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Philadelphia Committee

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PHILADELPHIA COMMITTEE.

Committee Chamber, June 5, 1775.

Whereas, the business of this Committee has been much obstructed and embarrassed by necessary inquiries into the circumstances of Goods imported here from other Provinces:

Resolved, therefore, That for the future, whenever goods shall be imported into this Province from any of the neighbouring Colonies, the importer do produce a certificate from the Chairman of the Committee from whence such goods are sent, signifying their importation within the rules of the Congress, or do produce a qualification taken before some Magistrate of the identity of such goods, of the time of their importation into this Country, and vessel in

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which they were imported; in failure whereof no such goods be permitted to be landed or sold within the limits of this City and Liberties.

By order of the Committee for the City and Liberties of Philadelphia.

JOHNATHAN B˙ SMITH, Secretary.

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