112 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 22-Mar. 26, 1755.

Liber H. S.

No.1

Support and Use of his Majesty's Forces marching through or within
this Province, and the Quartering of Soldiers therein: In order,
therefore, to prevent any Imposition from Carriers, or Owners of
Carriages, and Publick House Keepers, and to prevent any Disputes
that may arise between any of his Majesty's Forces, and any the
Inhabitants of this Province, it is humbly prayed that it may be
Enacted.

[Rates of
Carriages
employ'd in
his Majesty's
Service.]

And be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary,
by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor,
and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority
of the same, That when his Majesty's military Service, upon the
present Expedition, may require the carrying of Guns, Shot, Powder,
Arms, Lead, Clothing, or any other military Stores, or Accoutre-
ments, or Provisions of any Kind, for his Majesty's Forces there
shall be paid the following Rates of Carriage to the Owner or Own-
ers of all such Carriages as shall be employed in his Majesty's Service
on the Expedition aforesaid, while they shall continue in the said
Province, viz. for the Hire of every Cart, carrying a Load not
exceeding Fifteen Hundred Pounds Weight, the Sum of Twelve

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Pence Current Money per Mile; and for the Hire of every Waggon,
carrying a Load not exceeding Two Thousand Pounds Weight, the
Sum of Sixteen Pence Current Money per Mile. And to prevent any
Abuses or Impositions by Public-House-Keepers, in whose Houses
any Officers or Soldiers may be quartered or billetted.

Be it Enacted by and with the Advice and Consent aforesaid,

[Dieting of
Officers and
Soldiers at
Public-
Houses.]

That no Public-House-Keeper shall charge to, or receive from, any
Officer, or private Soldier, quartered or billetted in his or her House,
as aforesaid, more than the following Rates, viz. to a Commission
Officer, under the Degree of a Captain, for his Diet of such good and
wholesome Food as is usually provided by Ordinary-Keepers in this
Province, with Small-Beer or Cyder, the Sum of Eighteen Pence
Current Money per Diem, and Lodging; and to a private Soldier for
his Diet, as aforesaid, with Small-Beer, the Sum of Twelve Pence
Current Money per Diem, and Lodging.

This Act to continue for six Months from the Commencement

[Continu-
ance.]

thereof, and to the End of the next Session of Assembly, which shall
happen after the Expiration of the said six Months.

21.^st March 1755 On behalf of the Right 21st March 1755
Read and assented to Honourable The Lord Read and assented to
By the Lower House of Proprietary of this Prov- by the Upper House of
Assembly ince I will this be a Law assembly.
Signed per Order Hor.^o Sharpe Signed p order
M Macnemara Cl lo ho J Ross Cl Up H.^o

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