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The occasions or under all and every or any of the Contracts or agreements for providing the said Investments in the said years one Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy nine eighty, one thousand Seven hundred and eighty eighty one, one thousand seven hundred and eighty one two and one thousand seven hundred and eighty two three, respectively in the Bill mentioned to have been made by and between the said Board of Trade on behalf of the Complainants and this Defendant or any other person or persons in Trust for or on behalf or for the use of this Defendant. And also as to all such parts of the Bill as seek a discovery of the various Impositions Deceptions Arts shifts contrivances Acts of dishonesty Practices Frauds or devices charged or alledged by the Bill to have been acted done or committed by this Defendant either by himself or in conjunction with others particularly the said Robert Palk William Barton the members of the said Board of Trade or any one or more of them for the purpose of defrauding the Complainants relative to the said Contracts or agreements in the Bill mentioned or any one or more of them
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