Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser — [Portsmouth, N.H.], 1785-10-14 00:00:00, page 1

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S E WA L L's GENUINE
ALMANACK
For the Year of Christian /Era,
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Being the 2d after Biffextile or Leap-Year.
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who purchase to fell again.
Portsmouth, October 7, 1785.
NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE
VOL XXIX ] "Open to all parties—influenced by none : —We aim only to be just. No. 1512.
By MELCHER and OSBORNE,
TO BE SOL D,
Cheap for CASH or COUNTRY PRODUCE,
AMARE, about Eight Years old, with Fold ;
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PORTSMOUTH:
GENERAL
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AND
In the year of our LORD, one thou
sand seven hundred and eighty-five.
^ Adt for the admeasurement of Boards,
and for regulating the Tale of Shingles,
Clapboards, Hoofs, and Staves, and for
other purfeojes therein mentioned.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House ofße
prefentatives in General-Court convened, That
the President, with advice of council, appoint as of
ten as occasion may require, a Surveyor or Surveyors
in the town of Portsmouth, Dover, Durham, Somerf
worth, Newmarket, Exeter, and any other town or
towns within this State, which shall apply for the ap
pointment of the fame, who shall survey and measure
boards, plank, spars, timber, flit-work, shingles,
clap-boards, ftaves and hoops, and who shall be sworn
to the faithful performance of the trust reposed in
them. And all boards, plank, timber, or flit-work,
offered for sale, fhal| previous thereto, be surveyed
and also measured by one of the said surveyors, where
he shall have any doubt of the measure, having due
consideration for drying and springing, who shall also
mark a-new all such, to the just contents thereof,
making reasonable allowance for rots, knots and splits.
And the buyer shall pay to the surveyor fix pence
per thousand for viewing only, and fix pence per thou
sand more for Rirvp.yfng end marking, ^tb-in,^
portion for a less quantity.
And be it further enacted by the Authority
aforefaid, That no pine boards shall be shipped for
exportation to a foreign market, but such as are
square edged, and not less than ten feet in length, on
pain of being forfeited to the use of the town where
t hey shall be shipped.
And be it further ena&ed, That no shingles clap
boards ftaves or hoops, shall be offered for sale in any
town in this State, that shall by under the following
dimensions, viz. All shingles shall be split cross-ways
the grain, and be eighteen inches long, except those
made for home use; pine shingles shall be free from
sap, and all shingles shall be free from shakes and
worm-holes, and shall be half an inch thick at the
butt end when green, and full three eighths of an
inch when thoroughly seasoned, if for exportation
to a foreign market, and not less than one third
of an inch thick at the butt when fully seasoned, if
for home use, and four inches and an half wide on an
average, and none less than three inches wide, and
shall hold their width three fourths of the way to the
thin end, and be well shaved, and each bundle shall
contain two hundred and fifty shingles, or if bound
in square bundles, shall contain twenty-five courses,
and measure twenty-two inches and an half at the lay,
and ip case there fnould be more than five shingles in
any one bundle that are not of the above length,
breadth or thickness, or five short in the tale of any
one bundle of two hundred and fifty, the bundle that
is so deficient, or in which such shingles are so con
tained, shall be forfeited, and the shingles in each
bundle which are not merchantable, shall be burnt,
and the residue fold, and the monies arising from said
sale, shall be paid into the hands of the town treasu
rer, for the benefit of the poor of said town where the
shingles are so condemned, firft deducting therefrom,
the charge of culling and surveying.
And all whiteoak butt ftaves, shall be at least five feet
in length, five inches wide, and one inch and a quar
ter thick on the heart or thinned edge, and every
part thereof.
And all white oak pipe ftaves shall be at lead four
feet and eight inches long, four inches broad in the
narrowed part, and not less than one inch thick at the
heart or thinned edge.
And all white oak hogshead ftaves, shall be at least
forty-two inches long, and not less than three quar
ters of an inch thick on the heart or thinned edge.
And all white oak barrel ftaves for foreign market,
shall be thirty twg iach^ 1%, ^d for home use,
State of New-Hamp,tire.
FOWL Els
.Printed and Published
OcTOBE R 14, 1785.
ADVERTISER.
shall be thirty inches long, and all shall be half aninch
thick on the heart or thinned edge.,
And all white oak hogshead and barrel ftaves,
shall be at lead one with another; four inches in
breadth in the narrowed part, and those of the breadth:
lad mentioned, shall be clear from sap.
And all red oak hogshead and barrel ftaves, shall be
the fame length, width and thickness with the white
oak hogshead and barrel ftaves above-mentioned.
And all ftaves shall be well and proportionably
split ; and all pine clapboards that shall be exposed to
sale, shall be made of good found timber, clear of sap;
and all clapboards shall be free from shakes and worm:
holes, and of the following dimensions, to wit, full
five eighths of an inch on the back or thickest part,
five inches wide and four feet fix inches long, and'
they shall be strait and well shaved.
And all hogshead hoops, that shall be exposed to
sale, shall be from ten to fourteen feet long, and shall
be made of white oak or walnut, and of good and Suffici
ent substance, well shaved ; those made of oak shall not
be less than one inch broad at the least, and those
made of walnut shall not be less than three quarters
of an inch at the least ; and each bundle shall con
lift of thirty hoops, and all hoops of ten, twelve and'
fourteen feet refpe&ively, shall be made up in dif
tin& bundles by themselves ; and if any hoops ar©
packed of less dimensions than those prescribed by this
law, or if any bundle shall contain less than thirty
hoops, such bundle shall be forfeited and fold for the
benefit of tile town nvheie it is offered for sale.
And ,all white oakrhogrhead heading V Eich shall b&
offered to sale within this State, or exported to a for
eign market, shall be one inch thick, thirty inches long,
and not more than five pieces to a head.
And all shooks shall be forty inches long and not
less than two inches and an half at the ends, and full
half an inch thick when dressed.
And be it further ena&ed, That the surveyor of
shingles and clapboards, shall be allowed by the buyer
three pence per thousand for surveying and telling, and
before any shingles are sent from the town where they
are made, or at the place of firft sale before their de
livery, they shall be viewed, surveyed and measured by
a sworn surveyor, and a brand with the letters N. H.
to be provided by each town wherein such surveyors
is appointed, shall be set upon the hoop of the bundle.
And all shingles offered for sale without being survey
ed and marked as aforefaid, f hall be forfeited and dis
posed of as before in this add is provided.
And there shall be two ormore suitable person cho
sen by the town of i ortfmouth, attheir annual meeting
in March, to be viewers and cullers of timber and hoops
who shall be under oath faithfully to difeharge their
office, and they shall be allowed for their time and
service as follows, to wit, one shilling and eight pence
per thousand for barrel ftaves ; two shillings per thou
sand for hogshead ftaves ; two shillings and four
pence per thousand for pipe ftaves ; two shillings and
eight pence per thousand for butt ftaves, (as well re
fufe as merchantable) the merchantable to be paid
for by the buyer, and the refufe by the feller ; and
two shillings per thousand for heading ; and the cul
ler shall be allowed one farthing for each shook, and
three shillings per thousand for hoops.
And be it further enabled, That from and after the
firft day of June next, all ftaves that shall be export'd
from this Sate beyond sea shall be firft culled, and all
hoops firft viewed and surveyed by one of the officers
aforefaid, and a certificate given by a culler or survey
or to the master or commander of the ship or vessel
on board of which they are laden, of the quantity by
him so culled or surveyed, and the bands with which
the bundles of hoops are bound, shall be sealed with
the brand of the town from whence they are export
ed ; and that all shingles and clapboards that shall
be exported beyond sea, shall likewise be certified by
one of the surveyors already required by law to be
chosen, to have been by him surveyed, viewed and
approved, and the number and quantity thereof, and
any fellers of boards, ftaves, hoops, shooks, heading,
clapboards or shingles, that shall deliver any of the
said Eludes for exportation before they are culled %
in Paved Street.
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