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1779 145 (1779)

handle is hein.ssl/ssny0365 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS
OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK
PASSED IN THE
THIRD SESSION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY OF THE SAID
STATE, BEGINNING THE NINTH DAY OF AUGUST, 1779, AND
CONTINUED BY ADJOURNMENTS.
CHAP. 1.
AN ACT for procuring an immediate supply of flour and peas
for the use of the army.
PASSED the 4th of September, 1779.
Be it enated by the Peo¢ple of the State of NAew York re presented in Priee of
Senate and Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, flour. ate.
estab-
That the price of all flour meal or wheat to be hereafter taken and lished.
seized in pursuance of An act entitled, An act more effectually to
provide supplies of flour meal and wheat for the army, passed the
thirty first day of October last, shall be increased to sixteen dollars
per bushel for wheat, sixteen pounds per hundred for flour, and in a
like proportion for meal. And the said act shall be and is hereby ex- Act named
tended to peas and that all peas which at any time before the first extended
day of October next may have been purchased with intent to be sold to peas.
again, bartered exchanged or exported, shall accordingly be in like
manner subject to seizure as flour meal and wheat is subjected to
seizure by the several sections of the said act, except the eighth section ;
and that all peas which shall after the first day of October next be pur-
chased with such intent to be sold again, bartered, or exchanged shall
be subject to seizure in like manner as flour meal and wheat is sub-
jected to seizure by the said eighth section of the said act; and the
price of peas to be seized in pursuance of this act is hereby fixed at fif-
teen dollars per bushel.
And be it further enrccted .by the authority aforesaid, That the act Act named
entitled An act for piucuring an immediate supply of flour for the continued.
army, passed the fifth day of March last, phall be, and is hereby con-
tinued until fourteen days after the next meeting of the legislature, and

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