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Section 3d provides that no person or persons whatsoever shall buy or sell provisions but in the market house on market days, fish, milk and bread excepted; the penalty being the forfeiture “both by the buyer or seller of all such provisions so sold or bought, or the value thereof.” the money raised by such penalties was collected by the clerk of the market and paid to the trustees of Newark Academy.

Section 4th punished the sale of poor or unsound meat.

Section 5th prohibited the killing of cattle, sheep, calves, or hogs in Academy Square, or in the market house.

Section 6th provided for the punishment of the use of false weights in the sale of provisions.

Section 7th prohibited the hauling or carrying about the town of Newark, or exposing for sale any flesh meat on Monday or Thursday in each week, except for in the months of June, July and August.

Section 8th was for preventing “frauds that may be committed by bakers of bread for sale in Newark,” and provided that some mark, letter, or the name of the baker should be impressed upon each loaf of bread offered for sale.

Sections 9th, 10th and 11th prescribe the oath of office and the powers and duties of the clerk of the market.

Section 12th, which is given in full, describes the boundaries of the town; it reads:

And for preventing all uncertainty and disputes that may arise touching or concerning the limits of the said town of Newark: be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the lines and bounds hereinafter mentioned are and always hereinafter shall be reported, deemed, allowed and taken to be the boundaries and limits thereof. That is to say, Beginning at the junction of the public roads, near an inn now known by the name of Saint Patrick, and extending thence along the road leading to New London township, in Chester county, to a small stream or run to the mouth thereof, where it empties into White Clay Creek: and from thence down the said creek to the most easterly line of the land now of Doctor Samuel Platt; and by the lines of the said Samuel Platt, and of land now of James Simpson, to include the said lands within the said town, to the land now of David McMechan, and from the corner of the said James Simpson and David McMechan their land to the end of James Anderson’s lande, and thence by a right line to the place of beginning.

The inn herein spoken of “known by the name of the sign of Saint Patrick” stood where the Deer Park hotel now stands.

The boundaries of the town were larger than they are now; commencing at the Deer Park hotel, the line ran down the New London road to what is called Buggy Run, thence folllowing this run to the mount of it at White Clay Creek; thence along that creek to the easter-most line of what is now Mr. Samuel C. Finley’s land, from Finley’s land to some point upon Mr. William Homewood’s land, or possibly Professor Porter’s, thence in a southwesterly direction to where a short road from the Elkton Road comes into the depot road at the McCullough place; and from that point diagonally to Deer Park hotel, the place of beginning.

At present, under the charter granted this town by the Delaware Legislature, February 21st, 1851, the limits are thus defined:

Beginning at the corner of lands now of Rathmell Wilson and Daniel Fields, on the road leading to Port Deposit, thence by the line of the lands of the said Daniel Fields to the center of the road leading to New London Township, in the State of Pennsylvania, thence by a straight line to the southeastern corner of the lot attached to the Methodist church; thence to a point in the west line of Samuel C. Finley’s lands, four hundred feet north from the center of the present road leading through Newark to Wilminton, thence in a straight line to the southeast corner of lands of Elizabeth Thompson and Albert G. Lewis, thence along said Lewis’ line to the southwest corner of George G. Evans’s land on the Elkton Road, thence in a straight line to the corner of land of Eliza Holtzbecker and John Whann, being in a line of land of the estate of Thomas Blandy, and from thence to the place of beginning.

The old market house spoken of in the act of 1772 stood near the northeast corner of the academy yard, near where the Washinton hotel now stands; very may years ago it was torn down and a new one to take its place has never been erected.