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We his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Repre-
sentatives of the Freemen of the Province of Maryland, in Assembly
convened, taking into our serious Consideration the Expences neces-
sary for his Majesty's Service, the more immediate Defence, Security,
and Protection of the Frontier Inhabitants, and for securing the
Southern Tribes of Indians in the British Interest, and procuring
their Assistance against his Majesty's Enemies; have, for those
Ends and Purposes, and other good Ends and Purposes mentioned
in this Act, chear fully and unanimously Given and Granted, and
by this Act, do Give and Grant for the Ends and Purposes aforesaid,
the several and respective Rates and Assessments hereafter men-
tioned : And do humbly Pray that it may be Enacted,
II. And be it Enacted, by the Right Honorable the Lord Pro-
prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's
Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That the Commissioners or Trustees for
Emitting Bills of Credit established by Act of Assembly, shall, and
they are hereby required and enjoined forthwith, to Sign, Number
and Date, of the Blank Books of Bills of Credit, for Renewment of
defaced Bills, now in their Office, Bills of Credit to the amount of
Ten Thousand Pounds, and the said Bills to Emit, make Current,
and Pay out, to the several and respective Agents, Commissioners,
and Persons, hereafter appointed to demand and receive the same;
and to Pay to the Agents, Commissioners and Persons aforesaid,
out of any Bills of Credit now in their Office unappropriated, or
which shall on any Account whatever be received into the same,
before the Thirtieth Day of September next, to the amount of Eight
Thousand Pounds; and also to pay to the Persons aforesaid, out of
the Bills of Credit now in the said Office appropriated to the Payment
for Scalps or Prisoners, to the amount of Two Thousand Pounds,
which said Sum of Two Thousand Pounds the said Commissioners
or Trustees shall Replace by the first Bills of Credit which shall be
paid into their said Office after they have received in to the amount
of Eight Thousand Pounds including the said Bills of Credit now
in their Office unappropriated.
III. And be it further Enacted, That any Person or Persons who
shall Counterfeit any of the Bills of Credit, which shall be Emitted
or made Current by this Act, or shall alter the Sum expressed in any
of the said Bills, and his, her, or their Aiders or Abettors, or who
shall utter or offer, or cause to be uttered or offered, in Payment,
and such Counterfeit or Altered Bill or Bills, knowing the same to
be Counterfeit or Altered, and shall be thereof convicted by due
Course of Law, or stand mute, or peremptorily challenge above the
Number of Twenty of the Pannel, shall suffer Death as a Felon or
Felons, without Benefit of Clergy. And all Magistrates and Others,
into whose Hands any such Counterfeited or Altered Bills, may hap-
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