Commissioners to Issue Certificates. (State Archives.) AN ACT For Granting to his Majesty the sum of Eight Title WHEREAS it has been represented by His Excellency the Governor that many Murders Preamble and depredations have not long since been Committed on the persons and Property of Several of His Majesty's Subjects lately residing on the Frontier of this Province by some parties of Creek Indians And Whereas for the better Securing and defending the said Frontiers as well as the rest of the Province in General the Commons House of Assembly in General Assembly met did resolve to provide two Several Sums to be Granted to his Majesty, that is to say, A Sum not exceeding Five hundred pounds Sterling to be applied towards the payment of such part of the Militia as may be employed on actual Service the expence of Expresses and such other Exigencies of Government as shall be absolutely necessary in the present Situation of affairs, And Also a Sum not exceeding Three hundred pounds to be applied by his Excellency the Governor for the better Security and defence of the Lands lately ceded to his Majesty Conditionally that his Excellency will cause the same Commissioners to issue Certificates for Commissioners to Issue Certificates. same to be refunded to the Public out of The first Monies arising hereafter from the intended sale of Those Lands amounting together to a Sum not exceeding Eight hundred pounds AND WHEREAS there is an immediate necessity to furnish the Public Treasurer with the said Sum of Eight hundred pounds in order that the same may be Occasionally applied to such purposes as were intended by the said Resolutions of the Commons House of Assembly as aforesaid We therefore pray your most Sacred Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by His Excellency Sir James Wright Baronet Captain General and Governor in Chief over his Majestys Province of Georgia by and with the Advice and Consent of the Honorable Council and Commons House of Assembly in General Assembly met and by the Authority of the same, that the said sum of Eight hundred pounds be granted to his Majesty and raised in the manner herein after mentioned AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED by the Authority aforesaid that it shall and may be lawful to and for the Commissioners herein the said sum after appointed and they are hereby Authorized and Required Immediately from and after the passing of this Act to Stamp Imprint Sign and Issue the said Sum of Eight hundred pounds in Certificates of the following respective Value and Denominations that is to say Six hundred Certificates of Ten Shillings each One thousand two Commissioners to Issue Certificates. Sterling due from his Certificate two hundred Certificates of Five Shillings each Eight hundred Certificates of Two Shillings and Sixpence each Five hundred Certificates of Two Shillings each and One thousand Certificates of One Shilling each which said Certificates according to their Respective Value and denomination shall be of the Tenor and of the Words or Figures following and have such devise as the said Commissioners or the Major Form of the part of them shall think proper To Wit N° This Certificate of Majesty's Province of Georgia for the Purposes mentioned in an Act intitled "An Act for granting to his Majesty the Sum of Eight hundred pounds and to appoint and empower Commissioners to Stamp Imprint," sign and Issue Certificates to the said Amount and for Sinking the same shall pass Current and be taken in all payments made to the Public Treasurer until the Thirty first day of December One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Seven and no Longer sioners AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED by the Authority aforesaid that the Honorable Noble CommisJones Esquire, Thomas Shruder, James Hous- named toun, Thomas Netherclift, Nathaniel Hall and John Jamieson Esquires shall be and they are hereby nominated and appointed Commissioners for Stamping imprinting signing and issuing the said Certificates as aforesaid AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED that the said Commissioners shall pay into the Hands of |