a salary of five per centum for collecting, to the Treasurer aforesaid, on or before the twentieth day of November in every year.

And be it further ordained, That there shall be paid a duty or tax of forty Shillings for every ordinary license, and the like sum for every marriage license, to be paid by the person obtaining the same to the Clerk of the Court before such license shall be granted; also two Shillings and six Pence for every original writ in any action or suit at common law, and subpœna or subpœnas in Chancery in the General Court, and for every summons or petition for lapsed lands, and for every caveat entered in the Secretary’s Office, and one Shilling and three Pence for every such writ or subpœna issued from the County or other Inferiour Courts, to be paid by the plaintiff in any such suit to the Clerk of the Court before such process shall be issued, or caveat entered, and taxed in the bill of costs; and, together with the duties on ordinary and marriage licenses, shall be accounted for on oath, and paid to the Treasurer for the time being, appointed as aforesaid, in the months of April and October annually, deducting after the rate of five per centum for his trouble in receiving and paying the same.

And be it further ordained, That the Sheriffs or Collectors in their several County Courts, to be held next after the first day of December next, shall give bond, with sufficient securities, in reasonable penalties, payable to Robert Carter Nicholas, Esq., or to the Treasurer for the time being, to be appointed as aforesaid, with condition for the due collection and payment of all duties and taxes imposed by this Ordinance: and that every Collector hereafter to be appointed shall, before he enters upon the execution of his office, give the like bond and security.

And be it further ordained, That if any Sheriff or Collector, or Clerk, shall refuse or neglect to account for and pay the duties according to the directions of this Ordinance, it shall and may be lawful for the General Court, or the Court of the County where such Sheriff or Collector, or Clerk, resides, upon a motion, to give judgment against them respectively, and the securities of such Sheriffs or Collectors, for all such duties so by them usually received, and thereon to award execution; provided, that ten days’ previous notice be given of such motion. And if any Sheriff or Collector shall fail to attend and settle the accounts of the moneys by him received, such Court shall give judgment for the penalty of his bond.

And whereas the remote payment of the said taxes, being unavoidably suspended, to suit the distressed circumstances of the inhabitants of this Colony, will not enable the Treasurer to pay the Money required by this Ordinance so soon as the exigencies thereof require, it becomes necessary to circulate Treasury Notes in the mean time, upon the credit of the said taxes and duties, as the only expedient which can be adopted: Be it further ordained. That the said Robert Carter Nicholas, Esq., or the Treasurer for the time being, appointed by or pursuant to an Ordinance of Convention, shall be, and he is hereby empowered to issue Treasury Notes for any sum or sums which may be requisite for the several purposes of this Ordinance, not exceeding, in the whole, the sum of Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds; and of the Notes so to be issued fifty thousand shall be of the denomination of two Shillings and six Pence, and shall be signed by Henry King, Gent., fifty thousand of the denomination of one Shilling and three Pence, and shall be signed by John Pendleton, Jun., Gent., which Notes last mentioned shall be made on the best paper the said Treasurer shall be able to procure, and shall be formed with such devices thereon as he shall judge most likely to prevent forgeries or counterfeits, and shall be numbered by William Langhorn and Henry Tazewell, Gentlemen. And Robert Prentis and Peter Pelham are hereby appointed overseers of the press, who, or one of them, shall constantly attend the printing the said Notes, until the whole shall be finished, and take care that no frauds are committed by the printer, his agents, or servants. And if any of the persons herein appointed to overlook the press, or to number or sign the said Notes, shall refuse to undertake the trust, or die before his duty shall be finished, the said Treasurer shall appoint another person to finish the same in the room of him so dying or refusing, of which notice shall be immediately published in the Virginia Gazette, and continued for three weeks. And for their services, the signers of the Notes shall each of them receive the sum of fifteen Shillings for every thousand Notes by them signed; the overseers of the press, the sum of fifteen Pounds each; and the persons appointed to number the said Notes, the sum of fifteen Shillings for every thousand Notes.

Provided, always, That if the Treasurer shall not be able to procure other paper for the said one hundred thousand Notes, then the whole sums wanting shall be issued of the paper of which a sample is now produced, in manner hereinafter directed for the residue.

And be it further declared and ordained, That all the Notes necessary to be issued, over and above the said One Hundred Thousand, shall be of the paper of which samples are now produced, which shall be filled up by Matthew Davenport, or John Carter Littlepage, who shall receive for their trouble therein one hundred and fifty Pounds, and numbered by Bartholomew Dandridge or Henry Tazewell, Gentlemen, or in case of the death or inability of either of them, by such person as the Treasurer shall appoint; and all the said Notes of the value or denomination of twenty Shillings or upwards shall be signed by Philip Johnson, or John Tazewell, Gentlemen, and the residue by Josiah Parker and George Lyne, Gentlemen, or, in case of the death or inability of either of them, by such other person as the Treasurer shall appoint, of which notice shall be three weeks published in the Virginia Gazette, and shall be endorsed or countersigned by the Treasurer for the time being.

And be it further ordained, That all the Notes to be issued by virtue of this Ordinance shall be redeemable on the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, until which time they shall be current between all persons within this Colony, and shall then be taken in and discharged by the Treasurer for the lime being appointed as aforesaid, and shall be burnt and destroyed, by a Committee, which shall be appointed by the Convention to examine and burn the same; and the persons so appointed to number the said Notes shall receive the sum of fifteen Shillings for every thousand, and the signers the sum of fifteen Shillings for every thousand, each, for their trouble; and the Treasurer shall be allowed six hundred and twenty-five Pounds per annum for his salary in paying the same, and for receiving the taxes imposed for the redemption thereof.

And be it further ordained, That if any person or persons shall forge or counterfeit, alter or erase any such Treasury Notes, or tender in payment any such, or demand a redemption thereof, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, altered or erased, every person so offending, and lawfully convicted thereof, shall suffer death, without benefit of clergy.

And whereas pasting paper on the back of such Notes may be a means of preventing the detection of forgeries, Be it further ordained, That no person shall be entitled to a redemption of any Note on the back of which any paper shall be so pasted; but if any Note shall be defaced, or torn, the proprietor shall be entitled to receive the amount thereof upon returning the same to be burnt as aforesaid.

And be it further ordained, That the Moneys to be raised by the taxes imposed by this Ordinance shall stand, be, and remain, as a security for the redemption of the said Treasury Notes so to be issued: and the Treasurer for the time being, appointed as aforesaid, is hereby required to apply all such Money as shall come to his hands for the said taxes for and towards the redemption of such Treasury Notes, and to none other use or purpose whatsoever; and that the said Treasurer shall account with the Convention, for the same, after deducting the allowance for his salary. And if the said taxes shall prove deficient, the whole estates, real and personal, of the inhabitants of this Colony, shall be, and are hereby pledged as a security for making good such deficiency, by some future Ordinance of the Convention, or Act of the General Assembly.

And be it further ordained, That Robert Carter Nicholas, Esq., Treasurer of this Colony, shall give bond, with such security as shall be approved of by the Committee of Safety, in the sum of Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds, payable to the Members of the said Committee of Safety, in trust, for the use of the Colony, conditioned