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rent for the last half Year Except the persons from whom such
arrearages are owing will Discharge the whole
4^thly as the Scarcity of Sterling money may Subject some People
to the Necessity of paying Bills of Exchange we are Content in
favour to such to receive the rents that way but as there is an una-
voidable Expense attends the Negotiateing Bills of Exchange and as
in a great Number of Bills there will be a great probability that some
of them may prove bad which will be very unreasonable Loss to the
Collectors you are therefore Strictly to Observe that you take no
Bills whatsoever without an Allowance of two pounds Ten Shillings
p Cent and also you take no Bill from any person whatsoever but
where Several persons will Joyne for the Sums and Indorse for one
Another and Even then not to take Bills but when it is in Discharge
of the whol years Rent

L. H. J.

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5^thly where the Necessitys of people Oblige them to pay foreign
whole Gold Cut Gold foreign Silver or paper money as it may be
thought a Hardship absolutely, to refuse them you are to take them
on no Other Terms than at the following rates Viz. Moidores at
25 s Pistoles 155 French Guineas at 21 s Cut Gold at 2/9 a penny
weight whole pieces of eight at 6o p Cent Other Spanish Silver at
two for one Dollars at 2/3 and paper mony at 200 p Cent
Samuel Chew John Galloway

Baltimore County April 6^th 1737

And the following Depositions.

The Reverend M^r James Williamson of Calvert County being
Sworn on the Holy Evangells of Almighty God Declares that some-
time in June 1735 to the Best of this Deponents Knowledge M^r Philip
Thomas with Richard Stallings One of the Sub Sheriffs of the said
County and destrained one Negroe Ladd of the Proper goods and
Chatties of this Deponent before any Demand was ever made by any
person whatsoever on this Deponant upon which the Said Thomas
and Stallings Came up to this Deponants House and thereupon the
said Thomas told this Deponant that he had destrained the aforesaid
Slave for this Deponants rent whereupon this Deponant Offered to
the Said Thomas whole Spanish Gold French Gold and Cut Gold
Sufficient in either Specie to Discharge the Said Thomases Demand
for said Rent whose answer was to this Deponant that he would
take Nothing but Sterling mony and this Deponant further upon his
Oath aforesaid Saith that the aforesaid Negroe Continued under the
Distress aforesaid for the Space of two Days at which time this
Deponant procured the Sterling money and paid the same to the
said Stallings who Discharged the said Negroe upon this Deponants
' giving his Note for the Payment of all the Sheriffs fees Accruing by
reason of the Distress so made as aforesaid
James Williamson

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