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1777-1778 60 (1777)

handle is hein.ssl/sspa0206 and id is 1 raw text is: His EXCELLE NCY 1777. The frlrear of the &C- rnonvealtb. L A W S Enaded in the fecond fitting. of the firfL general afli mbly of the common- wealth of Penmfylvania, which com- menced at Philadelphia, the z2th day of May, A 777, and continued to the x9th day of June in the fame year. CHAPTER XX. A Iepplement to the aet, int'tled, An AbI for making the continental bills of credit, and the bills of credit emitted by refolves of the late affemblies, legal tender, and for other purpofes therei,i mentioned. Preamble. SECTION .- HEREAS in the aft of general af- WV fembly of the commonwealth of Penn- fylvania, pafld the twenty ninth day of January laft paft, intitled, ' -1n Af for imakII1g the continental bills of ' credit and the bills of credit, emitted by the refoves of the late qffimblies, legal tender; and for other purpo/es therein mentioned, no mention is made, in exprefs words, of bodies politic and corporate; for which reafon, it has been confirued by fome pcrfons that fuch bodies are not compreh ended within the meaning of the Iiiid a&: In order therefore, that the faid bills of credit, and alfo the bills' of credit emitted, and to be emitted, by virtue of an a&, intitled, An A for emitting the Junr of two hundred thozaand pounds, in bills of credit, jor the deence of this flate ; and providing a fund for lnking the 'fame ly a tax on all etates real and per/onal and on all taxables within tbejame, fhall be alike taken and made , icurrent