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"An Act to prevent Paper Bills of Credit, hereafter to be issued in any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America ..."

An Act to prevent Paper Bills of Credit, hereafter to be issued in any of His Majesty`s Colonies or Plantations in America ...

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    Great Britain

    30 cm x 17.7 cm

    This published version of the Currency Act is an unbound pamphlet. It is comprised of a title page, Anno Regni Georgii III; Regis ..., and a sequence of four pages (471-474) containing the text of the act.
    London: Mark Baskett, 1764


    The Currency Act, passed in 1764 along with the Sugar Act, prohibited the printing and issuance of paper money by Colonial legislatures. It also set up fines and penalties for members of Colonial government who disobeyed, despite the long-standing currency shortage.