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Public

1. Describing anything available to the population at large. For example, a publicly-traded company may be owned and traded by anyone with the money to buy shares.

2. Describing anything owned or administered by a government. For example, a municipality owns and maintains a public park.
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These figures do not include the public houses in the surrounding areas of Middlesbrough such as North Ormesby, Cargo Fleet, Acklam and Ormesby.
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The focus of In Public Houses is tavern life in Massachusetts, especially in and around Boston.
In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts
Despite the laws that meticulously prescribed who could have liquor licenses, who could drink in a tavern, and how many public houses a community could support, Salinger's detailed examination of business and legal records demonstrates that lawmakers rarely followed their own guidelines.
Taverns and Drinking in Early America

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