. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ty thereof may receive such punishment as bythe court shall be adjudged. The introduction, in 1709, of poorly printed billsof credit, the ease with which they could be coun-terfeited, the secret recesses of the hill countryof Northern New Jersey, the wilderness of the Pines, the nearness of New York and Philadel-phia, where counterfeit bills of credit could bepassed, made New Jersey a locality peculiarlyfitted for counterfeiting operations. That bills, printed from type, were counterfeited is Qr^C ^J 9 ) ^(Jproven by many
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ty thereof may receive such punishment as bythe court shall be adjudged. The introduction, in 1709, of poorly printed billsof credit, the ease with which they could be coun-terfeited, the secret recesses of the hill countryof Northern New Jersey, the wilderness of the Pines, the nearness of New York and Philadel-phia, where counterfeit bills of credit could bepassed, made New Jersey a locality peculiarlyfitted for counterfeiting operations. That bills, printed from type, were counterfeited is Qr^C ^J 9 ) ^(Jproven by many indictments in the records of ti^f^J^^^^^^^-o^^^fr-^Supreme Court and from the reports of hangmg^^tolK^PoOi/rorCiaJiWHvvalu*^for the offense, printed in contemporaneous neV^^^*° ^=^<=xi^?^^^«^^«r<i«^gV^papers. There was also legislation upon the matT,rdLm^t«-tokimtivatlfubliiLpayrn.*,*ter, an act of March 1, 1774, enforceable for se^^;^^/*^^^*^):*^^^^^^^*years, being typical. FetmiryiKctkra^rgoo^By Orctwof The statute provided for the punishment*^^^-^^*^*^. FIRST AMERICAN PAPER MONEY. (Beduced.) 258 NEW JEliSEY AS A OOL
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