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Ena6led in the fecond fitting of the
fifth general affembly of the com-
monwealth of Pennfylvania, which
commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuefday
the fixth day of Fehruary, in the year
of our Lord      178 1.
CHAPTER              CXCII.
,ln A C T to fupend the operation of the feveral laws of this
commonwealth, making the bills of credit made current
by the refolves of the late aJenmbis of Pennfylvania, and
the bils of creda!t i4'ued by the afiembly of this flate, the
twentieth day of .March, in the year of our Lord one thou-
findfeven hundred and feventy feven, legal render.
SECTION I. A?HEREAS the depreciation of the Preamble.
V bills of credit iffued by the refolves
of the late affemblies of Pennfylvania, and made legal ten-
der by a law of this flate, paffed on the twenty ninth day
of January, one thoufand feven hundred and feventy fe-
yen, and of the bills of credit of this Rate, iffued by an
aL&t paffed on the tentieth day of March, one. thoufand
feven hundred and f1eventy feven, now in circulation, and
the fpeculation that has taken place in confequence there-
of, have opened a door to numerous frauds, and may
operate to the general injury of virtue and morality, and
to the great dithonour of the flate, unlefs timely prevent-
ed : And whereas many of the good citizens of this ftate
have in their petitions to this houfe, fet forth the very
mifchievous and alarming confequences of continuing the
(ilme bills of credit a legal tender, and praying that the
laws making them a legal tender may be repealed, or
fiufpended:

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