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ings in Consequence thereof; which several Accounts and Proceed-
ings, a Committee of both Houses of Assembly shall be appointed
every Session to inspect and examine. And the said Commissioners
or Trustees are hereby required and obliged to lay such Accounts
as aforesaid, and a full and fair State of their Proceedings, be-
fore such Committee, to the End they may be satisfied, that
the Sums, for which Bills of Credit are directed by this Act to be
Issued, are not exceeded; and may be fully acquainted, from Time
to Time, with the State of the whole Transactions and Affairs relat-
ing to the said Office, and of the Management and Behaviour of the
said Commissioners or Trustees. And the said Committee shall every
Session Report to the General Assembly the State and Condition of
the said Office, and the Conduct and Behaviour of the said Commis-
sioners or Trustees, to the End that any Corruption or Mismanage-
ment, may be timely guarded against and prevented.
VI. And be it further Enacted, That the Clerk, for the Time being,
to the Commissioners or Trustees aforesaid, shall keep the Books
of Accounts of all their Transactions, and of all their Proceedings,
in Virtue of this Act; for which, and for every other Service incident
to his Office, in Virtue of this Act, he shall have a Salary of Five
Pounds Current Money, and no more, to be paid by the Commis-
sioners or Trustees aforesaid in the said Bills of Credit. But, before
he shall enter upon the Execution of his said Office, he shall take an
Oath before some Justice of the Peace in this Province, who is
hereby impowered and required to administer the same in these
Words: I A. B. do swear, that I will truly and faithfully perform
and execute the Office and Duty that is directed and required of
me as Clerk to the Commissioners or Trustees for Emitting Bills
of Credit, established by Act of Assembly, by a Law of this Prov-
ince, entituled, An Act for Granting a Supply of Twenty Thousand
Pounds for his Majesty's Service, and the more immediate Defence
and Security of the Frontier Inhabitants of this Province; and Emit-
ting Ten Thousand Pounds thereof in Bills of Credit; and Raising
a Fund for Sinking and Replacing the Whole, by an equal Assess-
ment on all Estates, Real and Personal, and Lucrative Offices and
Employments; and I will keep just, true, and regular Accounts of all
the Bills of Credit, which shall be issued and paid out of the said
Office, and the Names of those to whom the same shall be paid and
delivered; and also, just, true, and regular Accounts of all Bills of
Credit, and Sums of Money, which, by Virtue of the said Act, shall
be paid and received, and by whom, into the said Office, and all other
necessary Accounts relating to the said Bills of Credit; and true
Entries make of all other Proceedings and Transactions of the said
Commissioners or Trustees, appointed to put the said Act in Execu-
tion, without any fraudulent Practice whatsoever: So help me God.
Which Justice of the Peace, so administering such Oath, is hereby
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