http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
act to prohibit for a limited time the making of whiskey and other spirits from wheat, rye, or any other sort of grain, or from any meal or flour
An attempt to remedy the difficulty in procuring grain supplies for the Continental Army.
Signed: John Bayard, speaker. Enacted into a law at Philadelphia, on Friday the twenty-seventh day of November, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight. John Morris, Junior, clerk of the General Assembly.
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43528).