CHAP.
XXIV.
Penalty on
persons suffering
their
slaves to kill
deer.

    VII.  And be it further enacted, That if any master or mistress dame or overseer,
shall suffer any slave or slaves, under their care and management, to hunt,
kill or destroy, any deer, contrary to the tenor of this act, the said master, mistress,
dame or overseer, so offending, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds, to be
recovered and applied as before directed.

    Under the direction of the commissioners, and in any manner they shall think proper.  The expence
is to be defrayed with the interest money which they shall receive under the act for emitting bills of credit,
and other purposes therein mentioned.

    Bills of credit, to the amount of 480,000 dollars, 266,666 2/3 whereof are intended to be loaned, 80,000
for particular purposes, and subject to the disposal of the general assembly, and the residue for the purpose
of exchanging torn and defaced bills, are ordered to be printed, under the direction of the former commissioners,
whole bonds, given under the former act, may stand as a security for their performance fo this
act; or they shall give new bonds, at the option of their securities.  The printer and his servants are
to be sworn, as under the act of 1769, ch. 14, and the provisions against frauds and counterfeits, which
were made by that act, are adopted by this.
    The commissioners are directed to sign and number, from time to time, as occasion may require, bills
to the amount of 146,666 2/3 dollars, and to number counterparts thereof.  And such of the bills as shall
be so signed, are to be deposited and kept as bills were directed to be by the act of 1769; and the whole
method of transacting business is to be conformable to the directions of that act.  The bills, appropriated
for loan, are to be lent to the inhabitants of this province only, a just proportion being allotted to each
county, provided they be taken within two months after the emission.  The terms, manner, &c. of sending,
are the same as those of the last emission.  The borrowers may discharge their debts with the former
bills of credit, with specie, agreeably to the rates of the aforesaid act, or with the bills of the present emission;
and whatever they may pay shall be let out again, except the bills emitted under the act of November,
1766, ch. 26, and except the money and bills, respecting which different directions are herein given, and
except also every thing received in the last year of the twelve years limited for bills to continue in circulation.
This last is to be kept separate in the iron chest, subject to the inspection of a committee.
    The provision for redemption is the same with that act of the last bills of credit.
    The commissioners for their services are allowed each, for the first year, in addition of 200 dollars to
his former salary, and afterwards, until the 10th of April, 1782, an addition of 80 dollars.  Their clerk
is allowed, for the first year, an addition of 100 dollars, and afterwards an addition of 60 dollars.  Their
office is to continue until he 10th of April, 1786, and after the 10th of April, 1782, they are each
to be allowed 320 dollars per annum, and their clerk 250.  The printer, for his services, is to be paid
1,500 dollars.  All which allowances are to come out of the bills of this and the last emission.
    The sum of 8,000 dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are to be paid to the order of
the major part of seven commissioners herein named, for clearing a waggon road from Fort Cumberland
to the nearest batteau navigable water on the western side of the Allegany.  And these commissioners
are, from time to time, to render accounts of their expenditures to the general assembly.
    Out of the first money paid for interest, the commissioners are to lock up, in an iron chest with two
locks and keys, &c. the sum of £. 10,000, in bills or specie, appropriated for establishing a seminary of
learning, in such manner as the legislature shall hereafter direct.

    This act was to continue twelve years, but the revolution has prevented its operation.  Every taxable
inhabitant of the province, by the tenth day of June, in every year, was to pay the sheriff 30lb. of tobacco
in notes, or 4f in money.  On his failing to pay by that day, his election was to be lost, and if he did
not pay 4 f by the 10th of August, the sheriff might collect it either by distress and sale of goods, or by
execution of the body.
    The sheriffs were directed to pay the respective incumbents, before the last day of June, all the tobacco
they might receive under this act; and before the last day of August, to pay them all the money they
might or ought to have received, retaining only five per cent. for commission.  And any sheriff failing
therein, was to forfeit to the incumbent injured double the money or tobacco, to be recovered by action
of debt, or by action on the case, founded on this act, in which it should be sufficient to allege, that the