Proceedings of the Bucks County Committee of Safety
December 26, 1775

IN COMMITTEE, December 26, 1775.

This Committee, desirous as much as possible to prevent every species of imposition and extortion, which designing persons, prompted by a sordid attachment to self interest, and the present scarcity of sundry articles of goods, may be tempted to commit, have directed the republication of the Ninth Article of the Continental Association; and all shop-keepers, and other retailers of goods, are requested to be particularly attentive thereto, as a wilful [sic] violation thereof will necessarily incur the penalties recommended in this and the Eleventh article of said Association.

Ninth Article. "Such as are vendors of goods or merchandise, will not take advantage of the scarcity of goods that may be occasioned by this Association, but will sell the same at the rates we have been respectively accustomed to do for twelve months last past. And if any vendor of goods or merchandise shall sell any such goods on higher terms, or shall, in any manner, or by any device whatsoever, violate or depart from this agreement, no person ought, nor will any of us deal with any such person, or his or her factor, or agent, at any time thereafter, for any commodity whatsoever."

By order of the Committee:

Henry WYNKOOP, Clerk.