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required immediately to send a Certificate of such Clerk's having
taken such Oath, to the Clerk of the Provincial Court, who shall
receive and file the same in his Office; and the Office-Bond of the said
Clerk of the said Commissioners or Trustees, and his Securities in
such Bond, shall be answerable for, and put in Suit, for any Breaches
of his Duty committed against this Act.
VII. And be it further Enacted, That each of the said Commis-
sioners or Trustees, for the Time being, who shall undertake and
execute the said Trust, shall be allowed for their Trouble and Service
therein, Five Pounds Current Money, and no more.
VIII. And be it further Enacted, That the Bills of Credit, which
shall be Emitted and made Current by Virtue of this Act, shall be
Current for and during the same Term and Time as the Bills of Credit
already Emitted and made Current by the Act, for Emitting and
making Current Ninety Thousand Pounds Current Money of Mary-
land, in Bills of Credit, are, by the said Act, directed and appointed
to be Current; and during the said Term shall pass and be received
in Payment, Satisfaction, and Discharge, of all Sums of Money to
be paid by this Act, and of all such Contracts, Debts, Lawyers and
Officers Fees, and Levies, and all such Bounties, Rewards, and Allow-
ances, given and allowed by any Act of Assembly of this Province,
in Money or Tobacco, and all such Fines, Forfeitures, and Penalties,
settled or established in Money or Tobacco by any Law of this Prov-
ince, and of all such Rates, Duties, and Impositions, upon the Impor-
tation or Exportation of any Goods, Wares, or Merchandizes, Ser-
vants and Slaves, allowing the usual Allowance of Thirty three
Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence per Cent, between Sterling
and Currency; and of all other Debts, of what Nature, Quality, or
Degree soever, now due, or which shall hereafter arise or become due,
during the Continuance of this Act, which, by the Laws of this Prov-
ince, shall and may be paid in any Bills of Credit already Emitted
and made Current in this Province, or in Gold or Silver; and if any
Person or Persons shall produce to the Commissioners or Trustees
for Emitting Bills of Credit, established by the Act of Assembly for
Emitting and making Current Ninety Thousand Pounds Current
Money of Maryland, in Bills of Credit, within the Time by the said
Act limited for cancelling and vacating the Bills of Credit, now in
Circulation, in Virtue thereof, any Bill or Bills of Credit Emitted
or made Current by Virtue of this Act, the same Bills of Credit
shall be cancelled and vacated; and such Person or Persons shall be
satisfied and paid for them out of the same Fund, and in the same
Manner, as if they had been Bills of Credit Emitted and made Cur-
rent by Virtue of the aforesaid Act, for Emitting and making Cur-
rent Ninety Thousand Pounds of Current Money of Maryland, in
Bills of Credit; any Law, Usage, or Custom, or any Thing herein
before contained to the contrary, notwithstanding.
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