482 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 23-May 22, 1756.

Liber H. S.
No. 1
p. 209

Manner and Form aforesaid, be forthwith Printed and made ready
for Emission; and that the Number thereof be not exceeded, nor any
clandestine or fraudulent Practice be used by the Printer, his Ser-
vants, or others, concerned therein.
And be it Enacted, That the Printer who shall or may be employed
in Printing and Stamping the blank Bills of Credit in this Act men-
tioned, and all his Apprentices and Servants, which he may employ
in the said Work, shall, before he or they begin or enter upon the
same, take, before some Justice of the Provincial or County Court,
the following Oath, to wit, " I A. B. do swear, that I will truly,

[Printer's
Oath.]

faithfully, and honestly, perform my Duty of Printer, agreeable to
the Directions of an Act of Assembly of this Province, entituled,
An Act for granting a Supply of Forty Thousand Pounds for his
Majesty's Service, and striking Thirty-four Thousand and Fifteen
Pounds six Shillings thereof, in Bills of Credit, and raising a Fund
for sinking the same; and will not advisedly Print or Stamp any
greater Number of blank Bills of Credit than in that Act mentioned,
or of other Denominations than therein expressed: So help me God."

[Penalty for
printing
more Bills
than
directed.]

And if such Printer, by himself, Servants, or Apprentices, or any
of them by his Privity, Direction, or Permission, shall advisedly
Print and Stamp any greater or larger Number of the blank Bills
aforesaid, or of any other Denominations than by this Act limitted
and expressed, and be thereof legally convicted in any Court of
Record, within this Province, he shall forfeit and pay the Sum of
Five Hundred Pounds Current Money; to be recovered in any Court
of Record, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherein
no Essoin, Protection, or Wager of Law, nor more than one Impar-
lance shall be allowed: And any Servant or Apprentice of such
Printer, who shall be of the said Offence convicted, before two or
more Justices of the Peace of the County where the same shall be
committed, shall receive corporal Punishment by whipping not ex-
ceeding thirty-nine Stripes, by the said Justices to be adjudged.

[Bills to be
printed in
the Presence
of the Com-
missioners.]

Be it also Enacted, That the Printer of the said blank Bills shall
not, by himself, Servants, or any other Person by him employed,
presume to Stamp the same Bills, or any of them, but in the Pres-
ence of one or more of the Commissioners or Trustees of the Loan
Office of this Province, who are hereby required and directed to be
present. And when all the said Bills shall be printed and stamped,
the Stamps and Flowers by which such Impression may be made,

p. 210

[Stamps, &c.
to be deliv-
ered to, and
kept by the
Commis-
sioners,
under
Penalties.]

shall be delivered by the Printer to the Commissioners of the Loan-
Office, under the Penalty of Five Hundred Pounds Current Money;
to be recovered as aforesaid; and the said Commissioners are hereby
directed and required to receive the said Stamps and Flowers into
their Possession, and the same safely keep in the Office aforesaid,
under the Penalty of Five Hundred Pounds Current Money; to be
recovered as aforesaid.