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The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], The manufacture of American salt in case of war. (search)
Jenkins, Mr. Jos. Fickling, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners in like manner for a public Salt Works on the Southern coast of this colony. That each board of the said Commissioners, respectively, shall have power to draw upon the colony treasury, for any sum not exceeding $35,000 (seven thousand pounds currency) for defraying the necessary expenses incurred by this service. And that they shall sell the salt to be made at the same public works at the most reasonable rate (19 March, 1776.") To complete this important regulation, two days after it, the Congress adjoined Mr. Benjamin Eddings to the commission entrusted for erecting Salt Works on the Southern coast.--(Page 116. Provisional Congress, 1776) In every one of these Commissioners, I am happy to recognize the names of my country men, the French Huguenots, who originated from the provinces of France the most advanced in the salt manufacture; practical and enthusiastic people who, giving their arms and ski