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by Order, or on Behalf of the Crown, that then the said Agents
shall, and are hereby required to pay to the Order or Orders of any
Person or Persons, properly authorised to receive the same, indorsed
on the Receipts of the said several Persons to whom the same was
due, or the Receipts of their Agents, or Attorneys, any Sum or Sums
of Money, that shall appear to the said Agents, on the Adjustment
of the Accounts aforesaid, to have been due and paid as aforesaid.
And the said Agents are hereby impowered by Order of his Excel-
lency Horatio Sharpe, Esq; or the Governor or Commander in Chief
of this Province, for the Time being, as the same may become want-
ing, for the Purposes for which they are intended by this Act, to
call for, demand and receive, from the Commissioners or Trustees
for Emitting the Bills of Credit, established by Act of Assembly, any
Part of the said Six Thousand Eight Hundred and Fourteen Pounds,
or any Part of the said Fourteen Thousand Six Hundred and Thir-
teen Pounds, as also any other Sum or Sums of Money which they
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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 re-
spectively by this Act intended; which said Sums of Money, or any
Part thereof, the said Commissioners or Trustees shall, and they
are hereby obliged and required, immediately on Demand, and such
Order being produced, to pay the said Agents, and regular Accounts
thereof keep; and the Receipts of the said Agents, or either of
them, in case of Sickness or Inability of the other, shall be, for the
said Payments, good and sufficient Vouchers.
XL. And be it further Enacted, That before the said Agents, or
either of them, shall enter upon any Part of his or their Duty in
Virtue of this Act, or 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 Gov-
ernment, 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 Pro-
vincial Magistrates, with good and sufficient Securities, jointly and
severally, to the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary of this
Province, each in the Sum of Six Thousand Pounds Current Money,
with Condition to the said Bond 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 Forty Five
Thousand Pounds for his Majesty's Service, and for defraying the
Expences heretofore incurred for the Defence and Security of the
Frontier Inhabitants of this Province, and for other Purposes therein
mentioned; and for raising the same by an equal Assessment upon
all Estates real and personal, and lucrative Offices and Employments,
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