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Eftablifhing the Currency.

ACTS and LAWS,
Paffed by the General Alfembly of the
Reprefentatives of the State of Ver-
mont, at their Seflion at Bennington,
June 178 1.
An Adt for eflablifhing and confirming the feveral
Bills of Credit of this State dated February 178 i,
as a legal Currency for this State, and providing
for the Redemption of Part of the fame.
[7llEREAS the General Assembly, at their Sessions at Windsor,
April, 1781, passed an aElfor emilling Bills on the Credit of this
State to the Amount of Twenty five Thousand one Hundred and fifty
five Pounds lawfitl Money: And whereas the Committee afpointed
by said Assembly to insped and form said Bills, mistook the Date of
the Ad for emitting the same, and formed said Bills as by Order of
Assembly at Windsor February 1781, which should have been agree-
able to an Ad of Assembly Windsor, April 1781.

THEREFORE,

B    Eit enaded, and it is hereby enaded by the Representatives of the
Freemen of the State of Vermont, in GeneralAssembly met, and
by the Authority of the same, That each and every of said Bills
so emitted, dated Februaiy 1781, be, and hereby are esta-
blished and confirmed as a legal Currency of this State, in Lieu of the
before mentioned Bills which were ordered to be emitted by A& of
Assembly Windsor April 1781, and they are hereby ordered to be under
the same Regulations and Restritions, as by said At ordered for said
Bills to have been emitted, and any Person or Persons who shall at any
Time hereafter, counterfeit any of said Bills, or aid or assist in counter-
feiting, or making any Instrument therefor, shall be liable to the same
Punishment or Penalty as Persons were to have suffered for counterfe:
ing, aiding or assisting in counterfeiting of Bills that were to have been
emitted by said Ad of April 1781.-Reference to said Ad being had.
AND whereas/or the Redemption of Part of said Bills, it was
enaeledby the GeneralAssembly at their Sessions Windsor, April 1781,
that a Tax of One Shilling and three Pencelawful Money, on the
Pound, on the List of the Polls and rateable Estates of the Inhabitants
of this State which was to be taken in the Month of .'une, and to be
collected and paid into the Treasury by the frst of November ensuing
said A1, as it appears necessary that some Part at least of said Tax
be collected sooner than the Time mentioned in said Ad.
Wherefore,                                   Be

Currency
established.
Preamble

Preamble.

AC T S

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