The cost of the malt liquor was made little enough in this ordinance of l<i58, and it was equally accommodating in providing that French wine should cost no more than eighteen stuyvers (nine cents) the pint in silver money ; Spanish wine no more than twenty-four stuyvers, and brandywine only five stuyvers for a gill. Yet these prices, which were ofticial, so to

' Their English successors followed them bravely in this respect The amount of liquor it required to help in conducting an election in New York in 17SS-,39 wim something staitlins;. The 3fa/7o;iii« o/ --liiiericon //is(oi;/ for Dt'cenibcr, 1884, printed the following bill, indorsed as election expenses for those years and divide<l equally between James Alexander and Kventhuss Van Home:

£ 9. ((.

" To nfi'o Rail. Jamaica Rum for Punch, "i'^ liall. ditto

for Drams ye morning, 02 Gall, at 3s. M . . . . II) I (i

To C«sh for 3; .; Gall. Brandy at 7 1 4 i;

To Cash for S Gall. Linie-Juice at 48 1 12 0

To 73% ft) Single refined Sugar whereof is left l)J^,

Return 65% lb at Up 16 1

To a Barrill for \Vine >t Shrub 7 9 U

To 104 Bottels for Wine >t Rum whereof there is 3 returned. Remains 1111 Rot. f<? 40pg 1 8 1

To 7 pds Candles at Two Nights i) ."> :i

To the Carting Wine A- Shrub 0 2 0

To 2 Loads woo<le and carting 0 n 3