The Quartering Act of 1774 was passed on June 2, 1774, and revived the provisions of the previous Quartering Act, which had expired in 1770. It was one of the Coercive Acts passed by Parliament to punish Massachusetts and Boston for the Boston Tea Party, although it applied to all colonies. The new version of the act gave Royal Governors the authority to billet troops in uninhabited houses, out-houses, barns, or other buildings.