The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1780-07-19 00:00:00, page 1

14. And, to the end that evil minded, difaffeCted
or interested persons, may be prevented from depre
ciating or destroying the credit and currency of the
said bills of credit in this aft directed to be issued up
on the faith of this state, Be it Enabled by the autho
rity' aforefaid, That every person within this state
naving goods or chattels, lands or tenements for sale,
who shall refufe to fell the fame for the bills of credit
so to be issued as aforefaid, or who shall fell or offer
for sale such goods or chattels, lands or tenements at
a lower price for gold or silver, or who shall ask, de
mand or receive more in the fa ; d bills of credit in ex
change for any gold or silver coin, bullion, or any o
ther species of money whatsoever, than the nominal
sum or amount thereof in Spanish milled dollars as
the said bills are herein before rated in this aCt, and
shall be thereof legally convifted, Ihall, at the dis
cretion of the court before which such conviction shall
be had, forfeit any sum not exceeding two hundred
pounds for each offence, or fuffer imprisonment for
any term not exceeding three months.
I, AND WHEREAS it is neceffafy, in order to
comply with the said recited relolutions of the eigh
teenth of March last, that the whole of the bills of
the currency of the United States now in circulation
fhoirld be called in by tax, that the fame may be de
hroyed ; Be it therefore Enabled by the authority afore
faid, I'hat the sum of three million seven hundred
and fifty' thousand pounds shall be assessed, levied and
STATE of NEW-JERSEY.
An ACT for establishing a fund for jinking and re
deeming the proportion of the bills of credit of tb'e
United States assigned as the quota of this fate.
( Continued from our lafl.)
Section io.
AND be it Enabled by the authority aforefaid,
That it Ihall and may be lawful for the
treasurer of the state for the time being,
and he is hereby required as soon as any of
the laid bills so to be issued ihall be numbered, ligned
and completed, and to him delivered, to give in ex
change to any person who shall make application to
him for that purpose any sum in the said bills for con
tinental currency, at the rate of one dollar of the said
bills for forty dollars of the continental currency:
Provided always, That the treasurer be not authoriz
ed to exchange any of the said new money for the pre
sent continental currency after the sum of twelve mil
lion of dollars, assigned by Congress as the quota of
the continental currency to be funk by this ftaie, ihall
come into his hands by taxes or otherwise.
11. And be it further Enabled by the authority afore
faid, That from and after the publication of this aft,
no certificate ihall be given by the county contractors
appointed in or by virtue of the aft, intitled, “ A
" supplemental ad to the act, intitled, An ad for
“ procuring provisions for the use of the army, and
" other supplies for carrying on the war, and for set
" tling the publick accounts of this state," to be paid
in any other currency than in the said bills of credit so
to be issued agreeably to the directions of this all.
12. And be it further Enabled, That each and every
person who ihall counterfeit or alter any of the said
bills of credit directed to be issued upon the faith of
this state by this ad, or ihall utter or pass the fame
knowing them to be counterfeited or altered as afore
faid, is hereby declared to be guilty of felony, and
being thereof legally convicted, Ihall fuffer death with
out benefit of clergy.
13. And be it Enabled by the authority aforefaid,
That the said bills of credit so to be issued upon the
faith of this state, ihall be, and the fame are hereby
declared to be a legal tender in all payments of money
equal with gold and silver, and each dollar of the said
bills of credit, exclusive of the interest thereon, Ihall
pass at the rate and be deemed equal in value to a
Spanilh milled dollar, weighing seventeen penny
weight and fix grains, or seven Ihillings and fix-pence
lawful money of this state, or four Ihillings and six
pence sterling ; and eight of the said paper dollars or
bills of credit, exclusive of the interelt thereon, ihall
be taken and deemed equal in value to one Portugal
half-johannes, weighing nine pennyweight, and in the
fame proportion for all other gold and silver coin ;
and that the interest arising on the said bills be valued
in the fame proportion : And every person who Ihall
refufe to take any of the said bills of credit, when the
fame ihall be properly tendered, in payment of any
debt or demand whatsoever, provided the whole of
such debt or demand be so tendered, shall be forever
barred from suing for or recovering the fame in any
court in this state; and if any suit or suits fliall be
commenced for such debt or demand after tender and
refufal as aforefaid, the defendant may plead pay
ment, and give this aft and the special matter there
of in evidence.
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
[Vol. nij
WEDNESDA Y, July 19, 1780.
By the county of Somerset, the sum of one hun
dred and sixty- one thouland lix hundred and twenty
five pounds for each payment.
By the county of Burlington, the sum of one hun
dred and ninety thousand two hundred and eighty
three pounds five ihillings for each payment.
By the county of Gloucester, the sum of one hun
dred and fifty-two thousand lour hundred pounds
for each payment.
By the county of Salem, the sum of one hundred
and twenty-five thousand nine hundred and two
pounds ten shillings for each payment.
By the county of Cape-May, the sum of thirty
nine thousand pounds seventeen shillings and six
pence for each payment.
By the county of Hunterdon, the sum of two hun
dredand fifty-three thousand nine hundred and thirty
fix pounds seventeen Ihillings and fix-pence for each
payment.
By the county of Morris, the sum of one hundred
and fifty-four thousand nine hundred and fittecn
pounds tive shillings tor each payment.
By the county of Cumberland, the sum of ninety
thousand three hundred and ninety pounds for each
payment.
By the county of Sussex, the sum of one hundred
and fifty-thouland pounds for each payment.
17. And be it Enacted by the authority aforefaid,
That the assessors of the several townships, precincts
or wards in this state, Ihall, in conjunction with the
freeholders chosen agreeably to the directions of the
laid recited adt, affels the said sum of one million eight
hundred and feventy-five thouland pounds, the firft
payment of the sum directed to be raised in this aft,
on the duplicate ot the second aflellment made in
virtue of the said recited act, and upon the principles
therein held forth; and the assessors of the several
townships, precincts or wards in each county Ihal
refpedtively take a true account, and make out an
exact lift or the perlons and things made rateable in the
laid recited act 111 the manner therein prescribed, for
the second payment of the sum directed to be railed in
this act, between the firft and twenty-fifth days of
December next; and the said assessors fliall meet to
gether for fettling and adjuring the quotas of the se
veral townships, precincts or wards in each county
at the places in the said aft directed, for the second
payment of the turn directed to be raised in this aCt,
on the firft Tuesday in January next; and, after hav
ing fettled the said quotas, shall, in conjunction with the
raised on the federal persons, articles and things made
rateable by the aft, intitled, " An aft to raise the
" sum of three million three hundred and seventy
" five thousand pounds in the state of New-Jersey,"
and in the manner and form therein directed, and
paid into the trealury of this state in two equal pay
ments at the periods following, that is to fay. The
lum of one million eight hundred arid feventy-five
thousand pounds, the firft payment thereof, to be le
vied, raised and paid into the treasury on or before
the frit day of November next; arid the sum of one
million eight hundred and feventy-five thousand
pounds, the second payment thereof, on or before
the firft day of March, which will be in the year of
our Lord one thousand seven hundred arid eighty
one; which said assessments shall be received from
the several inhabitants of this state in the bills of cre
dit heretofore emitted by the United States in Con
gress assembled, or in the bills of credit in this aCt di
reCtedt aiie issued upon the filth of this state, at the
rate ot one dollar of the last mentioned bills in lieu
of forty of the continental currency.
16. And be it Enabled by the Authority aforefaid,
That in alfeffing each of the said payments of the laid
sum all lands, horses, cattle and hogs, and all and
every of the certainties in the laid act made rateable,
shall be valued and rated as in the said act is directed ;
and that the said sum of three million seven hundred
and fifty thousand pounds Ihall be assessed, levied and
raised by the several counties in this state in the pro
portion following, videlicet,
By the county of Bergen, exclusive of the townfliip
of Bergen, the sum of ninety-fix thousand nine hun
dred and thirty-one pounds seventeen Ihillings and
fix-pence for each payment.
By the county of Eflex, the sum of one hundred
and thirty-fix thousand two hundred and fifty-eight
pounds two Killings and fix-pence for each pay ment.
By the county of Middlesex, the sum of one hun
dred and forty-twothouland four hundred and nine
teen pounds seven shillings and fix-pence lor each
payment.
By the county of Monmouth, th^ sum of one hun
dred and eighty thousand nine hundred and thirty
fix pounds seventeen ihillings and fix-pence for each
payment.
THE
cies occuring by death, removal, refufal or neglect of
duty, or otherwise, fliall be supplied in the fame man
ner, and each and every delinquent shall be fubjeft to
the fame punishment, fine or forfeiture, and the fame
mode shall be pursued for the recovery of such fine
or forfeiture, as also for the recovery of the tax or
assessment laid upon any lands, tenements, goods or
chattels within the state, as is mentioned, prescribed
and directed in the said before recited aft : Provided
always, That the several assessors shall be allowed
only half fees on the firft assessment directed to be
made by this aft.
21. And be it farther Enabled, That the commiffi
opers of appeal fliall each of them be entitled to re-
said freeholders, rate and assess each person, article
and thing made rateable as aforefaid, according to the
directions in the laid recited aft prescribed; and the
laid afieffors fliall deliver to the collectors of their
townships, precinds or wards refpeCtively, true and
exact duplicates of the firft affefl'ment on or before the
firft day of September next, and of the second assess
ment on or before the twelfth day of January next,
exact copies of which they shall also deliver to the col
lectors of their refpedive counties, who are hereby
required to transmit the lame to the legislature on the
hrit day of their next subsequent fitting thereafter ;
which duplicate fliall be made in the form in the said
recited act prescribed.
18. And be it Enabled by the authority aforefaid,
That the several assessors and freeholders shall, pre
vious to their engaging in the duties of their offices,
take before any justice of the peace of the county to
which they belong, the lame qualification as is di
reCteu to be taken by them respectively in the said re
cited ad, substituting only the title of this act in lieu
of the title of the said recited aCL
19. And be it Enabled by the authority aforefaid,
I hat the collector o^each townlhip, precinCt erward
in tliis state, shall, within twenty days after the re
ceipt of the dup'.cate and assessment aforefaid from
the assessor of the fame, make demand of the tax laid
upon each person within such town/hip, precinct or
ward, in person or by notice left at his place of abode,
and shall deliver a lift containing the name and fit
name of every person who fliall negled or refufe to
pay his tax within fifteen days after the expiration of
the time # above limited, with the sum due from each,
to fomt justice of the peace of the county, who Ihall
thereupon proceed as in the seventeenth fedion ofthe
said recited act is directed ; and the said collector shall
deliver the duplicate of the firft assessment on or be
fore the twentieth day of October next, and the du
plicate of the second assessment on or before the twen
tieth day of February next, together with the Turns
collected thereon, and such forfeitures as he may re
ceive for the life of the state, to the collector of the
county to which he belongs, who is hereby required
to pay to the treasurer of this state the sums by him
received on the firft assessment made in virtue of this
act on or before the firft day of November next, and
the films received on the second assessment on or be
fore the firft day of March next, taking his receipts
for the fame.
20. And be it Enabled by the authority aforefaid,
a . hat each and every justice ofthe peace, cpunty col
lector, affeftor, precinft, townlhip or ward collector,
freeholder and constable, and each and every other
person on whom any duty is enjoined in the said recit--
cd aft to which this act is referred, is hereby required
to perform the like duties accruing or arising under
this aft, and shall be vested with the lame powers,
receive the fame fees and rewards, be fubjeC tto the
fame penalties, fines and forfeitures for neglect or
refufal of duty, to be recovered in the fame manner,
ihall be entitled to the like exemptions, and all vacan-
ceive the sum of lix pounds by the day for the services
enjoined on them in this and the said recited act, in
lieu of the wages allowed them by the fourth fedion
of the act, intitled, " An act to afeertain the duty of
" commissioners of appeal," passed the fifth day of
June, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven ;
which fees so to be paid to the said commissioners, as
also the fees and rewards, fines and forfeitures herein
before required and enjoined, shall be paid in conti
nental currency or in the bills of credit to be issued
on the faith of this state at the rate herein before
mentioned ; and that the said commissioners of ap
peal fliall give notice to the said assessor, or to one
or more ot the said freeholders, of the time and place
appointed for the hearing and determining of appeals
in the townlhip for which they were appointed, which
notice the said assessors or freeholders are hereby re
quired to obey, and attend accordingly.
22. And be it Enabled by the authority aforefaid, That
in every case where it shall so happen that the tax by
this aft laid, cannot, by reason of the vicinity of the
[Numb. 134.]