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And Be It Further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, by and
with the Advice and Consent aforesaid, That any Person or Persons,
that shall forge or counterfeit any such Bill or Bills of Credit, or that
shall utter, or offer in Paiment any such forged or counterfeit Bill,
knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, and shall be thereof
convict, by Verdict or Confession, in due Form of Law, shall be
adjudged a Felon, and shall suffer Death as in Cases of Felony, with-
out Benefit of Clergy.
And Be It Further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That if
any Person shall produce to the Commissioners, or the major Part of
them, torn or defaced Bills of Credit, made current by this Act, that
the said Commissioners, or the major Part of them, shall deliver to
each Person a new Bill or Bills, which they shall cause to be made, in
Lieu of such torn or defaced Bills, to be vacated as herein after is
provided.
And Be It Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That all and singu-
lar the Sums of Money arising by and appropriated, by Virtue of this
Act, shall be applied to and for the Sinking, Cancelling, and Destroy-
ing the Bills of Credit aforesaid, made current by this Act; and shall,
by the Commissioners aforesaid, or the major Part of them, be given
in Exchange for such Bills of Credit, as aforesaid, without any
Deduction whatsoever, to any Person or Persons, who shall, during
the Continuance of this Act, have any the said Bills of Credit in their
Hands, in order that the said Bills be sunk and destroied, as by this
Act is directed. And that the said Bills may be, bona fide, sunk and
destroied, as the Fund arising by Virtue of this Act, is paid unto the
Commissioners aforesaid, for the Time being,
Be It Enacted, by the Authority, Advice, and Consent aforesaid,
That the said Commissioners, or the major Part of them, shall, once
in the Year, after the last Day of May, which shall be in the Year
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Five, to wit, on or before
the last Day of May, Yearly, and every Year thereafter, during the
Continuance of this Act, cause Advertisements to be affixed in the
most publick Places in all the Counties on each Shore of the Prov-
ince, or cause the said Advertisements to be published in the Mary-
land Gazette, setting forth what Quantities of Money have been
received, and are in the Hands of the said Commissioners, by Virtue
of this Act, and what Proportion the Money in their Hands shall
bear to the Amount of the Bills of Credit Emitted and in Circulation ;
which Monies shall, by the Commissioners aforesaid, or the major
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