And it is further Resolved and Directed, That the said Commissioners be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to contract with artificers for, or otherwise purchase, three thousand stand of Arms, at any price not exceeding three Pounds seven Shillings each stand; and, also, to purchase ten tons of Gunpowder, twenty tons of Lead, one thousand Cartouch-Boxes, at any price not exceeding nine Shillings each; a quantity of Flints, Brushes, Priming Wire, and Cartridge Paper, not exceeding one hundred Pounds in value; two chests of Medicine, not exceeding three hundred Pounds in value; four hundred Tents, with Camp Equipage, &c., not exceeding one thousand eight hundred and seventy Pounds in value; two thousand Blankets, not exceeding one thousand five hundred Pounds in value; a number of Axes, Spades, and other Intrenching Tools, not exceeding three hundred Pounds in value; and a Train of Artillery, not exceeding five hundred Pounds in value.

And it is further Resolved and Directed, That the said Commissioners do supply the Troops of this Colony, when called to action in this or any of the neighbouring Colonies, with one month’s Subsistence, at one Shilling per day per man, or Provisions to that amount, if necessary: provided that the expense of such Subsistence doth not exceed the sum of one thousand four hundred Pounds in value; and one month’s Pay for the Troops of this Colony, when called into actual service: provided that the Continental Congress do not make provision for the same; and provided, also, that the Pay of such Troops doth not exceed the sum of four thousand Pounds in value.

And it is further Resolved and Directed, That the Treasurers of this Colony be, and they are hereby required and enjoined to pay to the said Commissioners, or the major part of them, or to their order, all such sum or sums of Money as they may find necessary to expend for the purposes aforesaid; and the receipt or receipts from the said Commissioners, or a major part of them, shall be sufficient vouchers and discharges to the said Treasurers, or either of them, their executors and administrators, for all Moneys by them paid pursuant to this Ordinance.

And whereas it is absolutely necessary to provide a fund for defraying the above expense,

It is therefore Resolved and Directed, That Bills of Credit, to the amount of Thirty Thousand Pounds, Proclamation Money, be immediately prepared, printed, and made, as follows, to wit: five thousand seven hundred Bills, each of the value of three Pounds; six thousand Bills, each of the value of one Pound ten Shillings; four thousand Bills, each of the value of fifteen Shillings; and three thousand Bills, each of the value of six Shillings–which Bills shall be in the form following, to wit:

“This Bill, by an Ordinance of the Provincial Congress, shall pass current in all payments within the Colony of New-Jersey, for . . . . . . . Proclamation Money.

“Dated the . . . . . . . day of . . . . . . 1775.”

And shall be impressed with such devices as the Inspectors of the Press, hereinafter appointed, shall direct; and, when printed, shall be delivered to Hendrick Fisher and Azariah Dunham, Esquires, of the Eastern Division, and to John Hart and John Carey, Esquires, of the Western Division, four of the signers thereof, in equal moieties; one moiety to be signed by the Treasurer and signers of the Eastern Division, and the other moiety by the Treasurer and signers of the Western Division. And the said signers are hereby authorized and required, upon delivery of the said Bills by the printer thereof, to administer to him, and he is hereby directed and required to take, an Oath or Affirmation, in the following words:

“I, A B, do declare, that from the time the letters were set and fit to be put into the press for the printing the Bills of Credit now by me delivered, until the same Bills were printed, and the letters unset and put into the boxes again, I went at no time out of the room in which the said letters were, without locking them up so as they could not be come at without violence, a false key, or other art then unknown to me; and therefore, to the best of my knowledge, no copies were printed off but in my presence; and that all the blotters, and other papers whatsoever, printed by the said letters, while set for printing the said Bills, to the best of my knowledge, are here delivered, together with the stamps for the indents and devices; and that I have not at any time been privy or consenting to any other or more Bills being struck than I now deliver; and that, in all things relating to this affair, I have demeaned myself according to the true intent and meaning of the Ordinance by virtue whereof this money is printed, to the best of my knowledge and understanding.”

Which printer, at the time he is ordered to print the said Bills, shall have a copy of this Oath or Affirmation, that he may govern himself accordingly. Provided, always, that if any accident has happened, he may have the liberty of making an exception thereof in his Oath or Affirmation, he declaring fully how it was.

And it is further Resolved and Directed, That the Bills made current by this Ordinance shall be nearly the size and likeness of the Bills now current in this Colony, and shall be signed and numbered by the respective persons hereinbefore appointed signers thereof; and in case of their or either of their deaths or other disability, then Joseph Hugg, of the Western Division, and John Covenhoven, of the Eastern Division, are hereby appointed signers of the said Bills; and one-half of them shall be delivered to the Treasurer of the Eastern Division of this Colony, appointed by this Ordinance, to be by him signed; and the other half shall be delivered to the Treasurer of the Western Division, to be by him signed; and in case of refusal or disability of either of the said Treasurers, then any three of the persons nominated in this Ordinance, as signers, are to sign the same.

And in order that the said Bills may be numbered and signed with the less charge and risk, and with the most ease and expedition, the said signers are to observe the directions following, to wit:

First. Before the said signers do receive any of the said Bills, they shall each of them take an Oath, or Affirmation if Quakers, before a Justice of the Peace, for the true signing of the said Bills of Credit; and that they will sign no more or other Bills than by this Ordinance is directed; and that, to the best of their skill, they will perform what, by this Ordinance, they are enjoined as their duty—a certificate of which Oath or Affirmation is to be signed by the Justice, and the deponents or affirmants, to be delivered to the Treasurers with the Bills, when signed by them.

Secondly. On receiving the Bills from the printer, the said signers shall burn and destroy the blotters, and they shall divide the fair bills so received into two equal parts, and, to avoid confusion, shall agree betwixt themselves how the parts of each shall be numbered; and the signers for the Eastern Division shall take the stamps for the escutcheons, and the signers for the Western Division shall take the stamps for the arms.

Thirdly. Each of the signers may then carry his part to his own house, there to be numbered and signed by him with all possible expedition; which, or such part as is then necessary, being done, they shall meet at a day and place by them to be appointed and agreed on, and each deliver the part numbered and signed by him to the other, in order for him to sign the same; and they shall then together burn and destroy the Bills, if any be, over and above the number hereby appointed to be issued; and in like manner shall do, from time to time, until all are signed and exchanged.

Fourthly. Each of the said signers may then carry the part of the Bills aforesaid so delivered to them by the other to their respective houses, to be signed with all possible expedition; and when signed, in any sums, from time to time, to be delivered to the Treasurer of the Division where the signers live, and the stamps for the escutcheons and arms, taking receipts of the respective Treasurers for the sums so delivered; which, when produced, shall be sufficient to discharge the said signers, respectively, their heirs, executors, or administrators, from such parts of the said Bills as the receipts do express.

And it is further Resolved and Directed, That the said Treasurers shall, respectively, sign the said Bills to them delivered; and, under the obligation of their oaths or affirmations for the due execution of their offices, pay them out accordingly, as they shall be directed by this and any future order of the Provincial Congress, or Committee of Safety of this Colony, and no otherwise.