Act of Common Council for Setling the Methods of Calling, Adjourning and Dissolving the Common-Halls, upon the Several Elections of the Mayor, Sheriffs, Chamberlain, and Other Officers Usually There Chosen
Whereas many murders, manslaughters and other great disorders are frequently committed and done in divers taverns and other publick houses within this city and the liberties thereof by disorderly persons resorting thereto.