 | Massachusetts Currency Reform Act (1749) |  |
[SECT. 1.]
That the Honourable Sir Peter Warren, Knight of the Bath, William Bollan, Esq., agent for this province, and Eliakim Palmer, Esq., of London, merchant, they or two of them, — the said William Bollan, agent, as aforesaid, except in case of his death, always to be one, — be and are hereby authorized and impowred to give a full discharge to the right honourable the lords commissioners of the treasury, for the sum granted as aforesaid, whensoever the same shall have been issued; or to the Bank of England, in case the same shall have been there deposited; or to any person or persons in whose possession or custody soever the same is or shall be; to prefer the humble address of the general court of this province to the king's most excellent majesty, that he would be graciously pleased to order the said sum to be transported to this government in foreign coin'd silver, on board some one or more of his majesty's ships; and to pursue such instructions as the said general court shall judge necessary concerning the transportation of the said granted sum to this province.
And be it further enacted,
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