{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-no-2-act-1688/section-XVIII",
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  "legislation": "aep/WillandMarSess2/1/4",
  "legislation_title": "Mutiny (No. 2) Act 1688",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-no-2-act-1688",
  "path": "section/XVIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XVIII",
  "heading": "XVIII. Officers and Soldiers billetted to pay reasonable Prices.",
  "text": "Prices of Provisions may be regulated at Quarter Sessions, for Officers and Soldiers on March; Such Prices to be within Compass of Subsistence Money; After first Night in Quarters, Owner of Inn, &c. to furnish Officers, &c. with Lodgings, &c.\nProvided neverthelesse And it is hereby Enacted That the Officers and Soldiers soe Quartered and Billetedas aforesaid shall pay such reasonable Prices as shall be appointed from time to time by the Justices of thePeace in their Quarter Sessions of each County City Division or Place within their respective Jurisdictions Andthe Justices of the Peace aforesaid are hereby Impowered and Required to Sett and Appoint in their QuarterSessions aforesaid such reasonable Rates for all necessary Provisions for such Officers and Soldiers for One ormore Nights in their Marching through their Cities Townes Villages and other Places and for the First Nightonely in such Places as shall be appointed for their Residence or Quarters Provided That the said Price soe Settby the said Justices be within the compasse of the Subsistence. Money paid to the Soldiers which SubsistenceMoney is hereby declared to be for each Trooper Two shillings per die[m] For each Dragoon One shilling andtwo pence per die[m] And for each Foot Soldier Sixpence per die[m] And after the said First Night in their Quartersthe Owners and Occupiers of the Inns Alehouses and other Publique Houses as aforesaid are hereby Required tofurnish such Officers and Soldiers soe Quartered and Billetted as aforesaid with dry Lodgeings Stable roome forHorses and with Fire and Water and necessary Utensills to Dresse their Meate and not otherwise without thesaid Officers or Soldiers shall make a Contract or Agrement for their Provisions with the said Owners orOccupiers",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule."
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X2",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: or O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    },
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      "type": "X",
      "label": "X3",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMarSess2/1/4/section/XVIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:26:41.420390+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}