setts Centinel" in
reference to funerals shows what had been customary upon such occasions;
the object of these "wholesome regulations" seemed to be to induce
economy. Gloves and rings were given to mourners in Salem to within the
last fifty or sixty years, and wines or liquors were also furnished.

_TAKE NOTICE._

AN economical plan of mourning was adopted, before the
Revolution, and its salutary effects have been experienced
by almost every family in this town; since which those
wholesome regulations have been passed into a law:
Notwithstanding which, it has lately been broken in upon in
several instances.--The _Inspectors of the Police_--that no
one may hereafter plead ignorance, have caused the law
respecting the same to be published, and give notice, that
any future breach of it, will be prosecuted without any
favour or affection. _Boston, April 30, 1788._

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_To prevent excess and vain expense, in Mourning, &c._

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, That in future no scarfs, gloves or
rings shall be given at any funeral in this town, nor shall
any wine, rum, or other spirituous liquor, be allowed or
given at, or immediately before or after, any funeral in
this town, under pain that the person or persons giving,
allowing or ordering the same shall respectively forfeit and
pay the sum of _twenty shillings_ for each offence.

_And it is further ordered_, That whatever male person shall
appear or walk in the procession of any funeral in this town
with any new mourning or new black or other new mourning
coat or waistcoat, or with any other new black apparel, save
and except a black crape around one arm, or shall afterwards
on account of the decease of any relation, or other person
or persons, put on and wear any other mourning than such
piece of black crape around one arm, shall forfeit and pay
the sum of _twenty shillings_ for every day he shall put on
and wear or appear in the same.

AND no female, of whatsoever degree, shall put on, wear or
appear at any funeral in this town, in any other mourning or
new black clothes whatever, other than a black hat or
bonnet, black gloves, black ribbons and a black fan, on pain
to forfeit and pay the sum of _twenty shillings_; and also
forfeit and pay a like sum of _twenty