The Quartering Act applies to all of…
June 1774 CE
The Quartering Act applies to all of the colonies, and seeks to create a more effective method of housing British troops in America.
In a previous act, the colonies had been required to provide housing for soldiers, but colonial legislatures had been uncooperative in doing so.
The new Quartering Act allows a governor to house soldiers in other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided. (While many sources claim that the Quartering Act allowed troops to be billeted in occupied private homes, historian David Ammerman's 1974 study will claim that this is a myth, and that the act only permitted troops to be quartered in unoccupied buildings.)
Although many colonists find the Quartering Act objectionable, it generates the least protest of the Coercive Acts.