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Credit to the Amount of £25000: of the several Denominations
following, viz.t 10000: Bills of 20/. 10000: Bills of 15/. 10000.
Bills of 10/: 10000 Bills of 5/. each, and use their utmost Care
and Diligence, that these Bills according to their respective Denomina-
tions be forthwith printed and made ready for Emission and that
the Number thereof be not exceeded, or any clandestine or fraudulent
Practice used by the Printer his Servants or others concerned therein
they are to receive the Stamps and Flowers after the Money shall
be struck and stamped into their Office, and safely keep these
under the Penalty of £ 500. They are to sign, number, and date the
£ 25000 : of the new Emission, they are constituted Receivers General
of the whole Sum intended to be raised by the Bill, and consequently
must keep separate Accounts with all the Collectors in the Province,
they are to issue and pay out the Money to the Agents or Persons
appointed to receive it, and consequently must also keep separate Ac-
counts with them, they are each of them to enter into Bond with suffi-
cient Sureties in the Penalty of £3000. sterling conditioned for the
faithful Observance and discharge of the Trust reposed in them, and
to take an Oath correspondent to the Condition of their Bonds. They
are to keep distinct and separate Accounts as well of the Bills of Credit
which they shall receive and pay pursuant to the Directions of the
Bill, and of all other their Proceedings in Consequence thereof, and
always be in Readiness to lay their Accounts and Proceedings before
a Committee of both Houses for Inspection. They are to take in
all torn and defaced Bills made Current by the Bill upon Application,
and deliver out other Bills to the Persons applying, they are directed
to attend two Days in the Week, Winter and Summer at their Office
/the usual Holidays of Christmass excepted/ from the Hour of nine
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U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
April 18
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'till twelve in the Forenoon, and from the Hour of five [sic] 'till two
in the Afternoon during the Continuance of the Bill, which at least
would be for two Years, these Things are required of them, and
they are each of them to receive the Sum of £10: Current Money
and no more. These are the Service and this the Reward given by
this Bill to these Officers who have been appointed by the Government.
The two Agents are Officers intended to be originally created by
the Lower House of Assembly, these Gentlemen are to receive as a
Reward for their Service the Sum of £672.4.0: which altho' we do
not think it an extravagant one ought not to exceed £10: to each
if the Commissioners have a sufficient Reward and the Rewards to
each ought to be proportioned to their respective Services.
His Lordship's Agent who is a private Officer appointed by the
Lord Baltimore for the Management of his Revenue and paid by
his Lordship is enjoined by the Bill under the Penalty of £200. to
make out for the Commissioners of the several Counties Accounts,
/according to the best Information he has/ of the whole Quantity
of Acres contained in his Lordship's Manors and reserved Lands
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