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3 August 1649
The estates of parliament, finding it necessary that the regiments, companies and troops within this kingdom be appointed to go with expedition to the severall places where their localities doe lie, and likewise that the pay of the transient quarters of the severall regiments, companies and troops be cleared, therefore they have ordained and ordaines that the severall commanders of the regiments, troops and companies shall receive under the hand of the generall commissary or his deputes the severall places ordained by act of parliament for their localities, with the particular sums of their pay; and that the generall commissary give orders to the severall collectors to go with the officers of the respective regiments, troopes and companies to the committees of war, whereby the committees of war may regulate their severall divisions according to the localities of the maintenance of shires and burghs therein, whereby marches may be cleared and they accommodated, every one according to their own locality, with the least prejudice to the shire and satisfaction to the forces, so as all may be kept clear betwixt collectors and the forces.
And in regard there will be a necessity of regiments, troops and companies marching from place to place to their localities or upon other emergents, and so must of force march thorow others localities, the estates of parliament ordains that each regiment, troop or company so marching shall be obliged to leave billets according to their just number for their quarterings, subscribed by the officer who commands the regiment, troope or company for the time; and the commander to take the testificats of the collector, or commissioner of the paroch for the time, or the testificat of some honest gentlemen within the said paroch where he quartered, that he has left with them ane just billet of the whole number of all these quartered by him or any under his command, and that under the pain of cashiering him, beside other punishment; and that the billet so left by the officer be allowed to the severall heritors by the collectors of the shire in the first end of their maintenance. And that each footman be allowed at five shillings per diem, and each trooper at ten shillings per diem, and that each regiment, troop or company who hath their locality within that shire where the billet is left shall accept the billet aff the collectors of the shires hand for payment pro tanto. And that the collectors in the severall shires who has the collecting of the maintenance where the localities of the regiment, troop or company who left the billet lieth shall be obliged to pay and refound back to the regiment, troop or company who has accepted the billets for payment out of the first end of what is due to the troops, regiments or companies that left the billets. And where billets are not left, that the quarterings shall be allowed to the heretors in the first end of their maintenance af the localities of these that quartered upon them, and the quarterings to be proven in communi forma. And when necessity shall occasion the calling together of any number of the forces, that they be still obliged to give billets of their quarter. And if any shire shall be overburthened above their maintenance, that they shall have repayment aff the collectors of other shires where these troops, regiments or companies who gave the billets has their localities. And the collectors are hereby ordained not to pay money to any troop or regiment after their removing from their locality, but to collect and keep the same in their hands for payment of the transient quarterings and satisfying the forces of what they have not taken up by quarters.
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The quhilk day the estaits of parliament doe remitt the haill bills and reports thairof in statu quo nunc sunt to the committie of estaits, with power to them to determine in such of them as proper for that judicator and to remitt such as are not proper to uther judicatories.