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Queen Anne' s County, June 19, 1775.
Whereas, the business of this Committee has been, and is likely to be rendered very tedious and troublesome, by inquiries into the circumstances of goods which have been, and may be imported into this County from other Provinces
Resolved, That we will not, and that no person of this County ought to deal with any merchant, or other vender of goods hereafter to be brought within this County, until the said merchant or vender shall have produced to some one or more of the Committee of this County a certificate from the Chairman of the Committee of the place from whence the said goods shall be brought, that they have been imported into America agreeable to the rules of the Continental Congress, and also an invoice of the prime cost of such goods, attested by the Chairman aforesaid, or some other disinterested member of that Committee, in order that this Committee may be enabled to procure a conformity to a resolve of the Provincial Convention respecting the advance on goods.
By order of the Committee:
EDWARD DOWNES, JUN˙, Clerk.
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and Counties, as well with respect to the time of their importation into America, as to the prime cost thereof.