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Besides there will be no part of the Bills of Credit Left to Answer
any Publick Charge however pressing the Occasion may be which
your Conferees Conceive ought and may be Provided for now with
Greater Ease to the People, by Adding to the Sume to be Emitted
in Bills of Credit, than by any other means whatsoever
Your Conferees therefore propose that there be a Duty of 15^d
Sterling p hhd and in proportion of any other Quantity instead
of 12^d and that there be Emitted in Bills of Credit a Sum not
Exceeding in all

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90000.. 00.. 0
This Sum will be Sufficient to Answer all the Ends
proposed by Emitting Bills of Credit, and have a
Considerable Sum to purchase Bills of Exchange

which will be a very great Addition to the fund 800..00..0
and Advantage to the Country of £20000 to be
lent on Interest, which when lent will produce an
Interest p Annum of

This Interest will be more than Sufficient to Defray all the Expence
of the whole Transaction and keep the Capital entire
Your Conferees propose that no bills be Struck for less than a
Shilling, which Sort and Eighteen penny Bills will Render the Strik-
ing Six penny Bills needless, save some Expence, and make Change
and Carriage more Easy and Convenient; and that the Bills be as
follow

£ s. d

30000 20^S Bills 30000.. 00..0

30000 15 22500..00..0

30000 10 150000..00..0
40000 5 10000..00..0
40000 2..6^d 5000.00..0
60000 1...6 4500..00..0
60000 1 3000.. 00.. 0

£ 90000.. 00.. 0

Your Conferees Conceive the Salary to the Commissioners and
Clerk as they stand in the Bill; are too Small
I^st Because the Affair is of the greatest Consequence to the
Country, and therefore ought to be put under the Management of
Men of Knowledge Probity and Fortune, and such Cannot be

Expected to Undertake so Important and Troublesome a Trust,
without an Adequate Reward for their Service
2^dly That the Comm^rs must have a great deal of Trouble in the
whole Transaction of which some Instances may be given, as the
numbering the first Year 580000 Bills of Credit, Signing halfe that

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