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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 11: (search)
o America, chap XI.} 1765. Mar. with power to billet troops on private houses. Clauses for that purpose, drafted by Robertson, the Deputy Quartermaster General, Lieut. Col. Robertson's Memorial, and Regulations proposed to be made in the Mutiny Act. were sent home by Gage, and recommended strongly to be enacted. Shelburne to Chatham, 1767, in Chatham Correspondence, III. 192 and 208. They had neither the entire conviction nor the cordial support of Grenville; Gage to Halifax, 23 January, 1765. so that they were referred by Halifax Endorsement on the Memorial, and on the Regulations. to Welbore Ellis, the Secretary at War, by whom they were introduced and carried through. In their progress, provincial barracks, inns, alehouses, barns, and empty houses were substituted by the merchants and agents for private houses; but there remained the clause to compel the colonies to furnish the troops, at the expense of the colony, with fire, candles, vinegar, salt, bedding, utensils