. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. the act the principle of a limited corporation isquite evident, much more so than in any previouslegislation, as well as traces of the doctrine ofeminent domain, later so generously exercised byrailroad and canal companies. In 1789 cranber-ries were first protected among natural products,a penalty being imposed upon those who gatheredthe berries on lands not their own between June1 and October 10. The reason for this action ap-pears in the legislative declaration that cranber-ries might be a valuable article of exportation
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. the act the principle of a limited corporation isquite evident, much more so than in any previouslegislation, as well as traces of the doctrine ofeminent domain, later so generously exercised byrailroad and canal companies. In 1789 cranber-ries were first protected among natural products,a penalty being imposed upon those who gatheredthe berries on lands not their own between June1 and October 10. The reason for this action ap-pears in the legislative declaration that cranber-ries might be a valuable article of exportation. Thus in feeble and divergent ways—from theerection of free cities to the protection of cran-berries—New Jersey provided for her own com-mercial interests at a time when even the friendsof independency stood terrified at what might bethe outcome of the wonderful expedition that hadbeen taken into the new and unexplored land ofliberty, whose attractive vistas of peace and pros-perity were ever shadowed by the clouds of polit-ical uncertainty and economic H ur,rAtt 1 I. nr TROOPS. CHAPTER XXIVNew Jersey and the Federal Constitution IT WAS in the ancient City of Annapolis,upon the 11th of September, 1786, thata number of stout hearted men—delegatesfrom the States of Virginia, Delaware,Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jer-sey—met to take into Consideration the Tradeand Commerce of the United States, and after asession of three days dissolved, not thinking it advisable to proceed on the Business of theirMission. It was from the joint agreement made betweenMaryland and Virginia, upon March 28, 1784, theobject whereof was the regulation of navigationand trade upon the Potomac as well as the adjust-ment of the boundary line between the two States,that there developed the final expression of thatmovement which had for its object the formationof a more perfect union. Of the States represented none entered withmore alacrity into its spirit than did New Jer-sey.
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