Document: Ordinance obliging boarding house keepers to pay excise in certain cases

[ Whereas the director general and councilors are certainly informed that some persons, under pretense of keeping boarders, sell ] wines, beers, [ and strong liquors, to the prejudice of the general revenue and of the tavern keepers who publicly follow that business; in order to prevent the same, it is ] resolved and ordered by the director general and councilors that all [ those ] who are keeping some boarders shall pay half the tappers’ excise on the wines, beers, and strong liquors that they will lay in and consume. Dated as above.[i]

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