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10 per cent if pd for in a month.
This was a payment for goods 1 of which none were to have been pd for in less than 8 months.
In contradiction to what they swear of his having goods in his hands &c – he swears that he has no goods of their’s in his hands as a Security, except some notes of small value; & that he has not rec by Rs. 16000[ILL] much as if due on that first bond.
Deft then states sevl reasons which he had for suspecting the honesty of Mr Moote.
Nevertheless Moore (who was now only a nominal ptner) proposing to him to purchase the shares.