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Bills of Credit.
Maritime Courts.
AC TS and L A W S,
Paffcd b7 the Great 'nd CeneraI Court or AfTembly ot
. the Commonwealth of 1aacbjJ2c:',ftts : Begun and
held at lioflon, in the County of Suffolk, on Wed-
ncf;lay 6e Thirtieth Day of May, A. D. 1781;
and from thence continucd by Adjournment to
Wednrfday the twelfth Day of Septemwr follow.
ing, and tlhen met'
C H A P. I.
,An A61 in Addition to an A6, inticled, n Aa more
effecually to punifli Perfons \vho fl'all be convided
of wiltfully and corrupcly.pafFing counterfeit Lills of
Credit.
TYY IERE,11; fone Dubi have a}l/en ,4nce The paffiz the afore/aid
TF'111, whtber the jtqiices o/ the ,upreme Judicial Court arte not re-
ftrained f, on zi.flt.iing any other Puni/hvict on thbfe who /hal! be Mainb1t;
convicted owilru, : patir,, c,.un:er/eit Bid'i of Credit, thin a FiNe not exceed-
ixg ile Sn x ntotzn in pid l1at:
Be i' cnac, ed o,, the Senate and Houle of Riprefentatives in General Couri
iflen:'b'ed, aid by the Iuthorily of the lame, I hat the true I:tent and Mean- j.utc t
ing of the At aoiefaid, is to enable the Jualices aforefiid, to increakfe the p' cresafe the
CuIaUy Pena'tfiannexed to the Offence aforeIizd by the forn, er Ads of the cuniar, re
..y *aarIad
State, and not to rhrain them from infl-iiing at their Dlifcrcuon any corpo° tke Offtac
val Punifhmtne',t which. by any of the A&s ot this State they ,sere before au-
ihorifed to ir tid, awd that the fame A& ought to he fo coriftrued and under-
fttood.. And that (ihe laidjuftices be, and they are hereby fully aurhorif'd and
smpower:d to infli6 any fuch coiporal Fucifliien the aforefaid A not- jI-Mcca rr
ithiftanding. 'A ,,UoI
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[This At paffrd &pte,'nber 19, i78i.]
Put.UlhIImta
C H A P. II
An Ac to regulate the Mode of 'Procedure in undif-
puted Cadfes in the Maritime Courts.
7HI RE4S the prefent Mode oj Procedure in undifputed Caufes in the
v'Iv Maritine Courts, is attended with great Inconvenience, Bxpence and P;.ambl;
D)elavs to the Parties concerned in Jueb Suits, as well a; 1k 7urj attending
'taid Court i Thertfort, . ' U1
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