Arts. 483

And be it further Enacted, That any Person or Persons, who
shall counterfeit any of the said Bills of Credit, made current by this
Act, or shall alter the Sum expressed in any of the said Bills, and his,
her or their Aiders or Abettors, or who shall utter or offer, or cause
to be uttered or offered, in Payment, any such counterfeit or altered
Bill or Bills, knowing the same to be counterfeit or altered, and
shall be thereof convicted by due Course of Law, or stand mute,
or peremptorily challenge above the Number of Twenty of the Pan-
nel, shall suffer Death as a Felon or Felons, without Benefit of
Clergy. And all Magistrates and others, into whose Hands any

Liber H. S.
No. 1
[Felony to
counterfeit
Bills, &c.]

counterfeited Bills may happen to come, shall forthwith deliver the
same to one of the Commissioners or Trustees, who shall cause the
Name of those that delivered them, and of the Persons from whom
they were taken, to be endorsed on the Back thereof; which Bills
shall be safely kept in the said Office, and be forth coming when
there may be Occasion thereof.

[Counterfeit
Bills to be
endorsed and
delivered to
the Com-
missioners.]

And be it further Enacted, That the said Commissioners or Trus-
tees, before they enter upon the Execution of their said Trust, each
of them shall enter into Bond, with sufficient Sureties, jointly and
severally, to one of the Provincial Treasurers, for the Time being,
in the Penalty of Two Thousand Pounds Sterling, payable to the
Lord Proprietary, conditioned for the Observance and faithful Dis-

[Bond to be
given by the
Commis-
sioners.]

charge of the Trust hereby reposed in them. And that the said
Treasurer shall cause the said Bonds to be proved by the Witnesses
thereto before one Provincial Justice, who shall endorse the Probate
of the same Witnesses on the Back thereof; and also by an Order
under his Hand on the Back of the same Bond, require the Clerk of
the Provincial Court immediately to record, among the Land Rec-
ords of his Office, the said Bond, Probate and Order; and the said
Clerk shall immediately, after the recording aforesaid, deliver the
Original to the Register of the Chancery Court, to be by him safely
kept in the Chancery Office; and an attested Copy of the said Bond
and Probate from the said Provincial Records, shall be as good Evi-
dence in Law to maintain an Action of Debt for the Breach of the
Condition thereof, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the said Bond
or Bonds were actually produced and proved in Court. And shall also
take the following Oath, before some Provincial Justice (who is

[To be
proved and
recorded.]

hereby impowered and required to administer the same), to wit,
" I A. B. do swear, that I will, according to the best of my skill and
Knowledge, faithfully, impartialy, and truly demean myself, in the
Discharge of the Trust committed to me, by an Act of General
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, accord-
ing to the Purport and Tenor of the same Act, so that none may

p. 211

[Commis-
sioners
Oath.]