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    "ocrText": "the\n[G. O. 18.]\n(G. O. 18.]\n5\n4\ndirectly by the T. M. In event a \"Billeting Permit\" should be\n(g) A guard will be established with a guardhouse, usually\nrequired, the form usually employed will be found hereinafter\nat the town hall, to preserve order, to see that orders are\nobserved, and to give warning in case of fire or approach of\nmarked \"Appendix A.\"\nhostile aircraft, etc.\n21. If the town has not sufficient billeting accommodations\nfor the officers, the latter are quartered as non-commissioned\n(h) Urinal buckets will be outside the billets at night.\nofficers and soldiers.\n(i) No naked lights will be allowed in barns, outhouses, etc.\n22. Quarters for non-commissioned officers and for soldiers\n(j) Manure from picket lines will be placed in suitable locali-\nare provided in all available places, according to the data fur-\nties clear of the village for use of the inhabitants.\nnished by the Mayor (sheds, barns, unoccupied manufactories,\n(k) Both washing of person and of clothes are prohibited\netc.). The Mayor does not provide beds for the non-com-\nin the water troughs.\nmissioned officers unless the number of beds in town is suf-\nficient. Non-commissioned officers have no right to claim these\nEXTRACT FROM THE FRENCH LAW.\nbeds. (Art. 26 of the Decree of August 2, 1877.)\n16. The cantoning of troops, either for some duration of\n23. Municipal authorities shall prepare a list of all quarters,\ntime or on the march, consists in locating the men, animals and\nestablishments and stables available which the inhabitants can\nmaterials in houses, establishments, buildings, stables, or under\ngive for billeting or cantoning troops. This list will be com-\nany kind of shelter belonging to private individuals, communes,\nmunicated to the military authorities, and will not include public\ndepartments, or to the State, without reserve as to the conditions\nor private establishments previously requisitioned by military\nof the accommodations allotted to soldiers of the different ranks,\nauthorities and actually occupied by them.\nto animals and to material, but utilizing as may be necessary\n24. In all cases where troops have to be billeted on the in-\nthe available local resources, always under the condition that\nhabitants, the day of their arrival will be communicated by the\nthe owners or holders shall keep for themselves such accommoda-\nmilitary to the municipal authorities.\ntions as may be necessary. (See Par. 29.)\n25. The following persons will be exempted from affording\n17. Whenever circumstances permit, the soldiers must be quar-\nbillets in their dwellings:\ntered in buildings belonging to the State, to the departments,\n(a) The legal custodians of public funds, when such funds are\nto the communes, or to public establishments. Schools for girls\ndeposited in their dwellings;\nmust not be taken over. With regard to boys' schools, the parts\n(b) Widows and spinsters residing alone;\nactually used by the students must not be taken over, and,\n(c) Female religious societies.\nexcept in the face of absolute necessity, their occupation must\nnot interfere with the school schedule. (Circular issued by the\nAll these, however, are obliged to supply quarters with other\nMinistry on March 24, 1893.)\ninhabitants, with whom they will make the necessary arrange-\nments to effect this object; or, in default, quarters will be pro-\n18. Whenever the troops are quartered in public establish-\nvided by the municipal authority at the expense of the persons\nments no indenification can be claimed, but the cost of\nabove mentioned.\nheating, lighting and supplying water and various other house-\n26. In time of war, in the absence of the inmates of a house,\nhold expenses must be reimbursed.\nonly the Mayor can oblige its reopening. (Law of 1877, Article\n19. In the events of an insufficient number of public buildings,\n13, No. 3.)\nthe troops are quartered or billeted among the inhabitants.\n27. Except in the case where the Mayor, or his substitute,\n20. The French law provides that in principle the officers\ncannot be found, the officer has not the right to take over locali-\nare billeted through the good offices of the Mayor of each town,\nties which have not first been designated by the municipal au-\nwho hands over \"Billeting Permits\" (billets de logement) in\nthorities.\nproportion to the available domiciles, and that officers can claim\n28. In possession of \"Billeting Permits\" indorsed by the Mayor,\nthe right to be billeted, except, in the case where there are not\nand of the necessary information for quartering his men, the\nenough beds. However, while the law requires \"Billeting Per-\nofficer goes over the localities and assigns them to the officers\nmits,\" which should be presented to the householder by the per-\nand men. (See Par. 20.)\nson to whom assigned and taken up by the householder as a\nclaim for payment, as a matter of practice \"Billeting Permits\"\n29. The inhabitants are never to be removed from the room\nare customarily dispensed with and officers and men are billeted\nand bed in which they are accustomed to sleep, but they cannot,"
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