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Company would take the smallest sum allowed to be Received by Major Balfour, that is Fifty Thousand Banaras Rupees.
Mr. Davies in his Opening for the Plaintiff had Prayed Interest to be added to the Sum received by Major Balfour, but the whole Court agreed Interest was not to be decreed in a Case where the Defendant had only taken what Major Popham who commanded had allow’d him to take, and who could not Judge of the right Major Popham had to make such distribution: and Mr. Davies easily relinquish’d the claim of Interest. The Court Decreed