“...the persons who now are, or may
be hereafter, authorized by law, in any of the provinces within his
Majesty's dominions in North America...are hereby respectively
authorized, empowered, and directed, on the requisition of the
officer, who, for the time being, has the command of his Majesty's
forces in North America, to cause any officers or soldiers in his
Majesty's service to be quartered and billeted in such manner as is
now directed by law, where no barracks are provided by the
colonies...that if it should happen at any time that any officers or
soldiers in his Majesty's service shall remain within any of the said
colonies without quarters for the space of twenty-four hours after
such quarters shall have been demanded, it shall and may be lawful
for the governor of the province to order and direct such and so many
uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings, as he shall
think necessary to be taken...for the reception of such officers and
soldiers...”
George III, June 2, 1774
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