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(Ireland.)
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For the more effectually preventing the forging of
Bank Notes, Bank Bills of Exchange, and Bank Post
Bills, and the Negociation of forged and counterfeited
Bank Notes, Bank Bills of Exchange, and Bank Post
Bills, of the Governor and Company of the Bank of
Ireland.
Note.'—'The Figures in the Margin denote the Number of Ahe Folios in the
written Copy.
^ B i2E 3 ^ by an Ad made in the Parliament of Ireland, in Preamble,
the thirty-eighth year of His prefent Majefty's reign, intituled,
" An Aft for the more efFeftually preventing the Forging of the
" Notes and Bills of the Governor and Company of the Bank of
" Ireland^ and the Circulation of forged Notes and Bills of the faid Governor
" and Company It was among A other things Ena&ed, That if any
Perfon lliall have in his or her poffeffion or cuftody any forged or counter¬
feited Note or Notes, Bill or Bills of Exchange, of the Governor and Com¬
pany of the Bank of Ireland, knowing the lame to be forged or counter¬
feited, with an intent to utter or negociate the fame as the true and
genuine Note or Notes, Bill or Bills of Exchange, of the Governor and
Company of the Bank of Ireland, every fuch Perfon fb offending, and being
thereof convi6ted, ihall be puniftied by Fine, Imprifonment, Pillory, or other
corporal Puniihment, according to the diicretion of the Court before whom
he or fhe (hall be profecuted for fuch Oifence :
2 And whereas the faid Provifion, and the Penalties therein contained,
have been found infufficient to deter Perfons from the perpetration of the
Offences thereby meant to be guarded again A, and it is therefore deemed
expedient to repeal the fame ;
Xe it tfjereforc (BnaRCD by the king's Mo A Excellent Majesty,
by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem¬
poral, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by
the Authority of the fame. That from and after the
ib much of the faid recited Aft as is hereinbefore recited fhall be and the
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