Clause 35

is guilty of any ill-treatment, by violence, extortion, or making disturbances in billets, of the occupier of a house in which any person or horse is billeted;

being an officer, refuses or neglects, on complaint and proof of such ill-treatment by any officer or soldier under his command, to cause compensation to be made for the same;

fails to comply with the provisions of this Act with respect to the payment of the just demands of the person on whom he or any officer or soldier under his command, or his or their horses have been billeted, or to the making up and transmitting of an account of the money due to such persons;

wilfully demands billets which are not actually required for some person or horse entitled to be billeted;

takes or knowingly suffers to be taken from any person any money or reward for excusing or relieving any person from his liability in respect of the billeting or quartering of officers, soldiers, or horses, or any part of such liability;

uses or offers any menace to or compulsion on any civil officer to make him give billets contrary to this Act, or tending to deter or discourage him from performing any part of his duty under the provisions of this Act, or tending to induce him to do anything contrary to his said duty; or

uses or offers any menace to or compulsion on any person tending to oblige him to receive, without his consent, any person or horse not duly billeted upon him in pursuance of the provisions of this Act relating to billeting, or to furnish any accommodation which he is not thereby required to furnish,shall be liable on conviction by court-martial, if an officer, to be cashiered, or to suffer such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned, and if a soldier to suffer imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.