Arts. 487

And be it further Enacted, That the Commissioners or Trustees
of the Loan-Office, after the Sum of Five Thousand Nine Hundred
and Eighty-four Pounds Fourteen Shillings, in Bills of Credit,
herein before directed to be paid and delivered out, is repaid and
replaced into the said Office, by the Rates, Duties and Taxes, by this
Act imposed, shall retain and keep in the said Office all such Sums of
Money, in Bills of Credit, as they shall receive by Virtue of this Act,
except such Part thereof as shall be exchanged for torn and defaced
Bills, and all torn and defaced Bills, so taken in exchange, until the
next Session of Assembly, and then shall burn and destroy the same,
before the Committee which shall be appointed to inspect the Ac-
counts and Proceedings of the said Office; and so from Session to
Session, until they have so destroyed the full Sum of Thirty-four
Thousand and fifteen Pounds Six Shillings.

And be it Enacted, That the said Sum of Forty Thousand Pounds

Liber H. S.
No. 1
[Commis-
sioners, after
the Sum of
5984 1. 14 s.
is replaced,
shall retain
all such
Sums of
Money re-
ceived by
this Act, ex-
cept, &c. and
all defaced
Bills, until
the next
Session of
Assembly,
which shall
then be de-
stroyed, &c.]

be laid out and applied in Manner following, that is to say, in build-
ing and constructing one Fort, and any Number not exceeding
four Block-Houses, on the Western Frontiers of this Province,
accommodating and paying Workmen employed therein, in paying,
arming and victualling, in Bounty-Money for enlisting, cloathing
common Soldiers, transporting and conveying any Number not
exceeding Two Hundred Men (Officers included), that shall be
kept in Garrison in the same, and all other Necessaries for the Sup-

[How the
Sum of
40,000 1. is to
be applied,
&c.]

port and Maintenance of the said Garrison, such Sum or Sums of
Money as shall be necessary; not exceeding Eleven Thousand
Pounds, including the Commissions of the Agents herein after
appointed; and whereas it has been necessary, during this present
Session of Assembly, for the immediate Defence of the Western
Frontier of this Province, to draw out of the Loan-Office, the Sum
of Seven Hundred and Fifty Pounds, by two different Ordinances ;
It is therefore hereby Enacted and Declared, That the said Sum of
Seven Hundred and Fifty Pounds shall be held, deemed, and taken, as
Part of the said Sum of Eleven Thousand Pounds. In the engaging
the Assistance, and cultivating the Friendship of the Southern Tribes
of Indians, and the defraying the Expences of two Commissioners,
to be sent from this Province, to treat with the same, in Conjunction
with Commissioners from Pensylvania, Virginia and North-Caro-
lina, or any of them, such Sum as shall be necessary, not exceed-
ing Three Thousand Pounds, including the Commissions of the
Agents aforesaid, and the Sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Pounds
hereafter given to the Commissioners, appointed to treat with the
Indians aforesaid: In the paying and satisfying any of the Inhabi-
tants of this Province, or any of our Indian Allies, for the Scalp of
every Indian Enemy, or any Indian Prisoner, by them taken or
brought in, after the Rate of Ten Pounds for each Scalp or Indian
Prisoner, One Thousand Pounds, including Commissions to the
Agents aforesaid: In the carrying on any Expedition or Operation,

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