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their best Care and Diligence, that the said Bills of Credit, according
to their respective Denominations aforesaid, and according to the
Manner and Form aforesaid, be forthwith Printed, and made ready
for Emission, and that the Number thereof be not exceeded, or any
clandestine or fraudulent Practice used by the said Printer, his
Servants, or Others concerned therein.
IV. And be it further Enacted, That the Printer who shall or may
be employed in Printing and Stamping the Blank Bills of Credit in
this Act mentioned, and all his Apprentices and Servants, which he
may employ in the said Work, shall, before he or they begin or
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
April 8
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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, 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 Sixty Thousand
Pounds for his Majesty's Service, and for defraying the Expences
heretofore incurred for the Defence and Security of the Frontier
Inhabitants of this Province, and for other Purposes therein men-
tioned; and will not advisedly Print or Stamp any greater Number
of Blank Bills of Credit, or of any other Denomination than by that
Act is directed; So help me God."
V. And if such Printer, his Servant, or Apprentice, shall ad-
visedly Print and Stamp any greater or larger Number of the Blank
Bills aforesaid, or of any other Denominations than by this Act is
limited and expressed, and be thereof legally convicted in any Court
of Record within this Province, such Printer, Servant, or Appren-
tice, shall suffer as in Case of wilful and corrupt Perjury; and the
said Printer shall furthermore forfeit and pay the Sum of Five
Hundred Pounds Current Money, to be recovered and applied as
herein after directed.
VI. And be it further Enacted, That the Printer of the said
Blank Bills, shall not, by himself, Servant, or any other Person by.
him employed, presume to Stamp the said Bills, or any of them, but.
in the Presence 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, shall be delivered by the said Printer to the Com-
missioners of the Loan-Office, under the Penalty of Five Hundred
Pounds Current Money, to be recovered and applied as herein after
directed. And the said Commissioners are hereby required and
directed to receive the said Stamps and Flowers into their Possession,
and the same safely keep in their Office aforesaid, under the Penalty
of Five Hundred Pounds Current Money, to be recovered and
applied as herein after directed.
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