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BNL.734.019
16-23 May 1734:11 (1581)
At a meeting of the freeholders & other inhabitants of the
town of Boston, duly qualified & warned according to law,
being regularly assembled in a publick town-meeting, at the
town-house, on Wednesday, April 24th 1734.
Whereas the inhabitants of this town labour under many
hardships & difficulties for want of an open pubick market,
under good regulation, where every one may resort, at
stated, convenient places within the town, to buy & sell
several sorts of provisions;
For remedy thereof, it is voted & ordered,. . .
Ordered, that every day in the week, except the Lord's day,
or other days set apart by this government for religious
service, be a market day, and that a bell be daily rung at
the opening of the market, which shall be at the rising of
the sun, thro' the whole year, from which hour till the hour
of one p.m. shall forever hereafter be deemed & held market
hours. And if any person or persons, being inhabitants of
this town shall from & after the time of the first opening
this market, sell or put to open sale, in the said several
markets, or either of them, any manner of provisions or
other eatable commodities, or shall buy any of them before
the ringing of the market bell, such offender or offenders
being thereof convict, shall forfeit & pay a fine of ten
shillings for every such offence: And if any such person or
persons shall presume to cheapen or buy any flesh, fowles,
butter, eggs, or other provisions (excepting such provisions
and particulars as hereafter are declared to be always
excepted) or make any previous contract touching the same
with any seller, or buy the same in any other place than in
one of the markets, shall forfeit and pay for every such
offence, being thereof duly convicted the sum of ten
shillings.
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