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the persons appointed to countersign the same ; and the Treasurer shall be accountable for such notes so delivered 

 to him. 



II. And be it further enacted that when and as often as money shall become due and payable by virtue of 

 any act or acts already passed, or that may be passed during the present session of General Assembly, and war- 

 rants for the same are produced for payment to the Treasurer of the Province, he shall pay the amount of such 

 warrants on demand in gold or silver or in the said notes, to the person or persons entitled to receive the same at 

 his or their election which notes shall again be received at the Treasury, and also by the collectors of Import and 

 Excise for the several Districts of this Province at their specified value, equal to the like value in gold or silver 

 when and as often as the same are presented and offered in payment of duties and the interest from the day of 

 their being issued in payment computed and allowed. 



III. And be it further enacted : That the Treasurer of the Province shall, on the day, and before, he issues, 

 any of the notes in payment as aforesaid, write on the same the day of the month and the year they are so issued, 

 and sign the name thereto, and from the time so written by him on the said notes so issued, and they shall bear 

 lawful interest. 



IV. And be it further enacted : That the said notes or any of them when received by the collectors of Import 

 and Excise for the several districts in this Province, in payment for duties, the said collectors shall write on the 

 said notes the day of the month and the year the same where so received ; and the person or persons delivering 

 them in payment shall sign his name thereto ; and the said notes, when received by the Treasurer of the Pro- 

 vince from the said collectors shall not be again issued from the Treasury, but shall be cancelled in such manner 

 as the Lieutenant-Governor or commander in chief for the time being shall deem expedient. 



v. And be it further enacted That if any person or persons whatsoever shall counterfeit any of the notes 

 aforesaid, issued by virtue of this Act, or alter any so that they shall appear to be of greater value than when 

 originally issued or shall knowingly pass or give in payment, any of the notes aforesaid so counterfeited or altered 

 every person convicted thereof shall be set on the pillory for the space of one whole hour and one of the ears of 

 the offender shall be nailed thereto and such offender shall also be publickly whipped through the streets of the 

 town or place where such offence shall be committed and shall pay all charges of the prosecution. 



VI. And be it further enacted That so soon as by the report of the joint committee of His Majesty's council 

 and the House of Assembly in their annual examination of the public accounts it shall appear that the state of 

 the Treasury will admit the calling in to the value of two thousand pounds and upwards of the notes so issued 

 and paid out the Treasurer shall, by advertisement in the Royal Gazette, appoint a time at which he will receive 

 such notes, and pay the amount of the same together with the interest due thereon in gold or silver, giving sixty 

 days notice of such redemption and mentioning the number so required to be produced for payment calling in 

 first the notes of the largest amount then in circulation, and on failure of such notes being produced at the time 

 limited all future interest on the same shall cease and no other or greater amount of interest shall be paid on such 

 notes so called in than was due and payable at the date the same were required to be presented at the Treasury 

 aforesaid. 



VII. And be it further enacted that the Treasurer of the Province together with the persons appointed to 

 countersign the said notes are hereby empowered to contract for and superintend the printing and completing 

 the blanks of such notes as are directed to be issueil by virtue of this Act. 



VIII. And be it further enacted that in case the Lieutenant-Governor or commander-in-chief shall, by his 

 warrant or warrants require the said commissioners to re-issue notes to the amount of the notes so received in 

 payment at the Treasury or the amount of any part of such notes it shall and may be lawful for the faid com- 

 missioners to issue new notes to the amount which such warrant or warrants shall require provided the amount 

 of the new notes so to be issued shall not exceed the amount of the notes so from time to time received at the 

 Treasury. 



APPENDIX IV. 

 1817.-57th George III, Cap. ii. 



An Act in amendment of an Act, passed in the twenty-eighth year of His Majesty's reign, entitled an Act to 

 prevent the circulation of base and counterfeit halfpence, and other copper coin and to establish the current value 

 of English crowns, half crowns and shillings in this Province. 



Whereas notwithstanding the jirovisions contained in said recited act, many ignorant and evil disposed per- 

 sons still continue to import and circulate, as halfpence, large quantities of base copper coin, and whereas expe- 

 rience has proved that a sufficient quantity of copper coin or palf-pence, such as do legally pass current in Great 

 Britain and Ireland cannot be obtained in this province whereby the trade of the same suffers great injury and 

 inconvenience, for remedy whereof: 



