General note: Note in manuscript: issue number "8065" and two signatures, the first in red ink, the second in brown.
Subject: Continental currency. (Referred to as, "Continentals").
Inscription: "STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND, &c. THIS Bill is equal to NINE PENCE in Lawful Silver Money, and shall be received in all Payments within this State, agreeable to an Act passed by the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of said State, at their May Sessions, holden at the City of Newport, A. D. 1786. 9d." ; "Committee" is written vertically, to the right of the signatures. ; Within seal: "DOMINE SPERAMUS IN TE".
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