USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. If the barracks were too small to house all the soldiers, then localities were to accommodate the soldiers in local inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualling houses and the houses of sellers of wine.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Quartering Act specified the conditions for the lodging of British troops in all of colonial North America.

Detailed explanation-3: -Colonists Disputed the Act Of course, the colonists disputed the legality of this Act because it seemed to violate the Bill of Rights of 1689, which forbid taxation without representation and the raising or keeping a standing army without the consent of Parliament.

Detailed explanation-4: -Quartering Act, (1765), in American colonial history, the British parliamentary provision (actually an amendment to the annual Mutiny Act) requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages.

Detailed explanation-5: -Colonists resented the Quartering Act as unjust taxation, as it required colonial legislatures to pay to house the troops. References to the Quartering Act appear in the Declaration of Independence and in the U.S. Constitution.