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[SECT. 17.]

That when any inhabitant of this province shall be sued or have his person or estate taken by mean process, or in execution, for any debt contracted before the thirty-first day of March, one thousand seven hundred and fifty, with any of the inhabitants of either of the

governments aforesaid, upon making oath that he was possess'd of any sum in bills of credit of the government to which his creditor belongs, before the said thirty-first day of March, one thousand seven hundred and fifty, and has continu'd to be so possess'd, he shall have liberty to tender the same; and the creditor shall be oblig'd to accept the same towards payment or discharge of such debt, in like manner as if this act had never pass'd.

Provided also, and it is accordingly to be understood, —