520 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 23-May 22, 1756.

Liber H. S.
No. 1
[Allowance
to Commis-
sioners.]

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That each
of the said Commissioners, who shall attend at the Paper Currency
Office on the Day aforesaid, and set his Hand and Seal to such
Certificate as aforesaid, shall be allowed in the Journal of Accounts
of this Province, the same Wages respectively as are allowed by Law
to Councillors and Delegates serving in General Assembly, besides
their itinerant Charges, and no more.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the

[To lay
their
Accounts
before
the next
Assembly
after.]

said Commissioners, for ascertaining the additional Land Tax afore-
said, shall lay before the next General Assembly of this Province,
after the said twentieth Day of August, Seventeen hundred and sixty,
a full and fair Account of all their Proceedings, relative to the
Execution of their Trust aforesaid, for their Approbation.

[Additional
Land Tax
how levied,
applied, &c.]

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the
said additional Land Tax shall be collected, levied, acounted for,
and paid, in the same Manner and under the same Penalties, Fines,
and Forfeitures, to all Intents and Purposes, as the Land Tax herein
before imposed is to be collected, levied and paid: And the said
Penalties, Fines, and Forfeitures, shall be recovered and applied as
by this Act is before directed, as to the Penalties, Fines, and For-
feitures, relative to the Land Tax aforesaid.

p. 252
[Continua-
tion of
the Act.]

This Act to continue from and after the End of this Session of
Assembly, until the Term of five Years be compleated, and to the
End of the next Session of Assembly which shall thereafter happen,
and no longer, except to the Purposes in the Clause hereafter men-
tioned and expressed.
And whereas by Payments of many of the Taxes, Duties, Imposts,

[Such Bills
as shall be
outstanding,
after 5
Years, to be
redeemed as
the present
Current
Money.]

Licence Money, Fines, Forfeitures, and Penalties, by this Act, and
the Acts herein mentioned to be continued, imposed in the Currency
at present in Circulation, which will be burnt and destroyed at each
succeeding Session of Assembly, after the Payment thereof into the
Loan Office aforesaid, there must unavoidably remain in Circula-
tion, in Lieu thereof, many of the Bills of Credit emitted and made
current by this Act, after the aforesaid Sums are so replaced, sunk
and destroyed, as aforesaid: To the End, therefore, that such Bills
may then be Current, and of equal Value and Credit, and be on the
same Foundation with the Bills of Credit now in Circulation, Be it
Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all such Bills of Credit,
emitted and made current by Virtue of this Act, as shall remain after
the Expiration thereof in the Hands of any Person or Persons what-
ever, shall be as Current, to all Intents and Purposes whatever, from
thence until the Expiration of the Time limitted for the Circulation
of the Bills of Credit now Current, as they are to be at any Time dur-
ing the Continuance of this Act. And that upon any Person or
Persons producing to the Commissioners or Trustees for emitting
Bills of Credit, established by the Act of Assembly, for emitting and