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Bills of Sixteen Dollars each, Seven thousand and ninety six
Bills of eight Dollars each, Seven thousand and ninety six
Bills of four Dollars each; Seven thousand and ninety six Bills
of Two Dollars and two thirds of a Dollar each; Ten thousand
five hundred and twelve Bills of one Dollar and two thirds of
a Dollar each; Ten thousand five hundred and twelve Bills of
one Dollar and one third of a Dollar each; Ten thousand five
hundred and twelve Bills of one Dollar each, and Ten thour
sand five hundred and twelve Bills of two thirds of a Dollar
each.
That the Supervisors shall use the best of their care and dili-
gence that the said Bills according to their respective denomi-
nations aforesaid, and according to the manner and form afore-
said, be forthwith printed, and that the number of any of the
Denominations thereof be not exceeded, or,any clandestine or
fraudulent practice used by the Printer, his apprentices, servants
or others concerned in printing thereof.
That the Printer and all his apprentices and servants, which
he may employ in the said work, before he or they enter upon
the same, take before some Justice of the peace, in the pres-
ence of one or both of the Supervisors, the following Oath to
wit: " I A. B. do swear that I will truly, faithfully and honestly
perform the duty of Printer of the Bills of Credit, directed to
be printed by a Resolve of the Convention of Maryland, and
that I will not advisedly print, or Stamp a greater number of
blank Bills of Credit than in that Resolve mentioned; or of
any other denominations than therein expressed, except such
sheets as may be so blotted, unfair, or imperfect in the impress-
ing or printing thereof, that the same shall be unfit for use.
So help me God "
That the Printer shall not by himself, servants or any other
person by him Employed, print, stamp, stitch or bind the said
Bills or any of them, but in the presence of one or both of the
said Supervisors; and in every intermission of the work, the
Supervisors shall safely and securely lock up the Press and
Stamps, with which the work shall be performed, and the
impressions that shall be then made, in the Room in which the
Printing and Binding shall be done, and the Keys of such
Room shall keep in their possession; and when all the said
Bills shall be Printed and Stamped, the Stamps shall be deliv-
ered by the Printer to the said Supervisors, and by them to the
Convention of this Province, or in their recess to the Council
of Safety.
That Charles Wallace, Joseph Davidson, Nathan Hammond,
Richard Tootell, James Brice, John Brice, Thomas Brooke
Hodgkin, John Duckett, Robert Lloyd Nicols, Samuel Sharpe,
Richard Tilghman Junr James Hindman, Peregrine Tilghman,
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