Note 97 — Chapter III
Reading edition
This was the emission ordered on the 23d of June, 1775. There were forty-nine thousand bills of each denomination from one dollar to eight dollars, inclusive, and eleven thousand eight hundred bills of the denomination of twenty dollars. The form of the bills was as follows (Journals, I. 126):—
Continental Currency.
No. ________________ Dollars.
This Bill entitles the Bearer to receive ________________ Spanish milled Dollars, or the value thereof in Gold or Silver, according to the Resolutions of the Congress, held at Philadelphia on the 10th day of May, A. D. 1775.