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and so from time to time shall the said bills be delivered out, num-
bered, signed, and returned to the said treasurers respectively,
either of the said treasurers not keeping by him at any one time rea-
dy numbered and signed, more than twelve thousand dollars.

That 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 day's attendance and supervising
the said work, to the deputies who shall procure the plates and
paper for printing and striking the said bills, so much as they shall
pay for the same, and for transmitting them as aforesaid, and to the
printer so much as shall be agreed by the council of safety, for his
services, and for the ink and other materials, except paper, neces-
sary for the said work; and the said treasurers shall also respec-
tively pay to each signer of every thousand of the said bills, one
dollar and one third part of a dollar for his service.

That each of the said treasurers shall retain for his services, at
the rate of one half per centum on all monies by him paid and de-
livered, and no more.

The torn and defaced bills shall be exchanged at reasonable and
convenient times.

That the said bills of credit shall be redeemed and sunk on of
before the first day of January, seventeen hundred and eighty-six,
by taxes, or other legislative provision; and this convention bind
their constituents and pledge the faith of the province for the re-
demption of the said bills on or before the said first day of January,
seventeen hundred and eighty-six.

That two hundred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six
dollars and two third parts of a dollar of the said bills of credit, so to
be printed and struck, shall be applied to exchange the bills of credit
printed and struck by virtue of the resolve of the last convention
of this province, and that the said treasurers shall forthwith after
their receipt of the bills of credit hereafter to be printed and struck,
give public notice in the newspapers printed in this province, and
in the several newspapers printed in Philadelphia and Williams-
burg, that they will give and deliver in exchange any number
and value of the bills of credit hereafter to be printed and struck,
for the like number and value of the bills of credit printed and
Struck by virtue of the resolve of the last convention, at such times
and places as shall be by them appointed for that purpose; and the
said treasurers shall, upon the application of any person or person
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