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remain in Bank, of the Fund established by this Act, for sinking the
said Bills of Credit, and the Interest thereof, and the Money lent on
Mortgages, Bond, or Securities, as aforesaid, and the Interest aris-
ing by the Loan of any of the said Bills of Credit, after all the said
Bills of Credit shall be sunk and discharged, shall be applied and
disposed of in such Manner and Form, as the Assembly of this
Province shall direct and appoint. And to prevent the said Bills of
Credit being counterfeited,
Be it Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That any Person who
shall counterfeit the said Bills of Credit, and his, her, or their Aiders
or Abettors, and shall be thereof convicted, by due Course of Law,
shall suffer Death, as a Felon or Felons, without Benefit of Clergy ;
and also, that any Person who shall pass any such counterfeit Bill or
Bills of Credit, knowing the same to be counterfeit, shall also suffer
Death, as a Felon, without Benefit of Clergy: And, that all Magis-
trates, and others, into whose Hands any counterfeited Bills may
happen to come, shall forthwith deliver the same to One of the said
Commissioners or Trustees, who shall cause the Names of those that
delivered them, and of the Persons from whom they were taken, to
be indorsed on the Back thereof; which said Bills shall be safely kept
in the said Office, and be forthcoming, when there may be Occasion
to make Use of the same.
And it is hereby Declared, and Enacted, by the Authority afore-
said, That this present Act shall be taken and allowed in all Courts
within this Province, as a Public Act; and all Judges, Justices, and
other Persons concerned therein, are hereby required to take Notice
thereof, as such, without pleading the same specially.
And, the better to prevent the Exportation of trashy, ordinary,
and unmerchantable Tobacco, Be it Enacted, by the Authority, Ad-
vice, and Consent aforesaid, That every Master or Mistress of a
Family, shall be, and is by this Act required, to burn, or cause to be
burnt, in the Presence of such Person or Persons as shall be ap-
pointed by Virtue of this Act for that Purpose, on or before the Last
Day of July, which shall be in the Year of our Lord, Seventeen
Hundred, thirty and Four, the Quantity of One Hundred and Fifty
Pounds of Tobacco, to be tied up into Bundles, dry enough to pack,
of the most ordinary Sorts of Tobacco, for every such Master of a
Family, or other Person, having any taxable Servant or Slave, and
every taxable Person to him belonging; and the like Quantity of One
Hundred and Fifty Pounds of Tobacco for every taxable Person be-
longing to any Woman, who shall be an House-keeper, or Mistress
of any Servant or Slave, Servants or Slaves, being a Taxable or
Taxables, and also for every House-keeper, or other Person, being
a Taxable; and the like Quantity of One Hundred and Fifty Pounds
of Tobacco, of the like Quality, on or before the Last Day of July,
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