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Filature or Bengal Wound, and the alledged Excess of the advances therein mentioned or in one word as to all such parts of the said Bill as seek a discovery of such things as if true and if answered into and revealed by this Defendant would furnish Evidence out of this Defendant’s own mouth of his having defrauded or contributed to defraud the Complainants This Defendant doth plead that by a Statute or Act of Parliament made in the thirteenth year of the Reign of King George the Third entitled “An Act for establishing certain Regulations for the better management of the affairs of the East India Company as well in India as in Europe” It is amongst other Things enacted “That from and after the said first day or August one thousand seven hundred and seventy four if any of His Majesty’s Subjects in India employed by or in the actual Service of the said United Company shall be charged with and prosecuted for any Breach of Publick Trust or for Embezzlement
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