Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester ss. At a Court of General Sessions of the Peace ... in and for the county of Worcester, on the first Tuesday of December, A.D. 1781
Subtitle: Ordered, that the clerk of this court transmit the following resolution to the select-men ... who are requested to communicate the same to the inholders ... As the laws of this commonwealth have provided, that no person shall be licenced as an innholder unless he appears to be of sober life and conversation ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43992
Publisher: Printed by Isaiah Thomas
Published: 1781
Place of publication: Worcester, Mass
Language: eng
Subjects: License system; Hotels; Sabbath legislation; Commerce; Bars (Drinking establishments)
Notes: Resolution that "this court will not, in future, licence any person" who has entertained travellers on the Sabbath "unless such travelling is occasioned by necessity or charity."

Signed: Attest. Joseph Allen, cler. pacis.

Isaiah Thomas was the only printer active at Worcester, Mass., in 1791.

Printed area measures 19.0 x 13.5 cm.

Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.

Bristol B5304

Shipton & Mooney 43992