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STA TB ofN EW- J ERSEY.
Ai ACT for Uniting the prices of various articles, and
to prevent the' withholding f rom sale the necessaries of
'bfe.
W HERBAS the Uai'ed States, in Congress affem
mef, Ji I, by their act of tiie nineteenth of Novenl
br last. eirneftly recommended to the several States,
forthwith to enaa laws for eftiblifhing and carrying into
execj^on a general limitation of prices, throughout their f
refpetlve jurifdiaions, to commence, in their operations,
from toe firft day of February next, on the following prin
cipes; articles of domestic produce, farming and com
m>n labour, the wages of tradesmen and mechanics, wa
ter and hnl carriage, not to exceed twenty fold of the pri
ces current through tie various seasons of the year on?
thousand seven hundred and seventy four ; articles impor
ted from foreign parts, to be in due proportion with la
bour and the articles as above dated, making flproper al
lowance for freight, insurance and other charges ; fait and
military floras, whether o(hvme manufacture or impor
ted from abroad, to be exempted from limitation of prices;
also recommending to the several States, to ena& laws a
gainst withholding, and to take the necessary measures for
having the fame carried into full execution : —And the
Legiflitare of tnis State being desirous, in the most equi
table and effectual meaner, to carry into effect the good
intentions of Congress ; —therefore,
S^. I. Be it enabled by the Council and General
Assembly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the
authority of the lame, That from and after the said firft
day of February next, the rates and prices of labour, and
of the following articles of produce, manufacture and
trade, shall not exceed the sums to them severally annex
ed : That is to fay, the rates and prices of farming, and
other common labour, carting, and all kinds of land and
water carriage and the wages of mechanics, tradesmen
and handicraftsmen, (hall not exceed twenty fold the pri
ces t^ey were at in the fame places, through the various
seasons of the year of our Lord onethoufand seven hundred
and seventy-sour.
Toeprices of hemp, flax, fheeps wool, and all fortsof
woolen and linen cloths, hosiery of all forts, and hats
manuhaured in America, bricks, lime, shingles,
boards, fcantling, and all other kinds of lumber, smiths
coal, firewood, tanners bark, cyder, beer, apples, deer
ikins, venison, poultry of all kinds, fith of all kinds,
roots, vegetables, eggs, milk, and all other kinds of A
merican produce and manufacture, and every article of the
like kind not particularly mentioned, and regulated by
this Aft, (hall not exceed twenty fold of the prices fucii
articles of the like quality were usually fold at, in the seve
ral parts of this State, through the different seasons of the
said year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-sour :
That the prices of all forts of goods, wares and merchan
dize, imported from foreign parts, or brought into this
S,ate by capture or otherwise, (half not exceed the rate of
thirty five fold the prices at which such articles were u^-
ally fold for, in the said year one thousand seven hundred
and seventy four, including freight, insurance, and all o
ther charges ; and that the prices of the following arti
cles, at the firft port of delivery, or place of manufactory
within this State, from and a ter the af®refaid firfl day of
February, (hall not exceed the rates affixed to them re
fpeHively, videlicet:
Good Weft India rum by the hogshead, fix pounds per
gallon.
Good merchantable country-made rum by the hogshead,
four p-.ads per gallon.
The Deft Mufcovado sugar, one hunded pounds per
hundred weight.
All other fu?ars in proportion, according to quality.
Merchantable molaffs by the hogshead, four pounds
per gallon.
GooJ coffee,by the hundred weight or greater quantity,
one pound fifteen {hillings per pound
T^e deft imported Geneva, fix pounds ten fhilings per
gallon.
T le best imported br indy, fix pounds ten [hillings per
gallon.
That ah other distilled spirits, not herein mentioned,
(hall be twenty fold the prices they were fold at in the year
one taoufand seven hundred and seventy-sour.
Tnat from and after tne said firft day of F brnary nexh
no trader, retailer, or vender of goods, wares or merch
andize fitll be allowed to a(k, demand or receive, any
higher or greater price rhan at the rate of twenty five per
cent, advance o? the price or prices such goods r wares or
merchandize, thill and lawfully may be fold at by the im
p ?rter, captor or m mufaaurer, agreeably to the regulations
in thi„ aft mentioned, with the addition only of the charg.
es of land and water carriage, at the rate herein limi
ted from the firft port or placeof delivery, to the place
of sale.
That from and after the said firft day of February next,
no in holder or tavern keeper be allowed more than at the
rite of twenty-five per cent, advance on the wholesale
price @f any liquors, allowing as aforefaid for transporta
tion; and for all other articles of entertainment and re*
frihment, and for forage or horse provender, the price
thill not exceed the rate of feventy-five per cent, more than
at the rate such articles are herein limited ; which rates
and pric s for inholders sh ill be afeertained and determi
ned by the refpedive courts of general quarter sessions of
the peace, at their next fitting, after the publication of
this aft : And in such counties, where no such court (hall
be held, before the said firft day of February, any three
or more of the Justices of said county (hall meet toge
ther on the twenty fifth day of January next, at the usu
al p'ace of holding such court, and affix the said rates in
the manner above dirked, and a copy or lift thereof de
livered to every innholder or tavern keeper, and so from
time to time thereafter, whenever such court (hall think
proper to m ike any alteration in the fame/ or as occasion
shall require; and thehft of rates, so fettled and deliver
ed, thill oe received and treated by fach innholder and ta
vern keeper in the fame manner, and fubjed them to
twenty fold of the penalties for neglecting or refuting to com
ply therewith,as are mentioned and let forth in an aft, inti
tled, "An All for the better regulating conflates, ven
duesand taverns," passed in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight : —And that from
and after the said firftdiy o f February next, the prices of
the following articles sh ill not exceed the fams to them se
verally affixed, videlicet :
Good clean wheat by the bushel, weighing sixty pounds,
even pounds , ten shillings.
Peas and White beaus, seven pounds ten Shillings per
bushel.
Good clean buckwheat, three pounds per bushel.
Good clean oats, two pounds ten (hillings per bushel.
Good merchantable rye or rye meal, four pounds ten
Shillings per bushel.
Good merchantable Indian corn or meal, four pounds
per bushel.
Merchantable wheat flour, twenty one pounds per hun
dred weight.
Superfine flour, middlings and cornel, in the usual pro
portion, according to quality.
Shorts, find measure, two pounds five (hillings per
bushel.
Bran, ftri€ t measure, fifteen (hillings per bushel.
Rye flour, thirteen pounds per hundred weight.
Merchantable pork by the carcase, fix shillings and eight
pence per pound.
Well cured pickel pork, thirteen fhillingsand fix pence
per pound.
The best grafs-fed beef, five (hillings and fix pence per
pound.
The belt flail-fed beef, during the month of January,
fix (hillings and fix pence per pound ; during the month
of February, seven fhillingsand fix-pence per pound; du
ring the month of March, eight (hillings and fix pence
per pound; during the month of April, nine shillings
and fix-pence per pound ; during the month of May, ten
(hillings and fix pen^e per ponud ; during the month of
June, eleven (hillings per pound.
Tne best mutton or lamb, five (hillings and fix-pen e
per pound.
Winter-fed mutton to be the fame price as flall-fed beef,
from the firft of January to the firft of April.
The best veal, five (hillings per pound
Rendered tallow, fifteen (hillings per p und.
Rendered hogs lard, eleven (hillings and fix-pence per
pound.
Raw hides green, fix (hillings and eight pence per pound,
and in the usual proportion, when dried
Calf (kins green, ten (hillings per pound.
Good well-tanned foal leather, one pound ten (hillings
per pound.
Good well-dressed upper leather, two pounds ten (hil
lings per pound, and well-dressed calf-lkins in the usual
proportion.•
The various kinds of faddlers and harness leather not to
exceed twenty fold of the usual price of such leather in the
year One thousand seven hundred and feven+y-four.
Mens best neats leather (hoes, nine pounds ten (hillings
per par.
Mens best calf-fkin [fhoes, ten pounds ten (hillings per
pair-
Boots not to exceed twenty told of the usual price of
such boots in the fame place, in the said year One thou
sand seven hundred and seventy-sour.
Womens neat leather (hoes of the best quality, seven
pounds per pair.
Womens calf (kin (hoes of the best quality, eight pounds
ten (hillings per pair.
Childrens (hoes in due proportion, according to size and
quality.
Home-made cheese of the best quality, eleven (hillings
per pound.
Good frefh butter, twenty (hillings per pound.
Good firkin or potted butter sixteen (hillings and eight,
pence per pound.
Bioomary bar-iron, at the place of manufacture, thirty
pounds per hundred weight.
Refined bar-iron, at the place of manufacture, thirty
fevan pounds ten (hillings p r hundred weight.
Pig iron, at the place of manufaaure, two hundred
pounds per ton.
Tne best American-made fieri for edge tools, thirty
(hillings per pound
Common American-made fleel, twenty (hillings per
pound.
Iron pots, kettles, and other light callings, seven (hil
lings per pound.
Large caf t iron kettles and pans for boiling fait,twenty
two pounds ten (hillings per hundred weight.
Nail rods of flit iron, fifty pounds per hundred weight.
• Nails of American manufaaure, per pound, as fol
lows:
Twenty penny, twenty-two (hillings and fix-pence.
Twelve penny, twenty five (hillings
Ten penny, twenty , seven (hillings and fix-pence.
Eight penny, thirty (hillings.
Other nails in the usual proportion.
Good new feythes, eight pounds each.
Sickles, and all kinds of cutlery, of American manufac
ture, dial! not exceed the rate of twenty fold of the price
such articles refpeaively were usually fold at in the said
year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-sour.
Good merchantable pork by the barrel, one hundred
and twenty, five pounds.
Good merchantable beef by the barrel, ninety-five
pounds.
Gammons and other bacon well cured, fifteen (hillings
per pound.
Hay of the firft crop and best quality, feventy-five
pounds per ton.
Hay of the second crop and best quality, fifty-five
pounds per ton, and other hay in proportion to its quali-
ty-
2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid,
That if any person or persons (hall ask, require, demand,
or receive, a higher or greater price for any of the articles
herein before enumerated or limited, than what is there
to affixed or limited, he or (he fooff'eading (hall, for each
offence, forfeit the sum of Twenty Pounds, and moreo
ver (hall forfeit the goods for which such higher price (hall
have been asked, required, demanded or received, such
goods being not fold, or the sum received or agreed on for ,
the price thereof, in case they are fold, to be recovered
and applied in manner herein after directed.
3. And whereas many persons, inhabitants of this State,
have, from time to time, been guilty of the fhameful prac
tice of withholding from those, who are in want of sundry
nec^ffaries of life, and refufing to fell the fame, though
possessed of more than their own consumption requires :
Be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That if any
person or persons, having more of any article or articles
herein before enumerated or limited, than may be neces
sary for his or her family's use, or for carrying on
his or her trade or business, (hall refufe to fell the
overplus, or a reasonable part thereof, to an, pet
son or persons who is in want of the fume, for h ; s or
her family's use or subsistence, or for carrying on Lis or her
trade or business, or (hall refufe to fell the said overplus or a
requisite part thereof, to any person properly authorifed t®
purchase for the use of the army of the United States, or
any detachment thereof, the person desirous to purchase
fti til apply to any Jufiice of the Peace of the county,
where the person having such overplus resides ; which Jus
tice being fully informed and convinced of the necessity
and want, under which the said applicant labours, he (hall
summon the person so refufing, to appear before hip at
such time and place as he (hail think proper to direct, to
be mentioned in the summons ; and if on lawful Service of
the (aid summons, he or (he, so refufing as aforefaid, (hall
neglect to appear as therein required, or if on his or her
appearance and examination, it (hall, in either case, be
evident to the said Justice, that he or die is possessed of
a greater quantity of any of the said articles than is ne
cessary as aforefaid, the said Justice is hereby required to
issue his warrant to any Constable of the county, com
manding him to call to his assistance such and so many pef
fons as may be neceff ry, and take such proportion of the
overplus aforefaid, as may be necessary for the supply of
the person so complaining ; which goods (hall be fold to
the complainant, and the money, after deducting Ten
Shillings for the warrant, and Fifty Shillings for the Con
stable, with other necessary and reasonable expences, (hall
be lodged in the hands of the Justice, to be by him deli
vered to the owner, when he (hall apply for the fame; and
if the owner of the said goods (hall neglect to apply tor
the said mone#, within the space of three months alter th?
fame is paid into the hands of the said Justice, it fhdl be
forfeited to the use of the county, and paid by the said
Judice to the County Collector, to be applied to the use
of the county ; and the receipt of the said Colieflor (hall
difeharge the said Justice from the money so paid, and
for ever bar the owner so neglecting from any suit, adiorf
or claim, for the recovery thereof. Provided always, That
if any Justice (hall issue a warrant for fe'izing any such ar
ticles on the application of any Cemmiffary, Qiartermaf.
ter, or other person properly authorized to purchase for
the army, or any detachment thereof, he (hail, iu grant
ing the fame, have refpe& to the circumflances and wants
of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood in which 'the
person resides, from whom such articlesare impressed, and
(hall determine the quantity proper to be taken on fuchap
pliation accordingly.
4. And whereas no particular mode is prescribed for
the recovery of the fines and forfeitures before mentioned
in this A&:,Be it ena&ed by the authority aferdaid,
Tl^at the several offences for which the said fines and for
feitures herein before mentioned are regulated and declared,
are and (hall be cognizable before any one Justice of tne
Peace of the county in which the offence (had be commit
ted. Provid d always, That the party defend, ut in all
cases where the fine or forfeiture (hall exceed the ? um of
fix pounds, (hall be intitled to nave a trial by a jury, as
in other cases made cognizable before a justice of the Peace;
and where judgment (hall be given Lr the recovery of a
ny such fine or forfeiture, the fame when recovered (hall
be paid to the Collector of the county in which theoffence
(hall have been committed, deducing reasonable cotts, to
be applied to the use of such county.
5. And whereas doubts may arise, refpeaingthe sale
of the articles herein limited, by way of public vendue,
made by the Marshal, Sheriff, or other executive officer,
guardians, Executors or Adminifirators; Be it further
enabled by the authority aforefaid. That if any M.rfhal.
Sheriff, or' other executive officer, Guardian, Exel or,
Adminißrator, or any other person, (hail, after the laid
firfl day of February, fell at vendue, or otherwise any of
the articles herein mentioned or included, at a greater or
higher price than is herein limited, such person so offend
ing (hall be liable to the like penalties and forfeitures as if
the fame had been fold at private (ale, to be recovered and
applied as aforefaid.
6. And it is hereby further eraßed, That nothing in
this Aa contained (hall be construed to limit the price of
fait or military (lores.
7. And be it further enabled, That the Aft, intitled,
“ An AH tor the regulating and limiting the price of la
bour, and of sundry articles of produce, manufa&ure and
trade, and to prevent foreflailing, rewriting and engros
sing," passed the thirty firft day of March, One thousand
seven hundred and feventy.eig t, and every article
and clause therein contained, (bail be, and hereby ib
repealed.
Passed at Mountholjy, December 21, 1779.
4&4^QQ4^^g -o*-t,-Q4+s^ *<* **
Philadelphia, January 14.
BY virtue of a writ of Venditioni Exponas, to me
the fubferiber directed, will be fold by public ven
dor, on Saturday the sth day of February next, at Eleven
o'clock in the forenoon, at theCoffee-houfe, about 12 acres
of laud in Oxford township, on Frankford Creek, about
five miles from Philadelphia, confining ®i about three
acres of meadow nd about nine acres of upland, join
ing Abraham Befb , Wilriam Busby, and the mill land:
Also about ten acres of upland, being a field joining
Iriac Bulb , William Busby, and Abraham Bufay, in
said township: Also one half of an orchard near Abra
ham Bulba's house, containing about three or fouracres;
of the two last of wh ch eflat^ the defendant, Mary
Busby, has only the use during all the term of her natu
ral life. Seized and taken in execution as the estates of
Miry Busby, at the suit of Hnnah Busby and Sarah
Dilworth, by
JAMES CLAYPOOLE, Sheriff.
Philadelphia, January 1,.
AL L persons indebted to the estate of the
Rev. D^tor Francis Al/son, late of this city,
deceased, are r-quested to make immediate payment ;
and t' ole that have any demands against the eftatt, arc
desired to bring in their accounts to have them fettled
and paid. HANNAH ALTSON,] F ,
MARY ALISCN, j^ecutuxes.
ROBERT SMITH,] E
WILLIAM RUSH,] Ex ' cu '°"°
The Widow of Doctor Alison would be obliged to the
Gentlemen that borrowed books, to return them.
A valuable Plantation, well improved, on the weft
branch of Susquehanna, a few miles from Sunbury, to
be fold,