It is, therefore, Ordered and Directed by this Congress, That any person Who shall inlist himself, and enter as a soldier in any of the Companies of the Continental Forces, and doth not owe more than thirty-five dollars to any one Creditor, or upwards of one hundred and fifty dollars, in the whole, to all his creditors, then the person of the inlisted shall be free from all arrests in civil actions, during the time of his service as aforesaid; and those who are in custody, either on mesne process or execution, and do not owe as aforesaid, shall be discharged, under the hands and seals of any of the Judges of the County where any such person, Or persons, shall be so imprisoned; and the goods and effects of all such debtors shall be free from attachments, executions, arid other legal process, during the aforesaid service: Provided, always, That such goods and effects shall not be removed out of the city, town, or precinct, where the persons inlisted resided when they did inlist, during the time limited as aforesaid; and upon full proof of any attempt to remove the said goods and effects out of the city, town, or precinct, as aforesaid, then the said goods and effects shall be liable to the same process as the laws have already provided for; and in case the said person, or persons, so inlisted, shall or do, after the publication of this Ordinance, or after the time of such inlisting, by any deed or deeds, power or powers of attorney, make sale of, or empower others, in his or their absence, or during the time so limited as aforesaid, make sale of his or their goods and chattels, lands and tenements, to any person, or persons, whatsoever, whereby the creditor, or creditors, of such person, or persons, so inlisting as aforesaid, shall or may be defrauded or deprived of their just debts, all and every such deed, or deeds, and sales, made by any such person, or persons, or by virtue of his, or their, power or powers of attorney, as aforesaid, shall be void and of none effect; and such goods and chattels, lands and tenements, shall, nevertheless, be liable to be proceeded against by attachment, or any other legal process, at the suit pf any creditor, or creditors, of such person, or persons; any thing in this Ordinance to the contrary thereof, in any wise, notwithstanding.

An Ordinance for striking the sum of Fifty Thousand Pounds Jive Shillings, in Bills of Credit, for the purposes therein mentioned, and directing the manner of sinking the same.

Whereas, it is prudent, not only to make provision for putting the Province into such state of defence as the present situation thereof seems to require, but, also, to have such sum of money in the Treasury as may probably be sufficient to answer future exigencies and contingent charges: And whereas, the sum of thirty thousand Pounds, directed to be issued by an Ordinance passed at the last sitting of this Congress, hath not, as yet, been printed; and as the same may not be sufficient to answer the purposes aforesaid,

It is, therefore, Resolved, That the said Ordinance be null, void, and vacated, to all intents and purposes whatsoever; and, in lieu thereof,

It is Resolved, Ordained, and Directed, That the sum of fifty thousand Pounds five Shillings, in Bills of Credit of this Province, be, as soon as possible, prepared, printed, and made as follows, viz: nine thousand five hundred Bills, each of the value of three Pounds; ten thousand Bills, each of the value of one Pound ten Shillings; six thousand six hundred and sixty-seven Bills, each of the value of fifteen Shillings; and five 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 20th day of February, 1776."

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 Samuel Howe, 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 that 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 letter, 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 1 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, 1 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, altvays, that if any accident has happened, he may hare 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 Billsmade current by this Ordinance, shall be nearly the sizeand likeness of the Bills now current in this Colony, andshall be signed and numbered by the respective personsherein before appointed signers thereof; and in case of their, or either of their deaths, or other disability, then JosephHugg, of the Western Division, and John Covenhoven, of he Eastern Division, are hereby appointed signers of said Bills.

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 no 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 by the deponents and affirmants, to be delivered to the Treasurers with the Bills, when signed by them.

Secondly: On receiving the Bills from the Printer, thesaid signers shall burn and destroy the blotters, and theyshall divide the fair Bills so received into two equal parls;and to avoid confusion, shall agree betwixt themselves how?the parts of each shall be numbered; and the signers forthe Eastern Division shall take the stamps for the escutcheons, and the signers for the Western Division shall takethe stamps for the ornaments.

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 ornaments, 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,