Acts. 269

and the said Clerk shall immediately after the recording aforesaid
deliver the Original to the Register of the Chancery Court to be by
him safely kept in the Chancery Office and an Attested Copy of
the Record of the said Bond and Order from the Provincial Records
shall be as good Evidence to all intents and Purposes as if the
Original was produced and proved in Court

Liber H. S.
No. 1

And be it Further Enacted that as soon as the said Bills of
Credit shall be so Printed signed and Numbered which shall be
fully Compleated and done by the Twentieth day of February next
at furthest the said Commissioners shall and they are hereby
Authorized and required to deliver out of the said Bills of Credit
to the several persons their Executors Administrators Assigns or
Orders who are allowed by the Publick or to such of them as
shall offer to receive the same the Value according to the rates
before mentioned of the Quantities of Tobacco and sums of Money
allowed to them respectively as they appear to be allowed stated
and Ascertained by the Journal of Accounts and List of Debts
aforesaid assented to this present Session by both Houses of
Assembly

p. 663

[The Com-
missioners
Authoriz'd
to pay the
Public
Creditors]

Provided Nevertheless and be it Enacted that such of the said
Allowances in the said Journal of Accounts or List of Debts as
shall not be Claimed and Demanded of the said Commissioners
before the Tenth day of June next shall not be by them paid after
that time
And Whereas the Honourable the Upper House of Assembly
did this session of Assembly as well as many others heretofore
dissent to the passage of the Journal of Accounts and List of
Debts because an Allowance of a Salary heretofore made and paid
to the Clerk of His Lordships Council of State was not inserted
therein and a Conference between the Two houses being thought
the most probable Mean to bring about so desirable an end as
restoring publick Credit and paying off the Just Claims against
the Public was proposed and agreed to

[Proviso]

And Whereas the Conferees from the Lower House were in-
structed by their House to inform the Conferrees of the Upper
House that they were clearly of Opinion that the Clerk of the
Council his reasonable reward as well as every Expence Necessarily
Attending the Execution of the Powers of Government ought to
be defrayed out of the Fines Forfeitures Amerciaments and moneys
received by the Government to defray the expenses thereof but yet
as there seemed no Probability of a speedy Concurrence of both
houses in that Sentiment and the distressed Circumstances of the
Province and many of the Claimants against the Public called for
an immediate Circulation of a Medium of commerce and discharge
of the public Debt that they should propose to their Honours as
the most eligible Expedient. That paper Bills of Credit should be

[The Allow-
ances of the
late and
present
Clerks of the
Council, to
be placed in
one of the
Treasurer's
Hands, till
the Dispute
between the
Two Houses
on that Head
shall be de-
termin'd by
his Majesty
in Council]