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An Act for calling out of Circulation of Assembly. Whereas from the scarcity of Specis and the the payment of the Public Debt Bills of Credit seventy three thousand seven hundred and made Current by virtue of the Act entitled "claims for omitting Bills of Credit and for it is now thought proper that the said Bills thereof paid for the same. Be it enact Maryland that the Bills of Credit emitted are hereby required to be brought in and Western Shore on or before the first day of June who shall lock them up in The Iron Chests or other safeplace which which Bills of Credit shall be counted and burnt by a Committee of both Houses of Assembly to be appointed at the next Session after the said first day of June next. And be it enacted that all Bills of Credit emitted by virtue of the said Act which shall not be brought in and delivered to the Treasurer aforesaid on on or before the said first day of June next shall be ever hereafter irredeemable. And whereas by the said Act entitled "An Act for the "payment of the public Claims for emitting Bills of Credit and for other purposes therein "mentioned", passed at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis on Saturday the first day of November in the in the year seventeen hundred (1766) and sixty six it was among other things enacted that Bills of Credit of the denomination of Dollars and aliquot parts of a Dollar to the amount of One hundred and Seventy three thousand seven hundred and seventy three Dollars should be printed and struck and that the Bearer of any the said Bills should be entitled to receive Bills of Exchange payable in London at the rate of four shillings and six [word off page] pence sterling per Dollar for any of the said Bill and that his Lordship th [word off page] right Honourable the Lord Proprietary or the Governor or Commander in [word off page] of this Province for the time being at some time between the twenty fifth day of March

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