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1780-1781 718 (1780)

handle is hein.ssl/ssde0065 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF THE STATE

C K   P. furer aforefaid, payable to the faid Francis Wade,
eflq. any-thing contained in the ads of Affembly of
1780.   this flate heretofore paffed direding the mode of pay-
ment of the Continental Tax raifed in this flate into
the treafury of the United States, or order of Con-
grefs, to the contrary notwithftanding.
Psed Yune 21, 1780.
C   H    A   P.    LXVIII. b.
s1so. An ACT to fufpend, for a limited time, the operation of
the feveral als of A embly of this flate for making the
bills of credit of the United States, and of this fate, a
legal tender'in the payment of debts, equal to gold and
filver.
rembie.             HEREAS certain of the bills of credit emitted
by the honorable the congress of the Unit-
ed States of America, and by the General Affembly
of Delaware, have hitherto been, by the laws of this
flate, a legal tender in the payment of all debts, dues,
and contrads, equal to gold and filver: (a) And
wbereas the continuance of faid bills as a legal tender,
equal to gold and filver, may be inconvenient and
highly injurious,
SECTION 2. Be it enafled by the General Afem-
bly of  Delaware, and it is hereby  ena ed by the au-
rorme law.  thority of the fame, That from and after the publication
making bills of of this af, fo much of the feveral ads of Atrembly
credit a legal
tender, &c.  of this flate as declare the faid bills of credit to be a
fulgeaded, &C. legal tender, equal to gold and filver, thall be, and
they are hereby fufpended for and during the fpace
of one month, and from thence until the end of the
next fitting of the General Affembly, and no lon-
ger. (b)
SECT. 3. Provided always, That this at, or any
thing.
1e) See before in chap. 4. b.-chap. S. b. ek.g.
() Scc aftar ip chap. 7 1. b. faifts  , 29, 7,

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