The act did require colonial governments to provide and pay for feeding and sheltering any troops stationed in their colony. If enough barracks were not made available, then soldiers could be housed in inns, stables, outbuildings, uninhabited houses, or private homes that sold wine or alcohol. 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.
The Nazi-Soviet pact was essentially, “Don’t bother us and we won’t bother you.” It was a neutrality agreement. This is similar to the treaty that formed the Axis because Germany and Italy also signed a neutrality agreement in this treaty.
