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having read them immediately returned them to the said Cojah Zekeriah at the same time expressing to the said Cojah Zekeriah the Surprise and Indigation of this Deponent at being supposed capable of putting his Zeal in attestation, or otherwise giving any Authority or Colour of Authority to papers, which he the said Zekeriah must be conscious must be false and forged as the said Shabaz beg KHan whose Estate Effects and property were to be disposed of by the said papers had died in the month of Shawaul several days preceding the period at which the Interview now spoken of between the said Cojah Zekeriah and this Deponent took [ILL] And this Deponent further saith that the said Cojah Zekariah, finding that this Deponent could not be prevailed upon to Comply in any manner with the proposals of the said Cojah Zekeriah, in respect to said two several papers, went away greatly displeased with this Deponent, and this Deponent further saith that Sixteen or seventeen months after such last abovementioned Interviewnow spoken between this Deponent and the said Zekeriah He this Deponent met with the said Cojah Zekeriah in Calcutta, after the Judgement in a Cause theretofore pending in this Honble Court in which the said Nauderah Begum was plaintiff, and Behadre beg Cawn Cauzee Sabdi, Mufti Burkut Ullah and Mufti Golaum Muckdoom were Defendants had passed, and the said Cojah Zekariah then informed this Deponent (which information this Deponent verily believes to be true) that the Defendant Nauderah Begum had
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