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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 Accounts and Proceedings of the said
Office; and so from Session to Session, until they have so destroyed
the full Sum of Twelve Thousand and Fifteen Pounds Six Shillings.
XIII. And to the End, that no Person may complain of Want of
Opportunities to pay in the Monies, required by the several Laws
of this Province to be paid to the Commissioners or Trustees for
Emitting Bills of Credit, established by Act of Assembly; Be it
Enacted, That the said Commissioners or Trustees shall, and they
are hereby strictly enjoined and required to attend at their Office,
for the Dispatch of Business, on the Wednesdays and Thursdays of
every Week (the usual Hollidays of Christmas excepted) from the
Hour of Nine to the Hour of Twelve in the Forenoon, and from
the Hour of Two to the Hour of Six in the Afternoon inclusive.
XIV. And be it further Enacted, That the Bills of Credit, by this
Act before directed to be Emitted, made Current, and Paid out, as
aforesaid, shall be applied to the Uses and Purposes herein after
mentioned, and to no other Use or Purpose whatsoever; That is to
say, The Sum of Twelve Thousand Pounds, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, to the Pay and Subsistence of the Five Hundred
Men, taken into the Pay of this Province by Virtue of an Act,
entituled, An Act for his Majesty's Service, and the more imme-
diate Defence and Protection of the Frontier Inhabitants of this
Province, from the Time the Money appropriated by the said Act
for those Purposes, was expended, till the End of Ten Days from
the End of this Session of Assembly, and to the Pay, Subsistence,
Cloathing, and all other Charges, of what Denomination or Kind
soever, attending the supporting Three Hundred effective Men,
Officers included, to act as Rangers, for the more immediate Defence,
Protection, and Quiet of the Frontier Inhabitants of this Province ;
which said Three Hundred Men, Officers included, shall be supported
till the Thirtieth Day of September next, and no longer; and shall
be paid after the following Rates, until the said Thirtieth Day of
September next, and no longer; That is to say, To Three Captains,
each having the Command of Ninety-nine Men, Officers included,
Ten Shillings per Day : To Six Lieutenants, each Six Shillings and
Eight Pence per Day: To Three Ensigns, each Five Shillings
per Day : To Twelve Serjeants, each One Shilling and Six Pence per
Day: To Twelve Corporals, each One Shilling and Two Pence per
Day: To Three Drummers, each One Shilling and Two Pence per
Day : To Two Hundred and Sixty-one private Men, able-bodied and
fit for the Service, each Nine Pence per Day : To One Surgeon, and
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