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and other materials for manufactures; and we recommend it to such
of the inhabitants, as have large stocks of sheep, to sell to their
neighbours at a moderate price, as the most certain means of speedily
increasing our breed of sheep, and quantity of wool.
"15. Resolved, That until American grievances be redressed,
by restoration of our just rights and privileges, no goods or merchandise whatsoever ought to be imported into this colony, which shall be
shipped from Great Britain or Ireland after the 1st.day of September
next, except linens not exceeding fifteen pence per yard, coarse woollen cloth, not exceeding two shillings sterling per yard, nails, wire and
wire cards, needles and pins, paper, saltpetre, and medicines, which
may be imported until the 1st day of September, 1776; and if any
goods or merchandise, other than those hereby excepted, should be
shipped from Great Britain, after the time aforesaid,'to this colony,
that the same, immediately upon their arrival, should either be sent
back again, by the owners, their agents, or attorneys, or stored and
deposited in some warehouse, to' be appointed by the committee for
each respective county, and there kept, at the risk and charge of the
owners, to be delivered to them, when a free importation of goods
hither shall again take place. And that the merchants and venders
of goods and merchandise within this colony ought not to take advantage of our present distress, but continue to sell the goods and
merchandise which they now have, or which may be shipped to them
before the 1st day of September next, at the same rates and prices
they have been accustomed to do, within one year last past; and if
any person shall sell such goods on any other terms than above expressed, that no inhabitant of this colony should at any time, for ever
thereafter, deal with him, his agent, factor, or storekeepers for any
commodity whatsoever.
"16. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this meeting, that the
merchants.and venders of goods and merchandise within this colony
should take an oath, not to sell or dispose of any goods or merchandise whatsoever, which may be shipped from Great Britain after the
1st day of September next as aforesaid, except the articles before excepted, and that they will, upon receipt of such prohibited goods,
either send the same back again by the first opportunity, or deliver
them to the committees in the respective counties, to be deposited in
some warehouse, at the risk and charge of the owners, until they,
their agents, or factors be permitted to take them away by the said
committees; the names of those who refuse to take such oath to be
advertised by the respective committees in the counties wherein they
reside. And to the end that the inhabitants of this colony may know
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