Excerpt from Historical Sketch of Continental Paper Money Congress appointed twenty-eight citizens of Philadelphia to sign and number the bills: the names of two being necessary to each bill. Each gentleman was allowed, out of the Continental treasury, one dollar and one-third for each and every thousand bills signed and numbered by him. At foot will be found the names of the persons entrusted with this duty. Contracts were made with printers for proper paper, and for printing them. To administer these paper funds, joint treasurers were appointed at a salary of five hundred dollars; and the number of inhabitants of all ages, including negroes and mulattoes, in each Colony, was taken, by approximation of course, in order to levy the ways and means to pay the bills whenever they should be presented at the treasury. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.