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is an Object of Charity, and deserves to have such Pension and
Allowance.
XXXVII. And be it further Enacted, That Mr. William Mur-
dock, Mr. James Dick, and Mr. Walter Dulany, shall be, and are
hereby appointed Agents for the purchasing and providing such
Cloaths, as the Governor or Commander in Chief of this Province,
for the Time being, shall direct, and all other Necessaries for the
said Three Hundred Men, and paying all the Sums of Money arising
due to them in Virtue of this Act, and all other Charges and Ex-
pences that may accrue in Raising, Conveying, Subsisting, Main-
taining and Supporting the said Men; the Accounts of which Charges
and Expences shall be prov'd according to Law before they shall be
paid; and the said Agents are hereby impowered, by Order of his
Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esq; or the Governor or Commander in
Chief of this Province, for the Time being, as the same may become
wanting for the Purposes last aforesaid, to call for, demand and
receive, from the Commissioners or Trustees for Emitting Bills of
Credit, established by Act of Assembly, any Part of said Twelve
Thousand Pounds, and lay out and apply the same for the said last
mentioned Purposes; which said Sum of Money, or any Part thereof,
the said Commissioners or Trustees shall, and they are hereby obliged
and required immediately on Demand, and producing such Order, to
pay to the said Agents, and regular Accounts thereof keep; and the
Receipts of the said Agents, or any Two of Them, shall be, for the
said Payments, good and sufficient Vouchers.
XXXVIII. And be it further Enacted, That before the said
Agents, or either of them, shall receive any Money by this Act
appointed to be paid to them, they and each of them shall take the
several Oaths, directed and appointed by Act of Assembly to be taken
to the Government, and subscribe the Oath of Abjuration, and
repeat and subscribe the Test, before some Justice of the Peace,
who is hereby impowered to administer the same; and shall enter
into Bond before Two Provincial Magistrates, with good and suffi-
cient Securities, jointly and severally, to the Right Honourable the
Lord Proprietary of this Province, each in the Sum of Two Thou-
sand Funds Current Money, with Condition to the said Bonds
in the following Form, viz. The Condition of the above Obligation
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 Twenty Thousand Pounds for his Majesty's
Service, and the more immediate Defence and Security of the Fron-
tier Inhabitants of this Province; and Emitting Ten Thousand
Pounds thereof in Bills of Credit; and Raising a Fund for Sinking
and Replacing the Whole, by an equal Assessment on all Estates,
Real and Personal, and Lucrative Offices and Employments, well
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