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1777. Sittings. [Saturday] Nov. 22.

for the Defendants if the Plaintiff had relied on the Count for Money received to the Use of the Plaintiff, without any Notice of Sett-Off; Impey and I were of Opinion it should be admitted in this case. Impey said it was an infamous Transaction, and he was glad in such a case to be able to give Judgment for the Defendant and to make the Plaintiff pay Costs.
It is an attempt to keep a woman in perpetual Slavery in a State of Fornication, by treating as a Debt all the Money laid out for her. Then another Man is procured to pay the Money, and by this means any sum might be proved as a Debt, by getting a third Person to pay.

Judgment for the Defendants.
With Costs.

Thomas Williams
v
James Christie.

The Plaintiff was employ’d by the Defendant to manage a Sugar and Rum work intended to have been carried on, on a grant of Ten Thousand Begas of Land made by the Company, which kind of Plantations are within two or three years commenced here by Europeans, and there are at present
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