New Castle, historic and picturesque . be held there every Wednesday, 132 NEW CASTLE and one Fair for two dayes, to witt, on the first Tuesday and Wednesdayesof July, forever, together with all issues and profits to the said Marketand Fair accrewing or happening, and all liberties and free customs,priviledges and emoluments to the said Market and Fair belonging orappertaining: To have and to hold the said Market and Fair withissues and profits and liberties and free customs, priviledges andemoluments to the same or either of them accrewing or happening,belonging or appertaining to the said men
New Castle, historic and picturesque . be held there every Wednesday, 132 NEW CASTLE and one Fair for two dayes, to witt, on the first Tuesday and Wednesdayesof July, forever, together with all issues and profits to the said Marketand Fair accrewing or happening, and all liberties and free customs,priviledges and emoluments to the said Market and Fair belonging orappertaining: To have and to hold the said Market and Fair withissues and profits and liberties and free customs, priviledges andemoluments to the same or either of them accrewing or happening,belonging or appertaining to the said men and Inhabitants of our saidTowne of New Castle and their successors, forever. In testimonywhereof Wee have caused the Seal of our said Province to be hereuntoaffixed. Witness, John Usher, Esqr., our Lievetennt. Governor andCommander in Chiefe of our said Province at our said Towne of NewCastle, the thirtyeth day of May, in the fifth year of our Reigne, AnnoqueDomi, 1693. JN. USHER. By the Lievt. Governours Command,THEO. DAVIS, INTEBNAL ANNALS 133 What was the population of New Castle at the date of thischarter, it is quite impossible to determine accurately. On oneoccasion, forty men sign the petition; on anotlier, thirty-tln-ee;and tliere are seventeen remonstrants. None of tlie governmentofficials, who were citizens, appear to have thought it proper tosign a document on whicli they would have to act judicially. Ithink it would be safe to say that not more tlian one-third of theratable citizens (men over sixteen years of age) signed any oneof the petitions. It is probable, therefore, that in 1G93 therewere Avithin the whole territory of the town not far from fivehundred inhabitants. The right of fairs and market days,appointed in the charter, was probably never exercised; it wasa conventional concession, according to old English charter continues to be the only authoritative legal sanctionof the corporation of New Castle; and under its provisions ourtown-m
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