While many sources claim that the Quartering Act allowed troops to be billeted in occupied private homes, historian David Ammerman's 1974 study claimed that this is a myth, and that the act only permitted troops to be quartered in unoccupied buildings.
虽然许多资料声称驻营法允许士兵居住在有人的私人住宅，但是历史学家大卫·艾默曼1974年的研究认为，这是虚构的，法案只允许军队驻扎在无人建筑内。