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fresh: I recd it from him, & looked for the off – number, wch is put on every renewed certificate, but found no such off-number. I asked the man again his master’s name: he sd something Wm. Augustus Brook or Bruce; but he wd not tell me the name of the Banyan. He only said Send the money to the gentleman’s house to be pd there. I had a mind to buy the paper, bec cheaper than the market price by 1½ rupee, or thereabouts: but He wd not tll me his own name, saying Send the money with me by a servt of yours who will see the gentleman & the banyan.” I sent to the bazar for a writer