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Delivered in and deposited in their care, and ihall
be responsible for the fafe keeping thereof, unless the
fame ihall be destroyed or taken away by the enemy
or their adherents. Provided always, That where
by reason of the situation of any township, precinCt
or ward, and its contiguity to the lines of the enemy,
it may be dangerous or unfafe to lodge any of the
said articles within the bounds of the fame, the said
contractor is hereby required to fix upon some fafe
and convenient place in one ofthe adjacent townships,
precinds or wards, as a depository, and to give no
tice of the fame as before mentioned, and of the per
son appointed to receive the said articles ; and the in
habitants of such township, precinCt or ward, con
tiguous to the enemy as aforefaid, ihall convey or
transport the articles by them tendered in payment of
tax, to the said depository accordingly.
22. And it is hereby enabled, That the said contract
ors shall forthwith cause the wheat delivered as afore
faid, to be manufactured into flour, packed and bar
relled, and the frefh beef and pork so delivered, to
be well cured or failed, packed and put into calks or
barrels, containing as follows:
Each calk or barrel of beef two hundred and for
ty pounds net weights
Each calk or barrel of pork two hundred and twen
ty pounds net weight. And the said contractors hav
ing firft caused the said calks or barrels of beef, pork
and flour to be branded in manner directed in the aft,
intitled, A supplemental act to the abl, intitled, An Aft
for procuring provifons for the use of the army, and
other supplies for carrying on the war, and for fettling
the publick accounts of this slate, passed March the eigh
teenth, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, and
the weight to be marked thereon, shall immediately
cause the fame to be transported or conveyed to such
place or places within the state as shall be ordered
by the fuperintendant of purchases of this state, by
the direction of his Excellency the Commander in
Chief of the army of the United States, or of the
quartermalter (or commissary) general of the said
army ; and the said fuperintendant is hereby requir
ed to give seasonable directions to the said contractors
accordingly.
23. And be it enabled by the authority aforefaid, That
the said contractors respectively shall forthwith con
vey or cause to be conveyed or transported all such
articles of clothing as may be received in payment of
tax as aforefaid, to the clothier of this state, taking
his receipt for the lame, which shall be a fufficient
voucher to the said contractor for such delivery, in
the fettiement of his accounts with the fuperintendant.
24. And be it enabled, That the contractors of such
counties where salt shall not be received in payment
of the said tax, shall draw from the collector of the
county such sum or sums of money as may be neces
sary for the purchase thereof, for curing the frefh beef,
mutton or pork delivered as aforefaid, and also for
the purchase of calks or barrels, whole receipts for
the sums so drawn shall be a fufficient vouchers to the
county collector for so much money, in his fettie
ment with the treasurer ; and the said contractors are
hereby required, as foou as the said tax and each as
sessment thereof shall be collected and the said ar
ticles delivered in, to transmit an account or return
thereof to the fuperintendant, who shall draw out
a general account of the fame, to be forwarded as
directed by the ad, intitled, An Act jor the more
speedy and efcblual procurement of f applies for the ar
my ofthe United States, passed December the fourth,
one thousand seven hundred and eighty. ,'
25. And be it further enabled, That the fuperintend
ant of purchases of this date shall draw from the trea
sury such sums of money as may be necessary for the
difeharge of the accounts for transportation of the ar
ticles collected in payment of tax as aforefaid, and
for cooperage and packing, whensoever the fame shall
be regularly made out and transmitted to him by the
laid contractors.
26. And be it further enabled, That the said con
tractors shall be entitled to receive the fame allow
ances on the articles by them delivered in pursuance
of the directions of this aft, as are by law granted
them for the purchase of the fame, betides the charg
es of cooperage, packing, receiving and storing the
articles received in payment of taxes aforefaid; and
if any contractor shall wilfully pack up, or fuffer to be
packed up, any beef or pork delivered as aforefaid,
without being properly and fufficiently cured or pick
led, or shall pack up the said beef, pork or flour
in inefficient calks, or made of wood not fufficiently
seasoned, so that the said beef, pork or flour receive
damage by such mismanagement, he shall be liable to
pay the value of the said beef, pork or flour damaged
as afcrefaid, in gold or silver, or other current mo
ney equivalent, to be recovered with costs, by the
fuperintendant of purchases of this state, in any court
where the action may be cognizable, and paid into the
trerfury for the use of the state, and shall moreover,
for such wilful mismanagement or other negicCt or
refufal to do or perform any duty, matter or thing
enjoined on him in this aCt, forfeit and pay the sum
of Twenty Pounds, to be recovered with costs, and
applied as aforefaid.
27. And be it enabled, That the collector of each
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30. And be it further enabled, That where in any
townfllip, precinCt or ward, it may be dangerous or
unfafe for a collector, assessor or conllable alone and
unaffilted, to perform the duties of their several offi
ces, it shall and may be lawful for the laid assessor,
collector or constable, and they aie hereby respec
tively required to make application to the colonel or
commanding officer of any regiment in the county,
for such a number of men as may be fufficient as a
guard for their protection, which the said colonel or
commanding officer is hereby authorized and required
to grant accordingly, by calling out so many classes
of the militia of his regiment as may be fufficient for
that purpose, upon an oath or affirmation of such
assessor, collector or constable being to him produced,
taken before a justice of the peace of the county,
that he verily believes and thinks it dangerous to pro
ceed in the duties of his office without such guard ;
and the officer, non-commissioned officers and pri
vates so employed, shall be admitted to do the said
duty on horseback, and ihall receive the fame pay
while engaged in the said service, as is allowed to
horsemen while in actual militia duty, to be paid in
the fame manner, on a certificate from the said as
sessor, collector or constable, fpecifying the number
of days that were so employed ; and the officer or
officers who shall command the said guard, shall deli
ver to the assessor abftraCts of the payrolls of the
said service, who are hereby required to assess the
amount of the fame upon the estates of the persons
in such districts where the said guard was employed,
in addition to their quota of the next tax.
31. And be it enabled by the authority aforefaid, That
in every case where it shall so happen, that the tax
by this aCt laid cannot by reason of an actual inva
sion of the enemy be assessed or collected within the
times herein before limited, the fame shall be assessed
and collected as soon as the said invasion fliall cease
and the enemy fliall be removed.
32. And be it also enabled, That the aCt, intitled,
An ACt to raise the sum of Three Million Three Hun
dred and Seventy-Five Thousand Pounds in the state
of New-Jersey, fliall be, and the fame is hereby re
vived, so far forth as is necessary for the purposes of
this act, and for no other intent or purpose whatso
ever.
county within this state shall make out a general ac
count containing the amount of the articles of sup
ply delivered in as aforefaid, and the quantity and va
lue of each, at the price herein before affixed, ac
cording to the receipts to him paid forward by the
collectors ot the several townships, precinCts or wards
within such county, and shall transmit the fame to the
fuperintendant of purchases of this state, together
with an account of the sums drawn from him by the
contractor of the county, agreeably to the directions
of this aft ; and the said county collector shall also
transmit the amount of the receipts for clothing to
him paid forward, and the quantity and quality of
each article delivered in as aforefaid, with their va
lue, as fpecified in the said receipts, to the clothier
and auditor of accounts of this state.
28. And it is hereby further provided and enabled,
That no frefh beef, frefh pork, or frefh mutton, other
than beef or mutton upon the leg, shall be received
in payment of the tax directed to be railed by this
ad, or of any part thereof, before the fifteenth day
of October next ; and in case any beef delivered on
the leg ihall be slaughtered for the use of the troops
or militia stationed for the defence of the frontiers,
the hides and tallow shall be delivered by the contract
or to the commissary of hides of the United States,
or his deputy, and receipts taken for the fame, or
disposed of for the use of the state, and accounted
for by the said contractor in his fettiement with the
fuperintendant.
29. And be it further enabled, That each township,
precinCt or ward collector shall, before he proceeds
in the duties required ofhim by this aCt, take the fol
lowing qualification before a justice of the peace of
the county, viz.
" 1 A. B. do swear (or if one of the people called
" Quakers, affirm) that I will not fell or exchange
" any of the gold or silver coin which I shall receive
" in payment of the tax directed to be collected by
" virtue of the directions of the ad, intitled, An
" Aft to raise the value of One Hundred and Fifty
" Thousand Pounds in money and other fu,plies, in
" the fate of New-Jersey, and for other purposes
" therein mentioned, for any other money, or for cer
" tificates ; and that I will not purchase any of the
" bills of credit issued on the faith of this state, or
" any certificate issued on the faith of this state, or
" any certificate allowed to be received in payment
" of the said tax, in order to pay the fame forwaid
" to the collector of the county, for the difeharge of
“ the tax by me collected." And each county col
lector, and every constable who shall make distress,
shall take the fame qualification, with the necessary
variations; and the said county and township col
lectors and constable shall deliver a certificate of their
having taken the said qualification, from the jultice
who administered the fame, together with the monies
by them paid forward, agreeably to the directions of
this act.
33. And be it further enabled, That the treasurer of
the state for the time being, shall, on receipt of any
of the bills of credit, issued on the faith of this state,
in pursuance of the resolutions of Congress of the
eighteenth of March, One Thousand Seven Hundred
and Eighty,in payment ofthe tax directed to be raised
by this aft, or of any part thereof, cause the said bills
to be stamped or marked with red ink, in presence of
one of the signers of the fame, with the letters int. pd.
on the face ofthe bills, and also with the letters and fi
gures expressing the period of time to which the said in
terest is allowed, when to him paid forward by the re
fpedive county collectors,and shall lay an account ofthe
bills stamped or marked as afoi efaid, their denomi
nations and value, certified by the perlon in whole
presence the said bills were stamped or narked as
aforefaid, and also an account of the charg arising
therefrom, tor allowance and payment, before the
Legislature at their next fublequent fitting.
34. And be it enacted, That the said treasurer shall
also cause all bills of the currency aforefaid, which
he shall receive in payment of any debt due to the
state or which may be delivered to him out of the
continental loan-office in this state, in exchange for
the bills of credit of the United States, after the pub
lication of this aft, or winch may have ueen received
by h,m in exchange as aforefaid, and not issued out
of the treasury of the state before the publication
hereof, to be stamped or marked in presence of one
of the signers as aforefaid, and also with such letters
as may express the period of time to which the laid
interest is allowed or counted, as by him received in
payment of any debt due to the state, or from the
continental loan-office of this state as aforefaid, and
shall lay an account ofthe fame, certified in manner
before directed, and of all charges thereby incurred,
before the Legislature at their next fitting thereafter,
for the purpose before-mentioned.
35. Andit is hereby further enabled, That the conti
nental loan-officer of this state shall cause all the bills
of the currency aforefaid, which now remain in his
office as the proportion of the United States, or
which may be hereafter left for their use by ex
change, to be stamped or marked in manner afore
faid, in the presence ot the treasurer of the state for
the time being, or of one of the signers of the said
bills, and fliall lay an account of the fame, and the
charges arising from this service, before the Legisla
ture, certified in manner before-mentioned, for al—
lowance and payment.
36. And be it further enabled, That the bills stamped
or marked as aforefaid, shall not bear any interest
thereafter, any law, usage or custom to the contrary
notwithstanding.
37. And be it enacted by the authority afcrefaid, That
it shall and may be lawful for the treasurer of the
state for the time being, and he is hereby authorized
and required to appropriate so much of the gold and
silver coin by him received in payment of the tax di
rected io be raised by this a&, as may be necessary
for the difeharge of the firft year's interest on such of
the bills of credit issued on the faith of this state,
pursuant to the resolutions of Congress of the eigh
teenth of March, Oue Thousand Seven Hundred and
Eighty, as shall be to him tendered for that purpose
after the firft day of January, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Eighty-two, and to caule the fame to
be stamped or marked with the letters and figures
following, in red ink, int. fed. 1 yr. before he shall
re-deliver the fame to the owner ; and in case any of
the bills so stamped or marked, shall thereafter be re
ceived by the treasurer in payment of taxes or of debts
due to the date, he fliall caule the fame to be stamped
or marked as directed in a former feCtion of this act,
allowing the interest thereon from the ninth day of
June, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one,
to the time of receiving the fame into the treasury, and
an account of all charges arising from the periorm
ance of the said services, shall be laid before the
Legislature in like manner, for their allowance and
payment.
38. AND WHEREAS through the negleCt of
the collectors of some of the counties in this state,
in not hiving transmitted the duplicates of the as
sessments to the Legislature, agreeably to the direc
tions of an ad, intitled, An ACt to raise the sum of
Three Million Three Hundred and Seventy-five Thou
sand Pounds in the state of New-Jersey, the quotas
laid upon the several counties by this aft, may be dis
proportionate ; Be it therefore enabled by the authority
aforefaid, That if it shall appear on the next fettie
ment of the quotas of the several counties, by a
more clear and complete account of the several per
sons, articles and things made rateable therein, that
the quota of any county, as laid in this aft, is greater
than its just proportion, the surplus shall be credited
to such county in the fettiement of its next quota.
39. And be it enabled by the authority aforefaid, That
the several assessors, collectors and freeholders, while
employed in the services herein required of them
refpeCtively, fliall be exempted from actual service in
the militia.
Passed at Princeton, June 21, 1781.
M. EWING, jun.
Clerk of the General Assembly.