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1778. 3 Sittings. [Tuesday] July 14

West of Chandernagore. The English call Garhatty the House of the French Governor: but the French insist it is a separate Settlement.

Tarreneychurn Metre
v
Rajah Ramlochurn & Rajechunder Roy.
An Action for an Assault, Striking on the Cheek with a Slipper, and Imprisonment four days.

Mr. Brix; Advocate for the Plaintiff Stated that the Plaintiff was a Man of a High Cast; and was Shekdar that is Collector of the Revenues of Government, under the Phouzdar of Hooghley. That striking with a Slipper was a very high indignity. He said the Plaintiff as Shekdar held a Cutcherry to deside causes between parties, that some complaint being made to him against One Attaram, who was a Man belonging to Rajah Ramlochurn, and was a Patny or Ferryman, Attaram complain’d to Ramlochurn who happen’d to be on a Voyage in his Budjro, near the place where the Cutcherry of the Plaintiff was then holding, and the
/ Rajah