Note 897 — Chapter VII

July 17, 1750, a proclamation was ordered to be published “against the retailing of spirituous liquors without a license.” August 28th, a second proclamation was ordered to be published, and “a penalty be added of 20 shillings sterling for each offence, to be paid to the informers, and that all retailers of liquors be forbid on the same penalty to entertain any company after nine at night.” In the following February, it was “Resolved, that over and above the penalties declared by former Acts of council, any person convicted of selling spirituous liquors without the governor’s license, shall for the first offence sit in the pillory or stocks for one hour, and for the second offence shall receive twenty lashes.”—Selections from the Public Documents, pp. 570, 579, 603.