Alabama corn price controls
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch December 29, 1862:
Cor[n] law i[n] Alabama.
–The Legislature of Alabama has passed a bill requiring that no person, except the producer and miller, shall sell corn without first obtaining a license from the Judge of Probate of the county in which the corn is to be sold, and the party so licensed is not allowed to sell corn at a greater profit than 20 per cent. on the price paid to the producer and charges, exclusive of the fees and taxes on the license, and no miller is allowed to sell corn except that which be receives as toll for grinding or which he produces himself. Heavy densities [penalties?] are fixed to the violation of this law; and the exportation of c[o]rn from the State is forbidden; except by permission of the Commissioners Court of the county from which the corn is to be exported, and excepting, also corn belonging to the Confederate Government or to any of the Confederate State. This law has been approved by the Governor.
