bushel.   Housekeeping for a night—24 hours—16 2-3 cents.   Good merchantable boards, white pine or pitch pine of the best quality, $3.33 1-3 pr. M.   Tobacco, 6 2-3 cents pr. pound.   Good merchantable oak wood, at or near each meeting house in the town, $1.50 pr. cord, & other wood in like proportion.   And it is further enacted by the General Court, aforesaid, that every person who shall sell any of the above mentioned articles at a greater price than settled and fixed for the same, or others not enumerated in a manifest disproportion thereto, upon conviction shall be fined for every article so sold of the price of 20 shillings or under, the sum of 20^s, and for every article of a price above 20^s a sum equal to that for which such article shall be sold.   And every person who shall take & receive for his service and labor a greater sum of money than is settled and fixed for the same in & by this act, shall forfeit and pay a like sum of money to that which he shall take and receive for his service and labor.   And it is further enacted that whosoever shall sell any goods, wares or merchandise, or shall do any service or labor at a greater price than is settled or fixed thereto in and by this, upon credit, shall not have or maintain any action for the recovery thereof, but shall be barred therefrom, and the person against whom any action shall be brought for recovery of such money, may plead the general issue thereto, and give special matter in evidence to the jury."
   "At a town meeting held March 6, 1777, it was agreed that Col. Anthony and Capt. Tho^s Waterman be a committee for the South part of the town, and Dea. Sam^l Tilden and Capt. Amos Rogers for the North part to procure money for bounty in addition to what is already granted by this state, as an encouragement to the soldiers to enlist into the service of the Continental Army, the sum that shall be sufficient to allow the sum of ten pounds lawful money to such soldier who shall enlist and pass muster, for the towns, "Coto" (quota) for the term of three years, or during the war, if