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Examination, and further Direction of the Assembly: And the said
Committee shall enquire into the Goodness and Sufficiency of the
Commissioners, and their Sureties; and if they find any Deficiency in
them, or any of them, the Governor for the Time being, or President
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for the Time being, in the Absence of the Governor, on Application
to him made, may nominate and appoint, as aforesaid, other fit Person
or Persons, in the Room of such as shall be found deficient; and every
Person so nominated, shall comply with the Requisites by this Act
prescribed.
And, since it is uncertain when the Funds aforesaid will arise to a
Sum sufficient to sink all the said Bills of Credit, or when all the said
Bills of Credit will be brought in,
Be It Enacted, That this Act continue, until such Time as it shall
appear, by the Examination aforesaid, to the Assembly then in being,
that a sufficient Sum is raised, by Virtue of this Act, to Pay and
Discharge all the said Bills of Credit then in Circulation; at which
Time all the said Bills of Credit shall be called in, and discharged by
such Money, and the said Bills of Credit, sunk and destroied, in Man-
ner aforesaid, or any other Manner, the then Assembly shall direct.
And to prevent any undue Preference, in paying out Money for Bills
of Credit,
Be It Enacted, That the said Commissioners, shall not make any
more than one Paiment in Gold or Silver, for the same Bills of Credit,
in any One Dividend: And that to prevent any more than One Pai-
ment, the said Commissioners shall put some such Mark on all the Bills
that shall be brought in by any Person, in order to exchange some of
them for Gold and Silver, and on which any Gold or Silver shall be
actually paid, whereby such Bills may be known; and the Time when
the Proprietors of them received Gold or Silver for Bills of Credit
delivered in; and that no Person shall be entituled to any Gold or
Silver, for any such Bills of Credit, more than once on one Dividend.
Provided, That no Part or Clause of this Act, shall have Effect,
or be put in Execution, until such Time as the Approbation of His
Lordship the Lord Proprietary of this Province, thereto, shall be
Published and Declared; any thing before contained to the contrary,
notwithstanding.
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Chap. IX
1723. ch. 12
1730, ch. 10
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An Act for Reviving an Act of Assembly, entituled, an Act for the
Advancement of Justice; as also an Act of Assembly, entituled, a
Supplementary Act for the Advancement of Justice.
Be It Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by
and with the Advice and Consent of His Lordship's Governor, and the
Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the
same, That the the above mentioned Act of Assembly, entituled, An
Act for the Advancement of Justice; made at a Session of Assembly,
begun and held at the City of Annapolis, the Twenty Third Day .of
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