be procured and forwarded to the said Army as soon as may be

Be it therefore Enacted by the Council and house of representatives in general Assembly convened and by the authority of the same it is hereby Enacted That the said Quantity of Rum be forthwith procured by the several Towns Parishes and Places within this State in the Proportion following

And the Selectmen of the several Towns, Parishes and places aforesaid are hereby required forthwith to procure their respective proportion thereof and to Deliver the same to Joshua Wentworth Esqr or his Order at Portsmouth in this State or Haverhill or Boston in the Massachusetts at such Stores in said Towns as he shall order on or before the last Day of September next—

And the said Select men are hereby authorized to raise by Assessment in the Usual way of raising their State tax such sums of Silver money as shall be necessary for the Purchasing of their said proportion & defraying the cost of transporting the same to the said Place of Delivery

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that each of the Towns parishes & places aforesaid which shall neglect to procure their said proportion of said Rum & to deliver it at the Place & by the time aforesaid shall forfeit one spanish milled dollar or other Silver or Gold equivalent for each Gallon so in arrear & undelivered

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid— That Joshua Wentworth Esqr be and hereby is appointed & authorized to take care and see that the said Quantity of Rum be procured by the Select men of the several towns parishes & places and aforementioned in the proportion aforesaid and delivered at the Places and by the time aforesaid & to receive the money which may be forfeited as aforesaid

And in Case the Select men of said Towns Parishes or Places shall neglect to procure and deliver their said Proportion of said Rum as aforesaid, or to pay the Value thereof as above stated to the said Joshua Wentworth Esq' at or before the said last Day of September next it shall & may be lawful for the said Joshua Wentworth Esq and he is hereby Authorized & required to issue his Warrant under his hand & Seal directed to the Sheriff of the County in which such Towns Parishes or Places are or his Deputy requiring him or them to levy the Value of such proportion in the money and at the rate aforesaid, by distress on the Estates real or Personal of the Selectmen of such delinquent Town parish or place together with Costs of levying-And the Sheriffs of the said Counties and their Deputies within their respective Precincts are hereby required to Execute the said Warrants & to Pay the Sums so levied to the said Joshua Wentworth accordingly and shall take customary fees for travelling levying &c-And the Selectmen upon whom such distress. shall be made are hereby authorized to raise by Assessment in the Usual way of Raising the State Tax within their respective Towns Parishes or Places and to pay themselves all such sums as shall be destrained from them as aforesaid with the Damages they shall sustain by means of such distraint-And the said Joshua Wentworth is hereby required as soon as may be to lay out all the Sums of money he shall receive as aforesaid in purchasing said Rum and transporting it to the places beforementioned

Provided nevertheless that any of the Towns Parishes or Places aforesaid on or before the said last Day of September may in lieu of their said Proportion of the said Rum pay and deliver at either of the places before mentioned Good New England Rum in the proportion of Six Quarts of the latter for one Gallon of the former

And in Case of any Action bro't against the said Joshua Wentworth for issued Warrants as above required or the Sheriffs or Deputies for Executing the same they may plead the general issue and give this Act in Evidence & upon a Verdict given in their favour they shall recover double Costs

And Whereas several Towns hereafter named viz Tuftonborough Shelburne Cockburn Protectworth Dartmouth Morristown Coleburn New Bradford and the Tract of Land adjoining the Easterly side of Haverhill and

Northerly side of Warren have so few Inhabitants as they are incapable of chusing ordinary town officers

Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Joshua Wentworth give public Notice in the New Hampshire Gazette & in some one of the Boston Newspapers of the Quantity of West India or New England Rum to be deliver'd to him by the Owners Collectively of the Lands in said Towns & places respectively requiring the same to be delivered him by the fifteenth Day of October next-And that if the same is not paid accordingly so much of their Lands will be sold as will purchase the same with incidental Charges & if the same is not deliver'd by the time and at one of the places aforesaid the said Joshua Wentworth is hereby Authorized to sell at Public Vendue so much of the said Lands as Will purchase the same with incidental Charches previously advertizing the same in said News papers three weeks successively

An Whereas some Towns & Places tho capable of chusing town Officers have neglected it-Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if the Said Proportion of such Towns & Places be not delivered to the said Joshua Wentworth Esq or his order by the said last Day of September next the same shall be levied upon the Estates of any one of the Individuals of such Towns or places by Warrant from the said Joshua Wentworth in manner afore prescribed relative to Select men which Individuals shall have their remedy against their respective Towns in the manner as is directed in an Act passed the Sixth of April last relative to the State Taxes of such Towns & Places

Preamble.

ACTS OF NEW JERSEY.

(Printed from "Acts of the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, at a session begun," etc., printed by Isaac Collins.]

SESSION BEGINNING AUGUST, 27, 1776.

[p. 14.]

CHAP. XIII.

An ACT to prohibit the Exportation of Provisions, and other Articles therein mentioned.

WHEREAS it appears necessary at this Time to prohibit the Exportation of Bacon, salted Beef and Pork, Soap, Tallow and Candles from this State;