Paine that each and every of them shall lose and forfeit the Su[m]m or Su[m]ms so entrusted And if the Officer co[m]manding in Chief shall omitt or neglect to make such Publications as aforesaid such Officer for such Offence shall be liable to pay all such Debt or Debts then and there contracted by such Soldiers as if the the same had been his owne p[er]sonal and proper Debt Any thing in this or any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: and O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X2",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/8-9/13/section/IV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:19.757905+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}