Chap. 0017 an act for the encouragement of making paper.
Preamble.
Sole privilege of making paper granted to Daniel Henchman, Sic, for ten years. Conditions.
Penalty to others that shall make paper within the term.
Whereas the making paper within this province will be of public benefit and service, bnt inasmuch as the erecting mills for that purpose and providing workmen and materials for the effecting that undertaking will necessarily demand a considerable disburse of money for some time before any profit or gain can arise therefrom ; and whereas Daniel Henchman, Gillam Phillips, Benjamin Faneuil and Thomas Hancock, together with Henry Dering, are willing and desirous to undertake the manufacturing paper; wherefore, for the promoting so beneficial a design, 
Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governour, Council and Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same,
[Sect. 1.] That the sole privilege and benefit of making paper within this province shall be to the said Daniel Henchman, Gillam Phillips, Benjamin Faneuil, Thomas Hancock and Henry Dering, and to their associates, for and during the term of ten years from and after the tenth da}' of December next ensuing : provided the aforesaid Daniel Henchman, Gillam Phillips, Benjamin Faneuil, Thomas Hancock and Henry Dering, shall make or cause to be made within this province, in the space of twelve months next after the tenth day of December next, two hundred rheam[e] of good, merchantable, brown paper and printing paper, sixty rheam thereof, at least, to be printing paper; and within the space of twelve months then next coming, shall cause to be made within this province fifty rheam[e] of good merchantable writing paper, of equal goodness with the paper commonly st'ampt with the London arm[e]s, over and above the afores[ai]d two hundred rheam of brown paper and printing paper.
And further,
[Sect. 2.] That the aforesaid Daniel. Henchman, Gillam Phillips, Benjamin Faneuil and Thomas Hancock, together with Henry Dering, proceed and make twenty-five rheam of finer and better writing paper in this province as afores[c']d, at or before the tenth day of December, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty-one, and continue to make the quantit[ie][y]s and species of paper before enumerated, in the afores[f)d two years, and that they make or cause to be made within the space of twelve months from and after the s[cu']d tenth of December, 1731, five hundred rheam of good merchantable writing and printing paper, one hundred and fifty rheam thereof, at least, to be writing paper, and continue to make the like quantity of five hundred rheam[e] as aforesaid, every year, for and during the remaining part of the said ten years ; and if any person or persons shall make any paper within this province, without leave first had and obtained from the said Daniel Henchman, Gillam Phillips, Benjamin Faneuil, Thomas Hancock and Henry Dering, he or they so making the same shall pay twenty shillings for every rheam[e] of paper manufactured in this province as afores[ai]d ; one half of the said twenty shillings to be to and for the undertakers, Daniel Henchman, Gillam Phillips, Benjamin Faneuil, Thomas Hancock and Henry Dering, and their associates, the other half to the use of the poor of the town where the paper shall be exposed for sale, or brought and found, to be
recovered by the said undertakers, by bill, plaint or information in any of his majesty's courts of record within the county where the offence shall be committed ; or 'before any justice of the peace in the same county, where the forfeiture shall not exceed forty shillings. [Passed September 13 ; published September 18.