Acts. 243

seven thousand Bills of one sixth part of a Dollar each and twenty
seven thousand Bills of One Ninth part of a Dollar each and the
said Commissioners are hereby directed and required to use the
best of their Care and Diligence that the said Bills according to
their Respective Denominations aforesaid and according to the
Manner and fform aforesaid be forthwith printed and that the
Number of any of the Denominations thereof be not exceeded or any
Clandestine or fraudulent Practice used by the Printer his Ap-
prentices Servants or others concerned therein.

Liber R. G.
1773

[The Com-
missioners
to see the
Printing
performed.]

And be it enacted That the Printer who shall be employed in
printing and stamping the said Bills of Credit and all his Ap-
prentices 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

[Printers,
&c. to be
sworn.]

I AB do swear that I will truly faithfully and honestly perform
the Duty of Printer agreeable to the Directions of an Act of As-
sembly of this Province entitled an Act for emitting Bills of Credit
and applying part thereof 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 except such
Sheets as may be so blotted unfair or imperfect in the impressing or
printing thereof that the same shall be unfit for Use So help me God."

[The Oath.]

And if such Printer himself or any of his Apprentices or Servants
with his Privity shall advisedly print or stamp any greater Number
of the Bills aforesaid or of any other Denominations than by this
Act is limitted and expressed Contrary to the true Interest and
Meaning thereof such Printer shall forfeit and pay the Sum of
five, hundred pounds Current Money to be recovered by Action of
Debt or Bill of Indictment wherein not more than one Imparlance
shall be allowed and any Apprentice or Servant of such Printer
who shall advisedly print or stamp any greater Number of the Bills
aforesaid or of any other Denominations than by this Act is
Limitted and expressed Contrary to the true Intent & Meaning
thereof shall on Conviction in due Course of Law receive Corporal
Punishment by Whipping not exceeding thirty nine Stripes.

p. 285

[Penalty on
the Printer,
&c. for
Breach of
Duty.]

Be it also enacted That the Printer of the said Bills shall not by
himself Servants or any other Person by him employed presume to
Print Stamp Stitch or bind the said Bills or any of them but in the
Presence of one or both of the said Commissioners who are hereby
required and directed to be present and at all Times when there shall
be any Intermission of the said Work of Printing or binding the
said Commissioners shall safely and securely Lock up the Press
Stamps and Flowers with which the said Work shall be performed
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

[One or
both the
Commis-
sioners to
attend the
Press, &c.]