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Whereas, from the prospect of a Non-Importation Agreement being entered into, there is great reason to apprehend that some mercenary individuals, intending to take advantages of the publick distress, are daily engrossing and buying up large quantities of Goods with a view to keep the same for sale, and hereafter to raise or regulate the prices of them; and it has been suggested, that commissions seeming of this tendency, have been received from such persons in some of our sister Colonies:
The General Committee having taken the same into consideration, and being apprehensive of some mischievous consequences, do recommend to, and request of, the Merchants, Shopkeepers, and others in this Colony:
That they will endeavour to detect all such engrossers, and, to the utmost of their power, discourage and defeat their mercenary schemes; and that if they should receive any commissions of this tendency, from any place whatever, they will decline executing the same.
The General Committee do also recommend to the Merchants,
By order of the Committee,
PETER TIMOTHY, Secretary.
A large Committee was at the same time appointed to see and pursue every measure that shall be necessary for the due observance of the above recommendations, &c.
General Committee of South Carolina recommend Merchants and others
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Shopkeepers, and others, as they prize the tranquillity and happiness of America, that they will not take advantage of the distresses; but that they will be content with, and demand no more than the usual advance upon such goods and merchandise as they now have by them, or hereafter may be allowed to import.