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of money for the use of their principals or persons interested, and have applied the fame to their own private life, in such case he pr
they (hall be accountable to his or their principals or persons interested as aforefaid, for so much gold and silver money as the said
bills of credit or other money so by them received, were worth at the time the fame came to his or their hands, according to the rate
of depreciation herein after inferred. And where any such agent, factor, bailiff, receiver, Sheriff, attorney at law or in fa&, exe*
cutor, administrator, guardian, trustee or other person, having received any sum or funis of money as aforefaid, Shall on oath or af
firmation Solemnly declare, that he hath not applied any part of the said monies to his own use, but hath used his belt judgment
and endeavours to Secure the fame for the use and benefit of his principal, in the belt manner he could devise ; and Shall moreover
render an account on oath or affirmation, of the manner of his disposing of the fame, and of the profit or loss arising thereupon, and
the principal or other person interested as aforefaid, Shall not be able to disprove the Tame, in case of loss, then and in such case
such profit or loss ffiall go to the benefit or prejudice of the principals or persons interested as aforefaid, allowing a reasonable com
pensation to such agent, factor, bailiff, receiver, fheriff, attorney at law or in fad:, executor, administrator, guardian, trustee or
other person, for his trouble in managing the fame ; and if any such agent, factor, bailiff, receiver, Sheriff, attorney at law or in
faft, executor, administrator, guardian, trustee or other such person receiving as aforefaid Shall decline to make such oath or affir
mation, and to render such account, it Shall be presumed that he applied the said monies to his own use, and he Shall be accountable
therefor in the manner herein before-mentioned in such cases.
And whereas by an Act of Aflcmbly of this Commonwealth, pafled the twenty-Seventh of November, One thousand Seven hundred
and Seventy-nine, intitled, '' An Adt for the better support of certain officers of this State, and for afeertaining the Specific fines and
penalties which they may incur by a neglect of duty :” The fees of the said officers, and the fines and penalties which they might in
cur by negled; of duty, were regulated by the price of wheat, which has been found inconvenient and uncertain;
Be it therefore erased by the authority aforefaid. That from and after the passing ofthis Adt, all the fees due to the officers in
the said Adi mentioned, and all the fines and penalties which they have or may incur by a negleft of duty, Shall be paid, levied,
collected, and received by and from them in gold and silver money, as they were regulated by Law or practice, under the late go
vernment of Pennsylvania, before the firft day of July one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy-fix ; any thing in the said Law to the
contrary notwithstanding.&'
AND WHEREAS by an Aft of Assembly of this Commonwealth, palled the eighth of March, One thousand seven hundred and eighty,
entitled " An Ad to restore and ascertain divers fines, penalties and forfeitures, hereafter mentioned, which may be incurred by the breach of certain
ads of Assembly of this Commonwealth," the said fines, penalties and forfeitures therein mentioned, were allo regulated by the price of wheat,
which mode has been found inconvenient, uncertain and inadequate; Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforefaid, That all fines, penalties
and forfeitures of every kind, imposed by virtue of any Aft of the Assemblies of the late Province of Pennsylvania, which are now in force, Shall
be levied, colleded and recovered, in so much gold and silver money after the rate aforefaid, as in the said several Acts is particularly inflided and
respectively Specified, and all fines, penalties and forfeitures, imposed by any Acts of the Assembly of this Commonwealth, Since the Revolution
Shall be levied, collected and recovered, in so much gold and silver money as the foms Specified in the respective Acts for the kid fines, penalties
and forfeitures, were worth at the Several times of passing the said Acts, according to the rate of depreciation hereinafter inserted.
AND WHEREAS there are divers other Laws now in force, which were madeand enabled on a supposition that the Bills of Credit afore—
faid, were and would continue to be of equal value to gold and silver money, computed after the rates aforefaid, which supposition long experience
hath Shewn to be fallacious, and that nothing Short of real gold and silver will now answer the exigencies of this State in particular, or of the
United States in general; Be it therefore enabled by the authority aforefaid, that in all cases whatsoever not herein before by express clauses pro
vided for, all and every sum and Sums of money directed to be paid by, or to any person or persons whatsoever, for or by reason of any debt, con
tract, wages, fees, Salaries, penalty, forfeiture, fine or any other cause matter or thing whatsoever, (taxes or assessments only excepted, which are
proper to be regulated by a particular law for that purpate) Shall be paid in gold and silver money after the rates aforefaid, and not otherwise to be
computed by the relative value of the currency in which such debt was contrasted, at the time of the contrast made, or the time when the law was
enabled, creating any such debt, fine or forfeiture, or fixing such fees, wages, Salaries Or other duty or demand.
And beit further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the rate or Scale of depreciation, fixing the relative value between the said bills of
credit, and a like sum in gold and silver money at the different periods hereinafter mentioned, in order to afeertain the value now to be recovered,
Shall be as follows, to wit,
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