Fairs, American Institute, the Protection of American Industry: An Address Delivered Before the American Institute, During the Nineteenth Annual Fair, October 6th, 1846 |
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Page 14 - ... polished after the similitude of a palace: 13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets: 14 That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets. 15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
Page 14 - That our garners may be full and plenteous with all manner of store : that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets. 14 That our oxen may be strong to labour, that there be no decay : no leading into captivity, and no complaining in our streets.
Page 6 - Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for thy wares.
Page 7 - ... its jurisdiction extends to administer justice for all commercial injuries done in that very fair or market, and not in any preceding one. So that the injury must be done, complained of, heard, and determined, within the compass of one and the same day, unless the fair continues longer.
Page 7 - The object of this jurisdiction (/) is principally the cognizance of weights and measures, to try whether they be according to the true standard thereof, or no which standard was anciently committed to the custody of the bishop, who appointed some clerk under him to inspect the abuse of them more narrowly ; and hence this officer, though now usually a layman, is called the clerk of the market.
Page 6 - MAREETS, in law. No person can claim a fair or market, unless by grant from the King, or by prescription, which supposes such grant. Owners and governors of fairs are to take care that every thing be sold according to just weight and measure, and for that and other purposes may appoint a clerk of the fair or market, who is to mark and allow such weights, and for his duty can only take his reasonable and just fees. Generally, all regular sales of things usually sold there shall be good, not only between...
Page 4 - These letters were placed and repeated successively from the first to the last day of the year, and one of the letters always expressed the market days or the assemblies called nundinee, &c., because they returned every nine days.
Page 4 - At first this peculiar solemnity lasted but one day, but it was at different times extended to ten. It was held on the Alban mount, and celebrated with chariot races at the capitol, where the victor was honored with a copious draught of wormwood drink — the qualities and palatable nature of which, at this' remote period of time, we must leave others to analyze.
Page 6 - ... side thereof, to be shut nightly, like as there is in many places in the English Pale, and all the wayes about it to be strongly shut up, so as none should passe but through those townes : To some of which it were good that the priviledge of a market were given, the rather to strengthen and inable them to their defence, for there is nothing doth sooner cause civility in any countrie then many market townes, by reason that people repairing often thither for their needes, will dayly see and learne...
Page 5 - VI., when it was effectually suppressed. In many places they are still kept in the church yard. In the old monastic times, those religious votaries, the monks of (Maxtoke, in) Warwickshire, attended Sturbitch fair, near Cambridge, to lay in their yearly necessaries and supplies, although 100 miles distant. The antiquity of fairs appears to have extended to far distant ages, and wherever they have existed, whether ancient or modern, they appear to have evinced a corresponding degree of industry, happiness...