s an important officer in the army, and should not only be a man of great judgment and experience, but well skilled in geography. His duty is to mark out the marches and encampments of an army; and therefore he should know the country perfectly well, with its rivers, plains, marshes, woods, mountains, defiles, and passages, nay, even the smallest accident of the ground. Prior to a march, he receives the order and route from the general commanding, and appoints a place for the quarter-masters of the army to meet him next morning, with whom he marches to the next camp, where, having viewed the ground, he marks out to the regimental quarter-masters the ground allowed each regiment for their camp; he chooses the head-quarters, and appoints the villages for the generals of the army's quarters; he appoints a proper place for the encampment of the train of artillery; he conducts foraging parties, as likewise the troops to cover them against assaults, and has a share in regulating the winter-quarters and cantonments. See Army.

QUARTER-Sessions, a general court which is held quarterly by the justices of peace of each county.