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of Credit, or of any other Denomination, than by that Act is directed:
So help me God."
IV. And if such Printer, his Servant, or Apprentice, shall advisedly
Print, Stamp or Strike off any greater or larger Number of the Blank
Bills aforesaid, or of any other Denomination 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 Apprentice,
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.
V. And be it further Enacted, That the said Printer, shall not, by
himself, Servant, or any other Person by him employed, presume to
Print, Stamp or Strike off the said Bills of Credit, or any of them, but
in the Presence of one or more of the Commissioners or Trustees
aforesaid, who are hereby required and directed to be present, and
when all the said Bills of Credit shall be Printed, Stamped and Struck
off, as aforesaid, all the Stamps and Marks by which such impression
may be made, shall be delivered by the said Printer to the said Com-
missioners or Trustees, under the Penalty of Five Hundred Pounds
Current Money, to be recovered and applied as herein directed. And
the said Commissioners or Trustees are hereby required and directed
to receive the said Stamps and Marks into their Possession, and the
same safely to keep in their Office, under the Penalty of Five Hun-
dred Pounds Current Money, to be recovered and applied as herein
after directed.
VI. And be it further Enacted, That the said Commissioners or
Trustees, after the said Bills of Credit are Printed, Stamped and
Struck off, and by them Signed, Dated and Numbered, according to
the Directions of this Act, shall deposite and keep them in one of the
Iron Chests, now in the Paper Currency Office; and each Commis-
sioner or Trustee shall keep a Key, to the End that no Bills of Credit
which shall be signed, may be taken out or disposed of, but by or in
the Presence of all the Commissioners or Trustees; which Chest shall
be by them kept in the Repository built for the present Paper Cur-
rency. And the said Commissioners or Trustees are hereby impow-
ered and directed to issue and pay out the said Bills of Credit to the
Agents, and other Persons, herein after appointed to demand and
receive the same.
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VII. And be it further Enacted, that the said Commissioners or
Trustees shall, out of the said Bills of Credit, pay to the said Printer
for providing Materials for, and Printing, Stamping and Striking off
the said Bills of Credit amounting to Forty Five Thousand Pounds,
and doing and performing every Service by Virtue of this Act by him
to be performed, the Sum of Two Hundred Pounds, and no more.
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