244 Assembly Proceedings, November 16-December 23, 1773.

Liber R. G.

1773
[The Stamps
and Flow-
ers to be
delivered to
the Com-
missioners,
and depos-
ited in one
of the Iron
Chests, &c.
under Pen-
alty.]
[Allowance
to the
Printer for
his Ser-
vices.]

Bills shall be printed and stamped the Stamps and Flowers by
which such Impressions shall be made shall be delivered by the
Printer to the said Commissioners under the penalty of five hun-
dred 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 afore-
said And the said Commissioners 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 stitch and bind the said Bills of Credit fifteen
hundred of the said Dollars for his said Services and the Paper
Ink and other Materials Necessary for the said Work

[Persons
counterfeit-
ing Bills of
Credit to
suffer
Death.]

And be it further enacted That any Person or Persons who shall
forge or Counterfeit any of the said Bills of Credit or alter the
Sum expressed in any of the said Bills of Credit 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 knowing the same to be Counterfeit
forged or altered and who shall be thereof Convict by due Course of
Law or stand mute or peremptorily 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

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taken to be Indorsed on the Back thereof which Bill or Bills shall
be safely kept by the same Provincial or County Justice and be forth
coming when there may be Occasion

[Commis-
sioners to
sign Bills of
Credit to the
Amount of
346,666 2/3
Dollars for
Emission,

&C.}

And be it further enacted That the said Commissioners after the
same Bills are so printed shall from Time to Time as Occasion may
require sign and number so many of the said Bills of Credit as shall
amount to Three hundred and forty six thousand and six hundred
and sixty six Dollars and two third parts of a Dollar in the Whole
for Emission and no more and Number Counterparts of them and
such of them as shall from Time to Time be so signed shall Deposit
and keep in one of the Iron Chests now in their Office with two
Substantial Locks of Different Construction and that each Com-
missioner shall keep a Key to the End that no Bills of Credit which
shall be signed be taken out or disposed of but by or in the Presence
of both of the said Commissioners which Chest shall be kept by
them in the Repositary of the said Office and their Office shall be
kept and all the Business Relative to this Act shall be done in the
House called the Paper Currency Office belonging to the Province
and the said Commissioners shall keep true fair and Methodical