. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ere the accommo-dation of strangers and travellers, the dispatchof business, and the entertainment and refresh-ment of mankind. They were not for the encour-agement of gaming, tippling, drunkenness, andother vices. The act of 1768 also prohibitedcounty justices from granting licenses to shop-keepers to keep taverns except in the Coun-ty of Cape May. Persons holding vendues, except civil officers making vendues at pub-lick Houses, were prohibited from giving or sell-ing strong liquors at such sales under a penaltyof £6. Th
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ere the accommo-dation of strangers and travellers, the dispatchof business, and the entertainment and refresh-ment of mankind. They were not for the encour-agement of gaming, tippling, drunkenness, andother vices. The act of 1768 also prohibitedcounty justices from granting licenses to shop-keepers to keep taverns except in the Coun-ty of Cape May. Persons holding vendues, except civil officers making vendues at pub-lick Houses, were prohibited from giving or sell-ing strong liquors at such sales under a penaltyof £6. That the taverns were the scenes of rioting anddebauchery is not only a matter of tradition butof proof. In the office of the clerk of the SupremeCourt of the State of New Jersey is an unrecordedand undated manuscript, probably written about1750, containing testimony concerning a winedrinking frolic, which terminated a hunting expe-dition. The young men who were participantswere sons of prominent citizens of HunterdonCounty, and in their orgy it was shown that negro, m. AN ANCIENT TANKAKD. 302 NEW JERSEY AS A COL and Indian dances, singing of psalms, and preach-ing formed a part of an elaborate ceremony whichscandalized the community. The witnesses statedthat the roysterers, after drinking wine, mournedthe loss of two of their hounds and baptized an-other dog which they called their child. It was probably this incident or others of asimilar character that led the grand jury of Hunt-erdon County upon the 13th of May, 1754, to makea presentment touching disorder in taverns. Thegrand jurors expressed a particular abhorrenceand detestation of those public receptacles andseminaries of vice, irreligion, and profaness, li-censed under color of taverns or houses for thereception and entertainment of travellers. Thenumber, if your Honors please, are almost as un-bounded as unnecessary for the good and honestpurposes they were at first and ought still to bedesigned. Instead of these, they
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