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L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
April 8
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any Person or Persons, properly authorized to receive the same,
indorsed on the Receipts of the several Officers of the said Five
Hundred Men, to whom General Forbes may have advanced Money,
for Pay, Cloathing and other Necessaries for the said Men, any
Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding, in the Whole, Three Thou-
sand Pounds Current Money of this Province.
XXXIII. And the said Agents, on the Order or Orders of the
said Person or Persons appointed to receive the same, indorsed on the
Receipt or Receipts of Doctor David Ross, for any Sum or Sums, not
exceeding, in the Whole, the Sum of Two Thousand Seven Hundred
Pounds Fifteen Shillings and Eight-pence Sterling, shall pay off
such Order or Orders, in the Bills of Credit aforesaid, at the Ex-
change of Fifty Pounds per Centum.
XXXIV. Provided always, and be it Enacted, That the Agents
aforesaid shall not pay out any Monies for, or on Account of the
Pay, Subsistence, Cloathing, or any other Necessaries whatever,
found, provided, or advanced, for or on Account of the said Five
Hundred Men, or any Part of them, except what is herein before
directed to be paid to the Order of the Person or Persons aforesaid,
before they shall have clear, fair and particular Accounts laid before
them by the said Officers, and the said Doctor David Ross, of the
Application and Disbursements of the said Sums of Money, so as
aforesaid to them respectively advanced by his Excellency General
Forbes, and of all their Claims of every Kind whatsoever against
this Province, on Account of the said Five Hundred Men, and shall
carefully have inspected, examined and adjusted, such Claims and
Accounts, agreeable to the Wages, Rates and Allowances, given and
made by the Act of Assembly, by which the said Five Hundred
Men were taken into the Pay of this Province; nor shall the said
Agents pay to the said Officers, or any of the said Men, or the said
Doctor David Ross, any greater or larger Sum or Sums of Money,
than shall or may appear to be due to them respectively, deducting
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the said Sums so advanced by General Forbes as aforesaid, out of
their respective Claims aforesaid, after being adjusted as aforesaid.
XXXV. 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 for which they are intended by
this Act, to call for, demand and receive, from the Commissioners
or Trustees for Emitting Bills of Credit, established by Act of As-
sembly, any Part of the said Six Thousand Eight Hundred and
Fourteen Pounds, or any Part of the said Twenty-six Thousand
Seven Hundred and Fifty Pounds, as also any other Sum or Sums
of Money which they are directed to pay, lay out, or expend, by
Virtue of this Act, and lay out and apply the same for the Purposes
for which they are respectively by this Act intended; which said
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