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AWM.742.021
12-19 Aug 1742:11, 12, 21 (1181)
General Quarter-Session of the Peace held for the City and
[?] of New York, before the Mayor, Recorder, and
Aldermen[?], on Tuesday the third of August, . . . [several
columns on public nuisances such as serving Negroes liquor]
And besides what I have already pointed out for your
consideration, it will be necessary for you also, and highly
becoming in you, to enquire concerning all lodgers, that are
strangers within this city; obscure people that have no
visible way of subsistence: For that Popish Emissarys have
been dispatched from abroad, to steal in among us, under
several disguises, such as Dancing Masters, School Masters,
Physicians, and such like, whereby, as it is calculated,
they may easily gain admittance into families, work under
ground like moles in the dark, and accomplish the works of
the Devil, and other our Declared Enemies; . . .
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