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larly to express and specify in this Act; Be it further Enacted by the
Authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the
Governor or Commander in Chief of this Province, for the Time
being, from Time to Time, during the Continuance of this Act, to
draw his Order or Orders on the Agents aforesaid, for the Pur-
poses aforesaid, for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding, in
the Whole, the Sum of Fifty Pounds Current Money, payable to
such Person or Persons as he shall think fit; and the said Agents are
hereby directed and required to pay all such Orders so as aforesaid
drawn, the Governor or Commander in Chief, for the Time being,
expressing in such Order the particular Use or Purpose for which
the same is, are or shall be drawn.
XCV. And be it further Enacted, That if by the Rates and Sums
of Money, by this Act imposed for One Year, more Money shall be
paid into the Loan-Office than shall be sufficient to sink and replace
the Sums of Money, in Bills of Credit, by this Act directed to be
emitted and paid out, then all such Overplus shall, by the said Com-
missioners, be applied towards replacing and sinking the several
Sums of Money granted by an Act, entituled, An Act for Granting
a Supply of Forty Thousand Pounds for his Majesty's Service, and
striking Thirty- f our Thousand and Fifteen Pounds Six Shillings
thereof in Bills of Credit, and Raising a Fund for sinking the same.
But if it should happen that by the Rates, Assessments and Sums of
Money, herein before imposed for One Year, a sufficient Sum of
Money shall not be raised to replace and sink the Sum of Twenty
Thousand Pounds hereby granted, then and in such Case all the Parts
of this Act, any Way relating to the several Rates and Assessments,
and Sums of Money, herein before imposed for One Year, shall be,
and are hereby continued for One other Year, and the said Rates,
Assessments and Sums of Money, shall be assessed, levied and col-
lected, accounted for and paid, for One other Year, and no longer,
in the same Manner, and under the like Penalties, Fines and For-
feitures, to all Intents and Purposes, as the said Rates and Assess-
ments, and Sums of Money, herein before imposed for One Year, is
to be assessed, collected, levied and paid; and the said Penalties, Fines
and Forfeitures, shall be recovered and applied as by this Act before
is directed: And in Case the Rates and Sums of Money, to be as-
sessed, levied, collected and paid, for such other Year, shall be more
than sufficient to replace and sink the said Sums of Money, granted
and emitted by this Act, then all such Overplus shall be applied as
before is directed in Case of an Overplus the first Year. And if the
Sums of Money, by this Act to be collected for the first Year, shall
be found by the Commissioners or Trustees of the Loan-Office to be
deficient for the Purposes aforesaid, then the said Commissioners or
Trustees shall, and they are hereby strictly enjoined and required to
signify the same by Writing under their Hands, to the respective
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