[Resolves regarding the 10th Article of the Continental Association of Congress requiring opening all package goods imported after 1 December 1774, incipit:] "The Committee, taking into consideration the Tenth Article of the Association of the General Congress ..." [signed in type:] Jacob Rush, pro temp. Secretary. Committee Chamber, 6 December 1774 [no imprint]



Broadside, large 8vo (9 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.; 248 x 187 mm); inlaid. With: a Voting Slip of the committee, the first name being John Dickinson, (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.; 215 x 134 mm); browned, with a few stains and contemporary ink check marks, formerly folded.

Parke-Bernet 20 January 1970, lots 104 & 105 (unnamed consignor)

Evans 13538; Hildeburn 2995; Sabin 14993

Broadside, large 8vo (9 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.; 248 x 187 mm); inlaid. With: a printed list of the sixty members of the committee, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.; 215 x 134 mm; browned, with a few stains and contemporary ink check marks, formerly folded.
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NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.

The Continental Association was created by Congress to or🌃ganize and enforce sanctions against the British. Its first act was to pledge Americans to cut off importation of British goods, but it was left to the regional Committees of Inspection and Observation to enforce this pledge.

The present broadside publishes the resolves of the Philadelphia Committee in carrying out that act. It requires that all confiscated packages be delivered to the Committee f♏or sale, setting a minimum and maximum value for each lot, that salt and coal be sold at public sale, and that all importers apply to the district committee to record their plans for disposal of goods. Finally, based on the eleventh article, it enjoins the creation of a committee to monitor these proceedings and publish any violations in the Gazette: " ... to the End that all such Foes to the Rights of British America may be publicly known, and universally contemned as the Enemies of American Liberty ..."