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1750 Colonial Connecticut Law "AN ACT AGAINST COUNTERFEITING BILLS OF PUBLIC CREDIT, COINS, OR CURRENCIES..."
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c. 1707 to 1750, Original Printed Colonial Connecticut "ACTS and LAWS", Detailing Punishments for Counterfeiting, Choice Extremely Fine.
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Punishments for Counterfeiting titled: "AN ACT AGAINST COUNTERFEITING BILLS OF PUBLIC CREDIT, COINS, OR CURRENCIES; AND EMITTING, AND PASSING BILLS, OR NOTES ON PRIVATE CREDIT; AND TO PREVENT INJUSTICES IN PASSING COUNTERFEIT BILLS....". These Colonial Connecticut "Acts And Laws" are printed on both sides, disbound on three printed pages measuring 11.25" x 7.25, typeset on clean laid period paper. The only date mentioned in these pages is a reference to a 1707 law against Counterfeiting Coin. The full title of the law detailed in this section, which fills 3 1/2 pages.
This Law specifies that it applies not only to Currency of, "this Colony (Connecticut), but also to the currency of Massachusetts Bay, New York, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and New Jersey. Punishments listed for Counterfeiting or altering notes include cutting off the ear and branding the letter "C" on the forehead. (We have offered documented court order examples where this harsh punishment was indeed brutally performed on guilty Counterfeiters.) Perpetrators could also be confined in the Workhouse for life. These pages appear to have been from "Acts and Laws of His Majesty's English Colony of Connecticut, in New-England, in America" second edition, published in 1750. This Rare Colonial Printing is nicely housed in a presentation folder with some illustrations prepared for a prior exhibit. |
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