their circulating in payments and being safe from counterfeits and forgeries, and shall be signed by the said treasurer, and Peyton Randolph, esquire, and Robert Carter Nicholas, gentleman, who shall be allowed fifty pounds for their trouble in doing the same, to be deducted out of the allowance to the treasurer for emiting the said notes, and the said treasurer shall be allowed two per cent. upon the amount of the notes so to be issued, for his trouble therein. XIX. And be it further enacted, by the authority The time of aforesaid, That all such notes, so to be issued, shall redemption. be redeemable on the last day of June one thousand seven hundred and sixty, and shall then be paid by the treasurer for the time being, with interest, after the rate of five per centum per annum, from the date thereof, and further, that all such notes, so to be issued, shall be received and pass as a lawful tender in payment of any debt, duty, or demand whatsoever (except for the payment of his majesty's quit-rents, and the duties imposed by two acts of Assembly, the one intituled, An act for raising the sum of twenty thousand pounds, for the protection of his majesty's subjects against the insults and encroachments of the French, and the other intituled, An act to explain an act, intituled, An act for raising the sum of twenty thousand pounds, for the protection of his majesty's subjects against the insults and encroachments of the French) from the time of issuing such notes, until the time before specified for the redemption thereof at the treasury, as aforesaid. XX. And be it further enacted, by the authority Counterfeit aforesaid, That if any person, or persons, shall forge ing death. or counterfeit, alter or erase, any such treasury note, or shall tender in payment, by way of barter or otherwise, to any psrson whatsoever, or shall demand a redemption of any such note at the treasury, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, altered or erased, every such person, or persons, so offending, if lawfully convicted, shall be adjudged a felon, and shall suffer as in cases of felony, without benefit of clergy. XXI. And be it further enacted, That the money to The duties be raised by the duties imposed by this act, shall stand, imposed by be, and remain as a security for the redemption of the this act to be a security for said treasury notes, so to be issued, and the said John the redemp Robinson, treasurer, or the treasurer for the time be- tion. ing, appointed as aforesaid, is hereby required to ap ply all such money as shall come to his hands by virtue of this act, for, and towards the redemption of such treasury notes, and to no other use or purpose what soever. XXII. And whereas divers companies of the militia of the several counties of Prince William, Fairfax, and Culpeper, were lately drawn out into actual service for the defence and protection of the frontiers of this colony, against the incursions and depredations of the French, and their Indian allies, whose names and the time they respectively continued in the said service, are contained in a certain schedule to this act annexed, and it is just and necessary that they should be paid for such their service, by the public, and also that the several sums of money in the said schedule charged for provisions, found for the use of the said militia, should be paid to the persons respectively entitled to the same, according to the said schedule; aud for an encouragement to the militia of this colony to go out freely for the defence of their country in all times of danger, with a certain assurance of being paid for their services: Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the treasurer of this colony do, within six months after the passing of this act, pay in treasury notes, to be emitted by virtue of this act, to the several officers and private soldiers, particularly named in the said schedule, the several sums of tobacco to which they are respectively entitled, at the rate of ten shillings per hundred, and also the several sums of money charged in the said schedule, for provisions found for the use of the said militia, to the persons thereby respectively entitled to the same, and also the several tobacco claims, for provisions found for the said militia, to be discharged at one penny per pound, any thing in the acts relating to invasions and insurrections to the contrary notwithstanding. The Schedule, to which this Act refers. To the Militia of the County of Fairfax, viz. To sixteen Troopers, viz. George Shortridge, Benjamin lbs. tob. 1500 1250 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 $30 660 To nine Troopers, with impressed horses, viz. Jesse Mar- To eight impressed horses, for the above Troopers, be- 16000 6750 1750 6000 1800 1050 To William Sewell, for an express, and a cart and horses, To William West, for necessaries and expresses, do. To Carlyle and Dalton, for powder, lead, flints, and for an express, To the clerk for certifying ten claims, 1. 6 . 1 5 1 5 5 2 8 4 To the Militia of the county of Culpeper, viz. 200 Το do. for two horses impressed and employed in the service, 2700 To George Weatherall, serjeant, 1710 To Roger Dixon, assignee of William Nalle, junior, Το do. for a horse impressed and employed in the To eight foot soldiers, viz. Francis Cooper, William M Daniel, John Thomas, Miles Murfee, John Hayes, 11080 Strother, assignee of James Gillison, Benjamin Mor- To William Russell, for his servant, John Dixon, Wright, lbs. tob 28500 180 To Roger Dixon, assignee of Daniel Delaney and Alexander Baxter, foot soldiers, 2760 To John Cave, James Nash, William Twiman, and Joel 5520 To Francis Grant, foot soldier, 1245 To Adam Maland, Adam Barler, John Greson, John Rels- 1365 To John Grim, Jacob Harroback, and Harmer Young, foot soldiers, 150 each, 450 To Henry Gaines, a foot soldier, 120 To Henry Stringfellow, 260 To William Roberts, for one horse impressed and employed, To John Strother assignee of William Shropshire, for do. 270 270 To do. assignee of Benjamin Morgan, for do. 270 То do. assignee of Robert M Clanahan, for one cow for the militia, 500 To William Brown, assignee of John Hite, for one sheep and two shoats for do. 300 To do. assignee of do. for 591 lbs. of flour, and two bags for do. 1382 To John Strother, assignee of Robert M.Coy, for bread for do. 100 To do. assignee of Sarah Chester, for one sheep for do. To Samuel Moore, for corn, To William Roberts, for meat and bread, To William Johnson, for do. To William Duncan, for beef, To John Strother, for beef, bread, salt, and three bags, 150 80 350 375 40 100 160 310 300 510 |