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July last, Bayne & Colvin refused to take less than the princeip sum with 10 pr cent per ann int: & a penalty of 10 per cent accg to the bond; - ten or 12 days after they had recd the money from Da Costa, and had passed it to the accot of Jno Herbert. And as to the powers of Atty [from] Jno Herbert to them, they swear that they were drawn by S. H himself many months he had execd the bond of indemnity, so that he knew their contents better than any man (Mr. Davies produces M. S. H’s bill & rect for drawing the power of Atty)
2. I now come to the main