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shall immediately give such Person or Indian a Certificate, under
his Hand, which being produced to either of the said Agents, such
Agent shall immediately pay to the Person producing the same, the
Sum of Ten Pounds Current Money, and the Receipt of such Per-
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Liber H. S.
No. 1
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son or Indian, on such Certificate, shall, for such Sum, be a sufficient
Discharge to the said Agent. And whenever any Person, Inhabitant
of this Province, or Friend Indian, shall produce any such Indian
Enemy to any Magistrate, such Magistrate shall, by such Person
or Indian Friend, with the Assistance of such other Person or
Persons as he shall by Wararnt, under his Hand, order and direct,
send such Indian Enemy to the Sheriff of the respective County,
who shall receive into his Goal and safe keep such. Indian Enemy,
at the public Expence of this Province, 'til legally discharged.
And be it further Enacted, That the Agents appointed by this Act,
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p. 217
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for the purchasing Provisions and other Necessaries, as aforesaid,
shall, and they are hereby required and directed to keep fair, dis-
tinct and regular Accounts, of all Sums of Money as they shall
receive in Virtue of this Act, and to what particular Purpose or
Service the same shall be applied, to be by them, upon Oath, at every
Session, laid before the General Assembly of this Province; and the
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[The Agents
to keep fair
Accounts,
upon Oath.]
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said Agents, for their Trouble in executing and performing what is
by this Act enjoined and required of them, shall and may retain
in their Hands a Commission of Two Pounds Ten Shillings per
Cent on all such Sums of Money as they shall, in Virtue of this Act,
receive and apply to the Purposes aforesaid. But before the said
Agents, or either of them, shall receive any of the Money aforesaid,
by this Act appointed to be paid to them, they and each of them shall
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[Their Al-
lowance.]
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enter into Bond, before two Provincial Magistrates, with good and
sufficient Securities, jointly and severally, to the Right Honourable
the Lord Proprietary of this Province, each in the Sum of Two
Thousand Pounds Current Money, with Condition to the said Bonds,
in the following Form, viz. " The Condition of the above Obliga-
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[To enter
into Bond,
&c.]
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tion is such, That if the said shall and do, at all Times,
so long as he shall continue in the Office of Agent, for the Purposes
mentioned and directed in the Act of Assembly, entituled, An Act
for granting a Supply of Forty Thousand Pounds for his Majesty's
Service, and striking Thirty- four Thousand and Fifteen Pounds
Six Shillings thereof, in Bills of Credit, and raising a Fund for
sinking the same, well and faithfully perform and execute the Duty
and Trust reposed in him by the said Act, and do, from Time to
Time, render to the General Assembly of this Province true, just,
perfect, and regular Accounts of his Transactions and Proceedings,
in Virtue of the same Act, and of the several and respective Sums
of Money by him received from the Commissioners or Trustees, for
emitting the Bills of Credit established by Act of Assembly, and how
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[The Con-
dition of the
Bond.]
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