Acts. 135

and the Impressions that shall be then made in the Room in which
the Printing and Binding aforesaid shall be done and the Keys of
such Room shall keep in their Possession And when all the said Bills

Liber R. G.
1769

shall be printed and Stamped the Stamps and Flowers by which such
Impression shall be made shall be Delivered by the Printer to the said
Commissioners 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 one of the Iron
Chests in their Office under the Penalty of Five Hundred pounds
Current Money each to be recovered as aforesaid And the said Com-
missioners shall out of the Bills of Credit to be Emitted in Virtue of
this Act issue and pay to the Printer who shall Print stamp stich and

[The Stamps
and Flowers
to be deliv-
ered to the
Commission-
ers, and de-
posited in
one of the
Iron Chests,
under
Penalty.]

Bind the said Bills of Credit One Thousand of the said Dollars for

p. 15

his said Services and the Paper Ink and other Materials necessary
for the said Work
And be it further Enacted that any person or Persons who shall
Counterfeit any of the said Bills of Credit or who shall forge any
of the Bills of Exchange directed to be drawn by this Act or alter
the Sum expressed in any of the said Bills of Credit or Bills of Ex-
change and his her or their Aiders or Abettors or who shall offer or
cause to be offered in Payment or utter or cause to be uttered any such
counterfeit forged or altered Bill of Credit or Bill of Exchange know-
ing the same to be Counterfeit forged or altered and shall be thereof
Convict by due Course of Law or stand mute or Peremtorily challenge
above the Number of Twenty of the Pannel shall suffer Death as a
Felon or Felons without benefit of Clergy — And all persons into
whose Hands any of the said counterfeit forged or altered Bills may
happen to come shall forthwith Deliver the same to some Provincial
or County Justice who shall Cause the Name of him her or them that
Delivered the same and of the Person or Persons from whom the
same was taken to be indorsed on the Back thereof which Bill or Bills
shall be safely kept by the said Provincial or County Justice and be
forth corning when there may be Occasion — And Whereas the Trust
to be reposed in the said Commissioners will be of very High im-
portance to the Public and will require Persons of known and ap-
proved Character and such as are well Conversant in Business and
have an extensive knowledge of the Circumstances of the Inhabitants
of this Province —

[Allowance
to the
Printer, for
his Services.]
[Persons
counterfeit-
ing Bills of
Credit, or
Bills of Ex-
change, to
suffer
Death.]

Be it Therefore Enacted by the Authority Advice & Consent afore-
said that an Office shall be kept at Annapolis under the Management
of Two such Persons Commissioners who shall reside in the City
of Annapolis to be Nominated & appointed by the Governor or Com-
mander in Chief of this Province for the Time being to put this Act
in Execution who shall have Power to remove either of them in Case
of Misbehaviour or Disability to Act which Commissioners shall be

[Two Com-
missioners
to be nomi-
nated by the
Governor,]