A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry: With an appendix, containing the Constitution of the United States, and other documentsJudson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll)
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A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry: With an appendix, containing the Constitution of the United States, and other documents
Judson, L. Carroll (Levi Carroll)
Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799; United States. Declaration of Independence -- Signers; Washington, George, 1732-1799
_Tenth._ In case any merchant, trader, or other persons shall import
any goods or merchandise after the first day of December, and before
the first day of February next, the same ought forthwith, at the
election of the owners, to be either re-shipped or delivered up to
the committee of the county or town wherein they shall be imported,
to be stored at the risk of the importer, until the non-importation
agreement shall cease, or be sold under the direction of the committee
aforesaid; and in the last mentioned case the owner or owners of such
goods shall be reimbursed out of the sales, the first cost and charges,
the profits, if any, to be applied towards relieving and employing
such poor inhabitants of the town of Boston as are immediate sufferers
by the Boston port bill, and a particular account of all goods so
returned, stored or sold, to be inserted in the public paper; and if
any goods or merchandise shall be imported after the said first day
of February, the same ought forthwith to be sent back again without
breaking any of the packages thereof.
_Eleventh._ That a committee be chosen in every county, city and
town, by those who are qualified to vote for representatives in the
legislature, whose business it shall be attentively to observe the
conduct of all persons touching this association, and when it shall be
made to appear to the satisfaction of a majority of any such committee,
that any person within the limits of their appointment has violated
this association, that such majority do forthwith cause the truth of
the case to be published in the gazette, to the end that all such foes
to the rights of British America may be publicly known and universally
condemned as the enemies of American liberty, and henceforth we
respectively will break off all dealings with him or her.
_Twelfth._ That the committee of correspondence in the respective
colonies do frequently inspect the entries of the custom house, and
inform each other from time to time of the true state thereof, and
of every other material circumstance that may occur relative to this
association.
_Thirteenth._ That all manufactures of this country be sold at
reasonable prices, so that no under-advantage be taken of a future
scarcity of goods.
_Fourteenth._ And we do further agree and resolve, that we will have no
trade, commerce, dealings, or intercourse whatsoever with any colony
or province in North America which shall not accede to, or which
shall have hereafter violated this association, but will hold them as
unworthy of the rights of freemen and inimicable to the rights of their
country.
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