369 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION [1776..

may be so blotted, unfair, or imperfect, in the printing or striking
thereof, that the same shall be unfit for use. So help me God."

That the said printer shall not by himself, his servants, or any
other person by him employed, print, strike, stitch, or bind, the said
bills, or any of them but in the presence of one or both of the said
supervisors. And in every intermission of the work, the said
supervisors shall safely and securely lockup the press and stamps
with which the work shall be performed, and the impressions which
shall then be made, in the room in which the printing and
binding shall be done, and the keys of such room shall keep in
their possession. And when all the said bills shall be printed and
struck, the plates shall be immediately delivered by the printer to
the said supervisors, and by them to the convention, or in its re-
cess to the council of safety.

That Messieurs Nathan Hammond, Richard Tootell, John Brice,
Thomas Brooke Hodgkin, John Duckett, Thomas Gassaway, Fred-
erick Green, William Wilkins, Nicholas Harwood, Saint George
Peale, Richard Tilghman, (of Talbot county) William Perry, Sam-
uel Sharp, Joseph Bruff, Samuel Edmondson, Alexander Irvine,
Charles Edward Irvine, and Thomes Dawson, or any two of them
be signers of the said bills.

That the said supervisors, as soon as the said bills shall be print-
ed, struck, stitched and bound, shall deliver three fourth parts
thereof in value to the treasurer of the western shore, and the
other fourth part thereof to the treasurer of the eastern shore; and
the said treasurers shall deliver out to the signers residing on their
respective shores such and so many of the said bills to be immedi-
ately numbered and signed by them, as may be sufficient to answer
any probable immediate demand on them for the same, not ex-
ceeding twelve thousand dollars; and each of the said bills shall
be numbered and signed by some two of the said signers, and re-
turned again after being numbered and signed, to the respective
treasurers; and so from time to time shall the said bills be deliver-
ed out, numbered, signed and returned to the said treasurers re-
spectively, either of the said treasurers not keeping by him at any
one time, ready numbered and signed, more than twelve thousand
dollars.

That the receipts of every delivery of the said bills, before and
after the numbering and signing the same, be given by the signers
and treasurers respectively, each to the other.

That the treasurer of the western shore, out of the said bills of
credit in his hands, pay to each of the supervisors two dollars and
two third parts of a dollar for each days attendance and super-
vising the said work, and to the printer so much as shall be agreed