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York County (Pennsylvania) Committee

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YORK COUNTY (PENNSYLVANIA) COMMITTEE.

Yorktown, August 22, 1775.

Whereas the Committee of York County has received information that sundry Butchers and Drovers from Maryland and elsewhere have lately been purchasing Sheep in this County, contrary to the Resolutions of the Convention of the Province of Pennsylvania:

These are therefore to give publick notice to all such persons who purchase Sheep to kill, or sell to butchers, that if they hereafter be detected in purchasing any Sheep in this County, or driving any through it purchased in this Province, under four years old, that they will be stopped, and treated as enemies to their country.

By order of the Committee:

THOMAS ARMOR, Clerk.

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