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Europe Goods and in all other Articles usually bought and Sold in Shops known by the description of Europe Shops and Comission Warehouses in Calcutta for the space of two years to Commence from the said thirty first day of October in the said Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety upon the following Terms that was to say that the said Alexander Davidson Arthur Mair, Valentine Cock and Thomas Cotton should have and receive among them five sixth of the whole profits (the whole into six parts being directed) to arise or be made in or by the said business or one sixth share and one Quarter each, And that the said John Maxwell should have and receive the remaining one share or one sixth part of the Profits to arise in or by the said Business And further that all Losses and Expences attending such Business should be born by the said Parties respectively in the same Proportions in shares as they held in the said Conven bear to each other and further reciting that a Draft of a deed or Instrument, Containing the Particular Terms on which the said Copartnership business was to be carried on, had been prepared, but never engrossed or executed by any of the said parties, and the said Copartnership business had since been carried on by the said Parties and they totally agreed that the said Partnership should be absolutely dissolved and determined upon the Terms therein after specified, It was by the said Indenture Witnessed that, in pursuance of the