Quartering+Act

=//Quartering Act//=

When? 1765
===What? This act provided that Great Britain would quarter soldiers //"in inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualing houses, and the houses of sellers of wine and houses of persons selling of rum, brandy, strong water, cider or metheglin"//, and if numbers required in //"uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings."// If the number of troops was limited, colonists had to quarter them in private homes.Colonial authorities had to pay the cost of housing and feeding these troops. ===

===Result: The colonies claimed that this act violated the Bill of Rights of 1689 which forbid taxation without representation, as well as the raising of a standing army without consent from Parliament. In 1766, 1,500 British troops arrived at New York City. The New York assembly failed to comply with the act, and troops had to remain on their ships. Therefore, Parliament suspended the Province of New York's Governor and legislature in 1767 and 1769. In 1771, the New York Assembly gave in and allocated funds for the quartering of the British troops. The Quartering Act was bypassed in all colonies other than Pennsylvania, and the act expired on March 24, 1767. ===