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XVIII. And be it further Enacted, That if at any Time pending
any Action or Suit for the Payment of Current Money, payable by
Bond, Bill, Note, Account, or other Contract, except as before ex-
cepted, the Defendant shall bring into Court, where the Action or
Suit shall be depending, in either the Bills of Credit by this Act
emitted, or Gold or Silver, of the Species, and at the Rates afore-
said, all the principal Money and Interest due on such Bond, Bill,
Note, Account, or other Contract, and all Costs which shall arise
due on such Action or Suit, and shall tender the same Bills of
Credit, or Gold and Silver, as aforesaid, and Costs aforesaid, upon
such Tender, the Defendant or Defendants, in any such Action or
Suit, shall be by the said Court absolutely discharged therefrom.
XIX. And be it further Enacted, That upon Application during
the Continuance of this Act to the Commissioners or Trustees afore-
said, by any Person or Persons, having any of the Bills of Credit,
by this Act to be Emitted or made Current, which are torn or de-
faced, and not fit to pass, to have the same Changed, it shall and may
be lawful to and for the said Commissioners or Trustees, and they
are hereby required, without Fee or Reward, in lieu of such torn and
defaced Bill or Bills, to deliver unto such Person or Persons any
Bills of Credit, or Gold and Silver, which may be received and paid
into the said Office, in Virtue of this Act, for the same Value for
which such torn or defaced Bill or Bills shall pass Current at the
Time of such Application.
XX. And be it further Enacted, That the said Commissioners or
Trustees, shall keep safe and retain in their Office, all torn and
defaced Bills of Credit, by them taken in as aforesaid, and also all
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such Sums of Money in Bills of Credit, as they shall receive by Virtue
of this Act, except such Part thereof as shall be delivered out in
Exchange for torn and defaced Bills, as aforesaid, until the then
next Meeting of Assembly, and then shall burn and destroy the same,
before the Committee which shall be appointed to inspect the Ac-
counts and Proceedings of the said Office, and so from Meeting tn
Meeting, until they have destroyed the full Sum of Forty Five
Thousand Pounds.
XXI. 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 said Commissioners or Trustees, for
Emitting the Bills of Credit established by Act of Assembly, or to
exchange Bills of Credit, as herein before directed; Be it Enacted,
That the said Commissioners or Trustees shall, and they are hereby
strictly enjoined and required to attend their Office, for the Dispatch
of Business, on the Wednesdays and Thursdays of every Week
(the usual Holidays of Christmas excepted) from the Hour of Ten
to Twelve in the Forenoon, and from Two to Four in the Afternoon.
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