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Fine for palling counterfeit Bills. Methuen.
ACTS AND LAWS,
Paffed by the Great and Gcneral Court or Afiirably of
the S ate of the Majfachlljtts-Bay, in New.England :
Be'gun and held at Boflon, in the County of Suffolk,
on Wednefday the Twenty-feventh Day of May, Anno
Domini, 1778 ; and from thence continued by Ad-
journments to Wednefday the Sixth Day of Yuaniary
1 779, and then met,
C H A P. I-
An A61 more effctually to punifl Perfons who (hall be
convi6ed of wilfully and corruptly paling counterfeit
Bills of Public Credit.
B E it enafled by the Council and Houft of Reprejentatives in General Court preimblk4
a/ffembled, and by the .4uthority # the fame, That any Perfon who fliA[
hereafter be convieled before the Superiour Court of Judicature Co,,rt of
Afflze and General Goal Delivery, of heteafter wilfully, wittingly awd de-
ceidtully, paffing any counterfeit Bill, made in Imitation of the true Bills rf
pub!ic Credit of the United States of America, or either of them, fh-l be fi-.
ned, tj the Ufa of the Government, a Sum not exceeding Five Vh'oufiand r
P6u;,dis, at the Difcietion of tho Court before whom the Convi&ion may be. tr *ii BII of
11nd be it fvrtber enafted by the Atbority a/orefaid, Thai when any Per- public , r ;rt
of' tht U,:tt~l
fon f1 11 heit-aftcr be convicted of partiog deceitfully, wiltully and corruptly, ststtaOfAM9.1
any cou'iterfait and falfe Bill, made in Imitation of the true Bills of Credit rica.
of the U:iired States uf 4merica, or either of them, before the palling this prons o
and for which Crime lie fhall be liable to be im*prifoned or fet on the Gallows : via',, to fet
And tht laid Pvrf-i% ( convi1ed, fliall, before Sentence paffed upon him, by a, ,h I'W
Memnorid, in Writirg,. petition the Court before whom the Cnnvi~tion may 11ums, 'h.e1
b, thit -,:ev would, inflead of fuch Tmp.,ifonment or fetting on the Gallows,
let a F~ic upon him, Lhe LlnieCourt flall be fully empowered to omit in their
ScnrP.ce crdeiing fuch Perfon, fo convicted, to be [et on the Gallows or im-
prifoned, and to fire him to the Ule of the Government, in 4 Sor not ex-
ceeding the Sum of Five Thoujand Pounds.
[The foregoing 117 pa5,'d 7anuary 2 2.]
C H A P. II.
An A for fetting off a Number of the Inhabitants of the
Town of Mllethzen, in the County of Elfex, into a fepa-
rate Parifl.
PrutmblI,
Y>WT HER ES for Ike Satisfa~Iioo of a Ntmber of the Inhabitants of tb
rrTcw of MCthucLi, it the County of 1 ffcx, witk Re/peg to their at-
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