394 HISTORY OF 



provided that it be sold only by such store-keepers having 

 a license from two members of the committee. 



At a meeting of the committee of observation, on the 

 4th day of May, 1775, the Commissioners of the county 

 being also present, Mr. Charles Hamilton agrees, that the 

 county shall have his powder, being 26 casks, at the rate 

 of 5^14 per cwt. and they paying the carriage ; and that 

 the county shall have his lead, being about eight hundred 

 weight, at 45 pence per cwt.* 



INIessrs. Josiah & Robert Lockhart agree that the county 

 shall have their powder, being five quarter casks^ at ^£15 

 per cwt., they paying the carriage ; and their lead at 45 

 pence per cwt. 



Mr. Matthias Slough agrees that the county shall have 

 his powder, being four quarter casks, at £15 per cwt., 

 they paying the carriage ; and his lead at 45 pence per 

 cwt. 



Mr. Simons by Mr. Levy, Andrew Levy, agrees that 

 the counties shall have his powder, being 2 quarter casks, 

 at the rate of £15 per cwt., they paying the carriage ; and 

 his lead, being about 200 pounds, at 45 per cwt. 



Mr. Christian Wirtz agrees that the county shall have 

 his powder, being 5 quarter casks and some pounds loose, 

 at the rate of £15 per cwt., they paying the carriage; 

 and his lead, being about 150 pounds, at 45 per cwt. 



Mr John Hopson agrees that the county shall have his 



powder, being 2 quarter casks, at the rate of £15 per cwt, 



they paying the carriage. 



*January 22, 1774, an act was passed by the General Assem- 

 bly, that no person or persons within the limits of Lancaster 

 borough, shall keep in any house or shop, cellar, store, or other 

 place more than twenty -^.five pouuds weight of gunpowder, and 

 that was to be kept in the highest story of the house, at any 

 one time, unless it had been fifty yards distant from any dwelU 

 ing house, under the penalty of five pounds. 



