XI.  And be it enacted, That the bills of credit issued by congress, or emitted
by any acts of assembly under the old government, or resolves of convention,
shall not, after the passing of this act, be a tender or payment in law or equity, for
any debt, covenant, promise, contract or agreement, created or made before the
first day of September, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, unless where
the creditor has not become a subject and resident of this or some one of the United
States, since the said first day of September, seventeen hundred and seventy-six,
and in such case the debtor of such creditor, or of his assignee (who has not
become a subject and resident of this or some one of the United States, and who
hath not had an attorney in fact, acknowledging himself as such for the purpose
of receiving debts always since that time, and constantly residing within this state
since the said first day of September, seventeen hundred and seventy-six) and the
executor or administrator of such debtor may, and he is hereby authorised, on
making oath (or affirmation, if a quaker, menonist or dunker) to be lodged with
the treasurer, that he hath received, for debts due before the first of September,
seventeen hundred and seventy-six, to him or the person to whom he is heir, executor,
administrator, or representative, to the amount by him in such oath or affirmation
specified, and that he hath not paid for debts due before that time, by
himself or the person to whom he is heir, executor, administrator, or representative,
above the sum in such oath or affirmation specified, or on making oath or
affirmation, to be lodged with the treasurer, that before the twentieth day of
April, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, he sold property for the purpose of
paying debts by him, or the person to whom he is heir, executor, administrator,
or representative, contracted before the first day of September, seventeen hundred
and seventy-six, and that he constantly kept the money by him received, or so
much of the same, or other money, as he shall specify in his oath or affirmation,
or that, before the said twentieth day of April, he sold property for the purpose
of paying his debts as aforesaid, and that he left the money in the hands of the
purchaser, where it remains, for the purpose of paying his debts as aforesaid, such
debtor may pay, to either of the treasurers of this state, the amount of the money
by him received and kept as aforesaid, or left as aforesaid, or the balance by him
received above what he hath paid as aforesaid, or any part thereof, in discharge of
the debt due to such creditor, in the said continental, convention, or bills of credit
emitted by acts of assembly under the old government, aforesaid, on or before
the twentieth of March next, or in the said new bills of credit, or bills emitted
under the act to enable the treasurer of the western shore to draw and sell bills of
exchange, and for an emission of bills of credit, if necessary, at the rate of one dollar
of the same bills for every forty dollars due and payable at any time before the
first day of July next; and such payment shall be deemed in law a payment of
such creditor or his assignee, and the treasurer's receipt shall be good evidence in 
the courts of law and equity of the payment of such debt, and shall be allowed
sufficient in the courts of law and equity, and in the orphans courts, on the administration
of the estates of deceased persons, and the treasurers shall exchange
any continental, convention, and bills emitted by acts under the old government,
by him so received for new bills, at the rate of one for forty, and the same, together
with all new bills, and bills emitted by the said act of assembly, which may
be paid for the purpose aforesaid, shall retain in his office, liable to the attachment
of creditors, and subject to the future direction of the general assembly.

CHAP.
    V.
Bills issued by
congress, &c.
not a legal
tender, &c.