1776:] OP THE PROVINCE OF MARYLAND. 367

" This bill of ———————— shall entitle the bearer hereof to re-
ceive gold or silver, at the rate of four shillings and six-pence ster-
ling per dollar for the said bill, according to a resolve of the con-
vention of Maryland, held at the city of Annapolis, the 14th day
of August, 1776."

That the said bills of credit be struck on the plates and printed
with the devices and marks prepared for the last emission, and that
the number and denomination of the said bills shall be the following
and no other, to wit: sixteen thousand bills of eight dollars each,
sixteen thousand bills of six dollars each, sixteen thousand bills of
four dollars each, sixteen thousand bills of two dollars and two third
parts of a dollar each, thirty-two thousand bills of two dollars each,
thirty-two thousand bills of one dollar and one third part of a dol-
lar each, thirty-two thousand bills of one dollar each, thirty-two
thousand bills of two third parts of a dollar each, forty thousand
bills of half a dollar each, forty thousand bills of one third part of
a dollar each, forty thousand bills of one sixth part of a dollar each,
and forty thousand bills of one ninth part of a dollar each.

That the council of safety purchase and provide a sufficient quan-
tity of proper paper, on which to print and strike the said bills of
credit, and that the said council of safety do forthwith cause the
said bills of credit to be printed and struck, under the direction of
two discreet and sober freemen of this state, to be by them ap-
pointed to that service, who shall be called supervisors.

That the said supervisors shall use the best of their care and dili-
gence that the said bills, according to their respective denomina-
tions aforesaid, and according to the manner and form aforesaid,
be forthwith printed and struck, and that the number of any of
the denominations thereof be not exceeded, nor any clandesine or
fraudulent practice be used by the printer, his apprentices, servants
and others concerned in the printing or striking thereof.

That the printer, and all his apprentices and servants whom
he shall employ in the said work, before he or they enter upon the
same, take before some justice of the peace, in the presence of
one or both of the supervisors, the following oath, to wit:

" I, A. B, do swear, that I will truly, faithfully and honestly per-
form the duty of printer of the bills of credit directed to be printed
by a resolve of the convention of Maryland, held at the city of
Annapolis the 14th day of August, seventeen hundred and seventy
six, and that T. will not advisedly print or stamp a greater number of
blank bills of credit than in that resolve mentioned, nor of any
other denomination than therein expressed, except such sheets as
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