88 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION [1776.

lent 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 which 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 said supervisors; the following oath, to wit : " I A. B. do
swear that I will truly, faithfully and honestly perform 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 seventh day
of December, seventeen hundred and seventy-five, and that I will
not advisedly print or stamp a greater number of blank bills of cred-
it than in that resolve mentioned, nor of any other denomination
than therein expressed, except such sheets as may be so blotted, un-
fair, or imperfect in 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 su-
pervisors shall safely and securely lock up the press and stamps
with which the work shall be performed, and the impressions which
shall be then made, in the room in which the printing and binding
shall be done, and the keys of such room shall keep in their posses-
sion; and when all the said bills shall be printed and struck, the
plates shall be delivered by the printer to the said supervisors, and
by them to the convention, or in its recess to the council of safety.

That Charles Wallace, John Davidson, Nathan Hammond, Rich-
ard Tootell, James Brice, John Brice, Thomas Brook Hodgkin,
John Duckett, Robert Lloyd Nichols, Samuel Sharp, Richard Tilgh-
man, jun., Henry Banning, Peregrine Tilghman, William Perry,
Jeremiah Banning, and Joseph Bruff, 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 appointed
by the last convention, and the other fourth part thereof to the trea-
surer of the eastern shore appointed by the last convention; and the
said treasurers shall deliver out to the signers residing on their re-
spective shores, such and so many of the said bills to be immediately
numbered and signed by them, as may be sufficient to answer any
probable and immediate demand on them for the same, not exceed-
ing twelve thousand dollars; and each of the said bills shall be num-
bered and signed by some two of the said signers, and returned
again after being numbered and signed, to the respective treasurers;