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1787. 4 Sittings. [Monday] Nov 26.

in his answer, to avail himself in this Stage of the Cause, as if he had Pleaded, Infancy, and the Statute. To say he ought to set forth the Price is to determine that the Company have a right to share in the Profits, and that is a determination contrary to the Defendants Oath that there was fraud in the Contract. The Directors not annulling the Contract when they might have done so amounts to an approbation of it. The Directors Order’d all Contracts to be publickly advertised, and it was notorious that Servants of the Company were often Contractors,
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